Lala Munshiram : later Swami Shraddhānanda (1856-1926), Arya Samāj leader of Punjab: founded Gurukūla Kāngri (near Hardwar), which later acquired the status of a university: assassinated when ill in bed by a Muslim fanatic who pretended to have come to nurse him. [See Shraddhānanda’s reminiscences of Tilak]
... various governing bodies of the Samaj. There are two men who are the glory of the Samaj and by whose adherence and prominence it commands the respect and admiration of all India, Lala Lajpat Rai and Lala Munshiram. By its action with regard to the former, the Samaj will lose heavily, it has already lost heavily, in public estimation. In his generous anxiety for the body to which he has devoted the greater ...
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