Later he became a major force in the revival of Hinduism in India and contributed to the notion of nationalism in colonial India.
It was in the Shobhabazar Rajbari dalan (courtyard) that Swami Vivekananda was accorded a civic reception after his return from the Parliament of the World's Religions at Chicago.
Swami Vivekananda delivered his first address in Calcutta from the rostrum of this college on his return from Chicago after his famous deliverance at the Parliament of the World's Religions.
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His Holiness the Dalai Lama attended the Parliament of the World's Religions in 1999, but was denied a visa when he was asked to attend an international peace conference in March 2009.
"Swami Ashokananda was a brilliant and accomplished spiritual teacher in the West." - Huston Smith, author of The World's Religions and Why Religion Matters.