Ganga Prasad Upadhyaya

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Pundit Ganga Prasad Upadhyaya (1871-1968) was an

Tehri, Garhwal District, from which post he retired to serve the Arya Samaj full-time.[1] He was the father of Swami Satya Prakash Saraswati
, another notable Arya Samaji author and Vishwa Prakash, Shree Prakash and Ravi Prakash.

Upadhyaya is notable for producing anti-Christian tracts in the context of the

Republic of India; these include "The Arya Samaj and Christianity" (Allahabad, 1941, 1965) and "Christianity in India" (1956).[2]
In The Fountainhead of Religion, he postulates a "common origin from the Vedas" for all world religions.

Bibliography

  • 1911, The Fountainhead of Religion: A Comparative Study of the Principal Religions of the World and a Manifestation of Their Common Origin from the Vedas
  • 1916, Problems of the Universe
  • 1930, The Arya Samaj & Hinduism
  • 1930, Vedic Womanhood
  • 1930, Vedic View of Life
  • 1933, Arya Samaj & Islam
  • 1934, Inner Man & Other Lectures on Arya Philosophy
  • 1939, I and My God
  • 1939, Swami Dayanand's Contribution to Hindu Solidarity
  • 1940, The Origin, Scope and Mission of the Arya Samaj
  • 1940, Pamphlets on the Arya Samaj
  • 1941, The Arya Samaj and Christianity, extended editions 1956, 1965
  • 1947, Landmarks of Svami Dayanand's Teachings
  • 1950, A Catechism of the Elementary Teachings of Hinduism
  • 1953, The Caste System: Its Origin and Growth; Its Social Evils and Their Remedies
  • 1955, Philosophy of Dayananda
  • 1956, Social Reconstruction by Buddha and Dayananda
  • 1957, Reason & Religion
  • 1962, Vedic Culture

References

  1. ^ Charu Gupta, Sexuality, Obscenity, Community: Women, Muslims, and the Hindu Public in Colonial India (2002), p. 334.
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