Zaveri Bazaar

This guide to Zaveri Bazaar in Mumbai returns to a single afternoon in March 1993, when a bomb exploded in these crowded lanes during an ordinary day of trading, one of twelve coordinated blasts that struck the city that day. It sets that moment against what makes the bazaar itself unusual: a market said to handle a majority of India's gold trade, packed into narrow lanes with thousands of shops, some run by the same families for well over a century, including a firm founded here in 1864. Look for the mix of glass-fronted showrooms and stalls barely wide enough for two people.