🌍 India (Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu); also Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka; produced from sugarcane juice (gur) or date palm sap (palm jaggery/khejur gur)
🕰️ Gur (jaggery) production in India documented since Vedic period (~1500-500 BCE); classical ayurvedic texts describe gur as therapeutic (digestive, blood-purifying properties); date palm jaggery (khejur gur) a winter staple in Bengal; modern commercial jaggery from sugarcane in block or bucket form