Crawford Market
Victorian Gothic produce market with heritage entrance friezes carved by Rudyard Kipling's father.
This guide to Crawford Market in Mumbai starts in 1869, when a young English art teacher named John Lockwood Kipling carved scenes of Indian daily life into the stone above its entrance arch. A few minutes away, at the art school where he taught and lived, his small son Rudyard was growing up among these same bazaars and monsoons. The guide traces how that childhood later surfaced in The Jungle Book and Kim, and follows the family from their house on the J.J. School of Art campus back to England. Look up at the entrance frieze before heading inside to see the porter, the vendor and the bullock cart Lockwood carved there.
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