Dayananda Saraswati calls India back to the Vedas alone, rejecting image worship and later scripture in the Satyarth Prakash, and founds the Arya Samaj; his slogan and his schools shape an assertive, reforming Hinduism across the north.
Tagged: Arya Samaj Hindu Hindu Reform Movements
The Event
- Date
- 1824–1883 (exact)
- Era
- Colonial; Standard periodization of Hindu history
- Location
- Morvi and across India; today Gujarat, India
- Traditions
- Hinduism
- Streams
- Hindu Reform Movements, Arya Samaj
- Key figures
- Dayananda Saraswati
- Key texts
- Satyarth Prakash
Primary Sources
- Dayananda Saraswati, Satyarth Prakash
Secondary Sources
- Jones, Socio-religious Reform Movements in British India (Cambridge, 1989)
- Flood, An Introduction to Hinduism (Cambridge, 1996)
Provenance: HIST-0326; confidence 0.95; accessed 2026-10-27.
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