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THE WORLD OF JAINISM
(12) Indian Reference Sources: An annotated guide to Indian reference books. Compiled by H. D. Sharma, L. M. P. singh, and S. P. Mukherji. Varanasi and Jullunder, Indian Bibliographic Centre, 1972.
Apart from these, the most fundamental bibliography till the beginning of this century was Essai de Bibliographie Jaina, pértoire analytique et méthedique des travaux relatifs au Jainisme. Compiled by Guérinot, Armand Albert. Paris, Leroux, 1906. It was a classed bibliography of 852 works on
Jainism.
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There are a few indexes which are useful to look for periodical articles on different aspects of Jainism.
(1) Index India: Edited by N. N. Gidwani, Jaipur, Rajasthan University Library, 1967 Not up-to-date. Last volume is vol. 8, nos. 1 and 2, for January-June, 1974. It is a quarterly documentation list on India of materials in English appearing in Indian newspapers, Indian and foreign periodicals, composite publications, biographical profiles, book reviews, theses and dissertations. It has author and subject indexes. Desired information is found in the subject index under Jain. and under Jainism.
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(2) Guide to Indian Periodical Literature (Social Sciences and Humanities): 5 annual volumes for the years 1964-68, edited by Vijay Kumar Jain, Gurgaon, Prabhu Book Service. It is a cumulated subject-author index to ariticles from about 140 selected Indian periodicals on social sciences and Humanities. Subject entries are to be found under Jainism.
Periodicals:
There are quite a number of periodicals specially bringing out articles on Jainism, and others in which Jainism forms a part of the subject covered. The former can be easily located in the following bibliography of journals.
1. Jain Antiquary:
Indian Periodicals: An Annotated Guide; compiled and edited by N. N. Gidwani and K. Navlani, Jaipur, 1969. Using the key to subjects in the preliminary section, one could look up for the desired information under Jainism, coming under Religion. Alphabetical Index provided at the end is also useful. Press in India (Part II), and a recent bibliography of Indian 1973, periodicals, namely, Indian Periodicals In Print compiled by H. N. D. Gandhi, Jagdis Lal, and Suren Agrawal, Delhi, Vidya Mandal, 1973, gives useful information on price, place of publication, etc. of the required periodicals.
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