Prof. Prakash C. Jain, Ph.D. (Sociology, Carleton University) is currently Project Director of Population and Sociological Studies at International School for Jain Studies, New Delhi. Prior to this he was a Senior Fellow of ICSSR (2013-15) and UGC-Emeritus Fellow (2015-17) at the Centre for Comparative Politics & Political Theory, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Dr. Jain served JNU for over 25 years as Professor of West Asian Studies and has a number of books to his credit. His major publications in the field of Jain Studies include Jains in India and Abroad(2011) andStudies in Jain Population and Demography (2019).