led to a further decrease of the membership. Both the Arya Pratinidhi Sabha and the Vedic Mission are still existing today. Currently Mr.Roshan Parasramsingh and Ms Vidya Ramachala are the President and Secretary of the Arya Pratinidhi Sabha, while Pandit Hansraj Persad, Pandit Radhay Ramdass and Pandita Lilawatee Baldeo play important roles in the Vedic Mission. The two organizations also participate in the Inter Religious Organization (IRO) of Trinidad & Tobago. The Arya Pratinidhi Sabha of Trinidad is moreover affiliated to the United Hindu Organization and still works in close cooperation with the Ārya Samāj umbrella organizations in Suriname and Guyana. Some Observations One reason of the splits was mostly that a former president did not accept his loss in the elections, which are regularly held in the Ārya Samāj and started a new organization. Another reason was that the Arya Pratinidhi Sabha of Trinidad had the policy to expel pandits who had committed adultery. Often these pandits joined with the opponents of the board and were willing to continue their services in the new organization. The splits were, however, bad for the development of the Ārya Samāj in Trinidad and they are, according to Richard Huntington Forbes, one of the reasons that the number of Ārya Samājīs in Trinidad gradually has diminished. Notes References Sources Richard Huntington Forbes, Arya Samaj in Trinidad: An Historical Study of Hindu Organizational Process in Acculturative Conditions'', Ann Arbor: University Microfilms International 1985. Arya Samaj Overseas Indian organisations Indian diaspora