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8 May 1992
Prologue: On the 14th day of March 1992, the inauguration of Mahadeolal Saraogi Research Project at the Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Calcutta, took place under the Presidentship of Swami Lokeswaranandaji, and the Keynote Address was delivered by Prof. Sagarmal Jain, Director Professor, P. V. Research Institute, Varanasi.
It was a new Wing to the Research organisation Institute, and it was, too, a fulfilment of aspirations of Mahadeolalji's.
Mahadeolal Saraogi (1893 - 1953), a noted Trader of Calcutta, lived and died as a true Jain leaving the legacy of his life for his progeny to follow and work upon. He renounced the world at the early age of 50, and sat at the feet of the Jain Acharya Sri Tulsi for acquiring eternal values and for realising truths. He felt that Jain tenets accorded to modern way of life as they did in the past. And Mahadeolalji endeavoured in his humble way to difuse
knowledge about Jain principles and ideals along both in the land of Bharata as well as abroad.
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This desire and wish of Mahadeolalji passed on to his descendants who came to the view that for rejuvenation of this Eternal Faith Jainism some more research was to be carried on, so that the Jain view of life and values could be placed in the proper perspective.
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Possessed with the charge, we came to be aware of Swami Lokeswaranandaji Maharaj's endeavour to expand the research activities of The Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture.
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