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Uncle Munshi Ram: The Arya Samaj Firebrand Who Defied a Father’s Warning

Uncle Munshi Ram: The Arya Samaj Firebrand Who Defied a Father’s Warning

The young St Nihal Singh's intimate portrait of Swami Shraddhananda who urged him to write, challenged colonial “peace,” and passed on a blazing torch of Arsha Dharma against inimical forces

By Sandeep Balakrishna
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When Swami Shraddhananda Was Still Lala Munshi Ram: St. Nihal Singh’s Childhood Encounter

When Swami Shraddhananda Was Still Lala Munshi Ram: St. Nihal Singh’s Childhood Encounter

A vivid first-person memoir of the towering lawyer who once defeated the Punjab’s most celebrated English barrister — and later became one of modern India’s most formidable Hindu revivalists.

By Team Dharma Dispatch
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