(i) After Dayanand's death in 1883, the Arya Samaj lay scattered. The most important attempt to unite the Samaj and its activities was the founding of the Dayanand Anglo Vedic Trust and Management Society in Lahore in 1886. In the same year, this society opened a school with Lala Hansraj as its principal.

(ii) However, some leaders of the Samaj were opposed to Anglo Vedic education. They were Munshi Ram (Swami Shraddhanand), Gurudatt, Lekh Ram and others. They argued that the Arya Samaj's educational initiative must focus on Sanskrit, Aryan ideology and Vedic scriptures and should have little space for English learning. They thought that Dayanand's words were sacrosanct and his message Satyarth Prakash could not be questioned. 

(iii) Lala Hansraj and Lajpat Rai belonged to the moderate wing. They pointed out that Dayanand was a reformer and not a rishi or sadhu.

(iv) Conflicts also arose over the control of the DAV Management Society. These differences finally led to a formal division of the Arya Samaj in 1893 when Munshi Ram broke away along with his supporters to initiate a gurukul-based education. Therefore, after 1893 the two wings of the Arya Samaj were-DAV group and Gurukul group.

(v) Munshi Ram and Lekh Ram devoted themselves to popularizing the teachings of the Vedas and began an Arya Kanya Pathshala at Jalandhar to safeguard education from missionary influence.

(vi) In 1902, Munshi Ram founded a Gurukul at Kangri in Haridwar. This institute became the centre of the gurukul education wing of the Arya Samaj in India. It was here that Munshi Ram adopted sanyas and became Swami Shraddhanand.

(vii) The two wings of the Arya Samaj, i.e. The DAV wing and the Gurukul wing had differences on the question of education but were united on important political and social issues of the time.

(viii) The Arya Samaj as a whole opposed conversion of Hindus to Islam and Christianity and therefore advocated re-conversion of recent converts to Hinduism. This process was called shuddhi.

(ix) They also advocated greater usage of Hindi in Devanagari script.

(x) In the 1890s, the Arya Samaj also raised the issue of cow slaughter and formed gaurakshini sabhas (or the cow protection societies) for protection of cows.

(xi) The Arya Samaj led a prolonged movement against untouchability and advocated dilution of caste distinctions.