Daryaganj Sunday Book Market draws Delhi’s vast and constantly circulating student population as reliably as any institution in the city. It serves not only students from major public universities such as Delhi University, Jamia Millia Islamia, and Ambedkar University, but also millions of school-going children and young people enrolled in coaching centres across the capital region. According to UDISE+ 2024–25 data, Delhi has 5,556 schools serving over 44.9 lakh students across government, aided, and private institutions. Delhi University alone admitted approximately 72,000 undergraduate students for the academic year 2025–26, across 69 colleges and 79 programmes – and when postgraduate students and those enrolled across other universities and standalone colleges in the city are included, the figure rises considerably.
These numbers gesture towards something larger than mere scale. They point to a densely competitive educational ecosystem shaped by chronic state underfunding, unequal infrastructure, and the relentless neoliberal promise of upward mobility through credentialism. In this context, the bazaar does more than sell books: it acts as an unofficial welfare infrastructure, absorbing and responding to gaps produced by shrinking public support and rising private costs.
Beyond formal institutions, thousands of coaching centres clustered in hubs such as Mukherjee Nagar, Rajinder Nagar, Laxmi Nagar, Karol Bagh, and...
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