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The '''aadhiya system''', also sometimes spelled as ''adhiya'', is a system, most prevalent in north-eastern, northern Bengali speaking parts of [[India]] (as the word is Bengali), where a sex worker is rented a room or apartment by a ''mashi'' or [[brothel]] keeper, usually an older retired sex worker, who charges the worker rent for the room based on her total earnings rather than at a fixed rate, so that the mashi gets a share of the worker's earnings.<ref>''Guilty Without Trial'', by Sleightholme & Indrani (1996). {{ISBN|0-8135-2381-8}}</ref><ref name="Kara2009">{{cite book|author=Siddharth Kara|title=Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SH1sBUTysPMC&pg=PA55|date=22 January 2009|publisher=Columbia University Press|isbn=978-0-231-51139-1|pages=49, 54–56, 93–94}}</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 Pakistan]] <br />
* [[Prostitution in colonial India]] <br />
* [[Prostitution in Asia]] <br />
* [[Prostitution by country]]<br />
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== Further reading ==<br />
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*{{cite web |url=http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2013/12/india-trying-combat-sex-trade-2013129123247502307.html |title=India trying to combat sex trade |author=Angel L. Martinez Cantera |date=12 January 2014 |website=[[Al Jazeera]] }}<br />
*{{cite web |url=http://www.undp.org/content/dam/undp/library/hivaids/English/HIV-2012-SexWorkAndLaw.pdf |title=Sex Work and the Law in Asia and the Pacific |date=2012 |website=[[UNDP]] |ISBN=978-974-680-343-4}}<br />
*{{cite web |url=http://www.childtrafficking.com/Docs/tdh_2005_study_trafficked_nepalese_girls_in_mumbai_kolkata_22.pdf |title=A Study of Trafficked Nepalese Girls and Women in Mumbai and Kolkata, India |date=October 2005 |ISBN=99946-56-67-8 |access-date=2015-12-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304094953/http://www.childtrafficking.com/Docs/tdh_2005_study_trafficked_nepalese_girls_in_mumbai_kolkata_22.pdf |archive-date=2016-03-04 |url-status=dead }}<br />
*{{cite book |last1=Sleightholme |first1=Carolyn |last2=Sinha |first2=Indrani |date=1996 |title=Guilty Without Trial |publisher=[[Rutgers University Press]] |ISBN=0-8135-2381-8}}<br />
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