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Swami Vivekananda and

the Ramakrishna
Movement
The Ramakrishna movement was
established by Swami Vivekananda,
who was a disciple of a Hindu saint
Ramakrishna. The success of Swami
Vivekananda began when he
represented Hinduism at an
international religion congress, which
was held in 1893 in Chicago, USA.
Vivekananda demonstrated India as a
tolerant society, which allows
different sects to live together under
one roof of Hinduism and as a society,
which also accepted in it people of
other religions. He claimed that all
religions eventually prayed to the
same one God and the goal of all
religions is the same, to reach God.
He began his speech by referring to
other delegates as brothers and
sisters and so proving his point that
all the human race was one big
family. His messages about humanity
attracted many people of European
culture and many claim that he
started the European phenomenon of
cults with Indian gurus.

After his success in America he

returned to India and established the
Ramakrishna movement with an aim
to preserve the Indian culture. This
movement considered the Indian
culture as the most humanistic and
spiritual culture in the world. This
movement succeeded in establishing
pride in Indian people about their
culture which, they didnt had before.
His philosophy affected many
nationalist leaders and they
interpreted his philosophy so that it
could be adjusted to Indian
nationalism. For example the
Ramakrishna movement believed in
the existence of Supreme Being but
Swami Vivekananda did not reject
idolatry and claimed that the
different idols were different ways to
reach the same Supreme Being. This
was interpreted to connect Goddess
Earth (Mother India) and Goddess
Kali whom many worshipped in
Bengal. The message was sacrificing
oneself for Mother India was like
sacrificing for Kali. Some of Swami
Vivekanandas preachings were
interpreted also by the British as
hints to act against the British. For
example Vivekananda preached that
the path to realize God was not only
worshipping idols in spiritual way but
also through intellectual and physical
action. The British thought that by
saying physical action, Vivekananda
meant terrorist actions against them.

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1999-2000
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The Indian independence struggle incorporated the efforts by

Indians to liberate the region from British rule and form the
nation-state of India. It involved a wide spectrum of Indian
political organizations, philosophies, and rebellions between
1857 and India's emergence as a unified nation-state on August
15,1947.
The initial Indian Rebellion of 1857 was sparked when
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Army mutinied and Indian kingdoms rebelled against the
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After the revolt was crushed, the British partitioned the region into British India and the
Princely States. They tried to develop a class of educated elites, whose political
organizing sought Indian political rights and representation. However, increasing public
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leader of the Indian Independence Movement. He was the pioneer of satyagraha
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becoming one of the strongest philosophies of freedom struggles worldwide. Gandhi is
commonly known and spoken of worldwide as Mahatma Gandhi (Hindi: ,
mhatma ; from Sanskrit, mahtm: Great Soul) and is fondly called Bapu (in Gujarati,
Father). Leading the Indian National Congress, Gandhi worked for the alleviation of
poverty, the liberation of women, brotherhood, an end to untouchability and caste
discrimination and for the economic self-sufficiency of the nation. However, Gandhi's
work focused upon the goal of Swaraj self-rule for India. Gandhi famously led Indians
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