In October she hosted the first meeting of the winter session of the Wimbledon Literary Society at Kingsley Mead School, then described as her residence. It was a very successful event. Margaret Noble was one of the speakers. Margaret was one of those invited along with Ebenezer Cooke, the art education reformer who also taught art at her school. Inspired by him, she set out for India arriving on 21 January The Friend of India records her arrival:.
She will work, says a correspondent of the Times of Ceylon , with Miss Muller, in Calcutta, in an institution which will soon be founded there, to educate Bengalee young ladies and form a class of Hindu nuns or Yoginis from among them. Although not initially a supporter, even opposing Indian nationalism, Sister Nivedita eventually became an ardent Indian nationalist from — She was bitterly critical of the British administration and the partition of Bengal in , becoming extremely active in the Indian Freedom and Swadeshi movements.
Her book The Web of Indian Life , published in , is a collection of essays that caused a sensation. She was not entirely progressive — Ratcliffe recalls that she supported child marriage, purdah and perpetual widowhood as part of Indian tradition.
At her school in Baghbazar, Kolkata, which began as a kindergarten for girls and soon expanded, she taught girls history, geography, natural sciences, some English, and sewing and handicrafts, as well as providing some education for older women. Nivedita wrote articles and books and gave lectures to raise funds for the school.
The school formed the foundation of a new order of Women Monastics engaged mainly in spreading modern education for Indian women. Nivedita worked tirelessly helping the poor of Kolkata and Bengal during plague epidemics, famine and floods, becoming ill herself. Nevertheless, there was some confusion in Wimbledon about her as described in the Surrey Comet in I cannot at this moment imagine that I shall ever make a change.
The Indian National Congress wanted a flag to celebrate self-rule. Sister Nivedita designed one depicting the Vajra or Thunderbolt surrounded by oil lamps and presented it to the Congress in Red stands for struggle and yellow for victory.
In the event Mahatma Gandhi presented a different flag, similar to the current one, in Professor Bose was an extremely important pioneer in the field of radio transmission and wireless waves, but also a controversial figure. She was both a motivator and fundraiser for his research, which had received little support and suffered from discrimination.
The Museum has a small collection of items relating to Sister Nivedita, including a statuette, a pendant designed by her and two books donated by the Sri Sarada Math and Ramakrishna Sarada Mission and their friends. We are grateful to Sarada Sarkar for much information about Nivedita and the Mission. Much has been written about her character over the years with many different opinions, e.
Ratcliffe — he and his wife were her close friends, Ratcliffe S. Wrexham Advertiser. January 18 th , January 11 th , 4. March 8 th , 1. Vivekananda recognized that Noble could be of huge assistance in his efforts to uplift Indian women. Noble knew she had found her true calling. But it was his character to which I had thus done obeisance. The citizen ideal.
Noble arrived in India in January For nine months, she received intensive training from Vivekananda, who opened the magical maze of India to her.
In March that year, Noble received diksha initiation into a life of spirituality and service. They, along with a few others, also undertook a five-month journey across the northern and western parts of the country, during which Vivekananda spoke on religion, history, geography and ethnology.
Nor would he permit that the Mohammedan should be passed over. Humayoon, Sher Shah, Akbar, Shah Jehan, each of these, and a hundred more, found a day and a place in his bead-roll of glistening names.
After this initial phase of learning and exposure, Nivedita settled in the Bengali neighbourhood of Baghbazar in north Calcutta now Kolkata , an area Europeans hardly ventured into. In November, still in her first year in the country, she started a school at her home, 16, Bosepara Lane, for girls from orthodox families, where child marriage was widespread and girls were hardly educated.
Man-making to nation-building. Vivekananda died in To her, this was the highest form of nationality, one that did not rely merely on the political view of the nation based on the citizen-state dynamic.
Nivedita wrote profusely on Indian nationhood. She argued that India was a synthesis, and that the story of its analysed fragments, racial, lingual, or political, could never be the story of India.
She believed the British were quick to understand the underlying unity of the country and used this knowledge to place it under a common administration, relentlessly attacking the idea that it was the British colonials who had united India. The unity which undoubtedly belonged to India was self-born and had its own destiny, its own functions and its own vast powers; but it was the gift of no one.
She plunged into a whirlwind of activity, contributing towards myriad aspects of national awakening. Her young admirers included revolutionaries as well as budding artists and intellectuals. Though she was not much in agreement with the mild petitionary methods of the Moderates, she maintained close friendships with nationalist workers across the spectrum.
In , the cataclysmic partition of Bengal galvanized the national consciousness. Through her writing and lectures, Nivedita gave full support to the swadeshi campaign, urging people to go all out in swadeshi-sadhana. MannKiBaat pic. Vivekananda initiated her into the vow of Brahmacharya on March 25, She was very close to Sarada Devi, wife of Swami Ramakrishna and one of the major influences behind Ramakrishna Mission.
She is known for her unwavering support for Indian scientist, Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose and his work. She helped him in carrying on his work and provided the necessary financial aide. Sister Nivedita gave full support to the swadeshi campaign and encouraged people to go all out in swadeshi.
She was one of the first to design an emblem and a flag for the Indian nation, in she made a flag that was red and yellow with an image of 'Vajra' weapon of god Indra.
It also had the phrase 'Vande Mataram' written on it in Bengali. She established the Bengal School of Art to encourage Indian artists to rediscover the roots of their own artistic traditions.
During the plague outbreak in Calcutta in and the great East Bengal famine of she risked her own life to treat patients. After treating people during the famine, Sister Nivedita contracted a severe form of malaria that eventually took her life. She died in Darjeeling on 13 October at the age of
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