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of internal reorganisation necessarily raises issues which the Jains must decide upon after full consideration of all the consequences that a departure from the existing state of things is bound to involve. There is no denying the fact that the Jain community lias reason to feel aggrieved at the handling of the present dispute: and it is but natural that they should seek to safeguard more effectively against a repetition of the mishap that has now befallen them. There seems to have been a want of living contart with the community at large, which led those who had the management of such concerns to under-estimate the forces opposing the Jain claims. Reform and reconstruction in so far as they are inevitable, must take the shape of a greater introduction of that element of representativeness in the agent and representatives of the community, which is to-day conspicuous by its absense. And, perhaps, the opportunity of this Special Session of the Conference may be seized, not unfittingly, to decide upon those other measures of internal reorganisation, which the history of this dispute must show are urgently necessary in order that the sentiment of the community may be more fully expressed and more clearly voiced. Personalities are bound to enter, and, in a way, to complicate, such discussions as these; but if those, who have the conduct of the Conference in their handy keep
