In the opinion of many, India is the best place to shop for goods and services. So whether you’re looking for customized tailored suit or a pair for shoes, they are all available at cheap and fair rates. The most worthy things you could get your hands on are – cheap leather stuff, spices, silk, books, handicrafts, carpets and much more to look forward to.

Cosmetic surgery too seems to be inexpensive or cheaper in India. Unless you have a dental insurance, you can consider getting a refill or teeth cleaning done which is again an inexpensive treatment in India.

Leather
In India, there are 2 places best known for cheap and good-quality leather goods – Agra and Mumbai. Agra is precisely very famous for leather shoes which are available at remarkably low prices. In Mumbai, there is a place called “Dharavi” which has absolutely everything you want in leather. For example, leather shoes, belts, bags, purses or jackets. The market is famous for one’s bargaining capacities and you could fetch some really exotic and trendy leather stuff at cheap rates.

Artificial Jewelry
Also known as costume jewelry, artificial jewelry is becoming absolutely rampant in India. Adding unique traditional hints of craftsmanship, artificial jewelries are passed on from generation to generation for people to follow as a lucrative profession and hobby.

Artificial jewelry is very specific to a region. For example, in Jaipur the most famous form of artificial jewelry is called the “Kundan”. Craftsmen also assert that this costume jewelry trade is coming down the ages since their ancestral times.

Kundan work is famous for its decorative use of gold coating and gem setting. The city of Jaipur (Rajasthan) is also famous for other semi precious stones and jewelries that are usually sold in grams (per gram of the substance used).

The most famous shopping destinations for artificial jewelry in Jaipur are – Jauhari Bazaar, Bapu Bazaar, Nehru Bazaar, and Chaura Rasta amongst others.

Copper Jewelry
For copper jewelry, Baroda in Gujarat is famous for its “Gheru” style of copper jewelry which gives a dull copper touch to the jewelries manufactured.

Gold Jewelry
In India gold jewelry is usually made of yellow and white gold though yellow gold is what is ordered and worn more often. Insist on proper government stamped receipts at the counter where you are buying gold jewelries. Gold is usually sold at the following rates in India:

$880.30 per troy ounce
1 troy ounce = 31.1034768 grams
1 kilogram = 1000 grams
1000/31.1034768 = 32.1507466
32.1507466 * $880.30 = $28,302.30

Clothes
The following places are nation famous for silk saris – Kanchipuram (Tamil Nadu), Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh), Srinagar in Jammu and Kashmir, Sualkuchi in Assam, Bhagalpur in Bihar, Paithan in Maharashtra, and Bishnupur in West Bengal among others.

Agra is also famous for its “zari” work on clothes, saris, etc. Otherwise cotton fabrics and other beaded fabrics are also always available in places like the Janpath market in Delhi or Jaipur for example.

Woodwork
Famous woodwork is available in places like sandalwood carvings in Karnataka, rosewood in Kerala, Chennai and walnut from Kashmir. Sandalwood from the east is also famous for its double usage, that of an oil and wood carvings.

Metal Work
Lamps, jewelry boxes, hookahs are among some of the typically high selling metal work in India by tourists. Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh is said to be popular centers of brass work.

Some places you couldn’t miss while shopping during your vacation to India are – Jaipur, Varanasi and Delhi. Other states too have an abundance of antiques, pashmina shawls, electronic goods, etc you could get your hands on as early as possible.