Swami Vivekananda in India: A Corrective Biography

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Swami Vivekananda in India: A Corrective Biography attempts to inform the reader accurately about his life both before and after his historic visits to the West. Much material has been translated anew from original Bengali books. At the same time it challenges current popular and pious notions held about this humanitarian-monk. The four major chapters in this book are about his meetings with Sri Ramakrishna, his travels in India during him in India, and his triumphant return from the West in 1897. Analysis of original eyewitness reports in both Indian and Western newspapers and periodicals forms an integral part of this biography. Many myths accumulated about the subject’s accomplishments are corrected in this biography.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Rajagopal Chattopadhyaya

Rajagopal Chattopadhyaya (b. 1957) did his Masterâ€™s in Chemistry form I.I.T. Kanpur and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles. He studied Ramakrishna-Vivekananda literature form 1975 and was initiated by the president of the Ramkrishna order in 1978. In 1993, his first book Swami Vivekananda in the West, was published in America; it has been reprinted in India (K.P. Bagchi) and Company, 1994). His second book, Worldâ€™s Parliament of Religions, 1893, was published in 1995 (Minerva Associated)-removing the century old ignorance and myths propagated in India. He has also published in Mythmukta Vivekananda (1998) a summary of his findings in Bengali. In the present book he presents an accurate story of Vivekanandaâ€™s life in India, both before and after his Western mission. His scientific work at Bose Institute earned him a mention in the Encyclopedia Britannica Book of the Year, 1996.