Kombination

Retail · Dehradun, Uttarakhand

Kombination is a retail in Dehradun, Uttarakhand, listed on Revfer, the trust-based business discovery network.

About

Some of the earliest English quarters of Calcutta were in an area known then as Dalhousie Square. Terretti and Lalbazar nearby were the customary shopping haunts of the British. Later settlements arose in Kashaitola Dharmatala and Chowringhee. By the 1850s British colonists held sway in Calcutta and displayed increasing contempt for the “natives” and an aversion to brushing shoulders with them at the bazaars. In 1871 moved by a well orchestrated outcry from English residents a committee of the Calcutta Corporation began to contemplate a market which would be the preserve of Calcutta’s British residents. Spurred by the committee’s deliberations the Corporation purchased Lindsay Street made plans to raze the old Fenwick’s Bazar located there and commissioned Richard Roskell Bayne an architect of the East Indian Railway Company to design the Victorian Gothic market complex which would take its place. It began to take shape in 1873 and Bayne was honoured for his achievement with a Rs. 1000 rupee award a large sum in the 1870s. Mackintosh Burn was the builder. The giant shopping arcade was thrown open to the English populace with some fanfare on January 1 1874. News of Calcutta’s first municipal market spread rapidly. Affluent colonials from all over India shopped at exclusive retailers like Ranken and Company (dressmakers) Cuthbertson and Harper (shoe-merchants) and R. W. Newman or Thacker Spink the famous stationers and book-dealers. Sir Stuart Hogg then the Chairman of Calcutta Corporation had shown tenacious support for the plans to build the New Market. So 28 years later on December 2 1903 the market was officially named Sir Stuart Hogg Market and later shortened to Hogg Market. Bengali society in the British era called it Hogg Shaheber Bazaar a name that is still in use just as a painting of Sir Stuart Hogg still hangs in Calcutta Corporation’s portrait gallery. But the earliest provisional nickname New Market which remained in use throughout proved to have the most sticking power. New Market’s growth kept pace with the city until World War II. The northern portion of the market came up in 1909 at an expense of 6 lakh rupees. Despite the gathering storm of World War II an extension was engineered on the south flank and the historic clock tower on the southern end of the market was shipped over from Huddersfield and installed in the 1930s. Florists were located near the front entrance and stalls selling fresh and preserved foods were placed towards the rear of the market. Beyond the vegetable stalls fishmongers and slaughterhouse butchers plied their trade and until the mid-1970s at the very back of the market exotic animals from all over the British Empire could be bought as pets. Despite the appearance of new air-conditioned American-style shopping malls all over Kolkata New Market regularly flooding with customers and remains at the core of the shopping experience in the city. Over 2000 stalls under its roof sell everything from clothing to wheeled luggage to electronics to a special cheese found nowhere else. Under its apparent chaos lie extraordinary finds as well as remarkable bargains. Newmarket is a place to shop fro garments & accessories flowers different food items including raw meat fish vegetables and fruits and even spices. There are crockeries and utensil stores. It also has a florist section dealing with exotic flowers. It is situated on Lindsay Street Kolkata (Calcutta) just off Chowringhee Road the market is open 10.30 a.m. until 8 p.m. Monday to Friday until 7 p.m. on Saturdays and closed on Sundays.

Business Information

Address: New Market, 248001, Race Course, Dehradun, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India

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