‘I was engaged at 11’: Gujarat village uses early engagements to keep girls out of sex work
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Hathipura observes Navratri (Garba) on Sunday, 11 October 2026, along with the rest of Gujarat.
Temples near Hathipura
Named places of worship on record
The principal temple recorded for Dasada mandal is Chintamani Parshwanath Mandir. No temple of this dedication is on record within Hathipura 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, Hathipura ranks #81 of 87 villages in Dasada mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Hathipura is a village of 375 people in 56 households (Census 2011) in Dasada taluka, Surendranagar district, Gujarat, the 81st-largest of 87 villages in Dasada taluka. Literacy is 69%, 4 points above the taluka average of 66% and the sex ratio is 923 women per 1,000 men. It lies 102 km from the Surendranagar district centre, 20 km from Nandasan, the nearest town, 3 km from Detroj railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 363765; the LGD village code is 512123. The nearest hospital or health centre is Detroj CHC, 3 km away. The sarpanch is khavdiya sayraben imtiyazbhai, and the village votes in Dasada assembly constituency, represented by MLA P.K.Parmar. The population is estimated at 442 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Hathipura →
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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