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The socio-political movement, derived from ancient rite of shuddhikaran, [2] or purification was started by the Arya Samaj, and its founder Swami Dayanand Saraswati and his followers like Swami Shraddhanand, who also worked on the Sangathan consolidation aspect of Hinduism, in North India, especially Punjab in early 1900s, though it gradually spread across India. [3]
By 1923, he left the social arena and plunged whole-heartedly into his earlier work of the shuddhi movement (re-conversion to Hinduism), which he turned into an important force within Hinduism. [6] In 1922, Dr. Ambedkar called Shraddhanand “the greatest and most sincere champion of the Untouchables”. [7]
Shraddhanand led the Shuddhi movement that aimed to bring Hindus who had converted to other religions back to Hinduism. [11] In 1893, the Arya Samaj members of Punjab were divided on the question of vegetarianism. The group that refrained from eating meat were called the "Mahatma" group and the other group, the "Cultured Party". [12]
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Shuddhi or Suddhi (lit. ' purity/purification ') may refer to: Shuddhi (Hinduism), type of conversion to Hinduism Purity in Buddhism; Shuddhi, an unrealized Indian film by Karan Malhotra
Mufti Mustafa Raza Khan was another influential leader of Jamat Raza-e-Mustafa who worked against the Shuddhi movement, which aims to convert Muslims to Hinduism in pre-Partition India. [6] The organization also worked for the defense of Sufi Sunni beliefs in south Asia as practiced by large numbers of people known as Barelvis.