[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Polity, law and society](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity) › [Life in Ancient India as Depicted in the Jain Canons, with Commentaries: An Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jain-1947) › c2.3 # Life in Ancient India as Depicted in the Jain Canons, with Commentaries: An Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey c2.3 Life in Ancient India as Depicted in the Jain Canons, with Commentaries: An Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey c2.3 - **Language:** English ### [c2.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jain-1947.c2.3) When my study was over, I was contemplating writing a thesis when the Freedom Struggle of 1942 started. The Government of India arrested people without discretion and I too was arrested, and taken away from a world of scholars to a world of detenus. - [Previous: c2.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jain-1947.c2.2) - [Next: c2.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jain-1947.c2.4) - [Up: c2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jain-1947.c2) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jain-1947.c2.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jain-1947.c2.3) · Pramāṇa