DESTINATION MUMBAI: FALKLAND ROAD
The brothel district of Kamathipura began in the 17th century by British authorities to satisfy the carnal demand of Her Majesty’s troops. Soon Chinese, Anglo-Indian, French and other “white” women stocked flourishing bordellos on a street once known to natives as “Safed Galli, or “white alley.” Nepali women from regions of Sindupalchowk began arriving after World War II, increasing to trafficked women from throughout the country by the 1980’s. A hierarchy of pimps, brothel owners, organized criminals; police and politicians share the profits of this criminally controlled sex industry.
Kamathipura, Mumbai, India.
The brothel district of Kamathipura began in the 17th century by British authorities to satisfy the carnal demand of Her Majesty’s troops. Soon Chinese, Anglo-Indian, French and other “white” women stocked flourishing bordellos on a street once known to natives as “Safed Galli, or “white alley.” Nepali women from regions of Sindupalchowk began arriving after World War II, increasing to trafficked women from throughout the country by the 1980’s. A hierarchy of pimps, brothel owners, organized criminals; police and politicians share the profits of this criminally controlled sex industry.
Kamathipura, Mumbai, India.
DESTINATION MUMBAI: FALKLAND ROAD
The brothel district of Kamathipura began in the 17th century by British authorities to satisfy the carnal demand of Her Majesty’s troops. Soon Chinese, Anglo-Indian, French and other “white” women stocked flourishing bordellos on a street once known to natives as “Safed Galli, or “white alley.” Nepali women from regions of Sindupalchowk began arriving after World War II, increasing to trafficked women from throughout the country by the 1980’s. A hierarchy of pimps, brothel owners, organized criminals; police and politicians share the profits of this criminally controlled sex industry.
Kamathipura, Mumbai, India.
The brothel district of Kamathipura began in the 17th century by British authorities to satisfy the carnal demand of Her Majesty’s troops. Soon Chinese, Anglo-Indian, French and other “white” women stocked flourishing bordellos on a street once known to natives as “Safed Galli, or “white alley.” Nepali women from regions of Sindupalchowk began arriving after World War II, increasing to trafficked women from throughout the country by the 1980’s. A hierarchy of pimps, brothel owners, organized criminals; police and politicians share the profits of this criminally controlled sex industry.
Kamathipura, Mumbai, India.
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