Vivekananda Manas

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The nineteenth century in Bengal was a time of intense socio-economic upheaval, marked by a deep cultural and social divide as society struggled to cultivate new cultural practices without dismantling old foundations, and it was in this moment that the emergence of Narendranath Dutta, later known as Swami Vivekananda, took place; this book offers a detached and historically grounded analysis of how Narendranath became a “timeless” figure and rose from an ordinary individual to a “rare-born great soul” amid the tensions between tradition and colonial modernity. The author, Kanishk Choudhury, employs sources, annotations, and critical analysis to demonstrate the conviction that everything may be sacrificed for truth, but truth must never be sacrificed for anything.