Q. 19th century socio-religious reform movements mostly relied on rationalism and humanism, still some of them formed the basis of reforms to Vedas. With reference to it who said the statement “Back to Vedas”? Answer:
Dayanand Saraswati
Notes: Dayanand took inspiration from Vedas and considered them as "India's Rock of Ages" ,the infallible and true original seed of Hinduism. He gave the slogan "Back to Vedas".