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The '''Chukri system''' is a [[debt bondage in India|debt bondage]] or [[forced labour]] system found in [[Kidderpore]] and other parts of [[West Bengal]]. Under this system a female can be coerced into [[prostitution]] in order to pay off debts.<ref>Page 11,12, Sleightholme & Indrani (1996), ''Guilty Without Trial'', {{ISBN|0-8135-2381-8}}</ref><ref name="Davidson2005"/> She generally works without pay for one year or longer in order to repay a supposed debt to the [[brothel]] owner for food, clothes, make-up, and living expenses.<ref name="Office2005"/><br />
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The system creates a workforce of people virtually enslaved to their creditors, and constitutes one of the primary causes for women entering the sex trade. The system flourishes primarily in [[West Bengal]] or [[Calcutta]]. The name is used also in [[Bangladesh]] and the system also exists there.<ref name="Davidson2005">{{cite book|author=Julia O'Connell Davidson|title=Children in the Global Sex Trade|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=89zNs8KgJNoC&pg=PA40|date=11 March 2005|publisher=Polity|isbn=978-0-7456-2928-5|pages=40–41}}</ref><ref name="Office2005">{{cite book|author=International Labour Office|title=A Global Alliance Against Forced Labour: Global Report Under the Follow-up to the ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work, 2005|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4QGdea4A1t0C&pg=PA32|year=2005|publisher=International Labour Organization|isbn=978-92-2-115360-3|page=32}}</ref><br />
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==See also==<br />
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* [[Dance bar (India)|Dance bar]]<br />
* [[Pornography in India]]<br />
* [[Prostitution in India]]<br />
* [[Prostitution in Bangladesh]] <br />
* [[Prostitution in colonial India]] <br />
* [[Prostitution in Asia]] <br />
* [[Prostitution by country]]<br />
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==Further reading==<br />
*{{cite book |last=Mohanty |first=Manoranjan |date=4 February 2013 |series=B |doi=10.1002/9781444351071.wbeghm068|title = The Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration|isbn = 9781444334890|chapter = Bonded labor and migration, India}}<br />
*{{Cite web |url=https://www.academia.edu/2283323 |title=Debt-Bondage and Labour Market: Precarity in Neoliberal Capitalism |last=McDonell |first=Michael |date=2012 }}<br />
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==References==<br />
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[[Category:Culture of West Bengal]]<br />
[[Category:Debt bondage in India]]<br />
[[Category:Forced prostitution]]<br />
[[Category:Indian words and phrases]]<br />
[[Category:Poverty in India]]<br />
[[Category:Sociological terminology]]<br />
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