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In 1917 Annie Besant (1847-1933), a white Englishwoman, was elected president of the Indian National Congress, the body which, under the guidance of Mohandas Gandhi (1869-1948), would later lead India to independence. Besant - in her earlier career an active atheist and a socialist journalist - was from 1907 till her death the president of the Theosophical Society, an international spiritual movement whose headquarters' location in Madras symbolized its belief in India as the world's spiritual heart. This book deals with the contribution of the Theosophical Society to the rise of Indian nationalism and seeks to restore it to its proper place in the history of ideas, both with regard to its spiritual doctrine and the sources on which it drew, as well as its role in giving rise to the New Age movement of the 20th century. The book is the first to show how 19th century Orientalist study dramatically affected the rise of the Theosophical ideology, and specifically demonstrate the impact of the work of the Anglo-German scholar, Friedrich Max Muller (1833-1900) on Mme Blavatsky (1831-1891), the founder of the Theosophical Society.

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Book category Books in English Humanities Religion & beliefs Alternative belief systems

• Full title: Celestial India
• Subtitle: Madame Blavatsky and the Birth of Indian Nationalism
• Author: Isaac Lubelsky
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256
• EAN: 9781845539238
• ISBN: 1845539230
• ID: 05098244
• Publisher: Equinox Publishing Ltd
• Weight: 576 g
• Dimensions: 173 × 210 × 27 mm
• Date of publishing: 18. January 2012

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