Arhat Vachan 1999 04

SR No.: 526542
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Anupam Jain
Publisher: Kundkund Gyanpith Indore
Publication Year: 1999
Total Pages: 92
Language: Hindi
Classification: Magazine, India_Arhat Vachan, & India
File Size: 23 MB

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ARHAT VACANA
Kundakunda Jnanapitha, Indore ARE ALL TRIBALS HINDU JAIN
A. P. Jain
Are all the tribals of India Hindu by birth? It is a presumption to this effect that underlies all that is being said and done in a organised manner. If one has to rely on the constitutional laws and modern Hindu Code. The Jains are the pre-Aryan setters in India, they have a large tribal heritage in the different parts of India. No attempt had ever been made by the Jain Society and anthropological survey of India and govt. machinery. It is unfortunate that true census had not been done pre and after independence.
Munda, Ho, Angaria, Sarak, Muria, Mariya, Bhumihar, Bhumij etc. are the Pre Aryan Premitive Jain settlers residing in Jharkhand and Chhota Nagpur. They have faith in Ahimsa (Non-violence) (Mr. I.T. Dalton & H.H. Risley - Bengal and Puri Gazetteer 1908-1910 A.D.).
Jain influence on the tribals existed deeply in almost all parts of ancient India. Most of the Jain Tirthankaras were born and travelled in Northern India. As a result the Jain religion was largely prevalent and mainly propogated throughout the eastern & northern India.
Consequently, the three provinces, Bihar, Bengal & Orrisa were
in the way fully drenched in the religious waves of Jainism.
The constitution (1950) includes that non Hindus could never be a scheduled caste, in 1956 Sikhs word has also been included. On the contrary, law on the scheduled tribes, wholly free from religious shackles. Nor is there any judicial decision saying that all scheduled tribes are born Hindu. Any change of religion on the part of a number of a scheduled tribe does not legally alter his or her scheduled tribe status.
The modern Hindu code of 1955-56 does not apply to the scheduled tribes. Had the scheduled tribes been born Hindu, framers of Hindu Code, who extended it also to Buddhists, Jains and Sikhs, could never have agreed to their exclusion from its purview. The Hindu Marriage Act 1955, the Hindu Succession Act 1956, the Hindu Minority and Guardianship Act 1956 and the Hindu Adoption and Maintanance Act 1956, all have an identical declaration to make 'Nothing contained in this act shall apply to the scheduled tribes'. The rider in this declaration Arhat Vacana, April 99
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