Editing Arya Samaj (section)

===Arya Samaj in Sindh===
The Samaj was active in Sindh at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century. The activities of the Samaj in the region included using [[Shuddhi (Hinduism)|shuddhi]] in integrating half-Muslim or low-caste communities into the organization. Narayan Dev, a Samaj member active in making many conversions is extolled as a Sindhi martyr. He is sometimes referred to as 'Dayanand ka vir sipahi' (Dayanand's heroic soldier). Dev was killed in a street fight in 1948.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Khan |first1=Dominique-Sita |last2=Boivin |first2=Michel |title=SINDH through History and Representations, Chapter 6 JHULELAL AND THE IDENTITY OF INDIAN SINDHIS |date=2008 |publisher=Oxford University press |location=Oxford, England |isbn=978-0-19-547503-6 |page=80 |url=http://sanipanhwar.com/Sindh%20Through%20History%20and%20Rrpresentations%20French%20Contributions%20to%20Sindhi%20Studies%20Edited%20By%20Michel%20Boivin.pdf#page=110 |access-date=30 March 2020}}</ref> The history of Sindhi nationalism is also tied with the activities of the Arya Samaj. In the 19th century, the Hindu community of Sindh had been challenged by Christian missionaries and the Samaj served as a deterrent to the "conversion" done by Christian missionaries in the region. A Hindu Sindhi leader, [[K. R. Malkani]], later on, became prominent in the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), and the [[BJP]]. According to Malkani, the Arya Samaj created a "new pride" among the Hindu Sindhis by opening gymnasia and Sanskrit pathshalas in the 1930s.<ref>Dhabhai, G., 2018. The Purusharthi Refugee. Economic & Political Weekly, 53(4), p.67[https://s3.amazonaws.com/academia.edu.documents/55704568/SA_LIII_4_270118_Partition_Garima_Dhabhai.pdf?response-content-disposition=inline%3B%20filename%3DNATION-MAKING_IN_PARTITIONED_INDIA_The_P.pdf&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=ASIATUSBJ6BAMXAKEPHL%2F20200330%2Fus-east-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20200330T194053Z&X-Amz-Expires=3600&X-Amz-Security-Token=IQoJb3JpZ2luX2VjEPn%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2FwEaCXVzLWVhc3QtMSJHMEUCIQDCiKi6A5DEiNpFun0A4o1IeU4dP9v4k4%2Bn7iNaCpso%2BwIgTKy1wSvB1P%2FRPda1VXHrj93qTro8N0azg68lK4nhxvoqvQMI8v%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2FARAAGgwyNTAzMTg4MTEyMDAiDNYmlw4GGM1u%2F3KCvyqRA1JNwynb9KgSQAmHpaf184MEWMKdYjNtCwnWDuStV74N6SO5hhpyeby4mRvQ0%2BErXjK3yW6nh199%2FwCafV%2F%2BqYl6KbMGhh0w0gUaqwyWGxJjvz%2FistM3jq0HngOJveDL6V20iTk7cqNoCqM33AClGR1vHuI1EA%2BDQBZXzOGvjZj8sgY0eAwzxbDmoozxEDwtzjULJOwUdRsZXC9Qu6iwBNnO1ZtMtwWiuAIkfNWx9S%2FZ%2BnJCcNKM2e%2FnbJ%2BrWv3z7rFSRKHOXbo8oQCSS5xNhHjBrlvC9NIn5z%2F5O5yrxMo3f7a5CbljQ1sZHU8fRf9NDmSTK07E8kgEuNlWTweW2l5VS1zeeQgTmjDaxPsrId%2F1Jw9d7MQG5mvu1eOXH8YzsEXT3l2jmn%2FlCArJwO7K3B%2BRJV7jhJ9mCfgWMlGLwI79K%2BYtZAPAHBzBvAFiubI6OCMTfUKELoHsJP3q5Z5LjKtFxqXDb9f1urVkTYN0LjAaxs0auVqMtM3Rnl5UWsZAA01hFCPCMLDwMa%2FRUVqHYwUHMIO7iPQFOusBvdQZTkdP0Zae%2BisIJwvqw1CgWwtxQnxe2EXDLuuo6vw12QFzH5ARNo%2FOlqcYGyJgqfL%2Bkw2cexOJPnetNa%2FW2y1FQF7tHwdkEI82lhUyYM5zhopDfwa4oP7jNgyGAb01cBTV5IjQ9hxkj5oapc3fikA%2BGAejh3P%2BQXVYuNh7R5khSkOQULy%2BmD9pIrehxyzr9ukJmVV7hRMYML4cg4qBSfNLPDDuv7QBENG0nPxyMKRLfo8tsTdn4ZXfHNJ%2FI%2BEOb%2BHjJxvw678huBKkp6YBdmMPt0nDkcfooJ2TajeJC%2FkIdfM22dgI5gyshw%3D%3D&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Signature=6aed81ada47129aed554f4542a15b6a6e53ef2745bff7077af8cd52d5c236215].</ref>