Maharashtra

As Maharashtra is a vast state, shopping in Maharashtra offers diverse varieties as every region and every district has its own specialty. Mumbai offers wide ranges of shopping to visitors. There are marketplaces, which can be suited to every type of pockets. Chor Bazaar, Mutton Street and Zaveri Bazar are some of the important areas, where shoppers enjoy with delight.

The shopping arcades of five-star hotels like Oberoi and Taj Mahal offer a good variety of up-market shops. The Dadar, Bandra-Linking Road, and Juhu Road areas are good spots for shopping in central and suburban Mumbai, Colaba and Flora Fountain (Hutatama Chowk) has full of shopping items like ethnic artifacts and departmental stores.

The perfect place for buying souvenir, are State emporiums at the World Trade Centre, at Cuffe Parade a rare artifact or textiles. The prices at the Central Cottage Industries Emporium (Apollo Bunder) and Khadi Village Industries Emporium (D.N. Road) are fixed. But the quality is genuine.

• Shopping in Aurangabad, is famous for himroo shawls, mashroo and kimkhab. We can't also forget the well-known fine paithani silk sarees. The silver inlay craft of Bidri ware too is world famous.