FAQIR CHAND BOOK STORE || NEW DELHI || KHAN MARKET ||
Автор: Nalayak ghumakkad
Загружено: 2025-07-14
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FAQIR CHAND BOOK STORE
Faqir Chand was established in 1931 in Peshawar, before the partition. Can you walk us through the history of the bookstore, and of your family?
I’m the fourth-generation bookseller. Going back about 90 years, my great grandfather, Mr. Faqir Chand, came from Peshawar. He was running the bookstore there since 1931, but as a consequence of partition, he had to flee leaving everything behind. Post partition, in Delhi, my family kept shifting places, until they came to Khan Market, which was established to rehabilitate the partition refugees, particularly the traders from the NWFP. It was named after Khan Abdul Jabbar Khan.
In 1951, he was allotted a shop and a flat — where we still live — in Khan Market. He decided to re-establish his bookshop. Here, starting from scratch, he slowly built his clientele and their goodwill over the years, making patrons from all over the world and leaving behind the legacy that is still running in the family ever since. I spend my entire day at the bookstore, learning the trade from/with my parents. We’re proud as a family to be a part of this legacy, continuing it as a family run bookstore.
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