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Sister Nivedita (1867-1911), born Margaret Elizabeth Noble was an Anglo-Irish social worker, author
Author

An author is defined both as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created....
, teacher
Teacher

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 and disciple of Swami Vivekananda
Swami Vivekananda

Swami Vivekananda , born Narendranath Dutta is the chief disciple of the 19th century mystic Ramakrishna and the founder of Ramakrishna Mission....
. She met Vivekananda in 1895 in London
London

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 and travelled to India
India

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 (Kolkata
Kolkata

, Indian renaming controversy , is the Capital of the Indian States and territories of India of West Bengal. It is located in East India on the east bank of the River Hooghly....
) in 1898. Swami Vivekananda
Swami Vivekananda

Swami Vivekananda , born Narendranath Dutta is the chief disciple of the 19th century mystic Ramakrishna and the founder of Ramakrishna Mission....
 gave her the name Nivedita (which means one who is dedicated to God
God

God is a deity in theism and deism religions and other belief systems, representing either the sole deity in monotheism, or a principal deity in polytheism....
) when he initiated her into the vow of Brahmacharya
Brahmacharya

Brahmacharya is one of the foundational commitments in the practice of Yoga for achieving enlightenment, and is also the first ashram in Vedic culture, in which a person is dedicated to the quest for self-realisation....
 on March 25 1898. She became the first Western woman to be received into an Indian monastic order.






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Sister Nivedita (1867-1911), born Margaret Elizabeth Noble was an Anglo-Irish social worker, author
Author

An author is defined both as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created....
, teacher
Teacher

In education, a teacher is a person who teaches. A teacher who teaches an individual student may also be described as a personal tutor.The role of teacher is often formal and ongoing, carried out by way of Occupation or Profession at a school or other place of formal education....
 and disciple of Swami Vivekananda
Swami Vivekananda

Swami Vivekananda , born Narendranath Dutta is the chief disciple of the 19th century mystic Ramakrishna and the founder of Ramakrishna Mission....
. She met Vivekananda in 1895 in London
London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
 and travelled to India
India

India, officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, the List of countries by population country, and the most populous liberal democracy in the world....
 (Kolkata
Kolkata

, Indian renaming controversy , is the Capital of the Indian States and territories of India of West Bengal. It is located in East India on the east bank of the River Hooghly....
) in 1898. Swami Vivekananda
Swami Vivekananda

Swami Vivekananda , born Narendranath Dutta is the chief disciple of the 19th century mystic Ramakrishna and the founder of Ramakrishna Mission....
 gave her the name Nivedita (which means one who is dedicated to God
God

God is a deity in theism and deism religions and other belief systems, representing either the sole deity in monotheism, or a principal deity in polytheism....
) when he initiated her into the vow of Brahmacharya
Brahmacharya

Brahmacharya is one of the foundational commitments in the practice of Yoga for achieving enlightenment, and is also the first ashram in Vedic culture, in which a person is dedicated to the quest for self-realisation....
 on March 25 1898. She became the first Western woman to be received into an Indian monastic order. In November 1898 she started a school for girls which is now called Ramakrishna Sarada Mission Sister Nivedita Girls' High School. She worked to improve the lives of Indian women of all castes.

Nivedita was a good friend of many intellectuals and artists in the Bengal
Bengal

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i community, including the Nobel
Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prize , established in the 1895 will of Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel; it was first awarded in Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Nobel Prize in Literature, and Nobel Peace Prize in 1901....
 laureate writer Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore

, also known by the sobriquet Gurudev, was a Bengali people mystic, Brahmo poet, visual artist, playwright, novelist, and composer whose works reshaped Bengali literature and Music of Bengal in the late 19th and early 20th centuries....
. She knew and trusted Sri Anirvan
Sri Anirvan

Anirvan or Sri Anirvan was an Indian/Bengali/Hindu swami, writer, Vedic scholar and philosopher. He was widely known as a scholar and his principal works were a Bengali translation of Sri Aurobindo's Collected Works of Sri Aurobindo and the three volume treatise Veda Mimamsa....
  well, leaving many extraordinarily valuable documents with him. When Shankari Prasad Basu Mahashay came to Anirvan asking about her life, he simply handed over these papers, carefully preserved.

In later years, Nivedita took up the cause of Indian independence. Her unique position as a westerner with impeccable Hindu credentials enabled her to say and do many things that would have had repercussions for Indians. She promoted pan-Indian nationalist views both in her writings and in public meetings.

Books by Sister Nivedita


  • Kali the Mother. 1900. Swan Sonnenschein & Co.


  • The Web of Indian Life. 1904. W. Heinemann.


  • Cradle Tales of Hinduism. 1907. Longmans.


  • An Indian Book of Love and Death. 1908. Longmans.


  • The Master as I Saw Him: Being Pages from the Life of the Swami Vivekananda. London: Longmans; Calcutta: Ubodhan Office, Bagh Bazar.


  • Civic and National Ideals. 1911. Calcutta: Ubodhan Office.


  • Studies from an Eastern Home. 1913. Longmans.


In preparation:


  • Myths of the Indo-Aryan Race (Stories from the Mahabharata).


  • Footfalls of Indian History.


  • Essays on Indian Education.


  • Religion and Dharma.


Works

  • ISBN UOE001
  • Complete Works of Sister Nivedita, v. 1: Contents: The Master as I Saw Him; Notes of Some Wanderings; Kedar Nath and Bhadri Narayan; Kali the Mother. ISBN AOE005-1
  • Complete Works of Sister Nivedita, v. 2: Contents: The Web of Indian Life; An Indian Study of Love and Death; Studies from an Eastern Home; Lectures and Articles. ISBN AOE005-2
  • Complete Works of Sister Nivedita, v. 3: Contents: Indian Art; Cradle Tales of Hinduism; Religion and Dharma; Aggressive Hinduism. ISBN AOE005-3
  • Complete Works of Sister Nivedita, v. 4: Contents: Footfalls of Indian History; Civic Ideal and Indian Nationality; Hints on National Education in India; Lambs Among Wolves. ISBN AOE005-4
  • Complete Works of Sister Nivedita, v. 5: Contents: On Education; On Hindu Life, Thought and Religion; On Political, Economic and Social Problems; Biographical Sketches and Reviews. ISBN AOE005-5
  • Sister Nivedita and Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, Myths and Legends of the Hindus and Buddhists, Kolkata, Advait Ashrama. ISBN 81-7505-197-3


A Benediction written to Sister Nivedita


"The mother's heart, the hero's will
The sweetness of the southern breeze,
The sacred charm and strength that dwell
On Aryan altars, flaming, free;
All these be yours and many more
No ancient soul could dream before-
Be thou to India's future son
The mistress, servant, friend in one."


- A benediction written to Sister Nivedita by Swami Vivekananda
Swami Vivekananda

Swami Vivekananda , born Narendranath Dutta is the chief disciple of the 19th century mystic Ramakrishna and the founder of Ramakrishna Mission....
, Complete Works vol.6

Works Online

  • by Sister Nivedita


Further reading

  • India’s 50 Most Illustrious Women (ISBN 81-88086-19-3) by Indra Gupta


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