She was an outstanding orator of her time, a champion of human freedom, educationist, philanthropist, and author with more than three hundred books and pamphlets to her credit. She was a devout Christian, and was married at the age of twenty to an English clergyman, Rev. However, the awakening of her character made her challenge several of the Christian dogmas. In she matriculated at London University and went on with her studies in science but met obstacles there owing to the sexist prejudices of her time.
She co-edited the National Reformer with him and wrote many political and free-thought books and pamphlets from — This deprivation caused her profound grief. However, when the children were older they became devoted admirers of their mother. Feeling dissatisfied with the negative approach of free thought, Mrs Besant now made researches into spiritualism, hypnotism, and so forth.
At this juncture Mr W. As she read the book, it was as if a long lost vision of truth flashed through her mind. She asked for an interview with the author, and from that first sight of HPB, her whole life changed.
She abandoned her secularist ideas and also to some extent the socialist philosophy, but the new light which she received inspired her more firmly than ever to the service of the world. Her approach towards the various evils in the world changed and she began to deal with the root causes in the light of the laws which govern all existence. Olcott, and the cause of Theosophy. She became the most brilliant exponent of Theosophy, both as orator and author. In she landed in India, made a tour of the country in the company of H.
Olcott, and, by her splendid presentation of Indian philosophy and her undisguised personal preference for the Indian spiritual heritage, won the support of orthodox Brahmins to Theosophy. The transformation of the religious life in India, particularly among Hindus, is one of the wonders she performed. She soon gathered round her a band of Indians to work for the regeneration of the country and in , after much planning, founded the Central Hindu School and College in Benares now Varanasi.
A few years later she started the Central Hindu School for Girls. Gurtu, and P. Telang, all of whom worked in an honorary capacity. As Lord Baden-Powell deemed that Indians were unfit to be scouts, the Indian Scout Movement was founded by her in , the boys wearing Indian turbans! When Baden-Powell came to India and saw how successful was the movement created by Annie Besant, it was amalgamated with the world movement, and she was made the Honorary Scout Commissioner for India.
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Equal Pay Act. Working for Equality. Past Projects. Exposed to the realities of life in colonial India , she became active in the campaign for self-government. In , she joined the Indian National Congress , becoming its first woman president in She was interned as an Indian nationalist in May-August , but her influence diminished thereafter, partly because of her opposition to Ghandian passive resistance.
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