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Pages in category "Red-light districts in India" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B. Bowbazar;
Sonagachi is a neighbourhood in Kolkata, India, located in North Kolkata near the intersection of Jatindra Mohan Avenue (north of C.R. Avenue) with Beadon Street and Sovabazar, about one kilometer north of the Marble Palace area.
Manningham – the red light district is situated around Lumb Lane and Manningham Lane and was featured in the TV series Band of Gold. [250] Huddersfield. Great Northern Street [251] Leeds. Chapeltown – the traditional red light-area was around the Spencer Place and Avenue Hill streets. This has diminished in importance since the emergence of ...
Mumbai (formerly known as Bombay), is a city in India which contains the neighborhood of Kamathipura, one of the largest red-light districts in Asia. India is regarded as having one of the largest commercial sex trades globally. [1] These neighborhoods are so large and popular that Mumbai has been called the "ultimate destination" for sex ...
A lane in Kamathipura, a red light district in Mumbai. A brothel in Kamathipura A scene in Sonagachi, Kolkata's red light district, 2005. India's largest and best-known red-light districts are: 1. Sonagachi, Kolkata: Asia's largest red-light district with over 11,000 sex workers. [7] [61] [6] 2.
The largest red-light district in Kolkata, is Sonagachi, it is also the largest red-light district in India. [21] The area came to be known as Sona Gachi from a Sufi saint Sona Ghazi whose tomb (mazaar) is located in the locality. [22] It is an area with several hundred multi-storey brothels, and around 10,000 sex workers. [23]
G.B. Road, Garstin Bastion Road, (officially changed to Swami Shradhanand Marg in 1966) is a road running from Ajmeri Gate to Lahori Gate in Delhi, India. It is a large red-light district. [1] It has several hundred multi-storey brothels and there are estimated to be over 1,000 sex workers. [2]
Till then, as previous 1864 Census figures for Mumbai indicate, other areas had a larger population of prostitutes, like Girgaon (1,044), Phanaswadi (1,323) and Oomburkharee (1,583) compared with Kamathipura (601), all which declined after 1864. [8] In the nineteenth century the area developed in the main red light district of the city of Mumbai.