‘I was engaged at 11’: Gujarat village uses early engagements to keep girls out of sex work
Reported by Telegraph India.
Ranjitpar observes Navratri (Garba) on Sunday, 11 October 2026, along with the rest of Gujarat.
Temples near Ranjitpar
Named places of worship on record
The principal temple recorded for Kalyanpur mandal is Rathore Surapura Dada. No temple of this dedication is on record within Ranjitpar 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, Ranjitpar ranks #41 of 64 villages in Kalyanpur mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Ranjitpar is a village of 1,662 people in 346 households (Census 2011) in Kalyanpur taluka, Devbhumi Dwarka district, Gujarat, the 41st-largest of 64 villages in Kalyanpur taluka. Literacy is 56%, 2 points below the taluka average of 58% and the sex ratio is 986 women per 1,000 men. It lies 62 km from the Devbhumi Dwarka district centre, 11 km from Bhatiya, the nearest town, 12 km from Bhatiya railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 361315, served by Bhatia post office; the LGD village code is 513947. The nearest hospital or health centre is Shree DKM Hospital, 15 km away. The sarpanch is LIRIBEN RAMESH SUVA, and the village votes in Khambhalia assembly constituency, represented by MLA Ayar Mulubhai Hardasbhai Bera. The population is estimated at 1,959 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
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Source: Census of India 2011, Village Directory. Facilities may have changed since.
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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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