• Complain

Reba Som - Margot: Sister Nivedita of Swami Vivekananda

Here you can read online Reba Som - Margot: Sister Nivedita of Swami Vivekananda full text of the book (entire story) in english for free. Download pdf and epub, get meaning, cover and reviews about this ebook. year: 2017, publisher: Random House Publishers India Pvt. Ltd., genre: Non-fiction. Description of the work, (preface) as well as reviews are available. Best literature library LitArk.com created for fans of good reading and offers a wide selection of genres:

Romance novel Science fiction Adventure Detective Science History Home and family Prose Art Politics Computer Non-fiction Religion Business Children Humor

Choose a favorite category and find really read worthwhile books. Enjoy immersion in the world of imagination, feel the emotions of the characters or learn something new for yourself, make an fascinating discovery.

Reba Som Margot: Sister Nivedita of Swami Vivekananda
  • Book:
    Margot: Sister Nivedita of Swami Vivekananda
  • Author:
  • Publisher:
    Random House Publishers India Pvt. Ltd.
  • Genre:
  • Year:
    2017
  • Rating:
    4 / 5
  • Favourites:
    Add to favourites
  • Your mark:
    • 80
    • 1
    • 2
    • 3
    • 4
    • 5

Margot: Sister Nivedita of Swami Vivekananda: summary, description and annotation

We offer to read an annotation, description, summary or preface (depends on what the author of the book "Margot: Sister Nivedita of Swami Vivekananda" wrote himself). If you haven't found the necessary information about the book — write in the comments, we will try to find it.

Among all the disciples of Swami Vivekananda, Sister Nivedita occupies pride of place. Margaret Noble arrived at Indias shores in the late nineteenth century, took the vows of a brahmacharini, and devoted the rest of her life to the cause of India. Apart from educating women, Nivedita wrote valuable treatises on Hindu thought and Indian culture, inspiring nationalist sentiment and unity. She won over leading national figures of the day with her fierce intellect, and even influenced the ending of Rabindranath Tagores novel, Gora. Known to be drunk with India, she provided immense professional support to the brilliant scientist Jagadish Chandra Bose; dialogued with great leaders like G.K. Gokhale and Aurobindo Ghosh; and inspired Abanindranath Tagore to create a painting that eventually became the iconic Bharat Mata.In this compelling biography, the author traces the development of Margaret from a loyal Irishwoman into Sister Nivedita, and finally into Lok Mata or Peoples Mothera title bestowed on her by Tagore. She draws on Niveditas vast corpus of writings and personal letters to provide an intimate view of her life and thought. Through an insightful and moving narrative, Margot reveals the feisty, irrepressible spirit behind one of Indias greatest friends.

Reba Som: author's other books


Who wrote Margot: Sister Nivedita of Swami Vivekananda? Find out the surname, the name of the author of the book and a list of all author's works by series.

Margot: Sister Nivedita of Swami Vivekananda — read online for free the complete book (whole text) full work

Below is the text of the book, divided by pages. System saving the place of the last page read, allows you to conveniently read the book "Margot: Sister Nivedita of Swami Vivekananda" online for free, without having to search again every time where you left off. Put a bookmark, and you can go to the page where you finished reading at any time.

Light

Font size:

Reset

Interval:

Bookmark:

Make
Contents
REBA SOM Margot Sister Nivedita of Vivekananda - photo 1
Margot Sister Nivedita of Swami Vivekananda - image 2
Margot Sister Nivedita of Swami Vivekananda - image 3
REBA SOM
Margot
Sister Nivedita of Vivekananda
Margot Sister Nivedita of Swami Vivekananda - image 4
PENGUIN BOOKS
Margot Sister Nivedita of Swami Vivekananda - image 5
PENGUIN BOOKS
Advance Praise for the Book

Reba Som unravels the journey of Margaret Margot Noble, better known to the world as Sister Nivedita, giving the reader an appreciation of how this truly remarkable and erudite individual, from a foreign land, went on to become a force in times of tumultuous change in India. This passionate chronicle of her life succeeds in giving us a rare glimpse of the individual behind the persona. Reba Som effectively brings Nivedita out of the shadow of her spiritual mentor, confidant and friend, Swami Vivekananda. A compelling readShashi Tharoor

A profound and searching biography that brings to life Sister Niveditas journey through the spiritual landscape of her times. A remarkable record of an era and the extraordinary figures that inhabited itNamita Gokhale

In Reba Soms timely, well-researched and engrossing portrait, Sister Nivedita, the iconic IrishHindu nun who consecrated her life to India, re-emerges as a sensitive, idealistic and daring young woman, who crossed boundaries and continents for her passion and beliefMakarand Paranjape

To the mothers heart and heros will in so many women that

I have been privileged to know

Written to Sister Nivedita on 22 September 1900 Preface It was during the - photo 6

Written to Sister Nivedita on 22 September 1900

Preface

It was during the 150th birth anniversary celebrations of Swami Vivekananda in 2013 that I became curious to learn more about Sister Nivedita. The Ramakrishna Mission had booked all four galleries of the Tagore Centre at the Indian Council for Cultural Relations, Kolkata, of which I was then director, to host an art exhibition. It was well known that Swamiji and particularly Sister Nivedita were great advocates of Indian art. From what I knew, neither of them were artists as such, and I told myself the art connection needed to be researched further. Back in Delhi, I was amazed to find most people unaware of Sister Nivedita, who was often confused for a nun of the Missionaries of Charity. Yet on her cenotaph is written that Sister Nivedita had given her all to India. It convinced me then that her story must be told.

