A New Idea of India: Individual Rights in a Civilisational State

by Harsh Gupta 'Madhusudan'

It was the Arya Samaj, from 1875, that tried to positively and exclusively define the new term ‘Hinduism’ as ‘back to the Vedas’. With this conception, the paths of Sikhism, Buddhism and Jainism end up as separate ‘religions’. The