DAV ('College') faction (Ārya Samāj)
A living tradition within Ārya Samāj.
DAV ('College') faction (Ārya Samāj) is a living tradition within Ārya Samāj. Also written Dayananda Anglo-Vedic faction, College party.
Origin
No founding year is given below, because the sources read do not agree on one and a date has not been chosen for them. Encyclopedia.com: the Dayananda Anglo-Vedic (DAV) schools were founded in Lahore in 1886 and 'adopted more Western pedagogical methods'; the 1893 split set this faction against Swami Shraddhananda's Gurukula network. The faction as such has no separate founding year in the source — 1886 dates the first DAV school, not the faction — so foundedYear is empty.
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Citation
English
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John Shaqi. “DAV ('College') faction (Ārya Samāj).” English version. 11 August 2026. https://johnshaqi.com/articles/sect-dav-college-faction-arya-samaj.@misc{johnshaqi-sect-dav-college-faction-arya-samaj-en,
author = {John Shaqi},
title = {DAV ('College') faction (Ārya Samāj)},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {English version},
url = {https://johnshaqi.com/articles/sect-dav-college-faction-arya-samaj},
note = {Accessed n.d.}
}The word count is counted from this edition. The minute estimate uses 238 words a minute, the silent reading rate for English non-fiction reported by Brysbaert (2019). The Urdu, Hindi and Roman Urdu editions carry a word count and no estimate, because no comparable rate has been published for those scripts.