Table of Contents
195 relations: Adyar, Chennai, Affirmation (law), Agni Yoga, Aldous Huxley, Alice Bailey, Alice Vickery, All-India Muslim League, Ambica Charan Mazumdar, Anarchism, Anglicanism, Ascended master, Associated Press, Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Bampton Lectures, Banaras Hindu University, Ben Tillett, Benjamin Creme, Besant Hill School, Besant Nagar, Chennai, Birkbeck, University of London, Birth control, Bloody Sunday (1887), Bow, London, Bramdean, British Empire, British Raj, Bryant & May, Buddhism, Caste system in India, Cause célèbre, Charles Bradlaugh, Charles Knowlton, Charles Robert Drysdale, Charles Voysey (theist), Charles Watts (secularist), Charles Webster Leadbeater, Charmouth, Cheltenham College, Chennai, Chingleput District (Madras Presidency), Christian philosophy, Christianity and Theosophy, Church of England, Clairvoyance, Clapham, Clementina Black, Co-Freemasonry, Contingent work, Conway Hall Ethical Society, Cremation, ... Expand index (145 more) »
- 19th-century Indian philanthropists
- 19th-century Indian women politicians
- 19th-century Indian women writers
- Banaras Hindu University people
- British birth control activists
- English Theosophists
- English emigrants to India
- English spiritual writers
- Feminism and spirituality
- Former atheists and agnostics
- History of Chennai
- Indian suffragists
- New Age predecessors
- New religious movement mystics
- People from Sibsey
- Scouting and Guiding in India
- Translators of the Bhagavad Gita
Adyar, Chennai
Adyar is a large neighbourhood in south Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
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Affirmation (law)
In law, an affirmation is a solemn declaration allowed to those who conscientiously object to taking an oath.
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Agni Yoga
Agni Yoga (А́гни Йо́га) or the Living Ethics (Жива́я Э́тика), or the Teaching of Life (Уче́ние Жи́зни), is a Neo-Theosophical religious doctrine transmitted by Helena Roerich and Nicholas Roerich from 1920.
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Aldous Huxley
Aldous Leonard Huxley (26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963) was an English writer and philosopher. Annie Besant and Aldous Huxley are new Age predecessors.
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Alice Bailey
Alice Ann Bailey (June 16, 1880 – December 15, 1949) was a writer of more than twenty-four books on theosophical subjects, and was one of the first writers to use the term New Age. Annie Besant and Alice Bailey are English Theosophists, English occult writers, new Age predecessors and women mystics.
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Alice Vickery
Alice Vickery (also known as A. Vickery Drysdale and A. Drysdale Vickery: 1844 – 12 January 1929) was an English physician, campaigner for women's rights, and the first British woman to qualify as a chemist and pharmacist. Annie Besant and Alice Vickery are British birth control activists.
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All-India Muslim League
The All-India Muslim League (AIML), simply called the Muslim League, was a political party established in Dhaka in 1906 when some well-known Muslim politicians met the Viceroy of India, Lord Minto, with the goal of securing Muslim interests in British India.
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Ambica Charan Mazumdar
Ambica Charan Mazumdar (1850 – 19 March 1922) was an Indian Bengali politician who served as the president of the Indian National Congress. Annie Besant and Ambica Charan Mazumdar are 19th-century Indian politicians, 20th-century Indian politicians and presidents of the Indian National Congress.
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Anarchism
Anarchism is a political philosophy and movement that is against all forms of authority and seeks to abolish the institutions it claims maintain unnecessary coercion and hierarchy, typically including the state and capitalism.
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Anglicanism
Anglicanism is a Western Christian tradition which developed from the practices, liturgy, and identity of the Church of England following the English Reformation, in the context of the Protestant Reformation in Europe.
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Ascended master
Ascended masters in a number of movements in the theosophical tradition are held to be spiritually enlightened beings who in past incarnations were ordinary humans, but who have undergone a series of spiritual transformations originally called initiations.
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Associated Press
The Associated Press (AP) is an American not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City.
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Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Bal Gangadhar Tilak (born Keshav Gangadhar Tilak (pronunciation: keʃəʋ ɡəŋɡaːd̪ʱəɾ ʈiɭək); 23 July 1856 – 1 August 1920), endeared as Lokmanya (IAST: Lokamānya), was an Indian nationalist, teacher, and an independence activist. Annie Besant and Bal Gangadhar Tilak are 19th-century Indian writers, 20th-century Indian writers, founders of Indian schools and colleges and translators of the Bhagavad Gita.
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Bampton Lectures
The Bampton Lectures at the University of Oxford, England, were founded by a bequest of John Bampton.
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Banaras Hindu University
Banaras Hindu University (BHU) (IAST: kāśī hindū viśvavidyālaya IPA: /kaːʃiː hɪnd̪uː ʋɪʃwəʋid̪jaːləj/) is a collegiate, central, and research university located in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India, and founded in 1916. The university incorporated the Central Hindu College, founded by Indian Home Rule-leaguer and Theosophist, Annie Besant in 1898.
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Ben Tillett
Benjamin Tillett (11 September 1860 – 27 January 1943) was a British socialist, trade union leader and politician. Annie Besant and Ben Tillett are social Democratic Federation members.
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Benjamin Creme
Benjamin Creme (5 December 1922 − 24 October 2016) was a Scottish artist, esoteric writer, and editor of ''Share International'' magazine.
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Besant Hill School
Besant Hill School of Happy Valley, formerly the Happy Valley School, is an American private, coeducational boarding school and day school in Ojai, California.
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Besant Nagar, Chennai
Besant Nagar is an upscale, exclusive residential neighbourhood in South Chennai, India.
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Birkbeck, University of London
Birkbeck, University of London (formally Birkbeck College, University of London), is a research university located in London, England, and a member institution of the University of London.
