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Section VIII 11-ETHNOLOGY
1960
J. Malcolm-A memoir of Central India including Malwa and adjoining Provinces. Second edition, 2 volumes-Lond., 1824 (Third edition 1832).
The volume II, Pp. 160-165 enumerates some Estates of Jain faith and points out their customs.
1961
H, M. ELLIOT-Memoirs on the history, folk-lore, and distribution of the races of the North Western Provinces of India. Edited, revised and re-arranged by John Beames, 2 volumes. London, 1869.
Volume I.
P. 289. The Jains are in the number of 49,983 in the provinces of the NorthWest. They reside specially at Ajmer, Muzaffarnagar and Lalitpur. Moreover, they are seen principally at Agra, Farrukhabad, Itawah, Allahabad and Mirzapur.
1962
E. T. Dalton-Descriptive Ethnology of Bengal, Calcutta, 1872,
Pp. 164-165. The Mundas and the Oraons were beaten and driven away from their own countries by the Lowrik. Sumwaras or Lowriks Sowriks, that the author supposes to have been the Jains.
Pp. 173-174 The Bhumijs who inhabit in the neighbourhood of Jaina temples pretend that the founders of these temples preceded them in their country. These Bhumijs would be probably the Vajra Bhūmi, known by their bad treatment with regard to Mahāvira.
P. 178. The Jains would have formerly occupied the country of the Kols Ho Larka. One does not know what they have became afterwards ; but they must have left some souvenir at Dhalbhum and in the district,
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