Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902) was an Indian Hindu monk and a key figure in the introduction of Indian philosophies of Vedanta and Yoga to the western world. He was one of the most influential philosophers and social reformers in his contemporary India and the most successful and influential missionaries of Vedanta to the Western world. Indian Nobel laureate poet Rabindranath Tagore's suggested to study the works of Vivekananda to understand India. He also told, in Vivekananda there was nothing negative, but everything positive.
In last one century, hundreds of scholarly books have been written on Vivekananda, his works and his philosophy in different languages. Sister Nivedita, who was a disciple and a friend of Vivekananda, wrote two books The Master as I Saw Him and Notes of some wanderings with the Swami Vivekananda. The first one was published in 1910 and the second one was published in 1913. Sister Gargi's lifelong research work, a series of six volumes of books, was first published in two volumes in 1957. In 1983–87, these series was republished in six volumes. Bengali scholar and critic Sankari Prasad Basu, who was a director of Swami Vivekananda Archives, Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture wrote several books on Vivekananda such as Vivekananda o Samakalin Bharatbarsha (7 volumes), Sahasya Vivekananda, Bandhu Vivekananda, etc.
Monks of Ramakrishna Math and Mission too have written several notable books on the life and works of Vivekananda. Swami Vivekananda and Modern India written by Swami Jagadiswarananda was first published in 1941. In this book, the author covered the biography of Vivekananda in brief. Swami Nikhilananda wrote Vivekananda: A Biography which was first published in 1943 from Advaita Ashrama. Yuganayak Vivekananda, written by Swami Gambhirananda was first published in 1966–1967.
| Book | Author/Editor | Publisher | ISBN | |
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| An Analytical Study of the Social Philosophy of Swami Vivekananda: A Thesis Submitted for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Religious Studies at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand | Stephen Abraham | University of Otago | ||
| A Biography of Swami Vivekananda | Gautam Ghosh | Rupa & Co. | ||
| A comprehensive biography of Swami Vivekananda | Sailendra Nath Dhar | Vivekananda Prakashan Kendra | ||
| A Short Life of Swami Vivekananda | Pavitrananda (Swami.) | Advaita Ashrama | ||
| A study on Swami Vivekananda's doctrine of "Real Man" with special reference to the Christian view of man according to St. Thomas Aquinas | Mariadasan Chellamony | Pontificia Universitas Sanctae Crucis | ||
| Biography of Swami Vivekananda | Dharam C. Vyas | Cyber Tech | ||
| Chronology of Swami Vivekananda in the West | Terrance D. Hohner, Carolyn B. Kenny | Prana Press | ||
| Contemporary Indian idealism (with special reference to Swami Vivekananda, Sri Aurobindo, and Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan). | Ripusudan Prasad Srivastava | Motilal Banarsidass | ||
| Cultural contact and fusion: Swami Vivekananda in the West, 1893–96 | Satish K. Kapoor | ABS Publications | ||
| Did Swami Vivekananda Give Up Hinduism? | G. C. Asnani | Sister Nivedita Academy | ||
| Educational Philosophy of Swami Vivekananda | S.V. Bharathi | Discovery Publishing House | ||
| Educational philosophy of Swami Vivekananda | T. S. Avinashilingam | Sri Ramakrishna Mission Vidyalaya | ||
| Educational philosophies of Swami Vivekananda and John Dewey | D. Vijaya Bharathy | |||
| Ethical ideas in the world outlook of Swami Vivekananda, Lokamanya B.G. Tilak, and Aurobindo Ghose | Irina Pavlovna Chelysheva | Vostok | ||
| Great Political Thinker: Swami Vivekananda | S.K. Chaudhary | Sonali Publications | ||
| Harmony of religions: the relevance of Swami Vivekananda | Kalarikkal Poulose Aleaz | Punthi-Pustak | ||
| Idealistic Philosophy of Swami Vivekananda | G. Ranjit Sharma | Atlantic Publishers & Distri | ||