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Birth control
Birth control, also known as contraception, anticonception, and fertility control, is the use of methods or devices to prevent unintended pregnancy.
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Bloody Sunday (1887)
Bloody Sunday was an event which took place in London, England on 13 November 1887, when a crowd of marchers protesting about unemployment and the Irish Coercion Acts, as well as demanding the release of MP William O'Brien, clashed with the Metropolitan Police.
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Bow, London
Bow is a district in East London, England and is in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.
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Bramdean
Bramdean is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Bramdean and Hinton Ampner, in the Winchester district, in the county of Hampshire, England.
British Empire
The British Empire comprised the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates, and other territories ruled or administered by the United Kingdom and its predecessor states.
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British Raj
The British Raj (from Hindustani, 'reign', 'rule' or 'government') was the rule of the British Crown on the Indian subcontinent,.
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Bryant & May
Bryant & May was a British match manufacturer, which today only exists as a brand name owned by Swedish Match.
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Buddhism
Buddhism, also known as Buddha Dharma and Dharmavinaya, is an Indian religion and philosophical tradition based on teachings attributed to the Buddha, a wandering teacher who lived in the 6th or 5th century BCE.
Caste system in India
The caste system in India is the paradigmatic ethnographic instance of social classification based on castes.
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Cause célèbre
A cause célèbre (pl. causes célèbres, pronounced like the singular) is an issue or incident arousing widespread controversy, outside campaigning, and heated public debate.
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Charles Bradlaugh
Charles Bradlaugh (26 September 1833 – 30 January 1891) was an English political activist and atheist. Annie Besant and Charles Bradlaugh are British birth control activists.
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Charles Knowlton
Charles Knowlton (May 10, 1800 – February 20, 1850) was an American physician and writer.
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Charles Robert Drysdale
Charles Robert Drysdale (1829 – 2 December 1907) was an English engineer, physician, public health scientist, and supporter of birth control.
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Charles Voysey (theist)
Charles Voysey (18 March 1828 – 20 July 1912) was a former priest of the Church of England who was condemned by the Privy Council for heterodoxy and went on to found a theist church.
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Charles Watts (secularist)
Charles Watts (27 February 1836 – 16 February 1906) was an English writer, lecturer and publisher, who was prominent in the secularist and freethought movements in both Britain and Canada.
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Charles Webster Leadbeater
Charles Webster Leadbeater (16 February 1854 – 1 March 1934) was a member of the Theosophical Society, Co-Freemasonry, an author on occult subjects, and the co-initiator, with J. I. Wedgwood, of the Liberal Catholic Church. Annie Besant and Charles Webster Leadbeater are English Theosophists and former Anglicans.
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Charmouth
Charmouth is a village and civil parish in west Dorset, England.
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Cheltenham College
Cheltenham College is a public school (fee-charging boarding and day school for pupils aged 13–18) in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England.
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Chennai
Chennai (IAST), formerly known as Madras, is the capital city of Tamil Nadu, the southernmost state of India.
Chingleput District (Madras Presidency)
Chingleput district was a district in the Madras Presidency of British India.
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Christian philosophy
Christian philosophy includes all philosophy carried out by Christians, or in relation to the religion of Christianity.
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Christianity and Theosophy
Christianity and Theosophy, for more than a hundred years, have had a "complex and sometimes troubled" relationship.
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Church of England
The Church of England (C of E) is the established Christian church in England and the Crown Dependencies.
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Clairvoyance
Clairvoyance is the claimed ability to acquire information that would be considered impossible to get through scientifically proven sensations, thus classified as extrasensory perception, or "sixth sense".
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Clapham
Clapham is a district in south west London, England, lying mostly within the London Borough of Lambeth, but with some areas (including Clapham Common) extending into the neighbouring London Borough of Wandsworth.
Clementina Black
Clementina Maria Black (27 July 1853 – 19 December 1922) was an English writer, feminist and pioneering trade unionist, closely connected with Marxist and Fabian socialists. Annie Besant and Clementina Black are 19th-century English women writers, British women's rights activists and English suffragists.
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Co-Freemasonry
Co-Freemasonry is a form of Freemasonry which admits both men and women.
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Contingent work
Contingent work, casual work, or contract work, is an employment relationship with limited job security, payment on a piece work basis, typically part-time (typically with variable hours) that is considered non-permanent.
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Conway Hall Ethical Society
The Conway Hall Ethical Society, formerly the South Place Ethical Society, based in London at Conway Hall, is thought to be the oldest surviving freethought organisation in the world and is the only remaining ethical society in the United Kingdom.
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Cremation
Cremation is a method of final disposition of a dead body through burning.
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Education
Education is the transmission of knowledge, skills, and character traits and manifests in various forms.
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Edward Aveling
Edward Bibbins Aveling (29 November 1849 – 2 August 1898) was an English comparative anatomist and popular spokesman for Darwinian evolution, atheism and socialism. Annie Besant and Edward Aveling are members of the London School Board and social Democratic Federation members.
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Edward Bouverie Pusey
Edward Bouverie Pusey (22 August 180016 September 1882) was an English Anglican cleric, for more than fifty years Regius Professor of Hebrew at the University of Oxford.
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Edward R. Pease
Edward Reynolds Pease (23 December 1857 – 5 January 1955) was an English writer and a founding member of the Fabian Society. Annie Besant and Edward R. Pease are English non-fiction writers and members of the Fabian Society.
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Edward Truelove
Edward Truelove (29 October 1809 – 21 April 1899) was an English radical publisher and freethinker.
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Edwin Mellen Press
The Edwin Mellen Press, sometimes stylised as Mellen Press, is an academic publisher.
