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Babra observes Navratri (Garba) on Sunday, 11 October 2026, along with the rest of Gujarat.
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, Babra ranks #14 of 67 villages in Malia Hatina mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Babra is a village of 2,363 people in 370 households (Census 2011) in Malia Hatina taluka, Junagadh district, Gujarat, the 14th-largest of 67 villages in Malia Hatina taluka. Literacy is 63%, 3 points below the taluka average of 66% and the sex ratio is 935 women per 1,000 men. It lies 46 km from the Junagadh district centre, 24 km from Atkot, the nearest town, 12 km from Khijadiya Junction railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 362245, served by Malia Hatina post office; the LGD village code is 514870. The nearest hospital or health centre is Referal Hospital Babara, <1 km away. The village votes in Visavadar assembly constituency, represented by MLA Bhupendrabhai Gandubhai Bhayani. The population is estimated at 2,786 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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