| Learn Rajayoga from Vivekananda: A Grand Exposition of India's Unique Philosophy and Practice of Yoga, which Swami Vivekananda Made for His American Disciples | Mahendra Kulasrestha | Lotus Press | ||
| Life and Philosophy of Swami Vivekananda | G. S Banhatti | Atlantic Publishers & Dist | ||
| Life of Swami Vivekananda | Vivekananda's Disciples | Vedanta Press | ||
| Life of Swami Vivekananda: (12 January 1863 to 4 July 1902); Drama in Engl. Staged on 31 March 1982 at Sri Thyagaraja Hall, Calcutta by Bala Vihar Children, Calcutta | Thevarkal Venketes Waraiyer Narayanaswamy | Central Chinmaya Mission Trust | ||
| Make me a man, message of Swami Vivekananda | T. S. Avinashilingam | Sri Ramakrishna Mission Vidyalaya | ||
| Man Without Frontiers: The Ultimate Concern of Swami Vivekananda | Maria Arokiam Kanaga | Salesian Pontifical University, Faculty of Philosophy | ||
| Monastic disciples of Swami Vivekananda: inspiring life-stories of some principal disciples | Abjajānanda (Swami.) | Advaita Ashrama | ||
| Negotiating Worlds, Re-envisioning Modernity: Swami Vivekananda and Colonial Discourse | Kristen Anne Hardy | University of Manitoba (Canada) | ||
| Neo-Hinduism: an exposition of Swami Vivekananda's conception of Vedantism (Yoga philosophy) | D. V. Athalye | D.B. Taraporevala sons and co. | ||
| Notes of some wanderings with the Swami Vivekananda | Udbodhan, Calcutta | N.A. | ||
| Perspectives on Ramakrishna-Vivekananda Vedanta tradition | M. Sivaramakrishna, Sumita Roy | Sterling Publishers | ||
| Photographs of Swami Vivekananda, 1886–1901 | Vedanta Society of Northern California | Sri Ramakrishna Math | ||
| Political Concept of Swami Vivekananda | Sajal Basu | Sujan Publications | ||
| Political Philosophy of Swami Vivekananda | Kalpana Mohapatra | Northern Book Centre | ||
| Prophet disarmed: Vivekananda and Nivedita | Narasingha Prosad Sil | Monash Asia Institute, Centre of South Asian Studies, Monash University | ||
| Quintessence of Yoga Philosophy: An Exploration of Swami Vivekananda's Conception of Practical Vedantism (Neo-Hinduism) | D. V. Athalye | Taraporevala | ||
| Rediscovering Swami Vivekananda | Amiya Kumara Majumadara | BPR Publishers | ||
| Reflections on Swami Vivekananda: Hundred Years After Chicago | M. Sivaramkrishna | South Asia Books | ||
| Religious and moral philosophy of Swami Vivekananda | Shail Kumari Singh | Janaki Prakashan | ||
| Religious Revivalism As Nationalist Discourse: Swami Vivekananda and New Hinduism in Nineteenth-Century Bengal | Shamita Basu | Oxford University Press | ||
| Reminiscences of Swami Vivekananda: by his Eastern and Western admirers | Eastern and Western admirers | Advaita Ashrama | ||
| Revolutionary Ideas of Swami Vivekananda | Rabindra Kumar Das Gupta | Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture |
| Book | Author/Editor | Publisher | ISBN | |
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| Saints of India: Swami Vivekananda | Shiri Ram Bakshi, Sangh Mittra | Criterion | ||
| Short Life of Swami Vivekananda | Swami Tejasananda | Advaita Ashrama | ||
| Social Philosophy of Swami Vivekananda | A.R. Mohapatra | Readworthy Publications (P) Limited | ||
| Social Philosophy of Swami Vivekananda | Santwana Dasgupta | Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture | ||
| Sri Ramakrishna and Swami Vivekananda | Advaita Ashrama (Publication Department) | |||
| Swami Vivekanand | B. R. Kishore | Diamond Pocket Books (P) Ltd. | ||
| Swami Vivekanand : educational philosopher & his work | S.K. Shukla | Omega Publications | ||
| Swami Vivekananda | Amiya Sen | Oxford University Press | ||
| Swami Vivekananda | Bābūrāma Śarmā | Diamond Pocket Books | ||
| Swami Vivekananda | Dr. M. H. Syed, R. K. Singh, P. K. Choudhry | Himalaya Books | ||
| Swami Vivekananda | K. L. Miglani | Pinnacle Technology | ||
| Swami Vivekananda | M. S. Nateson | Vivekananda Publishing House | ||