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Eleanor Marx
Jenny Julia Eleanor Marx (16 January 1855 – 31 March 1898), sometimes called Eleanor Aveling and known to her family as Tussy, was the English-born youngest daughter of Karl Marx. Annie Besant and Eleanor Marx are social Democratic Federation members.
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Emmanuel College, Cambridge
Emmanuel College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge.
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Emmeline Pankhurst
Emmeline Pankhurst (née Goulden; 15 July 1858 – 14 June 1928) was a British political activist who organised the British suffragette movement and helped women to win in 1918 the right to vote in Great Britain and Ireland. Annie Besant and Emmeline Pankhurst are British women's rights activists, English suffragists and members of the Fabian Society.
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England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.
Eucharist
The Eucharist (from evcharistía), also known as Holy Communion, the Blessed Sacrament and the Lord's Supper, is a Christian rite that is considered a sacrament in most churches, and as an ordinance in others.
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Eugenics
Eugenics is a set of beliefs and practices that aim to improve the genetic quality of a human population.
Fabian Society
The Fabian Society is a British socialist organisation whose purpose is to advance the principles of social democracy and democratic socialism via gradualist and reformist effort in democracies, rather than by revolutionary overthrow.
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (FSG) is an American book publishing company, founded in 1946 by Roger Williams Straus Jr. and John C. Farrar.
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Francis Newman
Francis Newman (circa 1605 – 18 November 1660) was an English colonist in America.
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Frederick Marryat
Captain Frederick Marryat (10 July 1792 – 9 August 1848) was a Royal Navy officer and a novelist.
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Freedom of speech
Freedom of speech is a principle that supports the freedom of an individual or a community to articulate their opinions and ideas without fear of retaliation, censorship, or legal sanction.
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Freedom of thought
Freedom of thought is the freedom of an individual to hold or consider a fact, viewpoint, or thought, independent of others' viewpoints.
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Freemasonry
Freemasonry or Masonry refers to fraternal organisations that trace their origins to the local guilds of stonemasons that, from the end of the 14th century, regulated the qualifications of stonemasons and their interaction with authorities and clients.
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George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950), known at his insistence as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. Annie Besant and George Bernard Shaw are members of the Fabian Society.
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George Holyoake
George Jacob Holyoake (13 April 1817 – 22 January 1906) was an English secularist, co-operator and newspaper editor. Annie Besant and George Holyoake are English socialists.
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Germany
Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), is a country in Central Europe.
Google Doodle
A Google Doodle is a special, temporary alteration of the logo on Google's homepages intended to commemorate holidays, events, achievements, and historical figures.
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Google News Archive
Google News Archive is an extension of Google News providing free access to scanned archives of newspapers and links to other newspaper archives on the web, both free and paid.
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Gospel
Gospel (εὐαγγέλιον; evangelium) originally meant the Christian message ("the gospel"), but in the 2nd century it came to be used also for the books in which the message was reported.
Harriet Law
Harriet Teresa Law (née Frost, 5 November 1831 – 19 July 1897) was a leading British freethinker in 19th-century London. Annie Besant and Harriet Law are English feminists, English socialist feminists and English socialists.
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Harrow School
Harrow School is a public school (English boarding school for boys) in Harrow on the Hill, Greater London, England.
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Helena Blavatsky
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (– 8 May 1891), often known as Madame Blavatsky, was a Russian and American mystic and author who co-founded the Theosophical Society in 1875. Annie Besant and Helena Blavatsky are new Age predecessors, new religious movement mystics and women mystics.
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Helena Roerich
Helena Ivanovna Roerich (Елена Ивановна Рерих; (Шапошникова); – 5 October 1955) was a Russian theosophist, writer, and public figure. Annie Besant and Helena Roerich are women mystics.
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Henry Hyndman
Henry Mayers Hyndman (7 March 1842 – 22 November 1921) was an English writer, politician and socialist. Annie Besant and Henry Hyndman are English socialists and social Democratic Federation members.
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Henry Steel Olcott
Colonel Henry Steel Olcott (2 August 1832 – 17 February 1907) was an American military officer, journalist, lawyer, Freemason (member of Huguenot Lodge #448, now #46) and the co-founder and first president of the Theosophical Society.
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Herbert Burrows
Herbert Burrows (12 June 1845 – 14 December 1922) was a British socialist activist. Annie Besant and Herbert Burrows are social Democratic Federation members.
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Hill station
A hill station is a town located at a higher elevation than the nearby plain or valley.
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History of feminism
The history of feminism comprises the narratives (chronological or thematic) of the movements and ideologies which have aimed at equal rights for women.
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Hyderabad (Sind) National Collegiate Board
The Hyderabad (Sind) National Collegiate Board or HSNC Board (حيدرآباد (سنڌ) نيشنل ڪاليجيئيٽ بورڊ HSNCB) is an Indian non-profit organisation founded in 1922 (or 1919) in the British India province of Sind and moved to Bombay, India after the 1947 Partition.
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Hyderabad, Sindh
Hyderabad (حيدرآباد|audio.
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Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner
Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner (31 March 1858 – 25 August 1935) was a British peace activist, author, atheist and freethinker, and the daughter of Charles Bradlaugh. Annie Besant and Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner are 19th-century English women writers.
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India
India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.
Indian Home Rule movement
The Indian Home Rule movement was a movement in British India on the lines of the Irish Home Rule movement and other home rule movements.
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Indian independence movement
The Indian Independence Movement was a series of historic events in South Asia with the ultimate aim of ending British colonial rule.
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Indian National Congress
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Individualism
Individualism is the moral stance, political philosophy, ideology, and social outlook that emphasizes the intrinsic worth of the individual.
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Irish Catholics
Irish Catholics (Caitlicigh na hÉireann) are an ethnoreligious group native to Ireland whose members are both Catholic and Irish.
