Lectures from Colombo to Almora

Lectures from Colombo to Almora (1897) is a book of <a href="/facts/Swami_Vivekananda/T6pyK2B4">Swami Vivekananda</a> based on the lectures he delivered in Sri Lanka and India after his return from the West. Vivekananda reached <a href="/facts/Colombo/dcLPUe6t">Colombo</a>, <a href="/facts/British_Ceylon/NWNgm3LG">British Ceylon</a> (now Sri Lanka) on 15 January 1897. After delivering lectures in Colombo and Jaffna, Vivekananda arrived at Pamban in <a href="/facts/South_India/XqkE3NdU">South India</a>. A forty-feet high monument was built by the king of Ramnad, <a href="/facts/Bhaskara_Sethupathi/rde7bxPQ">Bhaskara Sethupathi</a>, on the spot where he landed to celebrate <a href="/facts/Swami_Vivekananda/T6pyK2B4">his achievements at the West</a>. Vivekananda travelled extensively and visited many Indian states delivering lectures on a variety of topics. On 19 June 1897, he reached <a href="/facts/Almora/5UBLqmoT">Almora</a>. The lectures delivered by him in this period were compiled into the book Lectures from Colombo to Almora.

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Lectures from Colombo to Almora