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Revision note: Vivekananda, Tagore, Ambedkar and Other Modern Indian Thinkers


  • Vivekananda: practical Vedanta, daridra narayana, man-making education, Chicago 1893, RK Mission 1897, Youth Day 12 Jan
  • Tagore: universal humanism, Nationalism (1917), Santiniketan 1901, Visva-Bharati 1921, knighthood renounced 1919, Nobel 1913
  • Ambedkar: social democracy, constitutional morality (Grote), hero-worship warning, Annihilation of Caste 1936, grammar of anarchy, Buddhism 1956
  • Aurobindo: integral yoga; "nothing can be taught"
  • Upadhyaya: integral humanism 1965; Narayana Guru: one caste, one religion, one God
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