Chor Bazaar

This guide to Chor Bazaar in Mumbai follows the strange history behind its name, Thieves' Market, which may have started as a British mishearing of Shor Bazaar, the noisy market, along Mohammed Ali Road. It lingers on the market's most famous legend, involving Queen Victoria's missing belongings and a violin that turned up for sale here soon after. You'll hear how an official 1917 survey of Bombay street names already described the place as a haunt of thieves. Wander Mutton Street among the stacked Victorian furniture and the generations-old family shops trading whatever the city has shed.