Theos-Talk Archives (September 2004 Message tt00818)

Indeed there were some political disagreements between Besant and 
Gandhi but you forgot another detail in your questions and 
affirmations, in some level Gandhi's efforts resulted also in the 
division of India. Gandhi is more properly viewed as the Father of 
Pakistan rather than the Father of the Indian nation.
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/southasia/History/Independent/partition.ht
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Erica


--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "prmoliveira" <prmoliveira@y...> 
wrote:
> --- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "john_hopkinsphd_2000" 
> <john_hopkinsphd_2000@y...> wrote:
> 
> 
> > Why did Annie Besant the President, at the International Meeting 
of 
> > the TS ask all members to oppose Gandhi according to you ?
> 
> Show me where I mentioned that.
> 
> > A book called "Outside the Fold" claims she was in fact an 
> > Imperialist.
> 
> 
> Would an imperialist campaign vigorously for self-government for a 
> nation under foreign rule, or encourage the study and teaching of 
its 
> traditional values instead of the educational policies of the 
> colonial power? Would she found schools and colleges and encourage 
> the study of Sanskrit, which the colonial power ignored?
> 
> Would an imperialist deserve the following message from Jawaharlal 
> Nehru, first Prime-Minister of Independent India, &#65279;to the 
Usha 
> Theosophical Lodge in New Delhi on 1 October 1956, on the occasion 
of 
> her birthday?
> 
> "&#65279;I send my greetings on the occasion of the birthday of 
Mrs. Annie 
> Besant. To the younger generation today, she might be just a name, 
> and it is possible that to some she is not even a name. To my 
> generation and, indeed, to an earlier one, she was a tremendous 
> figure who influenced us greatly. There can be no doubt that in 
> India's struggle for freedom her part &#65279;was a considerable 
one. 
> 
> Apart from this, she was one of those early persons who drew our 
> attention to our own heritage and made us proud of it. 
> 
> It is right that we should remember this great personality and pay 
> our homage to her memory." 
> 
> 
> > But she was not only a British Imperialist, which might explain 
the 
> > earlier suggestion that she supported Mussolini.
> 
> 
> I am still waiting to see the relevant quotation and reference 
about 
> this "suggestion". 
> 
> 
> Pedro