Gadodia Market
Wholesale spice bazaar in a nineteen-twenties merchant's mansion, supplying North India's kitchens.
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This guide to Old Delhi's spice market opens with the nineteen-twenties merchant mansion built by Seth Lakshmi Narayan Gadodia, whose stone sunshades and domed pavilions still stand above sacks of turmeric and dried chilies. It traces the neighborhood back to Khari Baoli's brackish sixteenth-century stepwell, and to trading families like Mehar Chand and Sons, in business since nineteen seventeen, whose descendants still run the same stalls.
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