Shalin Jain

Datos Biográficos

ID3935093
NOMBREShalin Jain
NOMBRESShalin
APELLIDOJain
FIRMAJAIN S
AFILIACIONESUniversity of Delhi
ORCID0000-0001-8926-4544
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS10
TOTAL DE CITAS1
TOTAL COMO AUTOR10
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2002
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2025
ÍNDICE H1

  • Histories of Śatruñjaya and the Making of Jain Identity in South Asia

    Shalin JainARTICLENumen2025

    Śatruñjaya is a pilgrimage center renowned for its historic Jain temples built throughout the second millennium, near Pālitāṇā town in Gujarat in India, whose multiple histories unveil the resilience of the early medieval and early modern Jain community. The narratives associated with this sacred site present it as a spiritual landscape associated with the nirvana (liberation) of Jain tīrthaṅkars . However, the history of the site remains closely…

  • Writing History and Jain Literary Production in Early Modern South Asia

    Open AccessShalin JainARTICLEStudies in People’s History2024

    This article focuses on the social existence of the Jain community, as exhibited in literary production in early modern India. The existing historiography sometimes tends to make Jain epistemology subservient to contemporary political culture. One must be cautious in approaching the tension between identitarian stability and identitarian volatility and between social textures and cultural mobility beyond the binarities of literary cultures and mu…

  • Jain Elites and the Mughal State under Shahjahan

    Open AccessShalin JainARTICLEIndian Historical Review2015

    This article is an attempt to analyse the double-edged social relationship between the merchant communities and the state beyond the technicalities of the economic considerations. It is generally argued that post-Akbar, the Mughal state saw a gradual shift from ‘spiritualism’ to ‘materialism’ vis-à-vis its engagement with the Jain community. Now Jain merchants were gaining prominence as the representatives of their community while interacting wit…

  • Piety, laity and Royalty

    Open AccessShalin JainARTICLEIndian Historical Review2013

    This article explores the ‘community–state relationship’ during post-Akbar Mughal rule, a largely marginalised arena in the existing historiography. Contrary to Akbar’s religious–spiritual discourse with Jain ascetics, the second phase of Jain–Mughal engagement under Jahangir and Shahjahan saw a materialistic engagement with the Jain merchants who were slowly gaining eminence as the representatives of their community in their interaction with Mug…

  • Patrons, Temples and Pilgrimages

    Open AccessShalin JainARTICLEStudies in History2012

    This article argues that in medieval India processes of identity formation and hierarchies within the Jain community were drawn upon temple consecration and pilgrimages. The various events described in the Jain sources include pilgrimages, installation of idols, building and renovation of temples and interaction of the Jain pontiffs with the rulers. The presence of inscriptions and the writing of religious texts in Rajasthan and Gujarat on a very…

  • Rebels to Rulers

    Open AccessShalin JainARTICLEIndian Historical Review2007

  • Religious Pluralism in South Asia and Europe

    Open AccessShalin JainARTICLEIndian Historical Review2005

  • Negotiating India's Past

    Open AccessShalin Jain, Sanjeev Kumar Rai et al.ARTICLEIndian Historical Review2005

  • Nobility under the Mughals (1628-1658)

    Shalin Jain, Sanjeev Kumar Rai et al.ARTICLESocial Scientist2004Citada por: 1

    In this book an attempt has been made to determine, tentively, the size and composition of the nobility during the reign of Shah Jahan. It also analyses amomg other things the nature of the mutual relationship that existed between the crown and the nobility and highlights the limited role of racial or religious sentiments in the political life of the ruling class of the time

  • Sunset at Srirangapatnam

    Sanjeev Kumar Rai, Santosh Kumar et al.ARTICLESocial Scientist2002