Shrimal Jain
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Shrimal Jain is an ancient Jain community originally from the Shrimal or Bhinmal
town in southern Rajasthan
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They mainly reside in Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh. Some of them migrated to northern India, specially to Haryana/delhi region in ancient times.
Prominent Shrimals include
They have historically connected with the Porwal and Oswal
communities.
Bhinmal
Bhinmal is a town in the Jalore District of Rajasthan, India. It is 72 km south of Jalore town. The name Bhinmal is derived from the word Shrimal.Bhinmal was old capital of the kingdom of the Gurjars during medieval period....
town in southern Rajasthan
Rajasthan
Rājasthān the land of Rajasthanis, , is the largest state of the Republic of India by area. It is located in the northwest of India. It encompasses most of the area of the large, inhospitable Great Indian Desert , which has an edge paralleling the Sutlej-Indus river valley along its border with...
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They mainly reside in Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh. Some of them migrated to northern India, specially to Haryana/delhi region in ancient times.
Prominent Shrimals include
- Thakkar PheruThakkar PheruThakkar Pheru was a 14th century author of encyclopedic books on coins and gems in Delhi.Alauddin Khilji recruited Thakkar Pheru a Shrimal Jain from Kannauj in Haryana as a treasurer. He was an expert in coins, metals and gems...
of DelhiDelhiDelhi , officially National Capital Territory of Delhi , is the largest metropolis by area and the second-largest by population in India, next to Mumbai. It is the eighth largest metropolis in the world by population with 16,753,265 inhabitants in the Territory at the 2011 Census...
the author of 14th century texts on precious metals and gems. - Poet BanarasidasBanarasidasBanarasidas was a Shrimal Jain businessman and poet of Mughal India. He is known for his poetic autobiography - Ardhakathānaka, , composed in Braj Bhasa, an early dialect of Hindi linked with the region around Mathura. It is the first autobiography written in an Indian language...
of AgraAgraAgra a.k.a. Akbarabad is a city on the banks of the river Yamuna in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, India, west of state capital, Lucknow and south from national capital New Delhi. With a population of 1,686,976 , it is one of the most populous cities in Uttar Pradesh and the 19th most... - Jain scholar Kanji SwamiKanji Swami1889-1980) was a Jain scholar, philosopher and spiritual leader. He was the founder of the Kanji Panth within the Digambar Jain tradition. He significantly influenced the practice of swadhyaya among the Jain laity....
and - Rai Bahadur Badri Das, the builder of the famous Calcutta Jain Temple dedicated to Lord Shitalnath in 1867.
- Sarabhai familySarabhai familyThe Sarabhai family has been a major business family of India belonging to the Shrimal Jain community. Members include*Ambalal Sarabhai was in the 1940s and 1950s, the owner of the Sarabhai Textile Mills in Ahmedabad - at the time one of India's largest textile companies.*Anasuyaben , Gandhian...
of Ahmedabad
They have historically connected with the Porwal and Oswal
Oswal
The Oswal are a social group of people from the Indian States of Rajasthan and Punjab. Oswals are primarily adherents of Svetambara Jainism, but a few are Digambaras and some are Hindu adherents of Vaishnavism....
communities.