LALBAUGCHA RAJA SARVAJANIK GANESHOTSAV MANDAL

This guide to the Lalbaugcha Raja mandal in Mumbai starts in 1932, when industrialization shut down a Lalbaug fish market and left its vendors with nowhere to trade. It follows the vow they made to Ganesha in exchange for a permanent market, the idol they built two years later dressed in a fisherman's jacket, and the new name that idol earned once word spread that prayers here were being answered. The same family has sculpted that idol fresh from clay every year since 1935, three generations working the same hands.