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THE GREAT AHMEDABAD TRIAL OF MAHATMA GANDHI 1922 AD

Sat, 21 Jul 2007 07:35:38 -0500

I think it would be most appropriate to recall the great Ahmedabad trial at this juncture when the centennial of the Gandhian satyagraha in South Africa is commemorated worldwide. When Mahatma Gandhi entered the Central Hall of the Government Circuit House at Ahmedabad on the 18th of March, 1922 to face a trial on a charge of sedition under section 124A of the Indian Penal Code about two hundred spectators inside the improvised courtroom stood up as a mark of respect to the frail figure in loincloth.

Gujarat Freedom of Religion Bill: Assault on Jainism

Tue, 16 Jan 2007 22:30:48 -0600

The Gujarat State Assembly while amending its anti-conversion law classified Jains and Buddhists as part of Hinduism. Such a classification is an unwarranted assault on the distinct religious identity recognised by the Indian Constitution itself.

One is tempted at the outset to pay a left-handed compliment to the the Modi government that it has unwittingly done a great service to the cause of Jain religious identity and its minority status by taking this absurd and constitutionally untenable step of including the Jains along with the Buddhists in the Hindu religion.

CLARIFICATION RE SUPREME COURT DECISION ON JAIN MINORITY ISSUE III

Thu, 15 Sep 2005 01:38:01 -0500

Part III

30. But unfortunately this Constitutional position was dealt a severe blow by the judgment of the Bench of three Judges in Manohar Joshi v. Nitin Bhaurao as noted above. If in the Manohar Joshi case the Supreme court made a severe dent in the secular structure of the Constitution in the Jain minority matter it has gone overboard and sought to dismantle the secular citadel of the Constitution itself and all in the name of protecting the Constitution. Then it was a matter of the encroachment of Hindutva in the Representation of the People Act", now it has inscribed judicial inroads by riding roughshod over the basic concept of the Constitutional Preambulary secular ideal itself.

CLARIFICATION RE SUPREME COURT DECISION ON JAIN MINORITY ISSUE II

Thu, 15 Sep 2005 01:35:41 -0500

Part ii

12. In view of the foregoing the extra-Judicial observations of the Supreme Court Judgment on the religious status of the Jain community as part of the Hindu religious are absolutely without any basis. Also the remarks against the National leaders like Nehru, Patel and the very Father of the Nation as responsible for the partition of India are obnoxious.

13. As a matter of fact the entire tenor of the SC observations on the National and State Minority Commissions as leading to “fissiparous tendencies” and hence calling for their closure are highly objectionable as they question the basic tenets of the Indian secular Constitution and hence need to be expunged.

CLARIFICATION RE SUPREME COURT DECISION ON JAIN MINORITY ISSUE

Thu, 15 Sep 2005 01:32:35 -0500

Part I

PRESS NOTE CLARIFYING THE CONSTITUTIONAL SIGNIFICANCE OF
THE SUPREME COURT DECISION IN THE JAIN MINORITY MATTER

The press and media reports on the recent Supreme Court Judgment of the Three-Judge Bench of the Chief Justice, R.C. Lahoti, Justice D.M. Dharmadhikari and Justice P.K. Balasubramanyam are misleading. The reports were headlined stating that “SC.declares Sikhs, Jains part of broader Hindu religion”. Such reports appeared in leading English dailies like the Hindustan Times, The Tribune, The Times of India, and the local language newspapers.

A CONSPECTUS ON JAINISM IV

Sat, 10 Sep 2005 11:14:43 -0500

A LIST OF AUTHORITATIVE REFERENCES ON JAINISM AND
JAIN COMMUNITY

1. STUDIES IN JAINISM : by Dr. Hermann Jacobi, an eminent German scholar and Indologist. A collection of three original , important and informative essays on Jainism.

2. JAINA COMMUNITY : by Dr. Vilas A. Sangave, a unique and authoritative study on Jain sociology . Prof. Sangave has been honoured by the Cambridge University in 1985 for his distinctive contribution to the study of Jainology. Excerts contain detailed Tables on Jain population and a Retrospect on Jain Community and its historic, cultural , religious and social heritage from ancient times to present.

A CONSPECTUS ON JAINISM III

Sat, 10 Sep 2005 11:12:16 -0500

A CONSPECTUS ON JAINISM

By BAL PATIL

1. JAIN MINORITY STATUS: HISORICAL REVIEW
2. JAIN MINORITY STATUS: CONSTITUTIONAL LEGAL AND JUDICIAL GROUNDS
3. OPINIONS ON JAINSIM BY SCHOLARS: INDIAN AND FOREIGN
4. A LIST OF AUTHORITATIVE REFERENCES ON JAINISM AND JAIN COMMUNITY

JAIN MINORITY STATUS : HISTORICAL REVIEW

A CONSPECTUS ON JAINISM AND JAIN MINORITY II

Sat, 10 Sep 2005 11:05:46 -0500

MEMORANDA BY OTHER INDIVIDUALS AND ORGANISATIONS
TO THE CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY

(a) Memorandum by the Representative of the Jain Community
March/April-1947.

The Jains are an ancient community of India with its own distinctive religion and philosophy, worship and ritual, social customs and manner. It is now recognized amongst oriental scholars that Jainism is essentially a non-Vedic religion and philosophy and in this connection attention may be invited to the views of Prof. Dasgupta and Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. The relevant extracts are reproduced below for ready reference:

A CONSPECTUS ON JAINISM AND JAIN MINORITY

Sat, 10 Sep 2005 08:16:36 -0500

A CONSPECTUS ON JAINISM
& JAIN MINORITY

BAL PATIL

CONTENTS

1. Minority Recognition For Jain Community 2

2. Memorandum by the Representatives of the Jain

What is the purpose of Minority Status?

Sat, 10 Sep 2005 06:55:00 -0500

I am keen to know what is the purpose of the Minority Status for Jains in India?

Five Great Vows (Maha-vratas)

Sat, 10 Sep 2005 06:48:51 -0500

Five Great Vows (Maha-vratas)
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Right knowledge, right faith, and right conduct are the three
most essentials for attaining liberation.

In order to acquire these, one must observe the five great vows:

1. Non-violence - Ahimsa
2. Truth - Satya
3. Non-stealing - Achaurya or Asteya
4. Celibacy/Chastity - Brahmacharya
5. Non-attachment/Non-possession - Aparigraha

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