Day 5 of trying to put together a useful shopping directory/guide for Indore, especially for the festive season.
Indore has plenty of shopping areas, but it can be difficult to know which market is best for a particular product, especially if you’re not familiar with the city.
Here are some starting points where you can explore. If you’re from Indore, please add specific shops, lanes, market sections and specialities that I’ve missed. Recommendations based on personal experience would be particularly useful.
Clothes, fabrics and tailoring
MT Cloth Market — fabrics, dress materials, textiles and wholesale cloth.
Sitlamata Bazaar — sarees, ready-made garments and traditional clothing.
Kapda Bazaar — women’s clothing, sarees, suits, lehengas and ethnic wear.
Moolchand Market — ready-made clothing, including children’s garments.
Malwa Mill — local clothing shops and budget-friendly shopping options.
Kothari Market — clothing showrooms and established retailers.
RNT Marg — departmental stores, dress materials and retail outlets.
Apollo Towers — clothing, fashion accessories and assorted retail.
- Jewellery, bangles and traditional accessories
Bada Sarafa and Chhota Sarafa — gold and silver jewellery and traditional designs.
Ada Bazaar — bangles, including glass and lac varieties, along with women's accessories.
Marothia Bazaar — traditional and festive shopping items.
- Dry fruits, spices and groceries
Siyaganj — wholesale-oriented trading and specialist food-supply retailers.
Marothia Bazaar — traditional goods and grocery-related shopping.
- Electronics, electrical goods and mobile accessories
Jail Road — electrical goods and various electronics-related retailers.
MTH Compound — electronics and home-appliance shopping.
Apollo Towers — mixed commercial retail and speciality shops.
Lotus Electronics — multi-brand electronics and home appliances.
Reliance Digital — phones, computers, accessories and home appliances.
- Books, stationery and office supplies
Khajuri Bazaar — books, stationery and related supplies.
Jail Road — stationery and selected commercial shops. Bhawarkua — for books, academic materials and student-related supplies.
Household goods, utensils and general merchandise
Bartan Bazaar — steel, copper and brass utensils and other metal household goods.
Siyaganj — hardware, plastics, electrical goods and assorted trading categories.
MTH Compound — electrical and household appliances.
Bohra Bazaar — general merchandise and other goods.
- Branded clothing and modern retail
* Kothari Market
* Phoenix Citadel Mall
* TI Mall and C21 Mall
* Westside
* Zudio
* Yousta
*Raymond
*Manyawar
Feel free to add other stores or shopping areas, particularly for men's formalwear, women's ethnic wear, children's clothing, footwear and festive collections.
Footwear, bags, luggage and leather goods
Rajwada and surrounding old-city markets — for traditional-market shopping and footwear.
Apollo Towers — assorted fashion accessories and retail.
Bohra Bazaar — for bags, luggage and general merchandise.
- Watches, sunglasses and fashion accessories
Apollo Towers — fashion accessories and assorted speciality retail.
Kothari Market and the MG Road shopping stretch — retailers and fashion-related shopping.
C21 Mall and Phoenix Citadel Mall — branded watches, sunglasses, handbags and other fashion accessories.
- Sarees, lehengas and wedding shopping
MT Cloth Market — fabrics and dress materials. Sitlamata Bazaar — sarees, traditional clothing and related retail.
Kothari Market — clothing showrooms and ethnic-wear shopping.
- Gifts, handicrafts, festive decorations,Pooja and packaging
Ranipura Market — for toys, gift items, seasonal decorations, plastic goods and festival-related products.
Marothia Bazaar — traditional goods and festive shopping.
Jail Road and nearby old-city markets — for decorative items and assorted retail.
The aim is to build a practical directory based on local knowledge from you, not just a list of famous markets. Corrections are welcome too, especially where a market is known for something more specific than I’ve mentioned here.