‘I was engaged at 11’: Gujarat village uses early engagements to keep girls out of sex work
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Uncha Kotda observes Navratri (Garba) on Sunday, 11 October 2026, along with the rest of Gujarat.
The principal temple recorded for Mahuva mandal is Shree Ram Ranuja Mandir. No temple of this dedication is on record within Uncha Kotda itself.
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, Uncha Kotda ranks #5 of 114 villages in Mahuva mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Uncha Kotda is a village of 9,188 people in 1,282 households (Census 2011) in Mahuva taluka, Bhavnagar district, Gujarat, the 5th-largest of 114 villages in Mahuva taluka. Literacy is 49%, 6 points below the taluka average of 55% and the sex ratio is 954 women per 1,000 men. The pincode is 364130, served by Datha post office; the LGD village code is 516772. The village votes in Rajkot Rural assembly constituency, represented by MLA Bhanuben Manoharbhai Babariya. The population is estimated at 10,833 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Uncha Kotda →
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.
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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