Mahatma Gandhi Market
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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. The market was expanded in 1927, when P. Rathinavelu Thevar
was the mayor of Tiruchirappalli and renamed as Mahatma Gandhi market after Mahatma Gandhi
.
Tamil Nadu
Tamil Nadu is one of the 28 states of India. Its capital and largest city is Chennai. Tamil Nadu lies in the southernmost part of the Indian Peninsula and is bordered by the union territory of Pondicherry, and the states of Kerala, Karnataka, and Andhra Pradesh...
, India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
. Its construction was begun as the Fort Market in 1867 and completed in 1868. The market was expanded in 1927, when P. Rathinavelu Thevar
P. Rathinavelu Thevar
P.Rathinavelu Thevar was an Indian administrator, patron of arts and culture and promoter of sports and games. He rose to national prominence when, as Tiruchirapalli Municipal Chairman, invited Gandhi to lay the foundation for Tiruchi Fort Market expansion works in 1927 and renamed it Gandhi...
was the mayor of Tiruchirappalli and renamed as Mahatma Gandhi market after Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi , pronounced . 2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) was the pre-eminent political and ideological leader of India during the Indian independence movement...
.