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    British socialist, theosophist, women's rights activist, writer and orator

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  1. Nov 26, 2023 · Annie Besant (1 October 1847 – 20 September 1933) was an Anglo-Irish orator, writer, and social rights activist. She is well known from her role in the Indian National Congress during the struggle for Indian home rule, and for her support of national education in India.

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    Annie Besant (née 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.

  3. Annie Besant was a woman of intellect and leadership who courageously went beyond the limited Victorian female gender role to become the foremost and influential woman orator and political activist of her day.

  4. Apr 17, 2024 · Annie Besant was a British social reformer, sometime Fabian socialist, theosophist, and Indian independence leader. Besant had been the wife of an Anglican clergyman. They separated in 1873, and Besant became associated for many years with the atheist and social reformer Charles Bradlaugh.

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  5. The theory of Reincarnation, then, in the Esoteric Philosophy, asserts the existence of a living and individualised Principle, which dwells in and informs the body of a man, and Which, on the death of the body, passes into another body, after a longer or. 1 From the translation by Annie Besant, Discourse ii, 18-25.

  6. Jun 4, 2017 · Here's a woman whose unorthodox religious views included first atheism and freethought and later theosophy: Annie Besant. Born Annie Wood, her middle class childhood was marked by economic struggle. Her father died when she was five, and her mother couldn't make ends meet.

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  8. Jul 18, 2016 · In 1889, Besant converted to Theosophy, a religious philosophy which both ‘The Seven Principles of Man’ and ‘Thought Power: Its Control and Nature’ focus on. With roots in ancient Gnosticism and Neoplatonism, Theosophy also had ties to Hindu ideas of karma and reincarnation.

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