Dayananda Saraswati's society of 1875: back to the Vedas, against image worship and caste by birth, for education and the purification of converts.
The Arya Samaj is the most combative of the reform movements: it reads the Veda as the sole authority, rejects the Puranic worship of images, and built schools, orphanages, and missions across northern India.
Arya Samaj across the site
Sources
Primary
- Dayananda Saraswati, Satyarth Prakash (1875).
Secondary
- J. T. F. Jordens, Dayananda Sarasvati: His Life and Ideas (1978).