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The Present Condition of the Jains
BY
MANILAL H. UDANI, M.A., LL.B.,
Advocate, Rajkot.
We are passing through the 20th century now, All the nations of Europe and some of the nations of Asia have made tremendous progress materially, socially and industrially. India on the contrary has been going down and our Jaina Community more so.
It is a necessity of the present time, that we should stand together. We must forget our petty differences as Swetambars, Digambars and Sthanakwasis and should work unitedly for the common cause of the community. Let us revive the All-India Jaina Association, comprising ladies and gentlemen of light and leading of all the three sub-sects, and adopt practical measures for the uplift of the community as a whole.
We are a merchant class and we have many millionaires in our community. Our rich people make generous donations, but they do not know how to utilise them best. Our charitable grants are thus being wasted according to the advice of petty people on petty objects. There is no common Board 'which may appeal to these charitable donors to invest their gifts towards permanent and useful purposes.
Many of our graduates and young men have been feeling the rigours of unemployment. If there was a central association which would register the
