NRI siblings offer ‘US dollar-garland’ to Lord Ganesh in Gujarat village
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Sherdi 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, Sherdi ranks #32 of 56 villages in Manavadar mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Sherdi is a village of 1,248 people in 274 households (Census 2011) in Manavadar taluka, Junagadh district, Gujarat, the 32nd-largest of 56 villages in Manavadar taluka. Literacy is 76%, 6 points above the taluka average of 70% and the sex ratio is 932 women per 1,000 men. It lies 87 km from the Junagadh district centre, 41 km from Madhavpur, the nearest town, 23 km from Upleta railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 362640, served by Sardargadh post office; the LGD village code is 514364. The nearest hospital or health centre is Krishna Hospital, 9 km away. The sarpanch is bharatbhai bhikhabha rathod, and the village votes in Jetpur assembly constituency, represented by MLA Jayesh Radadiya. The population is estimated at 1,471 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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