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“The Arya Samaj may quite logically be pronounced as the outcome of conditions imported into India by the west.” (Lala Lajpat Rai). Comment.

  • UPSC 2009
  • Social and Religious Reform Movements in Bengal and Other Areas

Lala Lajpat Rai's verdict on the Arya Samaj sits at the heart of a long-running debate over how much of nineteenth-century Hindu reform was reactive borrowing from the West and how much was indigenous revival.

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  • The Case for Reading the Arya Samaj as a Western Import
  • The Case Against: Dayanand's Indigenous Roots
  • Reconciling the Two: Catalyst, Not Content

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