THE SECOND edition of the book has been thoroughly updated, revised and expanded. Chapter 3 on Jain Population and Demography which was earlier based on the 2001 census data is replaced by a new one based on the 2011 data. One new chapter on Status of Jain Women has been added to this volume. The Bibliography of the book has been pruned as well as updated. On the whole, the revised edition of the book can be considered as a complementary work to Professor Vilas A. Sangave's book Jain Community: A Social Survey (1980) (first published in 1959). I hope the revised and updated book with additional material would be more useful to the general readers and the scholars alike.
I take this opportunity to express my sincere thanks to Dr Shugan C. Jain, President of the International School for Jain Studies (ISJS), and Shri Susheel Mittal, Director of D.K. Printworld for getting is Second Edition of promptly published. At ISJS, I am also thankful to Joint Director Dr Shrinetra Pandey and Administrative Manager Mr Sushil Jana for editing and processing the manuscript for publication.
Expert opinions printed on the back cover of the first edition by Professor Ravindra K. Jain and Professor Loewen R.B. Nathan have been retained in this edition too. Once again I am grateful to both of them for the same. I am also thankful to Dr Vijay K. Soni for his help and support on innumerable occasions during the past five years that I know him. And finally, I am deeply appreciative of my family members, my wife Dr Renu Saxena and our daughters Dr Rashi Prakash and Ms Sanskriti Prakash for their loving support and care more so when we most need each other for survival in the face of the ongoing deadly Covid-19 pandemic.
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