India's awakening in modern times started in the nineteenth century, and with
Swami Vivekananda's appearance in 1893 at the Parliament of Religions in
Chicago, it started influencing the West. Though quite young, he mesmerized
America and Europe and walked as a colossus wherever he went. He impressed
giants like Max Muller, Paul Deussen and Romain Rolland, taught yoga and gave
call to develop a world religion. His mission was essentially a revolution,
which still awaits completion.
The Indian who shook West-addresses of at the Parliament of Religions held in
Chicago in 1893, and newspaper reports
A brief life-sketch of the Swami by Romain Rolland, Nobel Laureate