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little effect unless it was delivered in the language of the people. He went to Bombay, where shortly afterwards his sect, following the example of the
Brahmo Samaj but with a better genius of organisation proceeded to take root in the social life of India. On April 7, 1875 he founded at Bombay his first Arya Samaj, or Association of the Aryans of
India, the pure Indians, the descendants of the old conquering-race of the
Indus and the Ganges,
(These italic words express that the author is influenced by the speculated historical elements which were imposed upon our history by foreigners.
Swamiji did not really take this view of Arya in any of his writings—Editor) and it was exactly in those
districts