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James Thomson (poet, born 1834)
James Thomson (23 November 1834 – 3 June 1882), who wrote under the pen name Bysshe Vanolis, was a Scottish journalist, poet, and translator. Annie Besant and James Thomson (poet, born 1834) are Victorian writers.
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Jawaharlal Nehru
Jawaharlal Nehru (14 November 1889 – 27 May 1964) was an Indian anti-colonial nationalist, secular humanist, social democrat, author and statesman who was a central figure in India during the middle of the 20th century. Annie Besant and Jawaharlal Nehru are 20th-century Indian writers, members of the Fabian Society and presidents of the Indian National Congress.
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Jiddu Krishnamurti
Jiddu Krishnamurti (11 May 1895 – 17 February 1986) was an Indian philosopher, speaker, writer, and spiritual figure. Annie Besant and Jiddu Krishnamurti are 20th-century Indian writers and founders of Indian schools and colleges.
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Joseph Arch
Joseph Arch (10 November 1826 – 12 February 1919) was an English trade unionist and politician, born in Barford, Warwickshire, who played a key role in unionising agricultural workers and in championing their welfare.
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Joseph Hiam Levy
Joseph Hiam Levy (1838 – 1913) was an English author and economist. Annie Besant and Joseph Hiam Levy are English activists.
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Labor rights
Labor rights or workers' rights are both legal rights and human rights relating to labor relations between workers and employers.
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Le Droit Humain
The International Order of Freemasonry Le Droit Humain is a global Masonic Order, membership of which is available to men and women on equal terms, regardless of nationality, religion or ethnicity.
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Legal guardian
A legal guardian is a person who has been appointed by a court or otherwise has the legal authority (and the corresponding duty) to make decisions relevant to the personal and property interests of another person who is deemed incompetent, called a ward.
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Leicester Secular Hall
Leicester Secular Hall is a Grade II listed building in Leicester, England.
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Leicester Secular Society
Leicester Secular Society is the world's oldest Secular Society.
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Lewiston, New York
Lewiston is a town in Niagara County, New York, United States.
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List of presidents of the Indian National Congress
The president of the Indian National Congress is the chief executive of the Indian National Congress (INC), one of the principal political parties in India. Annie Besant and List of presidents of the Indian National Congress are presidents of the Indian National Congress.
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London
London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.
London Borough of Tower Hamlets
The London Borough of Tower Hamlets is a borough of London, England.
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London School Board
The School Board for London, commonly known as the London School Board (LSB), was an institution of local government and the first directly elected body covering the whole of London. Annie Besant and London School Board are members of the London School Board.
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Long Acre
Long Acre is a street in the City of Westminster in central London.
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Lord Chancellor
The Lord Chancellor, formally titled Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, is the highest-ranking traditional minister among the Great Officers of State in Scotland and England in the United Kingdom, nominally outranking the prime minister.
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Mabel Besant-Scott
Mabel "Mabs" Emily Besant-Scott (née Besant; 28 August 1870 in Leckhampton, Cheltenham – 22 May 1952 in Folkestone, Kent) was a Theosophist, Co-Freemason and Rosicrucian. Annie Besant and Mabel Besant-Scott are English Theosophists.
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Madan Mohan Malaviya
Madan Mohan Malaviya (25 December 1861 — 12 November 1946); born Madan Mohan Srivastava was an Indian scholar, educational reformer and politician notable for his role in the Indian independence movement. Annie Besant and Madan Mohan Malaviya are Banaras Hindu University people, founders of Indian schools and colleges, presidents of the Indian National Congress and Scouting and Guiding in India.
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Madras Presidency
The Madras Presidency or Madras Province, officially called the Presidency of Fort St. Annie Besant and Madras Presidency are history of Chennai.
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Maha Bodhi Society
The Maha Bodhi Society is a South Asian Buddhist society presently based in Kolkata, India.
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Mahatma Gandhi
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (ISO: Mōhanadāsa Karamacaṁda Gāṁdhī; 2 October 186930 January 1948) was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist and political ethicist who employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful campaign for India's independence from British rule. Annie Besant and Mahatma Gandhi are 19th-century Indian writers, 20th-century Indian writers, founders of Indian schools and colleges, presidents of the Indian National Congress and translators of the Bhagavad Gita.
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Maitreya (Theosophy)
In Theosophy, or is an advanced spiritual entity and high-ranking member of a reputed hidden spiritual hierarchy, the Masters of the Ancient Wisdom.
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Malthusian League
The Malthusian League was a British organisation which advocated the practice of contraception and the education of the public about the importance of family planning.
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Malthusianism
Malthusianism is the theory that population growth is potentially exponential, according to the Malthusian growth model, while the growth of the food supply or other resources is linear, which eventually reduces living standards to the point of triggering a population decline.
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Man: Whence, How and Whither, a Record of Clairvoyant Investigation
Man: Whence, How and Whither, A Record of Clairvoyant Investigation, published in 1913, is a theosophical book compiled by the second president of the Theosophical Society (TS) - Adyar, Annie Besant, and by a TS member, Charles W. Leadbeater.
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Margaret Cole
Dame Margaret Isabel Cole (Postgate; 6 May 1893 – 7 May 1980) was an English socialist politician, writer and poet.
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Marie Musaeus Higgins
Marie Musaeus Higgins (18 May 1855 – 10 July 1926) was a German educationist, best known as the founder and principal of Musaeus College in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
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Marxism
Marxism is a political philosophy and method of socioeconomic analysis.
Mary Lutyens
Edith Penelope Mary Lutyens (pseudonym Esther Wyndham; 31 July 1908 – 9 April 1999) was a British author who is principally known for her biographical works on the philosopher Jiddu Krishnamurti.
