Bhawani Dayal Sannyasi (original) (raw)

Bhawani Dayal later Bhawani Dayal Sanyasi (10 September 1892 – 9 May 1950) was a wealthy South African of Indian descent, an activist for Indians in South Africa and an editor of various India-related newsletters such as the Pravasi. He collaborated with Mohandas Gandhi, and represented the South African Indians at the Indian National Congress while also being active in the Arya Samaj, the propagation of the Hindi language and in other Indian diaspora movements of the time. He was accepted as a person who renounced worldly pleasures as a sanyasi giving him the later name and the prefix Swami.

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