________________ SOME OPINIONS Jaina Community: A Social Survey VILAS A. SANGAVE "An unique and authoritative book on Jain Sociology." --Late Dr. Kamta Prasad Jain, Editor, Voice of Ahinsa. "The book may prove a useful tool to the student who uses it critically, for a great deal of factual material is presented in one place."--Times of India. "The book is an exhaustive survey and a good guide for all future studies." Dr. B. J. Sandesara, Director, Oriental Institute, M. S. University Baroda, Baroda. "This excellent work is a mine of valuable information and I have learned very much from it."-Dr. Helmuth Von Glasenapp, Prof. of Indology and Comparative Religion, University of Tubingen, West Germany. "Dr. Sangave has done remarkable justice to that ancient religious minority community of India by his learned treatise which presents rich details and sheds abundant light on the various aspects of the problem, viz., the social survey of the Jaina Community."-Late Dr. A. N. Upadhya, President, All India Oriental Conference; Prof. and Head, Dept. of Jainalogy, University of Mysore, Mysore. "Dr. Sangave has not only surveyed the present state of the society in all its aspects but has given in a nutshell the past of the Jaina religion and society which is very much informative. The book will remain for many years a standard work on Jaina Society." --Pandit Dalsukh Malvania, Director, Jain Research Institute, Banaras Hindu University. "Dr. Sangave's book on "Jaina Community" is a well-conceived systematic study of Jaina minority on which I have drawn heavily."-R. A. Schermerhorn in his book Ethnic Plurality in India.