Haat bazaar
Haat Bazaar, most often called only Haat is a practice of market place conducted in regular basis.[1] It is a trading practice in rural area and some towns of Nepal, India and Bangladesh.
In the haat local people trade their products with people from the same region. [2]
Haat is conducted in regular basis i.e. once, twice, thrice in a week and sometimes fortnightly. Sometimes haat bazaars are organized differently to support or promote trading of rural people.[3][4]
Haat practice gradually concentrate rural settlement and converts the village into small town. Most of the towns are named after the weekly haat practice in Eastern Nepal. Aaitabare, Sombare, Mangalbare, Budhabare, Bihibare, Sukrabare, Sanischare are some towns most redundantly heard. The towns are named after weekdays names in Nepali language having weekly haat on respective days. Panchami, Nawamidanda, Saptami are towns names named after the fortnightly weekdays name in Hindu lunar calendar.
Dilli Haat is a famous market place in Delhi. Rampurhat is a municipality India.
Two districts Lalmonirhat and Jaipurhat of Bangladesh are suffixed haat in their name