Arya Samaj: It's Contributions

[Bharatvarsh]

I do think they have been on the decline since partition, before that they used to be very popular (especially in Punjab) and they used to do shuddhi on a large scale, they had dynamic leaders like Dayananda and later Swami Shraddananda but since partition I think that they have been declining, another reason that contributed is the fact that the Arya Samaj was very influential in West Punjab and had many banks and DAV schools there and when Muslims looted the banks etc during partition I think it failed to recover from that blow.