DEVARAJA MARKET, MYSORE

                   If you are new to the bazaars of India in general, do not miss Devaraja Market. This is a good sample of a traditional Indian market place that are  colorful, noisy, vibrant and a tad chaotic.The conservative estimates put the age of the Devaraja market about 120 years. The original market place could be much older, as old at the origin of this city as settlement. The place were people lived in this part of Mysore was called Devaraja Mohalla, named afer one of the two successive maharajas shared the same name - Dodda DevarajaWodeyar (1659-1673) and Chikka Devaraja Wodeyar (1673-1704)).

                  There was a small weekly market at the corner of this mohalla (village). Later during the regime of  Chamaraja Wodeyar IX (1868 – 1894) this weekly market was expanded into the present form. The market retained the name that is associated with the village. The road that runs through this erstwhile village is Devaraj Urs Road.