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Many Municipal and District Boards have also not a single' Jain Member. The courts, Syndicates and Text-book Committees of Universities are almost all devoid of Jains with the result that histories containing wrong information about the origin and tenets of Jainism find an easy way in the curriculam of schools and colleges. Communal elections are not possible for the Jains. Hence it is best to follow the policy of the Congress to contest in general elections, but to ensure representation of Jain Community, there should be a provision in the statute, that if their number falls short of the prescribed minimum, it is to be filled up by nomination.
For No. (3) to give special facilities for appointments to the Jains in such ranks and in such departments in which their number is at present nil.
If the Jains claim any share in public services on a population basis, they are sure to be losers, but still there are hundreds of departments in which not a single Jain is employed, and as such their claim for appointments in those departments is but reasonable, and by this process they may succeed in getting more jobs in these days of keenest competition in every department of Government.
For No.(4) necessity will arise only at certain intervals such as grant of Jain Holidays under the Negotiable Instruments Act.
A recent instance of this sort deserves special notice. There has lately been a move among certain Hindu Leaders that the separate column for Jains should be eliminated from the next census report, and that they should be included among Hindus. This is to debar the Jains from ascertaining their statistics in regard to population, education, etc. It ought to be the work of a representative Jain political Association like the aforesaid one, to checkmate such mis
chievious propaganda. Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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