| Swami Vivekananda | N.L. Gupta | Anmol Publications Pvt. Ltd | ||
| Swami Vivekananda | Premacanda | Saraswathi Press | ||
| Swami Vivekananda | S. Paul | Sterling Publishers Pvt., Limited | ||
| Swami Vivekananda | Sachi Sinhal | Prabhat Prakashan | ||
| Swami Vivekananda | Satyakam Vidyalankar | Hind Pocket Books | ||
| Swami Vivekananda | Una Da Manavad | Raghbir Rachnac | ||
| Swami Vivekananda | Verinder Grover | Deep & Deep Publications | ||
| Swami Vivekananda: a forgotten chapter of his life | Benishankar Sharma | Oxford Book & Stationary Co. | ||
| Swami Vivekananda: A Historical Review | ||||
| Swami Vivekananda: A Man with a Vision | Devika Rangachari | Penguin Books Limited | ||
| Swami Vivekananda: A Mental and Spiritual Biography | Rajagopal Chattopadhyaya | Vivekananda Math | ||
| Swami Vivekananda: A Reassessment | Narasingha Prosad Sil | Susquehanna University Press | ||
| Swami Vivekananda: A Sixth Plane Being in San Francisco | Belinda Worthen | |||
| Swami Vivekananda: a study | D. V. Athalye | Ashish | ||
| Swami Vivekananda: A Study on Aesthetics | Mohit Chakrabarti | Atlantic Publishers & Distri | ||
| Swami Vivekananda : An Iconoclastic Ascetic | Ajeet Jawed | Ane Books India | ||
| Swami Vivekananda & Success of Students | A. R. K. Sarma | Sri Sarada Book House | ||
| Swami Vivekananda and His Times: A Series of Lectures | B. Bhattacharya | NCIC | ||
| Swami Vivekananda and Indian Nationalism | Subodh Chandra Sen Gupta | Sahitya Samsad | ||
| Swami Vivekananda and Japan | Medhasananda | |||
| Swami Vivekananda and Religious Pluralism | Chacko Puthenpurackal | Pontificia Universitas Gregoriana | ||
| Swami Vivekananda and Sri Ramakrishna in Sri Aurobindo's Writings | Sri Aurobindo, K. C. Anand | Sri Aurobindo Society | ||
| Swami Vivekananda and the emergence of India through spiritual culture | Sarvasthananda (Swami.) | Sri Ramakrishna Ashrama | ||
| Swami Vivekananda and the Future of India | Ranganathananda (Swami.) | Ramakrishna Mission, Institute of Culture | ||
| Swami Vivekananda and the Indian quest for socialism | Firma KLM | |||
| Swami Vivekananda and the Indian Renaissance | Telliyavaram Mahadevan Ponnambalam Mahadevan | Sri Ramakrishna Mission, Vidyalaya Teachers College | ||
| Swami Vivekananda: and the Modern World | Pranab Bandyopadhyay | United Writers | ||
| Swami Vivekananda and the modernisation of Hinduism | William Radice | Oxford University Press | ||
| Swami Vivekananda and the World of Youth | Nabaniharan Mukhopadhyay | Akhil Bharat Vivekananda Yuva Mahamandal | ||
| Swami Vivekananda: Awakener of Modern India | R. Ramakrishnan | Sri Ramakrishna Math | ||
| Swami Vivekananda centenary memorial volume | Ramesh Chandra Majumdar | Swami Vivekananda Centenary | ||
| Swami Vivekananda's Concept of Service | Swami Swahananda | Sri Ramakrishna Math | ||
| Swami Vivekananda: Education of Love | Mohit Chakrabarti | Kanishka Publishers | ||
| Swami Vivekananda: Epoch-maker Spiritual Leader | Swami Jitatmananda | Shri Ramakrishna Ashrama | ||
| Swami Vivekananda: Excellence in Education | Mohit Chakrabarti | Gyan Publishing House | ||
| Swami Vivekananda: His Dynamic Vision | Harbans Lal Agnihotri | Aman Prakashan | ||
| Swami Vivekananda: his global vision | Santinath Chattopadhyay | Punthi Pustak | ||
| Swami Vivekananda, His Human Books | Jung Bahadur Goyal | Falcon Books | ||
| Swami Vivekananda: his life & message | Anil Chandra Ghosh | Presidency Library | ||
| Swami Vivekananda, his life and mission | Ranganathananda (Swami.) | Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture | ||
| Swami Vivekananda, His Reconstruction of Hinduism as a Universal Religion | P. M. Thomas | McMaster University | ||
| Swami Vivekananda: His Sanyasa ... | M. S. Natesan | Vivekananda Publishing House | ||
| Swami Vivekananda, his second visit to the West: new discoveries | Marie Louise Burke | Advaita Ashrama | ||
| Swami Vivekananda in America | Nivedita Raghunath Bhide | Vivekananda Kendra | ||
