Prostitution in India

Prostitution is legal in India, but a number of related activities including soliciting, kerb crawling, owning or managing a brothel, prostitution in a hotel, child prostitution, pimping and pandering are illegal. Quotes In the regimental bazaars (chakla) it is necessary to have a sufficient number of women, to take care that they are sufficiently attractive, to provide them with proper houses, and, above all, to insist upon means of ablution being always available... If young soldiers are carefully advised in regard to the advantage of ablution, and recognize that convenient arrangements exist in the regimental bazaar, they may be expected to avoid the risks involved in association with women who are not recognized (that is, licensed) by the regimental authorities. Military order of June 17, 1886, known amongst the opponents of state regulation as the "Infamous Circular Memorandum," which was sent to all the cantonments of India by Quartermaster-General Chapman, in the name of the Commander-in-Chief of the Army of India. Report of the Departmental Committee of 1893. Quoted in : Under the surface External links Category:Prostitution