Gandhi's opposition.

[Guest guest]

During Annie Besant's Home Rule action in 1916-7. As more, also non-

privileged, people became involved in Indian politics, the TS'

influence declined again. After 1918, Annie Besant lost the

overwhelming part of her influence in the Indian national movement to

Gandhi; though she tried to keep, and, later, to regain it. This

later part of theosophists' role in India's politics is less

described than the earlier one's. Anny Besant came to oppose Gandhi's

non-co-operation strategy, which she had not rejected earlier. She

now claimed non-co-operation was against theosophical basic

principles. So, co-operation with colonial authority, unlike her

earlier Home Rule agitation, was a religious duty. Non-co-operation

supporters could no longer remain members of the Esoteric Section,

the Theosophical Society's 'inner circle'. The Theosophical Society

did not keep the earlier allegiance of people like Jawaharlal Nehru

or Krsna Menon.

 

The only site on the web where I found something in that direction is:

http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a7502210/ed3.html

 

Does anyone know more information about the specific opposition of

Besant to Gandhi ? E. Wynants