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Studies known as Turkology, Egyptology, Indology or Sinology respectively. Later as the Indological studies pertaining to the different aspects of culture in India developed, it was keenly felt that the scope of Indological studies was also very vast and that there was a distinct and rich field of studies in Jaina Culture as a part of Indian Culture. Obviously in course of time the studies in Jainism developed to a great extent and from this emerged Jainology as a separate branch of Indology.
Naturally in the initial stages the Jainological Studies all over the world were mainly concerned with the studies in 'Jaina Religion and Philosophy' as they formed the very basis of Jaina Culture. As a result it was earlier thought that the Jainology was the study of Jaina Religion and Culture. But soon the studies in Jaina Literature' in different languages got prominence as it had enshrined and preserved the knowledge about the tenets, doctrines and practices relating to Jaina Religion and Philosophy'. In this way studies in Jaina Languages and Literature' constituted another branch of Jainology along with that of studies in Jaina Religion and Philosophy'. Later with the development of studies in various forms of Jaina Literature it was realised, that the studies in Jaina Culture would be complete only with the studies of several forms of Jaina Arts and Architecture as they had contributed to a great extent in enriching and developing the different aspects of Indian CulAs a result the studies in 'Jaina Arts and Architecture' soon assumed the status of a distinctive branch of Jainology.
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In this way when studies in 'Jaina Religion and Philosophy', 'Jaina Language and Literature' and Jaina Arts and Architecture' were progressing as branches of Jainology, it was keenly felt by scholars in Jainology that the studies of Jaina People' and 'Jaina Community' from Sociological point of view should be undertaken in a scientific way as the Jaina Community had been mainly responsible not only for the preservation but also for the development of Jaina Culture and Indian Culture through all these centuries in an uninterrupted manner and inspite of the fact that the Jainas constituted a small minority in India. As a step in this direction pioneering work was done by Prof. Vilas Sangave by submitting in 1950 his thesis entitled 'Jaina Community: A Social Survey' to the University of Bombay for the Ph. D. in Sociology. Later on with
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