Worth a DetourSight · MarketFree

College Street

About a mile of secondhand bookstalls around Presidency University, the world's largest used-book market.

Photo: Billjones94 · CC BY-SA 4.0
Open
Most stalls close on Sundays
Price
Free
Time Needed
1–2 hours
Address
College Street, Kolkata, West Bengal 700073Directions
Getting There
Metro to Mahatma Gandhi Road, then a short walk.

Why Go

Students and scholars crowd the stalls by day, and writers have argued in the famous old coffee house upstairs on Bankim Chatterjee Street for generations.

Nearby

Marble Palace14 min walkJorasanko Thakur Bari19 min walkMullick Ghat Flower Market23 min walkNew Market32 min walk

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