Jaina Community a Social Survey

Author(s): Vilas Sangve
Publisher: Popular Book Depot Bombay

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Jaina Community-A Social Survey
other communities. Along with the sex ratio the practice of religious conversion also serves as a contributive factor in affecting the rate of increase in population of a community. For example, the rate of increase in population of Christian community is highly influenced by the inclusion of converts in the community. In the case of Jainas there is no possibility of increase in the population due to the factor of additions of newcomers to their religion as the practice of religious conversion is never resorted by the Jainas. On the contrary there are indications of Jainas being converted to other religions. Thus, if conversion is not practised, the removal of ban on widow remarriage appears to be the most pressing and urgent need for the growth of Jaina population.
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Census of India, 1971: Series 1- India : Paper 2 of 1972 on "Religion", p. iii.
2. Census of India, 1971 Series 1 - India : Paper 2 of 1972 on " Religion", p. xiii.
3. Census of India, 1971: Series 1 - India: Paper 2 of 1972 on "Religion", p. iii.
4. Also vide Appendix I "The Statement showing the number per 10,000 of the population who are Jainas at the Censuses from 1881 to 1941 ". 5. Census of India, 1931, Vol. I, Part I, p. 389.
6. Vide Chapter 7.
7. The position of regional distribution of Jaina population before Independence is given in Appendix III. This Appendix shows the distribution of Jaina population among the former British Provinces and Indian States according to Censuses from 1911 to 1941. From this Appendix III it would be seen that during pre-Independence period the Jainas had preferred Indian States to British Provinces as their permanent abodes. According to 1941 figures, 60 per cent of the Jainas lived in Indian States and only 40 per cent were in the British Provinces. The corresponding figures for 1901 Census stood at 64 per cent and 36 per cent respectively.
8. Census of India, 1901, Vol. I, Part I, p. 523.
9. Vide Appendix II.
10. Vide Appendix IV. 11. Vide Appendix IV. 12. Vide Appendix VI.