Wikipedia's article on Jainism in Africa, community-edited. Reliable for the standard account that Jains first emigrated from India to Kenya in the late nineteenth century and then to Uganda, Sudan and Tanzania, and for the 1972 exodus of Asians from Uganda under Idi Amin's policies, which the article names as forcing Jains onward to Australia, North America and Europe; not the right source for a precise arrival year, which the article itself gives only as "late 19th century".
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Community-edited reference page, tier 3. Used for the general late-nineteenth-century arrival in Kenya and the 1972 Idi Amin expulsion, both standard and uncontested claims in the article's own text; the arrival date is carried as the article's own imprecise "late 19th century" rather than rounded to an invented year. NotesUsed for the 1972 Idi Amin expulsion of Asians from Uganda and its effect on East Africa's Jains.
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AuthorWikipedia contributors
PublisherWikipedia
Publication Year2026
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jainism_in_Africa
Source Typereference
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This source names Africa directly: "Wikipedia's article on Jainism in Africa, community-edited."
This source names Americas directly: "Wikipedia's article on Jainism in Africa, community-edited."
This source names Europe directly: "onward to Australia, North America and Europe; not the right source for a precise arrival year, which the article itself gives only as "late 19th century"."
This source names India directly: "Reliable for the standard account that Jains first emigrated from India to Kenya in the late nineteenth century and then to Uganda, Sudan and Tanzania, and for the 1972 exodus of Asians from Uganda..."
This source names Sudan directly: "nineteenth century and then to Uganda, Sudan and Tanzania, and for the 1972 exodus of Asians from Uganda under Idi Amin's policies, which the article names as forcing Jains onward to Australia..."
This source names Tanzania directly: "century and then to Uganda, Sudan and Tanzania, and for the 1972 exodus of Asians from Uganda under Idi Amin's policies, which the article names as forcing Jains onward to Australia, North America..."
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