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[[File:FabIndia outlet, Khan Market, New Delhi.jpg|thumb|[[FabIndia]] outlet, Khan Market, New Delhi.]]
'''Khan Market''', is a shopping district and retail market in [[Delhi]], India. It was established in 1951, and named in honour of freedom fighter [[Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan]] (popularly known as Frontier Gandhi or Badshah Khan).<ref name="thehindu2009rsg" /> In 2019, it was rated as the world's 20th most expensive commercial street by [[Cushman & Wakefield]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2010-09-23/india/28241609_1_hong-kong-s-causeway-high-street-expensive-shopping-destination|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121103131816/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2010-09-23/india/28241609_1_hong-kong-s-causeway-high-street-expensive-shopping-destination|url-status=dead|archive-date=2012-11-03|title=Delhi's Khan Market is world's 21st costliest high street|newspaper=[[The Times of India]]|date=2010-09-23|accessdate=2010-09-23}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2010-09-24/delhi/28243111_1_hong-kong-s-causeway-global-markets-delhi-s-khan-market|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121103131903/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2010-09-24/delhi/28243111_1_hong-kong-s-causeway-global-markets-delhi-s-khan-market|url-status=dead|archive-date=2012-11-03|title=Delhi's Khan Market world's 21st costliest street|newspaper=[[The Times of India]]|date=2010-09-24|accessdate=2010-09-24}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/khan-market-india-s-costliest-street-world-s-21st/h1-article1-603949.aspx |title=New Delhi's Khan Market India's costliest street, world's 21st |publisher=Hindustan Times |date=2010-09-25 |accessdate=2010-09-25 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100925010538/http://www.hindustantimes.com/Khan-Market-India-s-costliest-street-world-s-21st/H1-Article1-603949.aspx |archivedate=2010-09-25 }}</ref>
==History==
[[File:Middle lane, Khan Market, New Delhi.jpg|thumb|Middle lane, Khan Market started turning to commercial space in the 1990s.]]
Established in 1951, the U-shaped, double-storey market complex originally had 154 shops and 74 flats on the first floor for shopkeepers.<ref name=mint2012>{{cite news|title=Home is where the mart is |url=http://videos.livemint.com/2012/07/13220110/Home-is-where-the-mart-is.html?h=B |publisher=[[Mint (newspaper)|Mint]] |date=13 July 2012 }}{{dead link|date=May 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> Many of these shops were allocated as seed land to immigrants from the [[North-West Frontier Province (1901–1955)|North-West Frontier Province]] after the [[partition of India]], Khan Market is named in honor of [[Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan]] (1890–1988), a [[Pashtun people|Pashtun]] political and spiritual leader.<ref name="thehindu2009rsg">{{Citation | title=The other Khan Chacha | newspaper=The Hindu | date=2009-10-24 | accessdate=2009-11-20 | url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/article38132.ece | quote=''... Khan Market itself is named after a pathan, the legendary Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan ...''}}</ref>

Nearby is Sujan Singh Park, New Delhi's first apartment complex, built in 1945, and designed by [[Walter Sykes George]] and named after the grandfather of this enclave's most famous resident, writer [[Khushwant Singh]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Making history with brick and mortar |url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/Making-history-with-brick-and-mortar/Article1-745801.aspx |archive-url=https://archive.today/20121205200651/http://www.hindustantimes.com/Making-history-with-brick-and-mortar/Article1-745801.aspx |url-status=dead |archive-date=5 December 2012 |publisher=[[Hindustan Times]] |date=15 September 2011 }}</ref> George also designed, the Ambassador Hotel next door, built in 1945 in a mix of British and Art Deco style. The building is now a heritage property and the hotel has been taken over by the [[Taj Hotels Resorts and Palaces#Vivanta Hotels and Resorts by Taj|Taj Vivanta]] chain.<ref>[http://www.vivantabytaj.com/ambassador-new-delhi/overview.html Ambassador Hotel] [[Taj Hotels Resorts and Palaces#Vivanta Hotels and Resorts by Taj|Taj Vivanta]].</ref>

Until the 1980s, all the flats on the first floor continued to serve as homes. Neighbourhood grocery stores and middle-class shops existed in the middle lane, despite the fact it catered most up to upmarket [[Golf Links, New Delhi|Golf Links]], [[Sundar Nagar]], and diplomatic crowd from [[Chanakyapuri]]. Gradually, the real estate boom and expanding families of the first generation of occupants forced many families to move out. Thus these homes were sold and started being converted into shops. By the 2010s, only a few families were living in these two-room flats.<ref name=mint2012/>

A 2011 [[Cushman & Wakefield]] survey ranked Khan Market as the world's 21st most expensive shopping street.<ref name=mint2012/>

==Overview==
Today it has grown to become one of the most expensive commercial real estate locations in the city. It has a wide variety of stores, including modern showrooms of most of well-known brands, silver jewellery stores, [[delicatessen]]s, bookstores, paints and hardware stores, electronics, kitchenware, and fabric stores mingle with some of the better restaurants.

It is also famous for food including [[kebabs]] and [[gol guppe]] (a type of popular street food) and a retail market for lighting fixtures on the ground floor. There are several bookstores in the market.

The market is closed on Sundays.<ref>[http://goindia.about.com/od/shopping/tp/delhimarkets.htm Khan Market]</ref>

==Location==
[[File:Khan Market Station entrance and Ambassador Hotel, New Delhi.jpg|thumb|[[Khan Market (Delhi Metro)|Khan Market]] Station entrance and Ambassador Hotel, New Delhi.]]
Khan Market is almost in the heart of the city, close to [[India Gate]]. It is surrounded by residential complexes — government owned and private — including Golf Links, Lodhi Estate, Shahjahan Road, Pandara Road, Rabindra Nagar and Sujan Singh Park. Its environs are home to a significant number of bureaucrats from the central government, and famous people like the satirist [[Khushwant Singh]]. It is one of the greenest pockets of the city, very close to the famed [[Lodhi Gardens]]. Also in proximity are the [[India International Centre]], the [[India Habitat Centre]], offices of the [[World Wide Fund for Nature]], and other organizations.

==Transport==
It is serviced by the [[Khan Market (Delhi Metro)|Khan Market]] underground station of the [[Delhi Metro]] ([[Violet Line (Delhi Metro)|Violet Line]]), which lies in front of the colonial-era Ambassador Hotel (now Taj Vivanta). There are four exits of the metro station namely Gate 1, Gate 2, Gate 3 and Gate 4. The exit at Gate 4 leads to Khan Market.

==See also==
{{Columns-list|colwidth=30em|
* [[Arabber]]
* [[Bazaar]]
* [[Bazaari]]
* [[Hawker centre]] (Asia) a centre where street food is sold
* [[Market (place)]]
* [[Pan Bazaar]]
* [[Peddler]]
* [[Retail]]
* [[Street vendor]]
* [[Street food]]
}}

== References ==
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==External links==
* [http://khan-market.com Khan Market.com]
* [http://www.lonelyplanet.com/india/delhi/shopping/books/khan-market Khan Market] [[Lonely Planet]]

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[[Category:1951 establishments in India]]
[[Category:Bazaars in India]]
[[Category:Retail markets in Delhi]]
[[Category:Shopping districts and streets in India]]
[[Category:Shopping malls established in 1951]]

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