Question

Who is called Martin Luther, king of India?

• A. Swami Dayanand Saraswati
• B. Raja Ram Mohan Roy
• C. Swami Vivekananda
• D. Swami Shraddhanand

Answer 1

The correct option is A

Swami Dayanand Saraswati

Answer: Swami Dayanand Saraswati

Swami Dayanand Saraswati is known as Martin Luther of India.

Swami Dayanand Saraswati

• He was the founder of Arya Samaj
• He was a social leader and Indian Philosopher.
• Swami Dayanand Saraswati was born on 12 February 1824 in Gujarat.
• He died on 30 October 1883.
• He worked on reviving Vedic ideologies.
• Swami Dayanand Saraswati did not encourage ritualistic and idolatry worship.
• Swami Dayanand Saraswati worked on giving equal rights to women. He promoted the right to read Indian scriptures and the right to education.
• He believed in the doctrine of reincarnation and karma
• Former President of India, S. Radhakrishnan called him one of the makers of Modern India.
• Swami Dayanand Saraswati enunciated the Ten Universal Principles as a code for Universalism.
• Arya Samaj founded by Swami Dayanand Saraswati was against meat-eating, discrimination against women, animal sacrifice, idol worship, child marriages, and caste system.

Raja Ram Mohan Roy

• Raja Ram Mohan Roy and Debendranath Tagore started Brahmo Samaj, a socio-religious reform movement in India.
• Brahmo Samaj believes in the existence of One Supreme God
• It was started at Calcutta on 20 August 1828.
• Raja Ram Mohan Roy was born on 22 May 1772.
• Ram Mohan Roy was born in Radhanagar, Hooghly District, Bengal Presidency.
• He died on 27 September 1833.
• Raja Ram Mohan Roy worked for abolishing Sati practice and child marriage practices.
• Many historians consider Raja Ram Mohan Roy as the Father of the Bengal Renaissance.
• Ram Mohan Roy worked in the field of education by establishing schools and colleges.

Swami Vivekananda

• Swami Vivekananda was a Hindu monk.
• Swami Vivekananda was born on 12th January 1863.
• Swami Vivekananda was known as Narendranath Datta, in Calcutta.
• He died on 4th July 1902.
• Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa was the guru of Swami Vivekananda.
• Swami Vivekananda introduced Yoga and Vedanta to the Western World.
• Swami Vivekananda was best known for his speech in 1893 at the Parliament of the World’s Religions held at Chicago.
• Vivekananda founded the Ramakrishna Mission and Ramakrishna Math.
• Swami Vivekananda’s birthday is celebrated as National Youth Day.
• According to Subhas Chandra Bose, Vivekananda is ‘the maker of modern India’.

Swami Shraddhanand

• He was an Indian independence activist.
• He was a sannyasi from Arya Samaj.
• He played a key role in the Hindu reform movements in the 1920s.
• He was born on 22 February 1856 in Punjab.