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Matchgirls' strike
In July 1888, the women and teenage girls working at the Bryant & May match factory in Bow, London, England went on strike.
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Michael Davitt
Michael Davitt (25 March 1846 – 30 May 1906) was an Irish republican activist for a variety of causes, especially Home Rule and land reform.
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Millicent Fawcett
Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett (11 June 1847 – 5 August 1929) was an English political activist and writer. Annie Besant and Millicent Fawcett are English non-fiction writers and English suffragists.
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Moncure D. Conway
Moncure Daniel Conway (March 17, 1832 – November 15, 1907) was an American abolitionist minister and radical writer.
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Mumbai
Mumbai (ISO:; formerly known as Bombay) is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra.
Musaeus College
Musaeus College is a Buddhist private girls' school in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
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National Reformer
The National Reformer was a secularist weekly publication in 19th-century Britain (1860–1893), noted for providing a longstanding "strong, radical voice" in its time, advocating atheism.
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National Secular Society
The National Secular Society (NSS) is a British campaigning organisation that promotes secularism and the separation of church and state.
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Needlework
Needlework is decorative sewing and textile arts handicrafts.
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New India (newspaper)
New India was an early 20th century daily newspaper published in India by Annie Besant, to highlight issues related to the Indian freedom struggle.
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Occult Chemistry
Occult Chemistry: Investigations by Clairvoyant Magnification into the Structure of the Atoms of the Periodic Table and Some Compounds (originally subtitled A Series of Clairvoyant Observations on the Chemical Elements) is a book written by Annie Besant and C.W. Leadbeater, who were both members of the Theosophical Society based in Adyar, India.
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Order of the Star in the East
The was an international organization based at Benares (Varanasi), India from.
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Oxford Movement
The Oxford Movement was a movement of high church members of the Church of England which began in the 1830s and eventually developed into Anglo-Catholicism.
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Paul Haston
Paul Haston is a British writer based in Vancouver, British Columbia.
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Pendleton, Lancashire
Pendleton is a small village and civil parish in Ribble Valley, within the county of Lancashire, England.
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Peter De Abrew
Peter De Abrew, MBE (1862–1940) was a Ceylonese industrialist and philanthropist.
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Phossy jaw
Phossy jaw, formally known as phosphorus necrosis of the jaw, was an occupational disease affecting those who worked with white phosphorus (also known as yellow phosphorus) without proper safeguards.
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Population control
Population control is the practice of artificially maintaining the size of any population.
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Presidencies and provinces of British India
The provinces of India, earlier presidencies of British India and still earlier, presidency towns, were the administrative divisions of British governance on the Indian subcontinent.
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Ramachandra Guha
Ramachandra "Ram" Guha (born 29 April 1958) is an Indian historian, environmentalist, writer and public intellectual whose research interests include social, political, contemporary, environmental and cricket history, and the field of economics.
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Richard Pankhurst (politician)
Richard Marsden Pankhurst (1834 – 5 July 1898) was an English barrister and socialist who was a strong supporter of women's rights. Annie Besant and Richard Pankhurst (politician) are English socialist feminists.
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Rosalind Rajagopal
(Williams; 1903 1996) was a long-time director of the Happy Valley School (Besant Hill School) in Ojai, California.
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Russell Square
Russell Square is a large garden square in Bloomsbury, in the London Borough of Camden, built predominantly by the firm of James Burton.
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Secularism
Secularism is the principle of seeking to conduct human affairs based on naturalistic considerations, uninvolved with religion.
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Self-governance
Self-governance, self-government, self-sovereignty, or self-rule is the ability of a person or group to exercise all necessary functions of regulation without intervention from an external authority.
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Sibsey
Sibsey is a village, civil parish and electoral ward in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England.
Sindh
Sindh (سِنْدھ,; abbr. SD, historically romanized as Sind) is a province of Pakistan.
Sir Matthew Wood, 1st Baronet
Sir Matthew Wood, 1st Baronet (2 June 1768 – 25 September 1843) was a British Whig politician, Lord Mayor of London from 1815 to 1817, and from 1817 until his death in 1843 a reformist Member of Parliament.
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Social conservatism
Social conservatism is a political philosophy and a variety of conservatism which places emphasis on traditional social structures over social pluralism.
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Social Democratic Federation
The Social Democratic Federation (SDF) was established as Britain's first organised socialist political party by H. M. Hyndman, and had its first meeting on 7 June 1881.
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Socialism
Socialism is an economic and political philosophy encompassing diverse economic and social systems characterised by social ownership of the means of production, as opposed to private ownership.
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Socialist League (UK, 1885)
The Socialist League was an early revolutionary socialist organisation in the United Kingdom.
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Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka, historically known as Ceylon, and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in South Asia.
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St James's Hall
St.
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St John's Wood
St John's Wood is a district in the City of Westminster, London, England, about 2.5 miles (4 km) northwest of Charing Cross.
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St. George's Hall, London
St.
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State religion
A state religion (also called official religion) is a religion or creed officially endorsed by a sovereign state.
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Stockwell
Stockwell is a district located in South West London, part of the London Borough of Lambeth, England.
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Struggle for existence
The concept of the struggle for existence (or struggle for life) concerns the competition or battle for resources needed to live.
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Stump speech
A political stump speech is a standard speech used by a politician running for office.
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Swami Vivekananda
Swami Vivekananda (IAST: Svāmī Vivekānanda; 12 January 1863 – 4 July 1902), born Narendranath Datta, was an Indian Hindu monk, philosopher, author, religious teacher, and the chief disciple of the Indian mystic Ramakrishna.
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Tamil Nadu
Tamil Nadu (TN) is the southernmost state of India.
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The Key to Theosophy
The Key to Theosophy is an 1889 book by Helena Blavatsky, expounding the principles of theosophy in a readable question-and-answer manner.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.
