Editing Arya Samaj (section)

===Views of Orthodox Hindus on the Samaj===
The then [[Shankaracharya]] of [[Badrinath Temple|Badrinath Math]] in 1939 in a letter to the [[archbishop of Canterbury]], called Arya Samajis Un-Hindu. He also criticized the Samaj efforts at converting Christians and Muslims.<ref name="Benichou 2000">{{cite book|author=Lucien D. Benichou|title=From Autocracy to Integration: Political Developments in Hyderabad State, 1938–1948|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Loiq3YrFy40C&pg=PR7|year=2000|publisher=Orient Blackswan|isbn=978-81-250-1847-6|page=79}}</ref>