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  • Thumbnail for Annie Besant
    Annie Besant (née Wood; 1 October 1847 – 20 September 1933) was a British socialist, theosophist, freemason, women's rights and Home Rule activist, educationist...
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  • succeeded by IAS Nidhi Chhibber. He was educated at Annie Besant School, Allahabad, and GIC, Allahabad.[citation needed] Joshi pursued an undergraduate degree...
    4 KB (258 words) - 02:38, 7 December 2023
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    instrumental in setting up the school and donated requisite land for the school. It started as high school (from grade VI to X). Annie Besant originally intended...
    16 KB (717 words) - 07:16, 20 April 2024
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    Madan Mohan Malaviya (category University of Allahabad alumni)
    [citation needed] In April 1911, Annie Besant met Malaviya and they decided to work for a common Hindu University in Varanasi. Besant and fellow trustees of the...
    37 KB (3,966 words) - 01:20, 10 April 2024
  • Boy Scouts Association, founded in 1916, based in Madras and headed by Annie Besant and George Arundale; Boy Scouts of Mysore; Boy Scouts of Baroda; Nizam's...
    22 KB (2,057 words) - 12:09, 20 April 2024
  • School of Biotechnology, Banaras Hindu University
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    College, founded by Indian Home Rule-leaguer and Theosophist, Annie Besant in 1898. After Besant and her associates were marginalised, the university was established...
    207 KB (15,266 words) - 17:16, 21 April 2024
  • College of Varanasi, envisioned as a Hindu university in April 1911 by Annie Wood Besant and Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya. BHU began on 1 October 1917, with...
    24 KB (2,904 words) - 18:10, 11 April 2024
  • Pupul Jayakar (category Alumni of the London School of Economics)
    a school started by Annie Besant, theosophist, who was also active in the Indian freedom movement. Subsequently, her father got posted to Allahabad, where...
    14 KB (1,569 words) - 13:44, 1 March 2024
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    that took place in Lucknow. She was impressed by Sarojini Naidu and Annie Besant. In 1920, she spent time in Mahatma Gandhi's ashram close to Ahmedabad...
    22 KB (1,862 words) - 15:35, 15 April 2024
  • Lucknow Public School)
    signed and moderates and extremists came together through the efforts of Annie Besant during this session only). The Congress President for that session, Ambica...
    178 KB (15,159 words) - 13:37, 23 April 2024
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    were influenced by reading about Swami Vivekananda, Mahatma Gandhi and Annie Besant. Deeply impressed and influenced by Gandhi, he joined the Indian Independence...
    78 KB (7,834 words) - 09:39, 21 April 2024
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    Madan Mohan Malaviya, Pandit Hridayanath Kunzru, Girija Shankar Bajpai, Annie Besant and George Arundale, in 1913. Prior to this date, Scouting was open only...
    24 KB (2,267 words) - 16:15, 12 March 2024
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    Jawaharlal Nehru (category Alumni of the Inns of Court School of Law)
    Nehru became interested in science and theosophy. A family friend, Annie Besant subsequently initiated him into the Theosophical Society at age thirteen...
    221 KB (22,614 words) - 12:28, 23 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Faculty of Arts, Banaras Hindu University
    largest faculty in the Banaras Hindu University. It was founded in 1898 by Annie Besant and became the main centre and the core of the Banaras Hindu University...
    11 KB (562 words) - 17:34, 16 March 2024
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    ideologies, and the HSRA. On 27 February 1931, the CID head of the police at Allahabad, J. R. H. Nott-Bower was tipped off by someone that Azad was at Alfred...
    16 KB (1,776 words) - 05:30, 9 April 2024
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    influenced by the rise of Indian nationalism in the late 19th-century. Annie Besant founded the Central Hindu College in 1898. In 1916, she and Madan Mohan...
    232 KB (20,469 words) - 20:00, 23 April 2024
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    defamation suit against C.S. Ranga Iyer. Despite having just deprived Annie Besant of custody of Jiddu Krishnamurti as opposing counsel, he nonetheless...
    58 KB (6,435 words) - 15:40, 11 April 2024
  • anti-Brahmin attitude shaped many of its ideas and policies. It opposed Annie Besant and her Home rule movement, because it believed home rule would benefit...
    78 KB (9,299 words) - 07:22, 11 April 2024
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