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JAINA BIBLIOGRAPHY
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EDWARDS, S. M. Census of India 1901, Vol. 11: Bombay. (Town and Island), Part 5: Report, Bombay, 1901.
P. 22; 79. Mandvi has been a Jain centre for the last seventy or eighty years.
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ALLEN, S. C. Census of India, 1901. Vol, 4 : Assam, Part 1 : Report. Shillong, 1902.
P. 46. There are 1,797 Jains in the Province - Some 1,600 are found in the Brahmaputra valley. Most of them are Mārvāri merch
ants.
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EDWARDS, S. M. The Rise of Bombay. Bombay, 1902. (Reprinted from Vol. x of the Census of India Series 1901).
P. 269. Considerable increase of the Jain population in Bombay by 1848 A.D. P. 324. Enormous expansion of the Jains by 1891 A.D.
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MACDONALD, K. S. Baroda Census Report, 1901. (CR, cxvi, art. 6, 1903, p. 46-67).
P. 57. The Jains, 48,290 strong, reject the Vedas, yet call themselves Hindus. They observe caste distinctions and intermarry with Hindus. The sacred books of the Svetāmbara Jains are in the Māgadhi Prākịt language, and those of the Digambara Jains in Sanskrit. The
Dhundia Jains carry the doctrine of the preservation of animal life to . a shocking extent.
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YULE, HENRY. and A. C. BURNELL. Hobson-Jobson, London, 1903.
P. 447. Jain.
