We all know coca-cola and Pepsi as famous cold drink brands. Now Mukesh Ambani’s Campa-cola has also been added into the list after its recent launch. However these are not the oldest brands in India’s soft drink history. But there is another fizzy drink which has a history of more than 150 years in India. Carbonated water actually originated from English chemist Joseph Priestleys 1767. Who did an experiment of mixing water with carbon dioxide. It was first sold commercially by the brand Schweppes in 1783 and gained popularity. In Bombay an aerated water factory called Rogers was set up in 1837 to meet the growing demand. Soda was so popular that delays used to cause chaos. Ardeshir saw this situation one evening when a bar fight broke out over it. So Ardeshir decided to come up with an experiment that became Pune’s famous soda.  He found a way to produce carbonated water. When sugar and flavour turned into the drink Ardeshir’s was born. Coca-Cola was invented far later after that in 1886 two years after Ardeshir’s started in 1884 in a small rented barrack in Pune.  Ardeshir used to get delivered from Yazd in Iran to Quetta (now in Pakistan) to Pune with just Rs 8.   How Ardeshir Got An Idea Of Soda? Ardeshir had grabbed that era’s equivalent of Rs 8 and fled by boat out of Yazd to Quetta where his aunt lived. Then he moved once more on the docks of Bombay. But after a few months he didn’t find the right place for him. He moved again and landed in Pune. There he spotted chaos at one of the bars which gave him an idea of a fizzy drink.  Campa Cola was established in 1977 by the Pure Drinks Group. Later Mukesh Ambanis Reliance Industries acquired it in 2022 and relaunched it in 2023.