Chickpet
Chickpete is a wholesale/retail neighborhood in Bengaluru, India.
It houses one of the smallest roads as artery roads in entire Bangalore city. It is one of the city's oldest areas and is famous for its cloth Shops and wholesale businesses. It is near the Electric Market area in Bangalore and is a part of the Bangalore South Lok Sabha constituency. Its roots go back to the 16th century.
It is also said that Shivaji had spent early years of his childhood in Bengaluru with his father Shahaji Raje Bhosale. And his palace was there in the area which is known today as Chikkapete. Today the locality is home to the second largest Marwadi community in South india after Sowcarpet in Chennai.
Getting around Chickpet the local way
- Get inShatabdi - superfast fully air-conditioned day trip trains which connect Mysore and Bangalore with Chennai Jan Shatabdi- Superfast with AC and Non-AC Reserved Accommodation, the fastest connection between Hubli and Bangalore Bangalore is well connected to the metro cities of Kolkata, Chennai, Mumbai, New Delhi, Ahmedabad, Hyderabad, and major other Capital cities across the country.
- Get aroundTravel agents provide tickets as well as private package tours for various destinations across Karnataka.
From Wikivoyage: Karnataka, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-09.
Text adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: RioRiyoRio (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.