Mahatma Gandhi Market

Mahatma Gandhi Market

The Mahatma Gandhi Market is a wholesale fruit and vegetable market in the city of Tiruchirappalli in Tamil Nadu, India. Its construction was begun as the Fort Market in 1867 and completed in 1868.[1] The market was expanded in 1927, when P. Rathinavelu Thevar was the mayor of Tiruchirappalli and renamed as Mahatma Gandhi market after Mahatma Gandhi.

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  1. ^ Moore, Lewis (1878). A Manual of the Trichinopoly District in the Presidency of Madras. Government Press. pp. 280–281. 

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