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The 'Arya Samaj' was founded in 1875 by:

  1. A
    Ishwar Chand Vidyasagar
  2. B
    Swami Vivekananda
  3. C
    Raja Ram Mohan Roy
  4. D
    Swami Dayanand Sarasvati

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The Arya Samaj was founded on April 10, 1875, in Bombay by Swami Dayanand Sarasvati. It was a Hindu reform movement that promoted the infallible authority of the Vedas, rejected idol worship, ritualism, and caste-based discrimination, and propagated the slogan "Back to the Vedas."

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The 'Arya Samaj' was founded in 1875 by:
A
Ishwar Chand Vidyasagar
B
Swami Vivekananda
C
Raja Ram Mohan Roy
D
Swami Dayanand Sarasvati

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