| Swami Vivekananda in America: new findings | Asim Chaudhuri | Advaita Ashrama, Publication Dept. | ||
| Swami Vivekananda in contemporary Indian news (1893–1902): with Ramakrishna and the Mission | Bimalakumāra Ghosha, Lakshmi Kanta Boral | Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture | ||
| Swami Vivekananda in Chicago: new findings | Asim Chaudhuri | Advaita Ashrama | ||
| Swami Vivekananda in India: A Corrective Biography | Chattopadhyay Rajagopal | Motilal Banarsidass Publ. | ||
| Swami Vivekananda: India's Emissary to the West | Swami Ranganathananda | Vivekananda Kendra Prakashan Trust | ||
| Swami Vivekananda: insan-i-kamal : revisioning | Som P. Ranchan | Indian Publishers Distributors | ||
| Swami Vivekananda in San Francisco | Ashokananda (Swami.) | Vedanta Society of Northern California | ||
| Swami Vivekananda in the West | Rajagopal Chattopadhyaya | The Author | ||
| (six volumes) | Advaita Ashrama, Kolkata | |||
| Pranaba Ranjan Bhuyan | Atlantic Publishers & Dist | |||
| Swami Vivekananda on Education | Śaṅkara Abhyaṅkara | Aditya Pratishthan | ||
| Swami Vivekananda on Himself | Swami Sambudhdhananda | Advaita Ashrama | ||
| Swami Vivekananda on India and Her Problems | Swami Nirvedananda | Advaita Ashrama | ||
| Swami Vivekananda on Indian philosophy and literature | Rabindra Kumar Dasgupta | Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture | ||
| Swami Vivekananda, patriot-prophet: a study | Bhūpendranātha Datta | Nababharat Publishers | ||
| Swami Vivekananda: Pioneer in Social Revolution | Vidyotma Singh | Vista International Publishing House | ||
| Swami Vivekananda: literary biography | Carebanu Cooper | |||
| Swami Vivekananda, the educator | V. Sukumaran Nair | Facet Books International | ||
| Swami Vivekananda, the known philosopher, the unknown poet | Radhika Nagrath | Meteor Books | ||
| Swami Vivekananda: The Living Vedanta | Chaturvedi Badrinath | Penguin Books India | ||
| Swami Vivekananda: the man and his mission | Sanat Kumar Rai Chaudhuri | Scientific Book Agency | ||
| Swami Vivekananda, the prophet of Vedantic socialism | Vijendra Kasturi Ranga Varadaraja Rao | Publications Division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Govt. of India | ||
| Swami Vivekananda: Vibrant Humanist | Mohit Chakrabarti | Kanishka Publishers | ||
| Swami Vivekananda Vijnanagita: The Wisdom Song of Vivekananda | Babaji Bob Kindler | Srv Assoc | ||
| Swami Vivekananda: Visionary of Truth | Mohit Chakraborty | Abhijeet Publications | ||
| Swâmi Vivekânanda's contribution to the present age | Vedanta Society of St. Louis | |||
| Swami Vivekananda's ideas on history: with special reference to Indian history and culture | Tangsal Narayana Vasudeva Rao, Indian Council of Historical Research | Ramakrishna Mission Vidyapith, Institute of Vivekananda Studies | ||
| Swami Vivekananda's legacy of service: a study of the Ramakrishna Math and Mission | Gwilym Beckerlegge | Oxford University Press | ||
| Swami Vivekananda's neo-Vedānta | Rabindra Kumar Dasgupta | Asiatic Society | ||
| Swami Vivekananda's Understanding of Religious Pluralism: A Theological Assessment from a Catholic View Represented by Joseph Neuner | Sebastian Panjikaran | Pontificia Universitas Gregoriana, Facultas Theologiae | ||
| Swami Vivekananda's Winning Formulas to Become Successful Managers | A. R. K. Sarma | Sri Sarada Book House |
| Book | Author/Editor | Publisher | ISBN | |
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| Teaching of Swami Vivekananda | Edgar Wesley Thompson | M.E. Publishing House | ||
| The cyclonic Swami: Vivekananda in the West | Sukalyan Sengupta, Makarand R. Paranjape | Samvad India Foundation, in association with Center for Indic Studies, University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth | ||
| The concept of man according to Swami Vivekananda | Thaddeus J. Kunnumpurath | Pontificia Studiorum Universitas a S. Thoma Aq. in Urbe | ||
