Ramakrishna's disciple Vivekananda carries Vedanta to the West, founds the Ramakrishna Mission for service and teaching, and calls India to strength through its own spiritual inheritance; his short life sets the pattern of the modern Hindu teacher.
Tagged: Hindu Hindu Reform Movements Smarta Tradition
The Event
- Date
- 1863–1902 (exact)
- Era
- Colonial; Standard periodization of Hindu history
- Location
- Calcutta; today Kolkata, West Bengal, India
- Traditions
- Hinduism
- Streams
- Hindu Reform Movements, Smarta Tradition
- Key figures
- Swami Vivekananda
- Key texts
- Raja Yoga (1896)
Primary Sources
- Vivekananda, Raja Yoga
Secondary Sources
- Jones, Socio-religious Reform Movements in British India (Cambridge, 1989)
- King, Orientalism and Religion: Postcolonial Theory, India and the Mystic East (Routledge, 1999)
Provenance: HIST-0329; confidence 0.95; accessed 2026-10-27.
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