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“So long as the millions live in hunger and ignorance, I hold every man a traitor who, having been educated at their expense, pays not the least heed to them.” Comment.

  • UPSC 2006
  • Social and Religious Reform Movements in Bengal and Other Areas

This declaration by Swami Vivekananda distils the single most radical reorientation he brought to nineteenth-century Hindu reform — turning devotion to God into an obligation of service to the poor, and educated privilege into a debt owed to the nation's masses.

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  • From Ramakrishna's Mysticism to Vivekananda's Social Ethic
  • The Institutional Embodiment: The Ramakrishna Mission
  • The Charge Against the Educated Classes
  • Resonance with the National Movement

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