Khan Market is a shopping marketplace in Delhi, India. It was established in 1951 by the newly formed Rehabilitation Ministry of the Republic of India to provide economic possibilities to refugees of India's Partition, particularly those from the North West Frontier Province (NWFP), which is now the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in Pakistan. Originally, the U-shaped, two-story market complex included 154 businesses and 74 apartments for shop owners on the first floor. Khan Market is named in honor of Khan Abdul Jabbar Khan, a Pashtun political and spiritual leader. Many of these stores were given to immigrants from the North-West Frontier Province as seed land after India's partition. Close to India Gate, Khan Market is in the centre of the city. Government-owned and privately-owned residential complexes, such as Golf Links, Lodhi Estate, Shahjahan Road, Pandara Road, Rabindra Nagar, an... Read More