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- He propagated the teachings of Swami Dayanand.
- This included the establishment of educational
institutions, like the Gurukul Kangri University, and played
a key role on the Sangathan (consolidation) and the Shuddhi
(re-conversion) a Hindu reform movement in 1920s.
- He wrote on religious issues in both Hindi and Urdu.
- He published newspapers in the two languages as well.
- He promoted Hindi in the Devanagri script, helped the
poor and promoted the education of women.
- By 1923, he left the social arena and plunged
whole-heartedly into his earlier work of the shuddhi
movement (re-conversion to Hinduism), which he turned into
an important force within Hinduism.
- In late 1923, he became the president of Bhartiya Hindu
Shuddhi Sabha, created with an aim to reconvert Muslims,
specifically 'Malkana Rajputs' in western United Province.
This antagonised the Muslims and brought him into direct
confrontation with Muslim clerics and leaders of the time.
He was assassinated by one Abdul Rashid in Delhi.
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