Swami Shraddhanand
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Shraddhanand (Sanskrit: श्रद्धानन्द) (22 February 1856 – 23 December 1926), born Munshi Ram, was an Indian independence activist and Arya Samaj sannyasi who propagated the teachings of Dayananda Saraswati. This included the establishment of educational institutions, like the Gurukul Kangri University, and played a key role on the Sangathan (consolidation and organization) and the Shuddhi (purification), a Hindu reform movement in the 1920s.
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- Born
- 1856?
- Died
- 1926
- Works
- 1
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- Hindu sangathan
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- Group
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1998
Discography
- Desi Nu Skool Beatz2000
- Bhangradotcom2002
- DesiRock2004
- Swami2005
- Equalize2007
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- Person.honorific_prefix
- Swami
- Person.name
- Shraddhanand
- Person.image
- Swami shraddhanand.jpg
- Person.birth_place
- Talwan, Jalandhar, Punjab, India
- Person.death_place
- Delhi, India
- Person.death_cause
- Assassination
- Person.known_for
- Social workerFreedom FighterIndependence ActivistTeacherReligious Leader
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- human
- Gender
- male
- Place of birth
- Jalandhar
- Place of death
- Delhi
- Occupation
- writer
- Religion
- Hinduism
- Image
- Mahatma Munshi Ram or Swami Shraddhanand Arya Samaj.jpg
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- date of death
- 1926-12-23
- date of birth
- 1856-02-02
- manner of death
- homicide
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Encyclopedic overview
12 sectionsContents
- Early life and education
- Meeting Dayanand
- Career
- Schools
- Activism
- Assassination
- Personal life
- See also
- Bibliography
- Further reading
- References
- External links
Shraddhanand (Sanskrit: श्रद्धानन्द) (22 February 1856 – 23 December 1926), born Munshi Ram, was an Indian independence activist and Arya Samaj sannyasi who propagated the teachings of Dayananda Saraswati. This included the establishment of educational institutions, like the Gurukul Kangri University, and played a key role on the Sangathan (consolidation and organization) and the Shuddhi (purification), a Hindu reform movement in the 1920s.
==Early life and education== thumb|left|A portrait of Shraddhanand He was born on 22 February 1856 in the village of Talwan in the Jalandhar District of the Punjab Province of India. He was the youngest child in the family of Lala Nanak Chand, who was a Police Inspector in the United Provinces (now Uttar Pradesh), then administered by the East India Company. His given name was Brihaspati Vij, but later he was called Munshi Ram Vij by his father, a name that stayed with him till he took sanyas in 1917, variously as Lala Munshi Ram Vij and Mahatma Munshi Ram.
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