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Prabuddha Bharata

Prabuddha Bharata was started in 1896 under the inspiration of Swami Vivekananda...

In Chennai his admirers started a journal, Prabuddha Bharata, or Awakened India.

In July 1896 the first issue appeared.

It is been published uninterruptedly with the exception of one month- every month since.

After two years its editor Rajam Iyer passed away suddenly.

Swami Vivekananda, then in Almora, asked his English disciples,Captain Sevier and his wife Charlotte to assume the duties of publishing the journal.

The Captain had a press, type and ink transported from Kolkata.

The journal, which had missed a number, was now brought out from Thompson House in Almora, with Swamiji's disciple, Swami Swarupananda, as editor.


Captain Sevier meanwhile, at the behest of Swamiji, looking for an ideal place for an Ashram in the Himalayas, He found one in Mayavati in the district of Champawat, 6,400 feet above sea level which became the Advaita Ashrama.

The journal with the press were relocated there in March 1899.

Prabuddha Bharata continued to be published by the monks and a few local people.


In 1914 a separate building was erected nearby for the journal and the press.

From 1923 the printing was done in Kolkata, while the editorial remained at Mayavati.

Prabuddha Bharata
PO Mayavati
Via Lohaghat
Dist. Champawat
Uttaranchal 262524
awakened@rediffmail.com

Prabuddha Bharata
Advaita Ashrama
5 Dehi Entally Road
Kolkata 700014
mail@advaitaashrama.org

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