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The stealthing prowl through the dark gullies and lanes, the
crawl up a water-pipe, the sights and counds of the women's
world on the flat roofs, and the headlong flight from housetop
to housetop under the cover of the hot dark…
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.Kim, Rudyard Kipling.
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| Heera Mandi,
'Diamond Market', once a presitigious quarter of the Old City,
next the Badshahi Mosque and the Fort, was named after Heera
Singh, a favourite of Maharaja Ranjit Singh. However, over the
years this locality of the nobility transformed to commercial
ends and further transmuted to become the 'diamond market' of
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