| The Hermeneutics of Religious Syncretism: Swami Vivekananda's Practical Vedanta | Thomas L. Bryson | University of Chicago, The Divinity School | ||
| The Immortal Philosopher of India Swami Vivekananda | Bhawan Singh Rana and Mīnā Agravāla Meena Agrawal | Diamond Pocket Books (P) Ltd. | ||
| The life of Swami Vivekananda, by his eastern and western disciples | Gambhirananda (Swami.) | Advaita Ashrama | ||
| The Master as I Saw Him | Sister Nivedita | Longmans, Green & Co., | N.A. | |
| The Message of Swami Vivekananda | Karan Singh (Sadr-i-Riyasat of Jammu and Kashmir) | Swami Vivekananda Centenary Celebration and Vivekananda Rock Memorial Committee, Publication Department | ||
| The Message of Swami Vivekananda: To the Modern World | K. S. Ramaswami Sastri | Ramakrishna Math | ||
| The Mind of Swami Vivekananda: An Anthology and a Study | Gautam Sen | Jaico Publishing House | ||
| The Monk As Man: The Unknown Life of Swami Vivekananda | 1933– Samkara | Penguin Books India | ||
| The Nationalistic and Religious Lectures of Swami Vivekananda | Tapasyananda (Swami.) | Advaita Ashrama | ||
| The Philosophy of Swami Vivekananda: Chicago Address Centenary Volume : Homage from Visva-Bharati | Pradip Kumar Sengupta | Progressive Publishers | ||
| The political philosophy of Swami Vivekananda | A. V. Rathna Reddy | Sterling | ||
| The Religious and Political Thought of Swami Vivekananda | Aron Harilela | University of Hull | ||
| The social philosophy of Swami Vivekananda: its relevance to modern India | Abraham Stephen | Indian Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge | ||
| The Socio-Political Philosophy of Swami Vivekananda | Bhaiya Subhash Chandra Prasad | Universal-Publishers | ||
| The social and political ideas of Swami Vivekananda | S. S. Mital | Metropolitan | ||
| The Swami Vivekananda: A Study | Mano Mohan Ganguly | Contemporary Publishers | ||
| The universal symphony of Swami Vivekananda | Ranganathananda (Swami.) | |||
| The Vedantic Synthesis of Swami Vivekananda | Andrew Avison Ross | University of Canterbury | ||
| The Teachings of Swami Vivekananda | Avyaktananda (Swami.) | Vedanta Movement | ||
| The Vedānta of Swami Vivekananda | B. Prasannakumary | Writers Workshop Publication | ||
| The Vedanta of Swami Vivekananda | Suhas Ranjan Ray | Sristi Prakashan | ||
| Vivekananda | Gajanan Khergamker | Jaico Publishing House | ||
| Vivekananda: A Biography | Swami Nikhilananda | |||
| Vivekenanda: a comprehensive study | Jyotir Maya Nanda (Swami) | Swami Jyotirmayananda | ||
| Vivekananda and Indian renaissance | B. K. Ahluwalia, Shashi Ahluwalia | Associated Pub. Co. | ||
| Vivekananda: his gospel of man-making with a garland of tributes and a chronicle of his life and times, with pictures | Jyotir Maya Nanda (Swami) | Swami Jyotirmayananda | ||
| Vivekananda: World Teacher | Swami Adiswarananda | |||
| Vivekananda, the prophet of human emancipation: a study on the social philosophy of Swami Vivekananda | Santwana Dasgupta | Bijaya Dasgupta | ||
| Vivekananda, the warrior saint: a biographical study | Haṃsrāja Rahabara | Farsight Publishers & Distributors | ||
| Vivekananda: The Yogas and Other Works | Swami Hikhilananda | Ramakrishna Vivekanada Center | ||
| Vivekananda's approach to social work | Indira Patel | Sri Ramakrishna Math | ||
| Vivekananda's influence on Subhas | Nanda Mookerjee | Jayasree Prakashan | ||
| Vivekananda's message to the youth | Vijendra Kasturi Ranga Varadaraja Rao, T. S. Avinashilingam | Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan | ||
| Vivekananda Reader | Swami Narasimhananda (edited) | Advaita Ashrama | ||
| Wandering Monk: Permanent Exhibition at Kanyakumari on Swami Vivekananda as a Parivrajaka | M. Lakshmi Kumari | Vivekananda Kendra | ||
| Western women in the footsteps of Swami Vivekananda | Atmaprana (Pravrajika.) | Ramakrishna Sarada Mission | ||
| Wisdom of Vivekanand | Sachin Sinhal | Prabhat Prakashan | ||
| What Religion Is in the Words of Swami Vivekananda | John Yale | Kessinger Publishing |