Jain Yug 1932

SR No.: 536272
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Harilal N Mankad
Publisher: Jain Shwetambar Conference
Publication Year: 1932
Total Pages: 184
Language: Gujarati
Classification: Magazine, India_Jain Yug, & India
File Size: 13 MB

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Reflections on The All India Oswal Maha Sammelan (held at Ajmer on 15=16 and 17 October 1932.)
(By: G. C. DHADDA Esq. M. A.) The All Inelia Oshwal Maha Sammelan sent them to almost all important places. has come & gone. People have witnessed They themselves went in deputations, and wood Tamasha for three days. All credit is sent others on their behalf to several prolue fr organising and convening the sess- vinces of India and they were fortunate in ion in Ajmer, where the Oswal community getting enthusiastic response to their clarion is split up in connection with the Dadabari call to duty. In the south they came accross a Wrangle, to four gentlemen of culture:-(1) Marwari gentleman of culture Seth Rajmalji Raisaheb Seth Kishanlalji Barna B.A., who Lalwani of Junnar a philanthrophist and after serving the Jolhpur State in several ex M. L. C. who promised them help in responsible capacities has retired and made every way. He was selected as chairman of Ajmer his home. (2) Babu Akshaisinghji the Reception Committee and the choice Dangi m. A. LL. B. of Shahapura who is was well made. To find out a capable practicing in Ajmer courts. (3) Rabu Sugan- President is always troublesome and a hard chandji Nahar of Ajmer retired auditor of nut to crack. Fotunately Babu Pooranchandji B. B. & C. I. Railway and (4) last but not Nahar M. A B. L, F. R. A. S., son of late Rai lerust Babu Davalchandji Johri of Agra, who Saheb Babu Shitabchandji Nahar of Calcutta is well known in our community for his who had the honour of presiding over the Jain liberal views. Having considered deeply over Swetamber Conference session at Ahmedabad, the disturbed atinosphere in Gujrat and kindly consented to preside. But the way Kathiawar due inainly to certain warran- to goodness is not sinooth. Since over two ter actions of some of the first order of our months he was bed-ridden and five or six Sangha which has proved, to a certain days before the session he had to face a extent, a stunbling block in the progressive family bereavement in the sad demise of his way of Jain Srvetamber Conference, these daughter-in-law. Notwithstanding all these gentlemen joined their brains to pave out unbearable troubles and agonies, he stuck a smooth way to get out of the difficulty, to the discharge of his task to which he for the amelioration of our community and was morally bonnd and he undertook the instead of inviting a sub-sectional conference long and tedious journey from Calentta to they took courage to invite the whole Ajmer which greatly added to his exhausion. Uswal community without distinctions of He is a great scholar, antiquarian and religious sub-sects.
archaeologist. He worked all along under
high temperature. The task undertaken was Herculean for it required continuous lari labour, zeal, About 1000 delegates and visitors were earnestness, co-operation and propaganda & accomodated in the pandal specially erected above all, finance. But their work has pro- for the session outside the city: Hundreds vel that nothing is impossible when one is of ladics also attended. The majority of inclined to do work in right earnest. The the delegates and visitors belongeil to ripe experience of the first third and fourth Rajputana and Central India. Many came veterans aided by the erudition of the second from Khandesh and Berar. Some came from young lawyer was a sure guarantee of suc- Bengal and U. P. There was a sprinkling cess. They sat to work day and night from Hy lerabad Daccan and Sindh). Secunleaving all their loinestic affairs aside, for irabad and the Punjab, Gujarat and Kathiaat least seven or eight months before the war were conspicuous by their absence. sammelan met. They issued bulletins, pam- Volunteers from avljoining places mastered phlets, appeals in English and Hindi and strong. The chriman's speech was lucid