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{{Infobox shopping mall
| name = New Market, Kolkata
| image = New Market, Kolkata, 2011.jpg
| image_width = 275px
| caption = New Market Entrance, Lindsey Street
| location = [[Esplanade, Kolkata]], India
| coordinates =
| address = [[Lindsay Street]]
| opening_date = {{start date and age|1 January 1874}}
| closing_date =
| developer = Mackintosh Burn & Co
| manager =
| owner = [[Kolkata Municipal Corporation]]
| architect = Richard Roskell Bayne<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.getbengal.com/details/only-whites-were-allowed-in-new-market-during-british-era|title=Only ‘Whites’ were allowed in New Market during British era!|website=Get Bengal|access-date=27 September 2021}}</ref>
| number_of_stores = 2000
| number_of_anchors =
| floor_area =
| parking =
| floors = 1
| website = {{url|www.newmarketkolkata.com}}
| footnotes =
}}

The '''New Market''', formerly known as '''Sir Stuart Hogg Market''',<ref>[https://www.nkrealtors.com/blog/new-market-at-kolkata-shopping-mall-stood-test-times/ New Market at Kolkata — The Shopping Mall that Stood the Test of Times] ''nkrealtors.com''. Retrieved 27 September 2021</ref> is a market in [[Kolkata]] situated on [[Lindsay Street]], beside [[Free School Street]] ([[Mirza Ghalib Street]]/Rani Rasmoni Road). Although primarily "New Market" referred to the original enclosed market, today in local parlance, the entire shopping area is often known as "New Market".

==History==
[[File:Sir Stuart Hogg Market.jpeg|thumb|right|Sir Stuart Hogg Market, {{circa|1905}}]]
[[File:New Market, Calcutta in 1945.jpg|thumb|New Market, {{circa|1945}}]]
Some of the earliest English quarters of Calcutta were in an area known then as [[Dalhousie Square]]. Terretti and [[Lalbazar]] nearby were the customary shopping haunts of the British. Later settlements arose in Kashaitola, [[Dharmatala]] and [[Chowringhee]].
By the 1850s, British colonists held sway in Calcutta and displayed increasing contempt for the "natives" and an aversion to brushing shoulders with them at the bazaars. In 1871, moved by a well orchestrated outcry from English residents, a committee of the [[Calcutta Corporation]] began to contemplate a market which would be the preserve of Calcutta's British residents. Spurred by the committee's deliberations, the Corporation purchased Lindsay Street, made plans to raze the old Fenwick's Bazar located there, and commissioned '''Richard Roskell Bayne''', an architect of the [[East Indian Railway Company]], to design the Victorian Gothic market complex which would take its place. It began to take shape in 1873, and Bayne was honoured for his achievement with a Rs. 1,000 rupee award, a large sum in the 1870s.<ref name= "Nag">{{cite news|last1=Nag|first1=Ashoke|title=130 years young: Kolkata’s Raj insignia is still ‘New|url=http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2005-09-17/news/27471744_1_new-market-rw-newman-thacker-spink|access-date=10 June 2016|publisher=The Economic Times|date=17 September 2005}}</ref> '''Mackintosh Burn''' was the builder.<ref name= "TT">{{cite news|last1=Our Bureau|title=Fire follows tinderbox tag|url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1150519/jsp/calcutta/story_20820.jsp#.V12VbdQrJnI|access-date=12 June 2016|publisher=The Telegraph|date=19 May 2015}}</ref>

The giant shopping arcade was thrown open to the English populace with some fanfare on 1 January 1874. News of Calcutta's first municipal market spread rapidly. Affluent colonials from all over India shopped at exclusive retailers like Ranken and Company (dressmakers), Cuthbertson and Harper (shoe-merchants) and R.W. Newman or Thacker Spink, the famous stationers and book-dealers.<ref name= "Nag"/>

Sir Stuart Hogg, then the Chairman of Calcutta Corporation, had shown tenacious support for the plans to build the New Market. So, 28 years later, on 2 December 1903, the market was officially named '''[[Sir Stuart Hogg]] Market''' and later shortened to Hogg Market.<ref name= "Nag"/> Bengali society, in the British era, called it ''Hogg Shaheber Bajaar'', a name that is still in use, just as a painting of Sir Stuart Hogg still hangs in Calcutta Corporation's portrait gallery. But the earliest provisional nickname, New Market, which remained in use throughout, proved to have the most sticking power.

New Market's growth kept pace with the city until [[World War II]]. The northern portion of the market came up in 1909 at an expense of 6 [[lakh]] [[rupee]]s. Despite the gathering storm of World War II, an extension was engineered on the south flank, and the historic clock tower on the southern end of the market was shipped over from [[Huddersfield]] and installed in the 1930s.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Sengupta|first1=Snehal|title=Get set for twin clock towers|url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1150320/jsp/saltlake/story_9614.jsp#.V1r_cNQrJnI|access-date=10 June 2016|agency=The Telegraph|publisher=ABP|date=20 March 2015}}</ref> Florists were located near the front entrance, and stalls selling fresh and preserved foods were placed towards the rear of the market. Beyond the vegetable stalls, fishmongers and slaughterhouse butchers plied their trade, and, until the mid-1970s, at the very back of the market, exotic animals from all over the British Empire could be bought as pets.

