ĀRYA SAMĀJ. The Ārya Samāj ("society of honorable ones") is a modern Hindu reform movement founded in Bombay, India, in 1875 by Dayananda Sarasvati (1824–1883), advocating Hindu renewal by a return to...

a Hindu reform movement founded in 1875 by Dayānanda (1824–83) with the motto ‘Back to the Vedas’, but under the influence of some liberal modern ideas, resulting from European type education introduced to India. Although...

Arya Samaj (Sanskrit ārya samāj आर्य समाज् "Noble Society") is a Hindu reform movement founded in India by Swami Dayananda in 1875. He was a sannyasi (renouncer) who believed in the infallible authority of the Vedas. Dayananda...

This book is really two separate books. The first two chapters (corresponding to part I) are one book, and the next two chapters (corresponding to most of part II) deliver the second. At the very end comes the brief chapter five, which carries...