ANNUAL JAIN LECTURE AT TORONTO UNIVERSITY
Prof. Lawrence A. Babb of Amherst College, Massachusetts, USA gave the annual Roop Lal Jain Lecture on 'Jainism and Social Identity', organized by the Centre for South Asian Studies, University of Toronto. He explored the beliefs and practices of five distinct groups - Dahima Brahmins, Agnikul Rajputs, Mahesvaris, Khandelval Jains, and Oshwals of Rajasthan. He also looked at the genealogies of these groups and the social and religious background to the emergence of a distinctive Jain identity, such as the abandonment by Jains of animal sacrifice, which Jains regard as violent and a form of himsa.

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