Second Annual Indian Ministry of Culture Vivekananda Visiting Professor lecture
May 27, 2015
"Vivekananda's Irish Disciple: Sister Nivedita"
Dipesh Chakrabarty
Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Services Professor in the Departments of History and South Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago
Sister Nivedita (Margaret Elizabeth Noble, b. 1867) arrived in India in 1898 as a disciple of Swami Vivekananda and died there in 1911. Her experience of India provides fascinating material for a cross-cultural history of the land and the people she encountered.
This lecture is dedicated to the memory of Sir Christopher Bayly, the inaugural Vivekananda Visiting Professor in 2014 and 2015.
The Indian Ministry of Culture Vivekananda Visiting Professorship was established to commemorate the legacy of the Hindu spiritual leader Swami Vivekananda and to enrich the University's renowned program for the study of the Indian subcontinent.
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