Riches and Renunciation: Religion, Economy, and Society Among the Jains (Oxford Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology) PDF
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Riches and Renunciation : Religion, Economy, and Society Among the Jains title: Oxford Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology author: Laidlaw, James. publisher: Oxford University Press isbn10 | asin: 0198280319 print isbn13: 9780198280316 ebook isbn13: 9780585346397 language: English Jainism--India--Jaipur, Jainism--Social subject aspects, Jaipur (India)--Religious life and customs. publication date: 1995 lcc: BL1325.9.J34L35 1995eb ddc: 294.4/0954/4 Jainism--India--Jaipur, Jainism--Social subject: aspects, Jaipur (India)--Religious life and customs. Page i Riches and Renunciation OXFORD STUDIES IN SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY Editorial Board JOHN DAVIS LUC DE HEUSCH CAROLINE HUMPHREY EMILY MARTIN PETER RIVIÈRE MARILYN STRATHERN Page ii OXFORD STUDIES IN SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY Oxford Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology represents the work of authors, new and established, which will set the criteria of excellence in ethnographic description and innovation in analysis. The series serves as an essential source of information about the world and the discipline. OTHER TITLES IN THE SERIES Organizing Jainism in India and England Marcus Banks Society and Exchange in Nias Andrew Beatty Global Migrants, Local Lives: Travel and Transformation in Rural Bangladesh Katy Gardner Contested Hierarchies: A Collaborative Ethnography of Caste in the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal David N. 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Enquiries concerning reproduction outside these terms and in other countries should be sent to the Rights Department, Oxford University Press, at the address above This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out or otherwise circulated without the publisher's prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Data available Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Laidlaw, James. Riches and renunciation: religion, economy, and society among the Jains/James Laidlaw. (Oxford studies in social and cultural anthropology) Includes bibliographical references. 1. JainismIndiaJaipur. 2. JainismSocial aspects. 3. Jaipur (India)Religious life and customs. I. Title II. Series. BL1325.9.J34L35 1995 294.4'0954'4dc20 95-20277 ISBN 0-19-828031-9 ISBN 0-19-828042-4 (Pbk) 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 Typeset by Best-set Typesetter Ltd., Hong Kong Printed in Great Britain on acid-free paper by Biddles Ltd., Guildford and King's Lynn Page v ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I should like to thank all those who helped me during the fieldwork on which this book is based, which was conducted in north-west India, mostly in the city of Jaipur, between 1984 and 1990. Kavita Srivastava was a source of moral guidance, practical support, and intellectual stimulation during all this time. She and her family always made me welcome, and I am deeply indebted to them all. Kamal Dagga was an unfailing source of help, companionship, and good humour. Sunita Meharchandani, as Sunita Jain, discussed with me almost every puzzle about Jainism I came across in the later years of fieldwork, and for her interest and her help I am extremely grateful. I should like to be able to thank all the people I met during those years who helped me in learning about Jainism, but of course there are many whose names I never knew. A collective thanks seems in order to a religious community which has been, as a whole, extraordinarily open and helpful. The following people were especially kind and generous with their time and knowledge in various aspects of my work: the late Pravartini Sajjan Shri ji Maharaj Sahab, Gani Shri Mani Prabh Sagar ji Maharaj Sahab, Sadhvi Priyadarshana Shri ji Maharaj Sahab, Dr Narendra Bhanavat, Dr Hukamchand Bharilla, Mr and Mrs P. L. Dagga, Mr and Mrs H. Dhaddha, Mr S. L. Gandhi, Ravinder Jain, Prem Chand Jain, Mr and Mrs S. C. Jain, Anju Dhaddha Mishra, Sanjeev Mishra, Shri Dhanroopmal Nagori, the late Mrs Phophalia, Mrs Saceti, Dr K. C. Sogani, Meenu Srivastava, Dr (Mrs) Pawan Surana, the late Shri Rajroop-ji Tank, and Mr D. C. Tank. Both Shri Jyoti Kumar Kothari and Shri Rajendra Kumar Shrimal spent many hours teaching me about Jainism. I hope they are not now too dismayed. I am grateful to the Jain Vishva Bharati and the University of Rajasthan, both of which granted me affiliation during fieldwork; and to Professor N. K. Singhi, of the Department of Sociology at the University, for his insights into Jain society. Professor and Mrs T. K. N. Unnithan were kind and supportive during all my stays in Jaipur, and I am extremely grateful to them. I wish that it were still possible to thank in person the late Dr K. M. Mathur, who gave me a home in Jaipur for many years. In Cambridge, my greatest academic debt is to Carrie Humphrey, who, as teacher, colleague, collaborator, and friend, has been my model all
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