National and International Situation in which Swami Vivekananda was born

Swami Vivekananda was born in the era of freedom movement of India and internationally at the age of Imperialism and monopoly capitalism. Since  in the age of imperialism the Eurpeans were the main powers, the  whites took the  supremacy of the world, the British beeing greatest power.

Swami Vivekananda, the geat soul loved and revered by East and West alike as the rejuvenator of Hinduism  in India and the preacher of its eternal truths abroad, was born at 6.33 am ,  on Monday, January 12, 1863, at 3, Gour Mohan Mukherjee Lane, Calcutta.
( pic at the top). But he spent most of his time studying in an attic in his maternal grand mother's house at 9 Ramtanu Bose Lane (pic-bottom).

In his boyhood Narendra used to tell his friends, " I must become a sanyasi, a palmist predicted it ," and he would show them a certain straight line on the palm of his hand.