. THE BURRA BAZAAR. CALCUTTA. All travellers in eastern cities are familiar with the term ' bazaar,' which in Oriental parlance denotes a street, or sometimes a whole quarter, Riven up to toe transaction of retail business. The Burra Bazaar in Calcutta is the great quarter of native shops which every visitor to the city is sure to inspect. But an Indian bazaar is not only a place in which buying and selling are carried on. As a place where many men from many divers quarters congregate and converse, it becomes the great centre for the exchange of opinions, the creation and propagation of rumour
. THE BURRA BAZAAR. CALCUTTA. All travellers in eastern cities are familiar with the term ' bazaar,' which in Oriental parlance denotes a street, or sometimes a whole quarter, Riven up to toe transaction of retail business. The Burra Bazaar in Calcutta is the great quarter of native shops which every visitor to the city is sure to inspect. But an Indian bazaar is not only a place in which buying and selling are carried on. As a place where many men from many divers quarters congregate and converse, it becomes the great centre for the exchange of opinions, the creation and propagation of rumours; and, it may bs, for the hatching of plots, ' Bazaar rumour ' is a phrase for gossip and unauthenticated information ; but those who know India best tell us that the rumour of the bazaar is often strangely accurate, and that a wise man will be careful to learn what is said and thought there if he wishes to know which way the wind blows, or is about to blow. between 1887 and 1889 266 Calcutta Bazaar QE4 15
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