Concretely Imagining the Southern Digambar Jain Community, 1899-1920
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3636627 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael Carrithers (Durham University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1996 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 523-548 |
| Publication date | 1996-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Modern Asian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0026-749X • E-ISSN: 1469-8099 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0026749x00016589 |
| OpenAlex | W1984533136 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 7 |
In the pilgrimage season of 1899 a 'small but select' group of Jains met before the temple of the deity Bharamappa near Kolhapur to found the Southern Maharashtra Jain Sabha, thedakṣiṣ mahāraṣṬrajain sabhā.The intended constituency of the Sabha was the Digambar Jain population of the Southern Maratha Country of the Bombay Presidency, the area including Kolhapur State, Belgaum, and Sangli, with their rural hinterlands. The Sabha prospers still, while so many of the other associations in that lush growth of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in India have disappeared. It has been instrumental in forging a Jain ethnicity, in creating a new sense of a specifically Jain past and present, and in fostering new habits of education and of social intercourse among Jains. A good proportion of what is today taken for granted by Jains about southern Digambar samskrti, 'culture' or 'civilization', was moulded by Jains acting in and through the Sabha
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