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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Jaina Community---A Social Survey
in these States and Union Territories, 17 Similarly, the proportion of the Jainas living in the rural areas is 65.91 per cent in Mysore, 53.54 per cent in Rajasthan, 37.74 per cent in Madhya Pradesh, 36.44 per cent in Maharashtra and 33.74 per cent in Gujarat as these are the States where the Jaina population is mostly concentrated.18
Thus the preference of the Jainas to live in urban areas is their characteristic feature. This is due to the fact that in any region with a pronounced majority of one religion it will be found that persons not of that religion are mainly to be seen in the towns. A Parsi or a Christian, unless by an accident brought up in a village, will not find himself at home in rural conditions. This type, of phenomenon is common all over the world. Everywhere the country is homogeneous and native, the town heterogeneous and cosmopolitan. All minorities thus find their way to and flourish in towns and that is why the Jaina community is essentially urban in character.
4. SEX DISTRIBUTION OF JAINA POPULATION
The sex composition of the Jainas reveals a clear deficiency of females. There are only 940 females per 1000 males in the Jaina community. The sex-ratio among the Jainas during th last eight Censuses is given in Table 14..
Table 14
Census Year
Number of females per
1,000 males
1901 1911 1921 1931 1941 1951 1961 1971
929 940 931 940 930 927 924 940
From the above table it will be seen that the proportion of females to males in the Jaina community has been varying and that the proportion of females continuously declined from 1931