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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.
During this time Krishnamurti had developed a strong bond with Annie Besant and came to view her as a surrogate mother. His father, who had initially assented to Besant's legal guardianship of Krishnamurti, [25] was pushed into the background by the swirl of attention around his son. In 1912 he sued Besant to annul the guardianship agreement.
The Besant v.Narayaniah Case is a suite filed by Jiddu Narayaniah, father of J. Krishnamurti in 1912 against theosophist Annie Besant for the custody of his son. The case argued for Narayaniah by C. P. Ramaswami Iyer was won by him and was a cause célèbre of the time though Besant later appealed to the Privy Council of the United Kingdom and got a ruling in her favour.
Besant however remained convinced that Krishnamurti was the World Teacher until the end of her life, while other Theosophical Society members supported his new direction and opposed the critical views expressed by Theosophical leaders. [82] Soon after the dissolution Krishnamurti severed his ties to Theosophy and the Theosophical Society.
In late 1909 Besant, by then President of the Society and head of its Esoteric Section, admitted Krishnamurti into both; in March 1910 she became his legal guardian. [12] Krishnamurti was subsequently groomed extensively for his expected role as the probable World Teacher, and a new organization, the Order of the Star in the East (OSE), was ...
Judge was accused by Olcott and then prominent Theosophist Annie Besant of forging letters from the Mahatmas; he ended his association with Olcott and Besant in 1895 and took most of the Society's American Section with him. The original organization led by Olcott and Besant is based in India and is known as the Theosophical Society – Adyar.
Rudolf Steiner and Annie Besant in Munich, 1907. The relationship between Rudolf Steiner and the Theosophical Society, co-founded in 1875 by H.P. Blavatsky with Henry Steel Olcott and others, was a complex and changing one. [1]
The title was reputedly chosen by Annie Besant, [4] then–President of the Theosophical Society, who was also Krishnamurti's legal guardian. [5] The author was listed as Alcyone , a pseudonym assigned to Krishnamurti by one of his mentors , the prominent and controversial Theosophist Charles Webster Leadbeater .