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3 days ago · The Banaras Hindu University was jointly established by Madan Mohan Malaviya, Annie Besant, Maharaja Rameshwar Singh of Darbhanga Raj and Prabhu Narayan Singh and Aditya Narayan Singh of Narayan dynasty, while the university is the brainchild of Malviya.
4 days ago · Annie Besant Statement. Annie Besant wrote her experience in ‘New India’ in the year 1921 that a pregnant woman carrying a seven months baby was cut through the abdomen by a rebel and she was seen lying dead on the way with the child protruding out of her womb.
1 day ago · Don Cupitt talks about Annie Besant and theosophy; Madame Blavatsky has cast a baleful shadow over modern spiritual life, not least through the continued interest in astrology; and The Sea of Faith was the first time I’d noticed her.
3 days ago · Annie Besant (1847–1933), the Theosophical Society’s most famous leader, succeeded Blavatsky and became the first and only British woman to serve as president of the Congress Party (1917). The early Congress movement
4 days ago · They introduced American audiences to the Indic figure of the esoteric yogi, the practices of meditation and yoga, and translations and adaptations of Patañjali’s Yoga Sūtras through the writings of Blavatsky herself, N. C. Paul, Annie Besant, Alice Bailey, and Ernest Wood, among others. 13
3 days ago · He was dedicated to commemorating Tamil freedom fighters and was the first to publish their stories, including those of forgotten figures like Annie Besant, in his newspaper on Independence Day in 1947.
1 day ago · Annie Besant, an Irish theosophist, moved to India in 1893 and became actively involved in the Congress. Recognizing the importance of full cooperation from the extremists for the success of the movement, both Tilak and Besant realized that it was necessary to secure the full cooperation of the extremists.
