In Vadia village of Banaskantha, Gujarat, a change has occurred: to protect daughters from the sex trade, they are engaged at the age of 7 and married at 18.

In the village of Wadia, located in the Banaskantha district of Gujarat, girls are being forced into prostitution at a young age to protect them from this practice. The village has a tradition where girls get married off between the ages of 7 and 12. Wadia is approximately 200 kilometers away from Ahmedabad, with around 750 residents living there. According to a report by news agency PTI, women from this traditional nomadic community have been pushed into prostitution for generations. The men in the village...