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Sister Nivedita ( Bengali pronunciation: [bhagini nibedita] listen ⓘ born Margaret Elizabeth Noble; 28 October 1867 – 13 October 1911) [1] [2] was an Irish teacher, author, social activist, school founder and disciple of Swami Vivekananda. [3] [4] She spent her childhood and early youth in Ireland.
During her close contact with the Indian people, they came to love their “sister” with devoted admiration bordering on veneration. The poet Rabindranath Tagore , one of her close friends, summed up that sentiment when, after her death, he referred to her as the “mother of the people.”
Mar 17, 2020 · Nivedita’s sketch for Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose’s epoch making work, ‘The Living and the Non-living.’. The child Margaret Elizabeth is born to Mary Isabel Hamilton and Samuel Richmond Noble of Scotch Street, Dungannon, Northern Ireland. Reverend Samuel Noble passes away after a brief illness.
Jul 20, 2017 · The Story of Sister Nivedita, a Woman Who Knew That India’s Unity Was in Its Diversity. Nivedita added to the mantra of nation-making, which would set a direction and course to an awakened people in their ultimate movement towards freedom. By Penguin India.
Nov 16, 2023 · We recently celebrated the 156th birth anniversary of Sister Nivedita on 28 October 2023. One of the important messages of this extraordinary disciple of Swami Vivekananda was for the women of future India.
Nov 4, 2017 · With these stirring words, the mighty colossus, Swami Vivekananda, sent his great disciple, Sister Nivedita, into the battlefield of India's freedom struggle. She was to seek not only political freedom, but freedom of the spirit as well.
Sister Nivedita, the Irish educationist and Vivekananda disciple became one of colonial India's towering personalities. Born Margaret Elizabeth Noble, 150 years ago in Northern Ireland, the teacher, social worker and thinker came to be known throughout India as Sister Nivedita and loved and served the country in a manner few have.