This then is a biography of Margaret Noble (18671911) of Ireland, called Margot by her family and friends, who came to India in 1898 inspired by Swami Vivekananda and made it her home. Named Nivedita (which means dedicated) by Swamiji, who initiated her into the vows of a brahmachari nun, she lived up to her given name and devoted herself fully to the cause of India.

On the eve of her 150th birth anniversary, this book captures the thoughts, emotions, concerns and doubts of a sincere and committed woman, voiced in over 800 letters, making this biography almost autobiographical. The letters that Nivedita regularly wrote to her close friends, in particular to Josephine MacLeod, whom she called Yum, Sara Bull, whom she often addressed as Saint Sara, and the journalist Ratcliffe, were practically in the nature of diaries. In her last years, aware that the novel of her life had unfolded in her letters, Nivedita, with a premonition that her end was near, sent her personal papers to her dear Yum and asked for her letters to be kept in safe custody. After her death, Josephine MacLeod decided to share Niveditas personal papers and letters with Lizelle Reymond for a definitive biography of Sister Nivedita in French, which was translated into English as The Dedicated: A Biography of Nivedita (1953). In time, Narayani Devi serialized it in Bengali in the monthly journal Basumati in 1962, attracting a wide readership. The letters of Nivedita were sent by Reymond to India to remain in the possession of a Vedic philosopher named Anirvan who could utilize them for further research. Fortuitously, Anirvan selected Sankari Prasad Basu to receive and keep the precious collection. Basu, a well-known author whose painstaking seven-volume work Vivekananda O Samakaleen Bharatvarsha earned him the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1978, was considered the ideal recipient of this priceless legacy. Taken aback by the unexpected windfall, Basu went on to fulfil his promise to Anirvan, spending several years deciphering the handwriting, doing research on the letters, and translating many into Bengali for his five-volume work, Nibedita Lokmata (Ananda Publishers, Calcutta, 196894).

Letters of Sister Nivedita was published in two volumes in 1982 by Nababharat Publishers and, as its editor, Sankari Prasad Basu in his introduction recounted the amazing circumstances in which he came to receive the letters. The third volume with a comprehensive introduction that he had in mind never appeared. Basu passed away in 2014 and the volumes of Letters are out of print. It was by chance that I secured from a bookseller on College Street in Kolkata two silverfish-eaten copiesthe brittle pages and their musty smell adding to my excitement as I leafed through them. What I discovered was not necessarily Niveditas world-moving power that Basu had described but fascinating windows that opened through her eyes and keen observations into the social, cultural and political labyrinth of early twentieth-century India.

The letters revealed a flesh-and-blood Nivedita, who had embarked on a unique adventure in the quest of a larger dream. Leaving her country behind, she wished to learn the culture of faraway India so she could contribute towards the education of women in the light of their own civilizational values, rather than through the judgemental notions of an outsider. This was part of her training in the methods of education imparted by the nineteenth-century thinker Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi and adopted by his disciple Friedrich Froebel, which had inspired her in her teaching career in England. When she had first met Swami Vivekananda in England in 1895, it was not so much his spiritual thoughts of Advaita Vedanta, which in any case she concurred with, but his call to women with a Celtic dedication and determination who could address the crying need to educate women in India that appealed to her.

In India, she found herself in the midst of multiple and contradictory dynamics. She had to understand the multi-dimensional thought process of her gurus spiritual ideas, which often took her by surprise. Moreover, she found herself caught in the great contemporary debate between Reform and Revival. The Brahmo Samaj, which advocated comprehensive social and religious reforms, had been patronized by stalwarts like Raja Ram Mohan Roy and later by Rabindranath Tagores father, Debendranath Tagore, encouraging women to step out of the inner quarters of their residences, the andarmahal, to educational institutions outside. Traditional worship of idols was replaced by Brahmo congregational prayers to the Universal Creator. The Hindus, threatened by this challenge to their ritual-based religious worship, socially ostracized the Brahmos. Nivedita found herself poised between reformers like the Brahmo Tagore family, with whom she socialized well, and the revival that was voiced by the Hindus, who viewed reform with wariness, and with whom she now belonged.

Next page
Light

Font size:

Reset

Interval:

Bookmark:

Make

Similar books «Margot: Sister Nivedita of Swami Vivekananda»

Look at similar books to Margot: Sister Nivedita of Swami Vivekananda. We have selected literature similar in name and meaning in the hope of providing readers with more options to find new, interesting, not yet read works.


Reviews about «Margot: Sister Nivedita of Swami Vivekananda»

Discussion, reviews of the book Margot: Sister Nivedita of Swami Vivekananda and just readers' own opinions. Leave your comments, write what you think about the work, its meaning or the main characters. Specify what exactly you liked and what you didn't like, and why you think so.