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The Secret Doctrine
The Secret Doctrine, the Synthesis of Science, Religion and Philosophy, is a pseudoscientific esoteric book as two volumes in 1888 written by Helena Blavatsky.
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The Sydney Morning Herald
The Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) is a daily tabloid newspaper published in Sydney, Australia, and owned by Nine.
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The Times
The Times is a British daily national newspaper based in London.
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Theodore Parker
Theodore Parker (August 24, 1810 – May 10, 1860) was an American transcendentalist and reforming minister of the Unitarian church.
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Theosophical Society
The Theosophical Society is the organizational body of Theosophy, an esoteric new religious movement.
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Theosophical Society Adyar
The Theosophy Society was founded by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky and others in 1875.
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Theosophy
Theosophy is a religious and philosophical system established in the United States in the late 19th century.
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Theosophy and visual arts
Modern Theosophy has had considerable influence on the work of visual artists, particularly painters.
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Theravada
Theravāda ('School of the Elders') is the most commonly accepted name of Buddhism's oldest existing school.
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Thomas Robert Malthus
Thomas Robert Malthus (13/14 February 1766 – 29 December 1834) was an English economist, cleric, and scholar influential in the fields of political economy and demography.
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Thomas Scott (1808–1878)
Thomas Scott (1808–1878) was an English small press publisher and freethinker.
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Thought-Forms
Thought-Forms: A Record of Clairvoyant Investigation is a theosophical book compiled by the members of the Theosophical Society A. Besant and C. W. Leadbeater.
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Tower Hamlets (UK Parliament constituency)
Tower Hamlets was a parliamentary borough (constituency) in Middlesex, England from 1832 to 1885.
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Trafalgar Square
Trafalgar Square is a public square in the City of Westminster, Central London, established in the early 19th century around the area formerly known as Charing Cross.
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Trinity College Dublin
Trinity College Dublin (Coláiste na Tríonóide), officially The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin, is the sole constituent college of the University of Dublin, Ireland.
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United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was a sovereign state in Northwestern Europe that was established by the union in 1801 of the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland.
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Upper Norwood
Upper Norwood is an area of south London, England, within the London Boroughs of Bromley, Croydon, Lambeth and Southwark.
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Varanasi
Varanasi (ISO:,; also Benares, Banaras or Kashi) is a city on the Ganges river in northern India that has a central place in the traditions of pilgrimage, death, and mourning in the Hindu world.
W. T. Stead
William Thomas Stead (5 July 184915 April 1912) was an English newspaper editor who, as a pioneer of investigative journalism, became a controversial figure of the Victorian era.
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Walter Besant
Sir Walter Besant (14 August 1836 – 9 June 1901) was an English novelist and historian. Annie Besant and Walter Besant are English Freemasons.
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William Morris
William Morris (24 March 1834 – 3 October 1896) was an English textile designer, poet, artist, writer, and socialist activist associated with the British Arts and Crafts movement. Annie Besant and William Morris are English socialists and social Democratic Federation members.
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William Prowting Roberts
W.
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William Wood, 1st Baron Hatherley
William Page Wood, 1st Baron Hatherley, PC (29 November 1801 – 10 July 1881) was a British lawyer and statesman who served as a Liberal Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain between 1868 and 1872 in William Ewart Gladstone's first ministry.
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Women's rights
Women's rights are the rights and entitlements claimed for women and girls worldwide.
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Women's work
Women's work is a field of labour assumed to be solely the realm of women and associated with specific stereotypical jobs considered as uniquely feminine or domestic duties throughout history.
