Vivekananda founds the Ramakrishna Mission in Calcutta, joining the monastery at Belur with schools, hospitals, and relief work; the Mission gives the reform age its enduring institution, devotion expressed as service to the poor as God.
Tagged: Hindu Hindu Reform Movements Shaktism
The Event
- Date
- 1897 (exact)
- Era
- Colonial; Standard periodization of Hindu history
- Location
- Calcutta; today Kolkata, West Bengal, India
- Traditions
- Hinduism
- Streams
- Hindu Reform Movements, Shaktism
- Key figures
- Swami Vivekananda
Connections
- Ramakrishna; carries forward
- Parliament of Religions, Chicago; followed
Primary Sources
- The Ramakrishna Mission's founding records
Secondary Sources
- Jones, Socio-religious Reform Movements in British India (Cambridge, 1989)
- Flood, An Introduction to Hinduism (Cambridge, 1996)
Provenance: HIST-0332; confidence 0.95; accessed 2026-10-27.
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