Dayananda Saraswati founds the Arya Samaj in Bombay on the authority of the Vedas alone; its schools, its shuddhi campaigns, and its refusal of image worship and caste by birth spread a reforming Hinduism across northern and western India.
Tagged: Arya Samaj Hindu Hindu Reform Movements
The Event
- Date
- 1875 (exact)
- Era
- Colonial; Standard periodization of Hindu history
- Location
- Bombay; today Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Traditions
- Hinduism
- Streams
- Hindu Reform Movements, Arya Samaj
- Key figures
- Dayananda Saraswati
- Key texts
- Satyarth Prakash
Connections
- Dayananda Saraswati; founded by
Primary Sources
- The Arya Samaj's ten principles (1877)
Secondary Sources
- Jones, Socio-religious Reform Movements in British India (Cambridge, 1989)
- Flood, An Introduction to Hinduism (Cambridge, 1996)
Provenance: HIST-0330; confidence 0.95; accessed 2026-10-27.
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