Celestial India: Madame Blavatsky and the Birth of Indian Nationalism

by Isaac Lubelsky

Book Overview

In 1917 Annie Besant, a white Englishwoman, was elected president of the Indian National Congress, the body which, under the guidance of Gandhi, 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845539230
• ISBN13: 9781845539238
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: Equinox Publishing (UK)
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.1"