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Some other works written in opposition to Dayananda and his movement were *Yathārthaprakāśa* by Anand Swaroop, *Satyārthadarpaṇa* by Ajit Kumar Shastri, *Satyārthaprakāśa kī Chīchāledar* by Kalu Ram Shastri, and another work of the same name by Premacharya Shastri, *Satyārthaprakāśasamīkṣā* by Jagannatha Das, *A Refutation of the Satyartha Prakash of Pt. Dayananda Saraswati* by Gulam Mohamad (Hazi Hanif Sadiq), *Haque Prakasha* in Urdu by Sanaullah Amritsari. This has continued till very recent times when Veer Bharat Talwar in his book *On the Critique of Satyārthaprakāśa* and Dr Namvar Singh have expressed strong resentment over some of the postulations of Dayananda. There were critiques from a number of Western scholars also.⁹⁵ Talwar called Dayananda illogical/irrational for his adherence to Vedas.