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World War I
World War I (alternatively the First World War or the Great War) (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers.
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World's Columbian Exposition
The World's Columbian Exposition, also known as the Chicago World's Fair, was a world's fair held in Chicago from May 5 to October 31, 1893, to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the New World in 1492.
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1889 London dock strike
The 1889 London dock strike was an industrial dispute involving dock workers in the Port of London.
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See also
19th-century Indian philanthropists
- Annie Besant
- Arcot Narrainswamy Mudaliar
- Badridas Mukeem
- Balwant Singh of Awagarh
- Bomanjee Dinshaw Petit
- Brajamohan Dutta
- Chengalvaraya Naicker
- Cowasji Jehangir Readymoney
- Curumsey Damjee
- Dinshaw Maneckji Petit
- Doddanna Setty
- Dyal Singh Majithia
- Elias David Ezra
- Elias David Sassoon
- Gokuldas Tejpal
- Gopi Mohun Deb
- Gubbi Thotadappa
- Hara Kumar Tagore
- Jagannath Shankarseth
- Jai Kishan Das
- Jatindramohan Tagore
- Maharani Swarnamoyee
- Mangaldas Nathubhoy
- Mohammad Amir Hasan Khan
- Moran Sarkar
- Muhammad Baquar Ali Khan
- Mukhtar Ahmed Ansari
- Mutty Lall Seal
- Nadirshaw Edulji Dinshaw
- Nawab Faizunnesa
- Parbati Sankar Roy Choudhury
- Pennathur Subramania Iyer
- Radha Gobinda Kar
- Radhakanta Deb
- Raja Shyama Sankar
- Ranchhodlal Chhotalal
- Rasa Clorinda
- S. Rm. Muthiah Chettiar
- Shah Jahan Begum of Bhopal
- Shirasangi Lingaraj
- Takhtsinhji
- Udai Pratap Singh of Bhinga
- Yele Mallappa Shetty
19th-century Indian women politicians
- Annie Besant
- Begum Samru
- Gowri Lakshmi Bayi
- Gowri Parvati Bayi
- Jhalkaribai
- Mah Laqa Bai
- Prabhabati Bose
- Sarojini Naidu
19th-century Indian women writers
- Amelia Horne
- Annie Besant
- Banaja Devi
- Bandaru Acchamamba
- Bangalore Nagarathnamma
- Begum Rokeya
- Binodini Dasi
- Chandabai
- Cornelia Sorabji
- Deepakba Desai
- Gangabai Yagnik
- Gauri Ma
- Girijabai Kelkar
- Girindramohini Dasi
- Kamini Roy
- Kaminisundari Devi
- Kotikalapudi Seethamma
- Krishna Kamini Dasi
- Krishnabhabini Das
- Krupabai Satthianadhan
- Kutty Kunju Thankachi
- Lakshmibai Tilak
- Mah Laqa Bai
- Margaret Cousins
- Moovalur Ramamirtham
- Nabinkali Devi
- Nawab Faizunnesa
- Norah Richards
- Padmini Sathianadhan Sengupta
- Piro Preman
- Priyamvada Devi
- Rachel Beer
- Ramabai Ranade
- Rassundari Devi
- Reba Ray
- Reba Roy
- Sarasibala Basu
- Sarojini Naidu
- Savitribai Phule
- Shah Jahan Begum of Bhopal
- Sharda Mehta
- Sister Nivedita
- Suchitra Devi
- Sulakshana Devi
- Tarabai Shinde
- Tarigonda Vengamamba
- Toru Dutt
Banaras Hindu University people
- Annie Besant
- Bhagwan Das
- C.S. Jha
- Chandrakala Padia
- Chandrasekhar Singh
- D. N. Mishra
- Girish Chandra Tripathi
- Harkishan Singh
- Iqbal Narain
- Kailesh Jagutpal
- Kamalesh Chandra Chakrabarty
- Koushal Kishor Mishra
- List of Banaras Hindu University people
- Madan Mohan Malaviya
- Panjab Singh
- Pichu Sambamoorthi
- Prithvi Nath Kaula
- R. C. Majumdar
- R. P. Rastogi
- Rajbali Pandey
- Rakesh Bhatnagar
- Ramyatna Shukla
- Rudolf Hoernlé
- Saket Kushwaha
- Sanjay Srivastava (academician)
- Sudhir K. Jain
- T. R. Seshadri
- V. A. Sundaram
- Veena Pandey
British birth control activists
- Alice Vickery
- Annie Besant
- Beatrice Green
- Caroline Deys
- Charles Bradlaugh
- Dorothy Thurtle
- Elsie Plant
- Francis Place
- George Bedborough
- Greevz Fisher
- Helen Brook
- Helena Rosa Wright
- Humphrey Verdon Roe
- Janet Chance
- John Russell, Viscount Amberley
- Katharine Russell, Viscountess Amberley
- Killick Millard
- Lady Henry Somerset
- Leah L'Estrange Malone
- Margaret Pyke
- Margery Spring Rice
- Marie Stopes
- Norman Haire
- Richard Carlile
- Rose Witcop
- Stella Browne
- Wendy Greengross
English Theosophists
- Alan Leo
- Alexander J. McIvor-Tyndall
- Alfred Percy Sinnett
- Alfred Wilks Drayson
- Algernon Blackwood
- Alice Bailey
- Anna Kingsford
- Annie Besant
- Archibald Keightley
- Beatrice Ensor
- Beatrice Hastings
- Bertram Keightley
- Brother XII
- Caroline Rhys Davids
- Charles Massey
- Charles Webster Leadbeater
- Charlotte Despard
- Christopher Walton
- Dorothy Jinarajadasa
- Duncan Greenlees
- Edward Douglas Fawcett
- Edward Maitland (writer)
- Eliza Humphreys
- Elizabeth Foxcroft
- Emma Hardinge Britten
- Ernest Lester Smith
- Ernest Wood
- F. L. Woodward
- Francesca Arundale
- Frederick Bligh Bond
- Frederick Gordon Pearce
- G. R. S. Mead
- Geoffrey Hodson
- George Arundale
- Isabelle de Steiger
- J. D. Beresford
- J. I. Wedgwood
- Lady Emily Lutyens
- Mabel Besant-Scott
- Margaret Sibthorp
- Maurice Beddow Bayly
- Mona Caird
- Muriel Dowding, Baroness Dowding
- Oliver Fox (writer)
- Peter Freeman (politician)
- Sepharial
- Susan Elizabeth Gay
- Thomas Baty
- William Scott-Elliot
English emigrants to India
- Adam Osborne
- Annie Besant
- Arthur Shoosmith
- Bamba Sutherland
- Christopher Biden
- Edward Sell (priest)
- Freda Bedi
- Geoffrey Kendal
- Herbert Marshall (writer)
- J. B. S. Haldane
- Jennifer Kendal
- Krishna Prem
- Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
