Over the telephone from Bhagwan Allah, a street in Pandeypur in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, it takes a second for 17 year-old Chanda Kumari Bhardwaj to find what is a suitable term to describe where she lives. “Bhagwan Allah has gaon-type people,” she says.

She isn’t patronising though — everything in the conversation which follows indicates Bhardwaj is proud of all things Bhagwan Allah. Life is tough, money is tougher to come by, but parents, at least, cannot force their minor daughters to get married anymore. Lest Bhardwaj finds out.