Swami Vivekananda: Socio – political ideology

Swami Vivekananda is an exemplary philosopher of India who made Indian religion popular all around the world. His philosophy has contributed much to the development of educational philosophy in India. Swami Vivekananda was recognized as true representative of Indian culture and civilization with strong spiritual orientation. His notion about Indian society is not only linked with deep understanding and introspection but is related with application also. The influence of Swami Vivekananda on the Indian nationalist movement is well-known. Swami Vivekananda was not only a visionary, or a monk but a nationalist and a reformer par excellence. Swami Vivekananda social and political ideas followed from his Vedanitc conception of the inner self as omnipotent and supreme. He wanted to get rid of all evil ideas of class and caste superiority and tyranny which have made the Hindu society loose, stratified and disintegrated. He mercilessly denounced the evils of untouchability and condemned all forms of inhuman practices prevalent in the traditional Hindu society.