Amazon cover image
Image from Amazon.com

The assembly of listeners : Jains in society / edited by Michael Carrithers, Caroline Humphrey.

Contributor(s): Carrithers, Michael Barnes | Humphrey, Caroline
Language: English Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1991.Description: xiv, 328p. : ill. ; 23cm.ISBN: 0521365058
Contents:
1, Jain ideals and Jain identity. Ideals and identity / M. Carrithers; Somadeva Suri and the question of Jain identity / Mukund Lath; The role of the layman according to the Jain cannon / K.R. Norman; Women and the reproduction of the Jain community / J. Reynell; 2, Local Jain communities. Local communities / C. Humphrey; The Jain merchant castes of Rajasthan / C.M. Cotam Ellis; Jain shopkeepers and moneylenders / J. Howard M. Jones; A study of Jains in a Rajasthan town / N.K. Singhi; 3, Jains in the Indian world. In the Indian world / M. Carrithers; The Digambara Jain warrior / P. Dundas; Is there a popular Jainism? / Padmanabh Jaini; Fairs and miracles / C. Humphrey; 4, New Jain insitutions in India and beyond. New Jain institutions / C. Humphrey; Reform movements among Jains in modern India / Vilas Sangave; Orthodoxy and dissent: Gujarati Jains in Britain / Marcus Banks; The foundations of community among southern Duigambar Jains / M. Carrithers.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Book Book British Museum Royal Anthropological Institute Open Shelves KWL [CAR-] (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available L55958
Total holds: 0

Includes bibliography (p. 301-307) and index.

1, Jain ideals and Jain identity. Ideals and identity / M. Carrithers; Somadeva Suri and the question of Jain identity / Mukund Lath; The role of the layman according to the Jain cannon / K.R. Norman; Women and the reproduction of the Jain community / J. Reynell; 2, Local Jain communities. Local communities / C. Humphrey; The Jain merchant castes of Rajasthan / C.M. Cotam Ellis; Jain shopkeepers and moneylenders / J. Howard M. Jones; A study of Jains in a Rajasthan town / N.K. Singhi; 3, Jains in the Indian world. In the Indian world / M. Carrithers; The Digambara Jain warrior / P. Dundas; Is there a popular Jainism? / Padmanabh Jaini; Fairs and miracles / C. Humphrey; 4, New Jain insitutions in India and beyond. New Jain institutions / C. Humphrey; Reform movements among Jains in modern India / Vilas Sangave; Orthodoxy and dissent: Gujarati Jains in Britain / Marcus Banks; The foundations of community among southern Duigambar Jains / M. Carrithers.

Book