Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part One: India -- Earliest Days -- Ramakrishna -- Ramakrishna and Vivekananda -- Vivekananda and His Travels -- Part Two: The West -- The World Parliament -- Women East and West -- Magic, Science, Transcendence -- Green Acre, William James, and Raja-Yoga -- Female Devotees and the Labors of the Guru -- Love in America -- Love in Great Britain -- Part Three: India and the World -- Vivekananda Returns -- The Clinch -- Education, Divine Play, and the Nation -- Femininity, the National Idea, and Politics -- Malign Influences and Harrowing Deaths

"Guru to the World tells the story of Swami Vivekananda, the nineteenth-century Hindu ascetic who introduced the West to yoga and to a tolerant, scientifically minded universalist conception of religion. Ruth Harris explores the many legacies of Vivekananda's thought, including his impact on anticolonial movements and contemporary Hindu nationalism"--