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• That was the Market Street I grew up in, says Subbiah.

• Even in the 1970s, when the Chettiars were losing ground to homegrown banks, Market Street still had six kittangis as well as 30-40 Indian-owned businesses.

• They would borrow the money, come to Market Street and give it out as small loans, explains Subbiah, a fourth-generation Chettiar who grew up in one of Market Streets spacious kittangis.

• Other than the Chettiars, Market Street was the incubator site of other, not only ethnic Indian, enterprises.

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