Celestial India - Madame Blavatsky and the Birth of Indian Nationalism - Isaac Lubelsky
Following the Steps of the Orientalists – The Quest for the Linguistic Origins
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
In this chapter, the author introduces how the study of Indian languages and culture started to be taken seriously by Western society. With the arrival of Annie Besant to lead the Indian Congress and her joining the Teosophical Society were events that contributed to this achievement.