The house is within the enclave, but the shop is outside on the road to Delhi Gate. As the buildings’ size and internal workmanship suggest, their owner was more than a shopkeeper. His name, which means ‘beggar master’, is thought to identify him as Rajput chief Medini Ray, a powerful minion of the sultans. The ‘shop’ was a warehouse for saffron and musk, imported and sold at a handsome profit when there were enough wealthy people to shop here.
