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Gur Mandi, Ludhiana

Gur Mandi has been the hub of wholesale trade in the town for ages. The place has all kinds of dealers and traders who sell virtually anything you want to buy. Enter the market from the Chaura Bazaar side and you find some karyana shops selling spices, pulses and things like that. Tikki-Gur displayed prominently in all these shops is a silent introduction of the market. There are also some muniari shops (general stores), which are a hit with womenfolk.

A few steps further, you are at the entrance of a huge rectangular shopping complex. Huge buildings and new shopping complexes are coming up fast here. It is an ideal place for wholesalers as general merchants from Punjab, Himachal Pradesh and Haryana frequent the market. The huge rectangular complex has another bazaar that runs perpendicular to it. The mandi, with two huge iron gates at both its entrances, can be locked at night.

There are nearly 200 shops here of various goods — imported as well as smuggled. Gur is no more the most popular commodity here. The gur trade declined sharply after 1980 and a large number of gur shops vanished. Today, only few wholesale dealers of gur are left here. A number of former gur traders are now selling other things in the market, while some of them have shifted to the other markets in the town. Anyway, gur can be still bought in Gur Mandi.

Lastly, there are chana-bhatura wallahs and tikkiwallahs who are favourites of women shoppers.

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