Celestial India - Madame Blavatsky and the Birth of Indian Nationalism - Isaac Lubelsky
The Struggle for the Leadership of the Indian National Movement, 1907–1919
Celestial India - Madame Blavatsky and the Birth of Indian Nationalism - Isaac Lubelsky
Isaac Lubelsky [+]
Haifa University
saac Lubelsky is Lecturer in the Comparative Religion Program at Tel Aviv University and in the Dept of Asian Studies at Haifa University, and is co-editor of Racism and Genocide.
Description
The present chapter examines some significant issues involved in the relations between Besant, the Theosophical Society and the Indian national movement. I shall try to shed light on the historical process which culminated in a white woman, a member of the colonial nation and president of an esoteric society, becoming one of India’s central national leaders.