From the workshop report
The National Research Paper Workshop was organised in joint collaboration between the Department of Philosophy at the University of Rajasthan, the Samyakgyan Prachar-Prasar Trust, and the Pandit Todarmal Smarak Trust. It was held from 22 to 25 December 2025 at the Todarmal Digambar Jain Siddhant Mahavidyalaya in Jaipur, with eighty participants.
Over four focused days, the workshop traced the full arc of scholarly research — what research is, why and how it is done; its principal components and types; the structure of a research paper and its abstract; the kinds of citations and the format of a bibliography; the computational tools useful in research; the sources of research and research ethics; and the linguistic and grammatical rules of academic writing — alongside model research in Jain philosophy and a set of proposed topics for new scholars.
The teaching was led by senior scholars: Prof. Anil Jain, former Head of the Hindi Department at the University of Rajasthan; Prof. Veersagar Jain and Prof. Anekant Jain of the Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri National Sanskrit University, Delhi; Dr. Santosh Gupta of the University of Rajasthan; and Dr. Jinesh Sheth (Birmingham / Mumbai). The workshop was convened and directed by Shastri Swanubhav Jain of Khaniyadhana.
“Good research begins with a clear question and an honest method. These four days gave participants both — a structure to write within, and the ethics to write by.” — from the workshop convener’s report