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{{For|Vadia in Narmada district|Vadia (disambiguation){{!}}Vadia}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2018}}
{{Use Indian English|date=September 2018}}
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| other_name = Village of Prostitutes
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| settlement_type = village
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| pushpin_map_caption = Location in Gujarat, India
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| subdivision_name1 = [[Gujarat]]
| subdivision_type2 = [[List of districts of India|District]]
| subdivision_name2 = [[Banaskantha district|Banaskantha]]
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'''Vadia''' is a [[village]] in [[Banaskantha district]] in the [[India]]n [[States and territories of India|state]] of [[Gujarat]]. It is located 70 miles west of [[Palanpur|Palanpur city]], and about {{convert|240|km|abbr=off }} from [[Ahmedabad, India|Ahmedabad]].<ref name=NYDN/>

Historically, unmarried women of this village supported themselves through [[prostitution]], with the men of the village working as [[pimp]]s.<ref name=NYDN>{{cite news|last=Caulfield|first=Philip|title=Indian mothers hold mass wedding in ‘village of sex workers’ to save daughters from prostitution|url=https://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/indian-mothers-hold-mass-wedding-village-sex-workers-save-daughters-prostitution-article-1.1037143|access-date=13 March 2012|newspaper=NY Daily News|date=11 March 2012|quote=Vadia was known as a hub for the sex trade since before India gained independence from Britain in 1947 and most of the men work as pimps, the Times of India reported.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-02-19/ahmedabad/31076961_1_prostitution-wadia-village |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120222180203/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-02-19/ahmedabad/31076961_1_prostitution-wadia-village |url-status=dead |archive-date=2012-02-22 |title=Women of this village pimped by their kin |date=2012-02-19 |work=[[The Times of India]] |access-date=2012-05-13}}</ref>

Efforts are underway to change this state of affairs, by such organizations as ''[[Vicharta Samuday Samarthan Manch]]''.<ref name=NYDN/>

==References==
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[[Category:Villages in Banaskantha district]]

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