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APRIL, 1984
151
Instances like the above abound in the Radha area as also in the neighbouring Manbhum-Singbhum region which testify that until about the 12th century A.D. Jainism was fairly powerful in this part of the country but it yielded its place to a sister religion not through any violent skirmish but through that gentle process of assimilation which was characterised all the religious 'conquests' of Hinduism.
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