Table of Contents
Preface ix
Note on Transliteration xiii
Introduction 1
Part 1 India
1 Earliest Days 21
2 Ramakrishna 38
3 Ramakrishna and Vivekananda 67
4 Vivekananda and His Travels 84
Part 2 The West
5 The World's Parliament of Religions 113
6 Women East and West 138
7 Magic, Science, Transcendence 167
8 Green Acre, William James, and Raja Yoga 189
9 Female Devotees and the Labors of the Guru 217
10 The Pains and Pleasures of Love in America 243
11 The Pains and Pleasures of Love in Great Britain 257
Part 3 India and the World
12 Vivekananda Returns 277
13 The Clinch 308
14 Education, "Divine Play," and the Nation 331
15 Femininity, the National Idea, and Politics 360
16 Malign Influences and Harrowing Deaths 395
Conclusion 411
Chronology 425
Dramatis Personae 431
Notes 441
Acknowledgments 521
Illustration Credits 525
Index 529