K R Market (Krishnarajendra Market), also known as City Market, is the largest wholesale market dealing with commodities in

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, India. It is named after

Krishnarajendra Wodeyar Maharaja Krishnaraja Wadiyar IV (Nalwadi Krishnaraja Wadiyar; 4 June 1884 – 3 August 1940) was the twenty-fourth maharaja of the Kingdom of Mysore, from 1902 until his death in 1940. He is popularly called ''Rajarshi'' ( sa, rājarṣi, li ...

, a former ruler of the princely state of

Mysore Mysore (), officially Mysuru (), is a city in the southern part of the state of Karnataka, India. Mysore city is geographically located between 12° 18′ 26″ north latitude and 76° 38′ 59″ east longitude. It is located at an altitude of ...

. The market is located in the

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area, adjacent to the

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, on Mysore Road at its junction with

Krishnarajendra Road Maharaja Krishnaraja Wadiyar IV (Nalwadi Krishnaraja Wadiyar; 4 June 1884 – 3 August 1940) was the twenty-fourth maharaja of the Kingdom of Mysore, from 1902 until his death in 1940. He is popularly called ''Rajarshi'' ( sa, rājarṣi, li ...

. It is the first locality in the whole of Asia to get electricity and considered to be one of the biggest flower markets in Asia.

History

K R Market was established in 1928. The location of the market is said to have been a water tank and then a battlefield in the 18th century during the

Anglo-Mysore Wars The Anglo-Mysore Wars were a series of four wars fought during the last three decades of the 18th century between the Kingdom of Mysore#Under Haider Ali and Tipu Sultan, Sultanate of Mysore on the one hand, and the British East India Company (r ...

. From the British era, two buildings remain, at the front and back of the market area.

Present day

A new concrete 3-story structure was erected in the 1990s between the two older buildings to provide more space for vendors and better overall conditions. At the basement is an underground parking above which stand three commodity-specialised floors: flowers and vegetables on the lower ground floor, dry goods on the upper ground floor and tools and machine-tools accessories on the first floor.

Gallery

File:KR Market Entrance.jpg, Entrance of the British-era front building File:KR Market Front Concrete.jpg, Front of modern (1990s) building File:KR Market Tomato.jpg, Tomato seller in the open-air section File:KR Market Entrance concrete.jpg, Entrance of the modern building File:KR Market Underground 1.jpg, Basement level: Fruit and vegetable stalls File:KR Market Underground 2.jpg, Basement level: flower sellers File:KR Market Ground.jpg, Ground Floor: Dry goods stalls File:KR Market Stairs.jpg, Staircase to the first floor File:KR Market Tools.jpg, First floor: Tools and machine-tools stalls File:KR Market Pit 1.jpg, Flower-garland makers working on the intermediate level of one of the central lighting pits (4 in all) File:KR Market Pit 2.jpg, Another lighting pit File:KR Market Kids.jpg, Kids playing on one of the concrete awnings above an entrance File:KR Market Machine Tool.jpg, Flower-garland makers working next to decaying machine tools kept for parts on the first floor File:KR Market Workers.jpg, Workers sleeping File:KR Market back.jpg, At the back of the modern building, another remnant of the British-era structure

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Present day

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