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Arya Samaj
Picture a time when religious debate filled the streets of India’s cities—when the authority of ancient texts was up for grabs, and a single voice could spark a movement. It is eighteen seventy-five, and a reformer named Dayananda Saraswati has just set the stage for a new vision of Hinduism.To understand why the Arya Samaj emerged, you have to step into the world of nineteenth-century British India. This was an era of upheaval. Missionaries crisscrossed the subcontinent, colonial administrators introduced new laws, and local reformers—from the Brahmo Samaj in Bengal to Muslim dialogue…
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