"The significance of Annie Besant’s political activities lay in building up step a heightened sense of public resentment against the iniquitous and oppressive British rule in India, which other political leaders were to seize on to launch a full-scale anti-imperial agitation in the country in 1919. Thus it was from Annie Besant’s intellectual and moral capital that Mahatma Gandhi was to derive immense resources to sharpen his weapons of satyagraha to fight the British and to free the country from the fetters of foreign rule."
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V.N. Datta, in Annie Besant: a sensitive reappraisal
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Annie Besant
1847 – 1933
britische Theosophin, Feministin, Journalistin, Schriftstellerin und Politikerin
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