‘I was engaged at 11’: Gujarat village uses early engagements to keep girls out of sex work
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Timba observes Navratri (Garba) on Sunday, 11 October 2026, along with the rest of Gujarat.
Temples near Timba
Named places of worship on record
Nine nights of Garba and Dandiya Raas circling a perforated earthen lamp, the garbo, or an image of Amba — dancers moving anticlockwise, singing and clapping together. Garba of Gujarat was inscribed on UNESCO's Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in December 2023, the fifteenth element from India to join it.
The regional form observed across Gujarat. How any one household or village keeps it varies, and is not something recorded here.
By population, Timba ranks #26 of 49 villages in Gariadhar mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Timba is a village of 1,499 people in 318 households (Census 2011) in Gariadhar taluka, Bhavnagar district, Gujarat, the 26th-largest of 49 villages in Gariadhar taluka. Literacy is 61%, 5 points below the taluka average of 67% and the sex ratio is 985 women per 1,000 men. It lies 249 km from the Bhavnagar district centre, 25 km from Sundhiya, the nearest town, 6 km from Taranga Hill railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 364275, served by Parvadi post office; the LGD village code is 516436. The nearest hospital or health centre is Bhavna Hospital, 5 km away. The village votes in Jasdan assembly constituency, represented by MLA Kunvarjibhai Mohanbhai Bavaliya. The population is estimated at 1,767 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Timba →
Source: Census of India 2011, Village Directory. Facilities may have changed since.
Water supply timings, gram sabha dates, camps and drives — residents post them here and they expire on their own.
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Sources: Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner of India (Census 2011 + Population Projections 2011-2036) · International Institute for Population Sciences (NFHS-5) · Election Commission of India · data.gov.in (Jal Jeevan Mission, PMAY-G, SBM-G dashboards). Projections may differ from on-the-ground reality by ±20% for individual villages. An asterisk next to a sex-ratio value (—*) flags a Census 2011 figure outside the plausible range of 300–2000 ♀/1000♂; the underlying source row is suppressed pending review.
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