About: Pandit Lekh Ram

Pandit Lekh Ram (1858 – 6 March 1897) was the leader of the Arya Samaj, an Indian Hindu reform movement, and was also active as a writer and publicist. He is known particularly for his encounters with Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, the founder of the Ahmadiyya movement, and as a subject of his death prophecy. His assassination by an unidentified assailant on March 6, 1897 is believed by Ahmadi Muslims to have occurred in accordance with Ahmad's prophecy concerning him.