INDIAN HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Annie Besant had formed and led the Home Rule Movement as she was influenced by Irish Home Rule League. She also became the President of Indian National Congress in 1917. But she was not the founder of the Theosophical Society; rather she was the second President of the society. The founder was Henry Steel Olcott.

Detailed explanation-2: -She established the Central Hindu Benaras College in 1898. She actively campaigned in the Indian freedom struggle. She also launched the Home Rule League in 1916 for India’s right to self-governance, and eventually became the first woman president of the INC.

Detailed explanation-3: -Home Rule League was formed by Indian militant nationalist Bal Gangadhar Tilak and British social reformer and Indian independence leader Annie Besant. It lasted for two years from 1916 to 1918.

Detailed explanation-4: -Annie Besant laid the foundation of the Home Rule Movement in Madras (present-day Chennai). She was a social reformer, a campaigner for women’s rights, and a supporter of Indian nationalism. In September 1916, she started the Home Rule League in Madras.

Detailed explanation-5: -The original society, then led by Henry Steel Olcott and Besant, is today based in Chennai, India, and is known as the Theosophical Society Adyar. Following the split, Besant devoted much of her energy not only to the society but also to India’s freedom and progress.