Jainism

Author(s): N R Guseva
Publisher: Sindu Publications P L

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JAINISM
"The work I have done has the sole aim of unravelling the historical process as it was, uninfluenced by political controversies of modern times. I have invented nothing but have striven to generalise as objectively as possible the evidence of records, monuments, folklore etc. available to the historical research worker such as I am."
-Madam N. R. Guseva
The writer has set before herself the task of revealing the historical and ethnographic roots of Jainism. The study aims at tracing the history of development of the Jain community, describing its internal structure and customs, and evaluating the contribution, which the Jains made to literature and art of India. Finally, it will also offer to the readers an assessment of the contemporary position of this community and of the new ideological shades in Jainism.
In the present book the history of the rise of Jainism is viewed in direct relation to those ethnographical and socio-historical processes, which took place in ancient India, at the end of the second and the beginning of the first millennium B.C. That was the epoch of the settlement of the alien Aryan tribes on the soil of North India and also the epoch of the formation of class relations in the environments of these regions.
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