- Sabrina Dhawan
- Tenzin Palmo
- Walter Sykes George
- William Rutherford Benn
English spiritual writers
- Alan Watts
- Aleister Crowley
- Ali Lakhani
- Anna Kingsford
- Annie Besant
- Arthur Osborne (writer)
- Chee Soo
- Colin Wilson
- Douglas Harding
- Edward Bach
- Ernest Wood
- Graham Nicholls
- Henry Thomas Hamblin
- Isabelle de Steiger
- James Mumford
- Joyce Collin-Smith
- Lance Secretan
- Leslie Weatherhead
- Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
- Martin Lings
- Matthew Manning
- Paul Beard (spiritualist)
- Peter Spink
- Philip Carr-Gomm
- Reshad Feild
- Sri Aurobindo
- Stuart Wilde
- Sue Mayfield
- Theresa Cheung (author)
- Thomas Troward
- Walter C. Lanyon
- William Roache
Feminism and spirituality
- Anna Trapnell
- Annie Besant
- Buddhist feminism
- Christian feminism
- Difference feminism
- Elizabeth Cunningham
- Feminist spirituality
- Feminist theology
- Filipino shamans
- Gender and religion
- Islamic feminism
- Jewish feminism
- Labrys
- Motherpeace Tarot
- New feminism
- Sadhvi Siddhali Shree
- Sikh feminism
- Sulabha
Former atheists and agnostics
- Adam Curry
- Adam Kokesh
- Alfred North Whitehead
- Anne Rice
- Annie Besant
- Antony Flew
- Bill Hayden
- Bruce Lipton
- Dave Rubin
- Dave Sim
- Frank Chodorov
- Frank Pastore
- J. Neil Schulman
- Jeff Anderson (attorney)
- John B. Cobb
- John Carmichael (Scientology)
- Katie Piper
- List of former atheists and agnostics
- Luiz Felipe Pondé
- Neal Brennan
- Randall Sullivan
- Sally Quinn
- Santiago Ramón y Cajal
- Selim Matar
- Teresa MacBain
- William Luther Pierce
History of Chennai
- Annie Besant
- Arcot Dhanakoti Mudaliar
- Bantam Presidency
- Beri Thimappa
- Chengalvaraya Naicker
- Coja Petrus Uscan
- Damarla Chennapa Nayaka
- Elihu Yale
- English overseas possessions in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms
- Fort St. George, India
- Francis Day (Madras)
- George Morton Pitt
- George Pigot, 1st Baron Pigot
- Great Famine of 1876–1878
- Henry Gwillim
- History of Chennai
- India Herald
- James Macrae
- Lakshmikanthan murder case
- List of colonial governors and presidents of Madras Presidency
- Madras Central Prison
- Madras Courier
- Madras Gazette
- Madras Manade
- Madras Presidency
- Madras Railway
- Madras Record Office
- Madras Rediscovered
- Madras Time
- Manavur
- Mint Clock Tower, Chennai
- Monegar Choultry
- Nayakas of Kalahasti
- Neil Statue Satyagraha
- Our Lady of Light Church, Chennai
- Pachaiyappa Mudaliar
- Robert Chisholm (architect)
- Royapettah Clock Tower, Chennai
- Siege of Madras
- St. George's Cathedral, Chennai
- St. Mary's Church, Chennai
- The Madras Times
- Thomas Andrew Lumisden Strange
- Timeline of Chennai
- Treaty of Madras
- University of Madras
- William Denison
Indian suffragists
- Annie Besant
- Hannah Sen
- Herabai Tata
- James Cousins
- Lakshmibai Rajwade
- Lolita Roy
- Margaret Cousins
- Sarala Roy
- Sarojini Naidu
- Sheroo Keeka
- Sophia Duleep Singh
- Susila Bonnerjee
- Taraben Premchand
New Age predecessors
- Aldous Huxley
- Aleister Crowley
- Alice Bailey
- Annie Besant
- Carl Jung
- Edgar Cayce
- George Gurdjieff
- Guy Ballard
- Helena Blavatsky
- Herbert Sutcliffe (alternative health advocate)
- P. D. Ouspensky
New religious movement mystics
- Ông Đạo Dừa
- Aleister Crowley
- Amy Carlson (religious leader)
- Annie Besant
- Bonnie Nettles
- Helena Blavatsky
- Leah Hirsig
- Sri Rama Michael Tamm
- Swedenborgians
People from Sibsey
- Alec Brader
- Annie Besant
- Arthur Lucan
- Frank Bramley
- William Marrat
Scouting and Guiding in India
- Alfred Pickford
- Ammu Swaminathan
- Annie Besant
- Bharat Scouts and Guides
- Bhuvaneshwar Prasad Sinha
- Chandulal Madhavlal Trivedi
- Dharma Vira
- Evelyn Norah Shullai
- Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon
- George Arundale
- Girija Shankar Bajpai
- Goddanti Ranga Rao
- H. N. Kunzru
- J. S. Wilson
- Jagjivan Ram
- Lakshman Singh (Scouting)
- Lakshmi Mazumdar
- Lalit Mohan Jain
- Madan Mohan (Scouting)
- Madan Mohan Malaviya
- Mangal Das Pakvasa
- Mohammad Hidayatullah
- Muhammad Ahmad Said Khan Chhatari
- Rameshwar Thakur
- Ranganath Misra
- Sangam World Centre
- Satish Ranjan Das
- Scouting and Guiding in India
- Shankarrao Chavan
- Sharad Pawar
- V. P. Deenadayalu Naidu
- Vivian Bose
Translators of the Bhagavad Gita
- A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
- Annie Besant
- Aralumallige Parthasarathy
- Arthur W. Ryder
- Bal Gangadhar Tilak
- Boris Grebenshchikov
- Charles Wilkins
- Chinmayananda Saraswati
- Dayananda Saraswati (Arsha Vidya)
- Dnyaneshwar
- Eknath Easwaran
- Eugène Burnouf
- Franklin Edgerton
- Gita Press
- John D. Smith
- Kisari Mohan Ganguli
- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
- Mahatma Gandhi
- Manilal Dwivedi
- Mukundananda
- Nanalal Dalpatram Kavi
- Paramahansa Yogananda
- R. Raghava Iyengar
- Richard Rudzitis
- Robert Charles Zaehner
- Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
- Shan-ul-Haq Haqqee
- Swami Tapasyananda (Ramakrishna Mission)
- Vinoba Bhave
- W. Douglas P. Hill
- Winthrop Sargeant
References
Also known as Anni beasant, Annie Beasant, Annie Besanth, Annie Bessant, Annie Wood Besant, Besant, Annie, Besant, Annie, 1847-1933, Dr Annie Besant, Mrs Annie Besant, Study in Consciousness, The Ancient Wisdom, Анни Безант.