Daryaganj Sunday Book Market, popularly known as Daryaganj Sunday Patri Kitab Bazaar, is an informal weekly bazaar (market) for used and pirated books in Old Delhi. Recently relocated to a gated compound called Mahila Haat on Asaf Ali Road, the market survived for more than fifty years with books stacked on the sidewalks of Netaji Subhash Road and Asaf Ali Road (Fig. 11.1).1 Since its inception, the vendors of this market have relied on both vertical bonds of kinship and horizontal bonds of friendship to enable a dense locality-specific social network. The civic administrative units that supervise the city area in agreement with the central/national bodies of governance have formed laws and regulations that sanction a vendor their place in the local and professional community. In addition, the vendors have made their own internal definitions, or ‘boundaries’, based on what they see as the ‘traditional’ or the norm.2 In this article, I explore the explicitly acknowledged and implicitly assumed ways in which gender has played a role in the history of Daryaganj Sunday Book Market. With the help of my ethnographic research in the bazaar, I exam- ine the external boundaries created by the civic authorities and the internal boundaries constructed and sustained by the vendors at the bazaar, which altogether result into the ‘housewifization’ of women as ‘inauthentic’ members of this community.