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Annie Besant

Index Annie Besant

Annie Besant (Wood; 1 October 1847 – 20 September 1933) was a British socialist, theosophist, freemason, women's rights and Home Rule activist, educationist, and campaigner for Indian nationalism. [1]

Table of Contents

  1. 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) »

  2. 19th-century Indian philanthropists
  3. 19th-century Indian women politicians
  4. 19th-century Indian women writers
  5. Banaras Hindu University people
  6. British birth control activists
  7. English Theosophists
  8. English emigrants to India
  9. English spiritual writers
  10. Feminism and spirituality
  11. Former atheists and agnostics
  12. History of Chennai
  13. Indian suffragists
  14. New Age predecessors
  15. New religious movement mystics
  16. People from Sibsey
  17. Scouting and Guiding in India
  18. 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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Sindh

Sindh (سِنْدھ,; abbr. SD, historically romanized as Sind) is a province of Pakistan.

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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.

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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

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

References

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