Mahathma Phule Mandai

Mahatma Phule Mandai
Lord Reay's Market
	Mahatma Phule Mandai
Location	Shukrawar Peth, Pune, Maharashtra, India
Coordinates	18°30′47″N73°51′23″E / 18.512941°N 73.856298°E
Opening date	1882
Closing date	still operational
Developer	Lord Reay
Owner	Pune Municipal Corporation
Architect	Walter Ducat; Vasudev Kanitkar
No. of stores and services	8 wings and 1 central tower
Total retail floor area	46,068.67 sq ft (4,279.919 m2)
No. of floors	1

Last updated November 23, 2024

Mahatma Phule Mandai (formerly known as Lord Reay's Market) is the biggest retail vegetable market in the city of Pune, India. The market is housed in an iconic building from the British colonial era in the Shukrawar Peth locality in the center of the city.

History

In the early years of the British rule an open air vegetable market used to be held outside the Shaniwar Wada. This shifted to an indoor place built by the Poona Municipality. The construction of the Gothic style building started in 1882 and took 4 years for completion. It was designed and built by Walter Ducat and Vasudeo Kanitkar with significant input from engineer Narso Ramchandra Godbole.^[1] The Market at opening was named after the then Governor of Bombay, Lord Reay, and served as a retail and wholesale market in addition to being the Municipal office. There was also an older market district called Tulshi Baug close to the vegetable market that sold a variety of household items.^[2]^[3] The wholesale market was moved to the outskirts of the city in the late 1970s to the newly built Shri Chhatrapati Shivaji Market Yard at Gultekdi. The Municipal offices moved to a purpose built new building in the Shivajinagar area of the city many decades ago.

The building

The market building is designed in the Gothic style. The builders used masonry carved from the local grey stone. The structure is dominated by an 80 feet central, squat, octagonal tower. The tower is surrounded by a verandah with a tiled roof. This covers the ground and first floor. Four market wings housing the majority of the stalls radiate out from the ground floor verandah. The market is entered via gothic arches located at the ends of each of the wings. ^[4]

The market today

Today the market has about 526 stalls of fruits and vegetables. It is always crowded because fruits and vegetable are available at lower cost than other places in the city, but is most crowded on weekends and holidays. The market has its own Ganesh Mandal for Ganesh Festival and is one of the oldest in Pune and Maharashtra. The proposed skywalk will run on four sides of the market. Pune Metro will have a station near the mandai on the Nigadi-Swargate line. it is presently under construction.

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References

↑ Lawand, V., 2017. Architectural Character of Poona in Late Nineteenth century. page 166
↑ Shankar, V.K. and Sahni, R., 2012, November. Chinese Goods for Indian Gods. In Symposium on India-China Studies held at the University of Delhi (New Delhi) during (Vol. 2, p. 3).
↑ Dastane, Sarang (6 October 2010). "Mahatma Phule Mandai completes 125 years". The Times of India. Retrieved 3 October 2016.
↑ Mullen, Wayne Thomas (2001). Deccan Queen: A Spatial Analysis of Poona in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries. Sydney,Australia: University of Sydney. School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry. pp. 91–92. hdl:2123/495.

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[1] Lawand, V., 2017. Architectural Character of Poona in Late Nineteenth century. page 166

[2] Shankar, V.K. and Sahni, R., 2012, November. Chinese Goods for Indian Gods. In Symposium on India-China Studies held at the University of Delhi (New Delhi) during (Vol. 2, p. 3).

[3] Dastane, Sarang (6 October 2010). "Mahatma Phule Mandai completes 125 years". The Times of India. Retrieved 3 October 2016.

[4] Mullen, Wayne Thomas (2001). Deccan Queen: A Spatial Analysis of Poona in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries. Sydney,Australia: University of Sydney. School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry. pp. 91–92. hdl:2123/495.

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