Jain Gazette 1905 10

Author(s): Jain Student Institute Kolhapur
Publisher: Jain Student Institute Kolhapur

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Total Population in 1901.
Hindus.
Parsees.
N. Christians.
Jains and Budhists together.
Jain Gazette.
14657179
Population.
Convicts in Jaol.
Proportion of one convict to
73945
758765
9890149
British Burma.
Budhists.
9184121
13051
Covicts in 1901.
703
9714
0
29
0
333
I shall now try to examine these figures from another side and see if they represent the true state of things. Separate figures are available for British Burma and Bombay and it is to be observed that the former is the province in which Budhists abound. The following table gives these figures separately.
13307
Proportion per thousand.
1509
""
2549
477
Bombay.
Jains. Budhists. Jains.
93
547
227696
Not
known.
743
31
7363
This shows that the Jains are the most civilized people from the moral standpoint and instead of the bottom, they occupy the top of the ladder. What can be more striking and evident than this fact? And I may ask, what can be a worse perversion of facts than this combination of Jains and Budhists ?