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Population
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district to the total population of the district is given in Appendix V. The statement also gives the rural and urban distribution of the Jaina population in each of these 29 districts. It means that only in these 29 districts in India there is some concentration of Jainas because in India as a whole the proportion of the Jaina population to the total population is only 0.47 per cent. Thus these 29 districts matter most from the point of view of the study of the concentration of the Jaina population in India. The Statewise break-up of these 29 districts is given in Table 9.
Table 9
3r. No.
State
Number and Names of Districts
1.
Rajasthan
2. Madhya Pradesh
3. Gujarat
12. Jalor, Pali, Sirohi, Udaipur, Bika
ner, Barmer, Ajmer, Churu, Bhilwara, Chittaurgarh, Tonk,
and Jodhpur. 7. Sagar, Ratlam, Damoh, Indore,
Mandsaur, Guņa and Ujjain. 6. Kutch, Ahmedabad, Surendra
nagar, Bhavnagar, Jamnagar,
and Banas-Kantha. 3. Kolhapur, Greater Bombay and
Sangli. 1. Belgaum.
4. Maharashtra
5. Mysore
Regarding the location of these districts it is very pertinent to note that these are situated in the Western Region of the country and that not only many of these districts in each State are contiguous but most of these districts from the adjoining States also are contiguous. These districts, on the basis of their contiguity in each State, can be divided into specific groups as given in Table 10.
From the Table 10 it will be seen that Group No. I of Rajasthan is a formidable Group of 10 districts comprising 3,29,425 Jainas. The other Groups having more than one lakh of Jainas are (i) Group I of Maharashtra ( 2,44,721 Jainas ), (ii) Group IV of Gujarat (1,71,414 Jainas ), (iii) Group II of Maharashtra (1.52,721 Jainas ) and Group I of Mysore (1.10.135 Jainas ). Further it is interesting to find that in the 3 adjoining States of
