National Situation in which Vivekananda was born and brought up

[ Rammohan Roy (1772-1833) ]
Swami Vivekananda was born and was being brought up at the time when several great men of Bengal had already left their footsteps in the cultural and educational field of Bengal in the new era of European enlightenment caused by 1.French Revolution (1789-1799)
2. Industrial Revolution (1750 - 1850)

3. Rise of Working Class Movement ( Communist Manifesto 1848) 

[ Derozio 1809 - 1831]

[ Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar 1820 - 1891]
[Ramakrishna Paramhangsa 1836-1886]

[ Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay 1838 - 1894]

The great German Philosopher Kant said, " If you want to understand a man, then you must understand his environment". Hence we must take account of the social and cultural environment in which Narendranath Datta , latter known as Swami Vivekananda was bornand grew up to a man hood.