DOI: 10.36347/sjahss.2017.v05i03.015

Pages: 241-247

Economic problems of India in the pre-independence era were partially addressed in the writings of thinkers and scholars like Raja Rammohan Ray, Dadabhai Naoroji, Mahadev Gobinda Ranade Ramesh C. Dutt and Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay. On economic development of the country, Swami Vivekananda possessed his own views on eradication of poverty, agricultural and industrial development, condition of the laboring people and economic system Socialism. Even after seven decades after Independence, India still remains one of the poorest nations in terms of per capita income and ranks low in Human Development Index (HDI). The article attempts to search for the economic thoughts of Swami Vivekananda and their present-day relevance.