Jaina Community a Social Survey

SR No.: 007019
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Vilas Sangve
Publisher: Popular Book Depot Bombay
Publication Year: 1980
Total Pages: 484
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 12 MB

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Population
15.
in
having more than 25,000 rural Jaina population are given Table 12.
Table 12
District
State
Rural Jaina population
of the District
Belgaum Kolhapur Udaipur Sangli Kutch Pali Jalor
Mysore Maharashtra Rajasthan Maharashtra Gujarat Rajasthan Rajasthan
90,702 72,859 55,790 44,776 44,476 32,195 29,877
From the above table it is clear that the Belgaum district has got the maximum number of rural Jaina population in a district.. In the total Jaina population of 1,10,135 in the Belgaum district, only 19,433 Jainas reside in the urban areas and 90,702 Jainas reside in the rural areas of the district. The same is the case of Kolhapur district which stands next to Belgaum district in this respect. The rural-urban composition of the Jainas in Kolhapur district is 72,859 to 20,405. This unusually high proportion of rural Jaina population in a district is not found elsewhere in India.
From the point of view of the density of Jaina population in a district also, the three districts of Kolhapur, Belgaum and Sangli are practically topmost in India. From the statement12 showing the districtwise density of Jaina population arranged in the descending order as per 1971 Census it will be noticed that the Greater Bombay District has got the maximum density (i. e., 405.84 per: sq. km.) of Jaina population in India. But this district is a separate category by itself as Greater Bombay is an entirely urban district and it is obvious that in a metropolitan centre like Bombay the density of population is bound to be unusually high. Ahmedabad district stands next to Bombay in the density of Jaina population (viz., 11.95 per sq. km.) but there is a great preponderance of urban Jaina population in this district due to the important commercial and industrial City of Ahmedabad. The Jaina