‘I was engaged at 11’: Gujarat village uses early engagements to keep girls out of sex work
Reported by Telegraph India.
Malpur observes Navratri (Garba) on Sunday, 11 October 2026, along with the rest of Gujarat.
The principal temple recorded for Sinor mandal is Chandramouleshwar mahadev temple. No temple of this dedication is on record within Malpur 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, Malpur ranks #23 of 41 villages in Sinor mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Malpur is a village of 1,179 people in 246 households (Census 2011) in Sinor taluka, Vadodara district, Gujarat, the 23rd-largest of 41 villages in Sinor taluka. Literacy is 70%, about the same as the taluka average of 70% and the sex ratio is 926 women per 1,000 men. It lies 111 km from the Vadodara district centre, 19 km from Virpur, the nearest town, 19 km from Modasa railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 391250, served by Sadhli post office; the LGD village code is 521232. Mapped within or next to the village: primary health centre. The sarpanch is JITENDRA DAMOR, and the village votes in Savli assembly constituency, represented by MLA Inamdar Ketanbhai Mahendrabhai. The population is estimated at 1,390 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Malpur →
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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Reported by Telegraph India.
Reported by Telegraph India.
Reported by Bhaskar English.
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