Celestial India - Madame Blavatsky and the Birth of Indian Nationalism - Isaac Lubelsky

Celestial India - Madame Blavatsky and the Birth of Indian Nationalism - Isaac Lubelsky

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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.

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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 world’s spiritual heart. Celestial India deals with the contribution of the Theosophical Society to the rise of Indian nationalism and seeks to restore it to its proper place in the history of ideas, both with regard to its spiritual doctrine and the sources on which it drew, as well as its role in giving rise to the New Age movement of the twentieth century.

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Lubelsky, Isaac . Index. Celestial India - Madame Blavatsky and the Birth of Indian Nationalism. Equinox eBooks Publishing, United Kingdom. p. 341 - 345 Jan 2012. ISBN 9781845539238. https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/view-chapter/?id=21948. Date accessed: 29 Mar 2024 doi: 10.1558/equinox.21948. Jan 2012

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