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Swami Vivekananda was born

Birth
Swami Vivekananda was born Narendranath Datta (shortened to Narendra) in Calcutta, the capital of British India, on 12 January 1863 during the Makar Sankranti festival. He belonged to a traditional Bengali Kayastha family.

Family background
Swami Vivekananda's great grandfather Rammohan Datta was an eminent lawyer of Calcutta. Rammohan's son Durgacharan inherited immense wealth from his father. But, he showed an interest in spirituality from his childhood and renounced his family yo become a Sannyasi at the age of twenty-five.