Garulia (Bengali: গারুলিয়া) is a town and a municipality under Noapara police stations of Barrackpore subdivision in North 24 Parganas district in the state of West Bengal, India. It is a part of the area covered by Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority. Garulia Municipality is sub-divided into 12 wards for the purpose of municipal election and functions.

Garulia is located at 22°49′N 88°22′E / 22.82°N 88.37°E / 22.82; 88.37. It has an average elevation of 13 metres (43 feet).

As of 2001^[update] India census, Garulia had a population of 76,309. Males constitute 53% of the population and females 47%. Garulia has an average literacy rate of 73%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 79%, and female literacy is 67%. In Garulia, 10% of the population is under 6 years of age.

North 24 Parganas district has been identified as one of the areas where ground water is affected by arsenic contamination.

Khudiram Bose (Bengali: ক্ষুদিরাম বসু Khudiram Boshu) (3 December 1889 – 11 August 1908) was a Bengali revolutionary, one of the youngest revolutionaries early in the Indian independence movement. At the time of his hanging, he was 18 years, 7 months 11 days old—barely a legal adult.

Khudiram Bose was born on 3 December 1889 in the village Habibpur near the town of Midnapur in the Midnapore district of West Bengal. His father Trailokyanath Basu was the revenue agent of the town of the Nadazol province. His mother was Lakshmipriya Devi. He was the fourth child after 3 daughters — Aparupa, Sarojini and Nanibala (two previous sons had died in infancy). taken over by superstitious fear of another case of infant mortality, the mothers , going along with the then prevailing rural/folk custom, symbolically "gave up" all social rights on her only surviving male child, and "sold" the baby to her eldest daughter Aparupa for 3 handfuls of "khud", or foodgrain. Thus the baby, who was "bought" in exchange of "khud", came to be named "Khudiram", and brought up wholly from that moment by his eldest sister.