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Ajitnath
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Karmaveer Bhaurao Patil (September 22, 1887 - May 9, 1959) was a social activist and educationist in Maharashtra, India. Strong advocate of education of the masses, he was the founder of Rayat Education Society, one of the most important educational institution in Maharashtra. Bhaurao played an important role in educating people from backward castes and also the poor masses by coining the philosophy earn and learn. He was also a prominent member of Satyashodhak Samaj (Truth seeker's society) founded by Mahatma Jotirao Phule. The people of Maharashtra honoured him with the epithet of Karmaveer (king of actions) and the Government of India awarded him with Padma Bhushan in 1959.
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Chandraprabha
Chandraprabha was the eighth Jain Tirthankar of the present age (Avasarpini). According to Jain beliefs, he became a siddha, a liberated soul which has destroyed all of its karma. Chandraprabha (also known as Chandraprabhu Swami) was born to King Mahasen Raja and Queen Lakshmana Devi at Chandrapuri in the Ikshvaku clan. His birth date was the twelfth day of the Posh Krishna month of the Indian calendar.
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Gautam Adani (born June 24, 1962 in Ahmedabad, India) is an Indian businessman. He is the chairman of the Adani Group, a leading trading and export company of India. In september, 2010 Forbes magazine announced that Adani is the 7th richest person in India with a personal wealth of US $4.8 billion as of 2010. He is the first billionaire from the city of Ahmedabad.
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Haribhadra
Haribhadra Suri (c.700-c.770, or 459-529, traditional) was a Svetambara mendicant Jain leader and author.
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Jain Bunt
Jain Bunt ( ) also Tulu Jain are a community of people who adhere to Jainism and other philosophies associated with it and natively speak the Tulu language.The community is mainly concentrated in Tulu Nadu region in the Indian states of Karnataka and Kerala. They were traditionally the Nobility,who rarely participated in warfare since they adhere to the philosophy of Ahimsa.For Warfare they were mostly dependent on their cousin Bunts.The Jain Bunt trace their lineage through the Nagavanshi(Serpent Lineage) order of Kshatriyas(Warrior). Many erstwhile royalty in the tulu region like the Chowta dynasty were Jain Bunts.
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List of Jains
This is a list of worldwide prominent Jains (People from Jain religion, the followers of Jainism) with historical briefs.
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	Laxmi Mall Singhvi	V. Shantaram	Bhaurao Patil
Vikram Sarabhai	Laxmi Mall Singhvi	V. Shantaram	Bhaurao Patil

Abhishek Singhvi	Ajit Gulabchand	Gautam Adani	Sanjay Leela Bhansali

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Jainism is India's sixth-largest religion and is practiced throughout the whole country.

There are 5,200,000 Jains in the 1.028 billion population of India. Jains are to be found in 34 out of 35 states and union territories with Lakshdweep being the only union territory without Jains. The state of Jharkhand, with a population of 16,301 Jains also contains the holy pilgrimage centre of Shikharji.

1 History
2 Jainism By State
3 Census of India, 2001
4 See also
5 References

History [link]

Main article: History of Jainism

Jain doctrine teaches that Jainism has always existed and will always exist,^[2]^[3]^[4] although historians date the foundation of the organized or present form of Jainism to sometime between the 9th and the 6th century BC.^[5]^[6] Like most ancient Indian religions, Jainism has its roots from the Indus Valley Civilization, reflecting native spirituality prior to the Indo-Aryan migration into India.^[7]^[8]^[9] Other scholars suggested the shramana traditions were separate and contemporaneous with Indo-Aryan religious practices of the historical Vedic religion.^[10]

Jainism By State [link]

Jainism as a religion exists throughout India. Jainism also varies from state to state, but the core values are the same.

Census of India, 2001 [link]

States having more than 100,000 Jains in 2001 India Census^[11]
State	Jain Population (approximate)	Jain Population (%)
Maharashtra	1,301,842	1.32%
Rajasthan	650,493	1.15%
Madhya Pradesh	545,448	0.91%
Gujarat	525,306	1.03%
Karnataka	412,654	0.74%
Uttar Pradesh	207,111	0.12%
Delhi	155,122	1.12%

Work participation by religion & gender in 2001 India Census^[12]
Religion	Males	Females
Jain	55.2	39.2
Sikh	53.3	20.2
Hindu	52.4	27.4
Christian	50.7	28.7
Buddhist	49.2	31.7
Muslim	47.5	14.1

Literacy by religion in 2001 India Census^[13]
Religion	Literacy Rate
Jain	94.1
Christian	80.3
Buddhist	72.7
Sikh	69.4
Hindu	65.1
Muslim	59.1

References [link]

^ "Census of India". Census of India.
^ Helmuth von Glasenapp,Shridhar B. Shrotri. 1999. Jainism: an Indian religion of salvation. P.15 "Jainas consider that religion is eternal and imperishable. It is without beginning and it will never cease to exist. The darkness of error enveloping the truth in certain, periodically occurring aeons clears up again and again so that the brightness of the Jaina-faith can sparkle again anew."
^ Dundas, Paul. 2002. The Jains. P.12 "Jainism is believed by its followers to be everlasting, without beginning or end..."
^ Varni, Jinendra; Ed. Prof. Sagarmal Jain, Translated Justice T.K. Tukol and Dr. Narendra Bhandari. Samaṇ Suttaṁ. New Delhi: Bhagwan Mahavir memorial Samiti. “The Historians have so far fully recognized the truth that Tirthankara Mahavira was not the founder of the religion. He was preceded by many tirthankaras. He merely reiterated and rejuvenated that religion. It is correct that history has not been able to trace the origin of the Jaina religion; but historical evidence now available and the result of dispassionate researches in literature have established that Jainism is undoubtedly an ancient religion.” Pp. xii – xiii of introduction by Justice T.K.Tutkol and Dr. K.K. Dixit.
^ Helmuth von Glasenapp,Shridhar B. Shrotri. 1999. Jainism: an Indian religion of salvation. P.24. "Thus not only nothing, from the philosophical and the historical point of view, comes in the way of the supposition that Jainism was established by Parsva around 800 BC, but it is rather confirmed in everything that we know of the spiritual life of that period."
^ Dundas, Paul. 2002. The Jains. P.17. "Jainism, then, was in origin merely one component of a north Indian ascetic culture that flourished in the Ganges basin from around the eighth or seventh centuries BC."
^ Larson, Gerald James (1995) India’s Agony over religion SUNY Press ISBN 0-7914-2412-X. “There is some evidence that Jain traditions may be even older than the Buddhist traditions, possibly going back to the time of the Indus valley civilization, and that Vardhamana rather than being a “founder” per se was, rather, simply a primary spokesman for much older tradition. Page 27”
^ Joel Diederik Beversluis (2000) In: Sourcebook of the World's Religions: An Interfaith Guide to Religion and Spirituality, New World Library : Novato, CA ISBN 1-57731-121-3 Originating on the Indian sub-continent, Jainism is one of the oldest religion of its homeland and indeed the world, having pre-historic origins before 3000 BC and the propagation of Indo-Aryan culture.... p. 81
^ Jainism by Mrs. N.R. Guseva p.44
^ Long, Jeffrey D. (2009). Jainism: An Introduction. New York: I.B. Tauris. pp. 45–56. ISBN 978-1-84511-626-2.
^ http://www.censusindia.gov.in/
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