...J. Barton Scott This article analyzes a controversial book ban from the 1940s to trace the mutual determinations of print media, the legal regulation of communal sentiment, and the discourse of religious tolerance in late colonial India. Claimed as the Bible of the Arya Samaj, the Satyarth Prakash...

...Supriya Gandhi Abstract Around 1867, North Indian religious reformer Kanhaiyalal Alakhdhari completed a translation into Urdu of fifty-two Upanishads. Alakhdhari, who later played a key role in establishing the Arya Samaj in the Punjab, wished for Hindus to emulate Christians and Muslims in giving...

... of the Hindu reform organiza-   Comparative tions behind Indians’ actions. This approach tion, the Arya Samaj. I examine the literature Asia,   Studies yields two elisions. First, it obscures the politics produced by Arya Samaj elites in Punjab...

...- that colonial education created an expectation of subsequent ious reform movement called the Arya Samaj, founded in bureaucratic employment, which was easily transformed into 1875 in north India, and a Muslim reform movement, anticolonial sentiment when it went unsatisfied. Muhammadiya, started in 1912...

.... Forbes , Richard . 1984 . “Arya Samaj in Trinidad,” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Miami. Helly , Denise , ed. 1993 . The Cuba Commission Report: A Hidden History of the Chinese in Cuba . Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. Jayawardena , Chandra . 1963 . Conflict...

... Kashyap, ©triratnapicturelibrary.org. From his early school days, Jagdish Narain was influenced by the Arya Samaj movement, a modern Hindu reformist movement that promotes a set of values and practices associated with the scriptural authority of the Vedas. As the principal of Sanskrit Vidyapith...

..., to reinterpretation. nineteenth- century reformer was Dayanand Africa and the While revered and recognized as omni- Saraswati, who founded the Arya Samaj in Middle East scient, the texts themselves have been weak- In writings such as the Satyārth Prakāsh and his...

... as part of Hindu reform movements like the Arya Samaj to a more militant Hindutva promoted by organizations like the RSS, Jaffrelot describes these as “ideological akhara,” or sites for physical, mental, and “even a spiritual” training. 45 As part of this vision, the Lakshminarayan Mandir provided...

... race theo- But there was mass mobilization in the 188Os, and ries scarcely compensated for the daily indignities suf- it was carried out by the gaurakshini sabhas or cow fered by the colonized people. Earlier, during the first protection leagues. The Arya Samaj, a Vedic revivalist phase of its...

... to which grave of the untouchable saint Khivan Balai, is at pres- he appealed, declaring that “the Arya Samaj or the ent in the hands of Meghvals who claim to be the Hindu Vishwa Parishad should ban these debased saint’s descendants or disciples. The case of Naraina is forms of Hinduism? His...

...), the couple should go to Amritsar or Bombay, where the Arya Samaj or local Hindu Sabha would “willingly” assist them. “Anyhow you will not lose this opportunity in marrying the Moslem girl and getting her converted into our Hindu religion.” Remarkably, Savarkar inserted a handwritten, urgently scribbled note...

... and the press were restored in the years following the cessation of the revolt, but the suspicions engendered by famine-induced conversions were to remain. Later in the century, the Arya Samaj, one of the most aggressive of the Hindu revivalist outfits of the nineteenth century, began to mobilize powerfully...

... even as the Congress claimed to have successfully turally the VHP draws upon both the Arya Samaj accommodated the interest of the majority and mi- and Sanatana Dharam movements in north India.27 nority...

..., Yashodabai Joshi, who attended weekly gatherings of the Arya Mahila recalled the oppressive atmosphere she referred Again: Samaj, which was a platform for the discussion to as “just plain slavery” in her in-laws’ home.40 Yet...

.... Shraddhanand is quoting chap. 10 of Swami Dayanand s Saty rth Prak The Arya Samaj s own English translation of Saty rth Prak softens the overt caste contempt of the original by removing the c nd. l: the bodies of the extremely degraded men and women that are simply laden with dirt and other foul mat- ter...

..., though the functions organized by the BJP and Sangh they do not reject the caste system. Cooperation Parivar. On the occasion of Ram paduka pujan, i.e., and unity of upper and lower castes for the protec- worship of Ram’s slippers in 1992, Morari Bapu tion of the Hindu dhama and Hindu samaj...

... Shikoh (d. 1659). Shikoh s trans­lat­ ion was moti­vated by the belief that the mys­ter­ ies of the Quran could be unlocked by the Upa­ni­shads. Alakhdari, who would later play a vital role in founding the Arya Samaj in Punjab, desired that Hin­dus should foll­ ow the examp­ le of Chris­tians and Musl­...

... for Subsequently, hierarchy— chances racial one’s the improve on thereby and status States, higher United a the in secure and, to India in Muslims to ority superi- she presumed Hindus’ purchase, warrant to racial served This argues, Hindus. Aryan for asserted origin the racial movement, of Samaj case the Arya...

...- majority Sunni and the minority Ahmadis which was effec- nent were permanently engaged in an ideological struggle tively exploited by the orthodox mullahs and scholars of the with the other movements of the time, such as the Arya Jamat for their political and economic ends. Ahmadis belief...

... suggests to the development of religious and cultural movements Collins that “the material conditions of oppression can like the Brahmo Samaj and Arya Samaj. The twentieth vary dramatically and yet generate some uniformity in century legacy of this “Bengal Renaissance” was the the epistemologies...