Bazaar Bazaar A bazaar is a permanently enclosed marketplace or street where goods and services are exchanged or sold. The term originates from the Persian word "bāzār". The term bazaar is sometimes also used to refer to the "network of merchants, bankers and craftsmen" who work in that area. Although the current meaning of the word is believed to have originated in Persia, its use has spread and now has been accepted into the vernacular in countries around the world. In Balinese, the word "pasar" means "market." The capital of Bali province, in Indonesia, is Denpasar, which means "north market." "Souq"
Bazaar-e-Husn Bazaar-e-Husn Bazaar-e-Husn () or Seva Sadan () is a Hindustani novel by Munshi Premchand. It was originally written in Urdu under the title "Bazaar-e-Husn" ("Market of Beauty" or Red-light district) but was first published in Hindi from Calcutta as "Seva Sadan" ("The House of Service"), in 1919. It was published in Urdu, in 1924, from Lahore. "Bazaar-e-Husn" was Premchand's first major novel; before it, he had published four novellas in Urdu of about 100 pages each. K. Subramaniam adapted the novel as a Tamil movie, "Sevasadanam" (1938), which was the first film for the famous Carnatic music singer, M. S.