<!--QuoteBegin-Husky+Mar 21 2007, 09:11 PM-->QUOTE(Husky @ Mar 21 2007, 09:11 PM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->Also, isn't Annie Besant the founder of the Theosophical Society? I now remember having read of her writings distrusting the AIT.
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Theosophical Soceity was founded by Henry Steel Olcott - an American based in Sri Lanka, William Quan Judge an Irish from USA, and Helena Petrovna Blavatsky a russian-ukrainian-german living in India in 1875, same year as the founding of Arya Samaj by Maharshi Dayanand. Unlike Bramho Samaj, TS, headquartered in Chennai, had no hesitation in declaring Hindu/Vedic/Bauddha/Tantra roots.
Annie Besant did lead it later, much later, along with C.W. Leadbeater, until it was declared as all over by her wonderful protegee Sri Jiddu Krishnamurthy.
Annie Besant, and her Congress colleague BG Tilak, both had frequently written against AIT and other 'theories' of Indologists. From the platform of Congress both were promoting the Hindu-rooted nationalism, until they were made obsolete by MK Gandhi brand of Congress. On IE, Veda-dating etc, also we should read Orion by Sri Tilak. Download version is available from Google here. Thanks to Ramana and Hauma Hamiddha for finding this.
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Husky, I will read the paper you referred to. Although whatever little I have read of her writings, or known about her, doesn't reflect this. Doubtless, in modern history she was one of the first westerners to came to India to learn rather than to preach. Settled in Prayag, she said India (and Tibet) were her masters etc.
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I had onced chanced upon one of her articles she had published in 1879, which I had posted in AIT thread - Antiquity of Veda.
From the tone, it was very clear that she was engaged in an academic debate with Max Muller. If it were possible to somehow access the archives of 'The Theosophist' journal which she ran, we would have a lot of more information. (Theosophical Soceity still has its ancient office and library in Adyar, Chennai)
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Theosophical Soceity was founded by Henry Steel Olcott - an American based in Sri Lanka, William Quan Judge an Irish from USA, and Helena Petrovna Blavatsky a russian-ukrainian-german living in India in 1875, same year as the founding of Arya Samaj by Maharshi Dayanand. Unlike Bramho Samaj, TS, headquartered in Chennai, had no hesitation in declaring Hindu/Vedic/Bauddha/Tantra roots.
Annie Besant did lead it later, much later, along with C.W. Leadbeater, until it was declared as all over by her wonderful protegee Sri Jiddu Krishnamurthy.
Annie Besant, and her Congress colleague BG Tilak, both had frequently written against AIT and other 'theories' of Indologists. From the platform of Congress both were promoting the Hindu-rooted nationalism, until they were made obsolete by MK Gandhi brand of Congress. On IE, Veda-dating etc, also we should read Orion by Sri Tilak. Download version is available from Google here. Thanks to Ramana and Hauma Hamiddha for finding this.
<!--QuoteBegin-Husky+Mar 21 2007, 09:11 PM-->QUOTE(Husky @ Mar 21 2007, 09:11 PM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->But of Madame Blavatsky I've only heard as being a dubious character...So Blavatsky was a racialist?
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Husky, I will read the paper you referred to. Although whatever little I have read of her writings, or known about her, doesn't reflect this. Doubtless, in modern history she was one of the first westerners to came to India to learn rather than to preach. Settled in Prayag, she said India (and Tibet) were her masters etc.
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I had onced chanced upon one of her articles she had published in 1879, which I had posted in AIT thread - Antiquity of Veda.
From the tone, it was very clear that she was engaged in an academic debate with Max Muller. If it were possible to somehow access the archives of 'The Theosophist' journal which she ran, we would have a lot of more information. (Theosophical Soceity still has its ancient office and library in Adyar, Chennai)