<!--QuoteBegin-Bodhi+Jan 5 2009, 07:23 AM-->QUOTE(Bodhi @ Jan 5 2009, 07:23 AM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->those of you who did not know already - late Girilal Jain was the father of Sandhya and Meenakshi Jain.
[right][snapback]92693[/snapback][/right]<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Elst's Ayodhya And After has a section on Girilal Jain:
http://voi.org/books/ayodhya/apex1.htm
<b>Appendix 1. Girilal Jain on Hindu Rashtra</b>
Girilal Jain was editor of Times of India, but they pushed him out when... just read:
http://voiceofdharma.org/books/wiah/ch7.htm (Elst's Who Is A Hindu?)
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->7.2. Joins in Hindu Revivalism
Given the actual participation of Jains in Hindu society, it is no surprise that we find Jains well-represented in the Hindu Revivalist movement, either formally, e.g. J.K. Jain, BJP media specialist and MP in 1991-96, and Sunderlal Patwa, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister in 1990-93, or informally, e.g. <b>the late Girilal Jain, sacked in 1988 as Times of India editor when he developed Hindutva sympathies, and his daughters Meenakshi Jain and Sandhya Jain.</b>
In a collection of Girilal Jain s columns on the triangular Hindu-Muslim-secularist struggle (that is how he understood the communal problem)7, we find his explicit rejection of Jain separateness: Though not to the same extent as in the case of Sikhs, ( ) neo-Buddhists and at least some Jains have come to regard themselves as non-Hindus. In reality, however, Buddhism and Jainism have been no more than movements within the larger body of Hinduism. 8 According to Girilal Jain, what difference there was between Brahmins and Jain renouncers has been eliminated by competitive imitation, e.g.: the Brahman would have adopted vegetarianism so as not to be outdone by the renouncer qua spiritual leader .9 Whatever schisms may have taken place in the distant past, the ultimate origin is common, and ever since, coexistence was too close to allow for permanent separateness.
When BJP President Murli Manohar Joshi visited the predominantly Jain Indian diamond community in Antwerp (August 1992), someone in the audience asked him whether Jains are Hindus. Pat came his reply: Jains are the best Hindus of all.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<b>ADDED:</b>
Not quite related, but found it when looking for the above (since it also mentioned Girilal Jain):
Elst's bio on Ram Swarup
[right][snapback]92693[/snapback][/right]<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Elst's Ayodhya And After has a section on Girilal Jain:
http://voi.org/books/ayodhya/apex1.htm
<b>Appendix 1. Girilal Jain on Hindu Rashtra</b>
Girilal Jain was editor of Times of India, but they pushed him out when... just read:
http://voiceofdharma.org/books/wiah/ch7.htm (Elst's Who Is A Hindu?)
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->7.2. Joins in Hindu Revivalism
Given the actual participation of Jains in Hindu society, it is no surprise that we find Jains well-represented in the Hindu Revivalist movement, either formally, e.g. J.K. Jain, BJP media specialist and MP in 1991-96, and Sunderlal Patwa, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister in 1990-93, or informally, e.g. <b>the late Girilal Jain, sacked in 1988 as Times of India editor when he developed Hindutva sympathies, and his daughters Meenakshi Jain and Sandhya Jain.</b>
In a collection of Girilal Jain s columns on the triangular Hindu-Muslim-secularist struggle (that is how he understood the communal problem)7, we find his explicit rejection of Jain separateness: Though not to the same extent as in the case of Sikhs, ( ) neo-Buddhists and at least some Jains have come to regard themselves as non-Hindus. In reality, however, Buddhism and Jainism have been no more than movements within the larger body of Hinduism. 8 According to Girilal Jain, what difference there was between Brahmins and Jain renouncers has been eliminated by competitive imitation, e.g.: the Brahman would have adopted vegetarianism so as not to be outdone by the renouncer qua spiritual leader .9 Whatever schisms may have taken place in the distant past, the ultimate origin is common, and ever since, coexistence was too close to allow for permanent separateness.
When BJP President Murli Manohar Joshi visited the predominantly Jain Indian diamond community in Antwerp (August 1992), someone in the audience asked him whether Jains are Hindus. Pat came his reply: Jains are the best Hindus of all.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<b>ADDED:</b>
Not quite related, but found it when looking for the above (since it also mentioned Girilal Jain):
Elst's bio on Ram Swarup