13 Facts About Ram Swarup

Ram Swarup was born in 1920 to a banker father in Sonipat, now a part of the state of Haryana in the Garg gotra of the merchant Agrawal caste.

Ram Swarup graduated with a degree in Economics from Delhi University in 1941.

Ram Swarup started the Changer's Club in 1944, members of which included Lakshmi Chand Jain, Raj Krishna, Girilal Jain and Sita Ram Goel.

Ram Swarup wrote a book on the Communist party that was published under an assumed name.

Ram Swarup wrote for mainstream Indian weeklies and dailies, like the Telegraph, The Times of India, Indian Express, Observer of Business and Politics, Hindustan Times and Hinduism Today.

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Ram Swarup upheld the polytheistic interpretation of the Vedas by rejecting the concept of one God, and states that, "only some form of polytheism alone can do justice to this variety and richness.

Ram Swarup was influenced by Sri Aurobindo, whom he held to be the greatest exponent of the Vedic vision in our times.

Ram Swarup was "most responsible for reviving and re-popularizing" the Hindu 'critique' of Christian missionary practices in the 1980s, according to Chad Bauman.

Ram Swarup insisted that monotheistic religions like Christianity "nurtured among their adherents a lack of respect for other religions".

Ram Swarup has been named one of the most important thought leaders of the Hindu revivalist movement.

Ram Swarup had an interest in European Neopaganism, and corresponded with Prudence Jones and the Pagan author Guðrun Kristin Magnusdottir.

Christopher Gerard said: "Ram Swarup was the perfect link between Hindu Renaissance and renascent Paganism in the West and elsewhere.

Ram Swarup argued that the European Pagans "should compile a directory of Pagan temples destroyed, Pagan groves and sacred spots desecrated.