== Description ==
[[File:Bata india kolkata.jpg|right|thumb|[[Bata Shoes|Bata Shoe Store]] in Linsday Street, near the market]]
Despite the appearance of new air-conditioned, American-style, shopping malls all over Kolkata, New Market, which has survived two devastating fires and regular flooding, remains at the core of the shopping experience in the city. Over 2000 stalls under its roof sell everything from clothing to wheeled luggage to electronics to a special cheese found nowhere else. Under its apparent chaos lie extraordinary finds as well as remarkable bargains. Newmarket is a place to shop for garments & accessories, flowers, different food items including raw meat, fish, vegetables and fruits and even spices. There are crockeries and utensil stores. It also has a florist section dealing with exotic flowers.
It is situated on Lindsay Street, Kolkata (Calcutta), just off [[Jawaharlal Nehru Road|Chowringhee Road]], the market is open 10 a.m. until 8 p.m. Monday to Friday, until 7 p.m. on Saturdays, and closed on Sundays.

===Food stores===
[[File:Bandel Cheese, Kolkata, West Bengal 2.jpg|thumb|[[Bandel Cheese]], Plain (White) & Brown (Smoked)]]
There are several renowned confectioners in New Market: Nahoum & Sons (estd. 1902)<ref>{{cite news|last1=Our Bureau|title=Nahoum’s loses its man behind the till|url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1130308/jsp/calcutta/story_16645665.jsp#.V1sBltQrJnI|access-date=10 June 2016|agency=The Telegraph|issue=8 March 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Nahoum's owner dies, bakery lives on|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/Nahoums-owner-dies-bakery-lives-on/articleshow/18857336.cms|access-date=10 June 2016|agency=The Times of India|date=8 March 2013}}</ref> is truly historic, with its original mahogany cabinetry and marble counters. For over a century, millions of customers have sworn by Nahoum's Rich Fruit Cake, its brownies, marzipan, macaroons and much more. Imperial Confectioners and D Gama compete for a close second and third place.

[[Kalimpong cheese|Kalimpong Cheese]] and [[Bandel Cheese]] are local cheese available only in New Market. Kalimpong Cheese comes from the North Bengal tourist spot of [[Kalimpong]], it can be crumbled into salad or eaten raw.<ref name= "Food">{{cite news|title=Food|url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1130503/jsp/entertainment/story_16852993.jsp#.UvN2W2KSxZ8|access-date=6 February 2014|newspaper=The Telegraph, Kolkata (Graphti)|date=3 May 2013|location=Calcutta, India}}</ref> Bandel Cheese is an Asian cheese originated in an erstwhile [[Portuguese Empire|Portuguese]] colony, [[Bandel]] located in eastern [[India]]. It is an indigenous unripened, salted soft variety of cheese made in perforated pots. It is similar to [[Surti paneer]] but made from cow's milk.<ref>{{cite web|title=CHEESE AND CHEESE PRODUCTS|url=http://www.fao.org/docrep/003/T0251E/T0251E05.htm}}</ref>
Available in two varieties, plain (white) and smoked (brown).<ref>{{cite news|title=ALL YOU WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT LOCAL CHEESE — KALIMPONG TO BANDEL|url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1130503/jsp/entertainment/story_16852993.jsp#.UtuRorS6a1s|access-date=19 January 2014|newspaper=The Telegraph, Calcatta|date=3 May 2013|location=Calcutta, India}}</ref> Bandel cheese is well salted and can be stored.<ref name= "Food"/>

===Garments and accessories stores===
[[File:New market Garments and accessories stores.jpg|thumb|New market Garments and accessories stores]]
[[File:Lindsay Street Sreelathers.jpg|thumb|Lindsay Street]]
[[File:Bertram Street New Market Kolkata.jpg|thumb|Bertram Street]]

==Fires==
The New Market witnessed two major fires on 13 December 1985 and 20 July 2011.<ref name= "TT"/> There was another massive fire on 18 May 2015.<ref>{{cite news|title= Massive fire breaks out in New Market|url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/kolkata/massive-fire-breaks-out-at-new-market-in-kolkata/article7219249.ece|access-date=12 June 2016|newspaper=The Hindu|date=19 May 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Massive fire breaks out in Kolkata's New Market area|url=http://www.dnaindia.com/locality/jadavpur/massive-fire-breaks-out-kolkatas-new-market-area-60302|access-date=12 June 2016|issue=DNA|date=18 May 2015}}</ref>

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