Wikipedia's article on Jainism's legal status in India, community edited, giving the exact legal basis for the January 2014 minority notification, Section 2(c) of the National Commission for Minorities Act, 1992, and the 2005 and 2006 Supreme Court proceedings that preceded it, including the Court's 2006 finding that Jain religion is indisputably not a part of Hindu religion. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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AuthorWikipedia contributors
PublisherWikipedia
Publication Year2026
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_status_of_Jainism_as_a_distinct_religion_in_India
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A community edited general reference, tier 3, used here as a cross check on the exact statutory basis and the Supreme Court's prior proceedings, alongside the Al Jazeera account of the notification itself above. NotesUsed to cross check the exact statutory citation and the 2005 and 2006 Supreme Court background.
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