It is often said that Jains are very enthusiastic about erecting temples, shrines or
upāśrayas but not much interested in promoting religious education, especially not the
modern academic study of Jainism. Most practising Jains are more concerned with the
’correct’ performance of rituals rather than with the understanding of their meaning and
of the history and doctrines of the Jain tradition. Self-descriptions such as these
undoubtedly reflect important facets of contemporary Jain life, though the attitudes
toward higher education have somewhat changed during the last century. This trend is
bound to continue due to the demands of the information based economies of the future,
and because of the vast improvements in the formal educational standards of the Jains in
India. In 1891, the Census of India recorded a literacy rate of only 1.4% amongst Jain
women and of 53.4% amongst Jain men.
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