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Publisher's Note
An Informative Book History is an interesting and inspiring subject, which has many branches. History may be of a person, politics, country, religion, society, culture, tradition etc. History may also be of philosophy, metaphysics, principles, literature etc. History of Jaina religion as well as that of Jaina philosophy, metaphysics and principles is greatly rich.
We find several books on the history of Jaina religion, but hardly about history of exclusive principles and metaphysics of Jainology. Story and history of development of principles is vastly informative and enlightening. Eminent octogenarian Jainologist Prof. Dr. Sagarmal Jain has presented the history of Jainism in this book precisely. This book is an English version of his Hindi essays, research articles and booklets on the subject. Some essays compiled in this book were published in the Jain Journal and other magazines. Dr. Sagarmal-Ji requested Dr. Dileep Dhing to edit the book and publish it by our International Centre for Prakrit Studies and Research (ICPSR). We have happily accepted the request. This book is an authentic piece of work done in historic perspective.
ICPSR is a Research unit of Research Foundation for Jainology. ICPSR has been in existence since beginning of RFJ. But, it was not so active. After joining as Director of ICPSR Dr. Dileep Dhing from April 2013, academic activities of RFJ and ICPSR are running with many dimensions. The Foundation and the Centre are working in a non-sectarian manner for all and shall continue to do so.
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Jainism and its History
