Bapu Bazar
Artisan market of block-printed quilts, Bandhani textiles, and lac bangles.
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This guide to Jaipur's walled-city market traces how it came to carry Mahatma Gandhi's name after his assassination in 1948, tying his lifelong devotion to hand-spun cloth to the artisans still working here. It reaches back further to the mansuris, the quilt makers Maharaja Sawai Jai Singh II settled inside the city walls when he founded Jaipur in 1727, and to the Bandhani tie-dye and lac bangle crafts passed down through generations since. Look past the quilt stalls for the mojari shoemakers, whose curled embroidered toes are made the same way their parents learned.
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