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Celestial India : Madame Blavatsky and the birth of Indian nationalism / Isaac Lubelsky ; translated by Yael Lotan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lubelsky, Isaac.
- Language:
- English
- Hebrew
- Subjects (All):
- Blavatsky, H. P. (Helena Petrovna), 1831-1891.
- Blavatsky, H. P.
- Besant, Annie, 1847-1933.
- Besant, Annie.
- Theosophy--History.
- Theosophy.
- History.
- Theosophy--Influence.
- India--History.
- India.
- Nationalism--India--History.
- Nationalism.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 345 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Shaffield [England] ; Oakville, CT : Equinox Pub., 2012.
- Language Note:
- English translation of an unpublished manuscript in Hebrew.
- Summary:
- In 1917 Annie Besant, a white Englishwoman, was elected president of the Indian National Congress, the body which, under the guidance of Gandhi, would later lead India to independence. Besant - in her earlier career an active atheist and a socialist journalist - was from 1907 until her death the president of the Theosophical Society, an international spiritual movement whose headquarters' location in Madras symbolized its belief in India as the world's spiritual heart.
- Celestial India deals with the contribution of the Theosophical Society to the rise of Indian nationalism and seeks to restore it to its proper place in the history of ideas, both with regard to its spiritual doctrine and the sources on which it drew, as well as its role in giving rise to the New Age movement of the twentieth century. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Following the steps of the Orientalists: the quest for the linguistic source
- Friedrich Max Müller: orientalism at the zenith
- The Theosophical Society: the quest for the spiritual source
- The theosophical doctrine
- The sources of the theosophical doctrine
- Annie Besant: her pre-theosophical career
- The struggle over the leadership of the Theosophical Society, 1889-1907
- The struggle for the leadership of the Indian National Movement, 1907-1919
- Theosophy and the world teacher: the esoteric alternative.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [323]-339) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1845539230
- 9781845539221
- 1845539222
- 9781845539238
- OCLC:
- 624045374
- Publisher Number:
- 99950385707
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