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Foreign Travelling
zeal. They have got their own boarding-houses and other reformatory measures at work in several places of Upper India. It was owing to last census that their strong and combined protest at the time of the they succeeded in being classed among the Vaishyas and got the foremost place in that class.
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The Swetamber Nawabs of Upper India are mostly seen wasting their wealth and energy in matrimonial matters-an obnoxious custom which has ruined many a well-to-do-men and are chiefly engaged in the affairs of the world we live in. "Eav, drink and be merry" is our sign-board. Those of Lower India are mostly engaged in their own special callings and are so busily engaged in amassing wealth that they scarcely get time even to attend to their meals at the proper time. There are some, no doubt, who have got the advancement of their co-religionists at heart, but unless their efforts are generally and timely supported, they may perhaps prove like wasting waters in the sand.
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We specially invite the attention of our Jain Swetamber millionares, mill-owners, Jewellers, bankers, brokers and graduates to devote their money and their brain to the advancement of their caste and creed. By making a combined effort, we shall be able to raise the status our society in the near future. We appeal to our Swetamber Nawabs to learn to imitate the Mahomedan Nawabs in educational matters and to save some of their time to attend to what the Swetamber Conference has been proposing for consideration since three years.
Foreign Travelling.
To-day we take up the much discussed topic of travelling beyond India and intend to entertain our readers with a short, succinct and the memory of the true account of the facts which are still fresh in some the period when Jain present generation. We will begin with youngmen of position dared to pioneer the way for foreign travel and carry our narrative up to the present day when a good number of Jains have crossed the waters. It was in the latter eighties of the last century that some four Jains of Upper India had visited the continent of Europe enroute to England. Two of them viz. Inderchand Doodheria and Inderchand Nahatta of Moorshidabad taking a fancy for the Paris Exhibition left India for France and thence crossed over to England.
