Pundit Ganga Prasad Upadhyaya (1871-1968) was an Arya Samaji writer. He served as professor of Meerut College at Allahabad University and as chief judge at Tehri, Garhwal District, from which post he retired to serve the Arya Samaj full-time.Charu Gupta, Sexuality, Obscenity, Community: Women, Muslims, and the Hindu Public in Colonial India (2002), p. 334. He was the father of Swami Satya Prakash Saraswati, another notable Arya Samaji author and Vishwa Prakash, Shree Prakash and Ravi Prakash.
Upadhyaya is notable for producing anti-Christian tracts in the context of the Indian independence struggle under the British Raj and the formative years of the 1947 Republic of India; these include "The Arya Samaj and Christianity" (Allahabad, 1941, 1965) and "Christianity in India" (1956). In The Fountainhead of Religion, he postulates a "common origin from the Vedas" for all world religions.
Bibliography 1911, The Fountainhead of Religion: A Comparative Study of the Principal Religions of the World and a Manifestation of Their Common Origin from the Vedas 1916, Problems of the Universe 1930, The Arya Samaj & Hinduism 1930, Vedic Womanhood 1930, Vedic View of Life 1933, Arya Samaj & Islam 1934, Inner Man & Other Lectures on Arya Philosophy 1939, I and My God 1939, Swami Dayanand's Contribution to Hindu Solidarity 1940, The Origin, Scope and Mission of the Arya Samaj 1940, Pamphlets on the Arya Samaj 1941, The Arya Samaj and Christianity, extended editions 1956, 1965 1947, Landmarks of Svami Dayanand's Teachings 1950, A Catechism of the Elementary Teachings of Hinduism 1953, The Caste System: Its Origin and Growth; Its Social Evils and Their Remedies 1955, Philosophy of Dayananda 1956, Social Reconstruction by Buddha and Dayananda 1957, Reason & Religion 1962, Vedic Culture
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