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Swami Dayanand’s philosophy represents both elements of extremism and social radicalism.” Substantiate.

  • UPSC 2015
  • Social and Religious Reform Movements in Bengal and Other Areas

Swami Dayanand Saraswati, founder of the Arya Samaj (1875), built a reform programme so uncompromising in its rejection of contemporary practice, and so far-reaching in its social demands, that his thought is best understood as a fusion of doctrinal extremism with genuine social radicalism.

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  • Elements of Doctrinal Extremism
  • Elements of Social Radicalism
  • The Interplay and Its Contradictions
  • Legacy and Political Afterlife

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