Crawford Market, Mahatma Jyotiba Phule Market

Mumbai

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Crawford Market, Mahatma Jyotiba Phule Market

More a throwback to a Victorian market than modern day India, Crawford Market mostly specializes on fresh fruit and vegetables, although it offers every shade of India's products. The building where it is located features scenes of Indian rural life and farmers on friezes designed by the artist John Kipling, as well as boasting Kipling’s Fountain inside the market itself.

Shopping

A wide range of upmarket outlets pop up sparsely throughout the city. Plentiful handicrafts, textiles and clothes of any sort sit in local shops, waiting to be discovered. Fruit and vegetable markets, typical clothes bazaars and thousand of hawkers located among outdoor dumps and upscale residential areas thrive within the lively city. Mumbaikers, living in such a urban jungle, have learnt how to get the best deals out of the city's thousands of vendors. A Mumbaiker would tell you that the stalls along MG Road boast some great quality signature items from brand manufacturers, that Colaba Causeway offers some of the best knickknacks in town or that fruit at the Crawford Market is fresher in the morning. There are lots of choices on Mereweather Road but you might, however, have to haggle to get the price you want.