Hinduism

The Arya Samaj stream of the Hinduism timeline.

Streams: All of Hinduism Shaivism Shaktism Vaishnavism Smarta Tradition Hindu Reform Movements Arya Samaj ISKCON

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1824–1883

Dayananda Saraswati

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.

Morvi and across India
1875

Arya Samaj founded

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.

Bombay