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Annie Besant: Indian Girls
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Annie [W]as used to freedom. She was impulsive and hot tempered with total indifference to home details regarding its management. In 1868, Annie took up writing. She wrote some short stories and sent to the `Family Herald`. When the cheque came she was delighted because that was her first earning .It gave her a sense of Independence. In January 1869, her son was born and in August 1870 she gave birth to a bay girl .In 1871 both her child were ill and down with whooping cough.
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Annie set up a new school for boys at Varanasi: the Central Hindu College. Its aim was to build a new leadership for India. The boys lived like monks. They spent 90 minutes a day in prayer and studied the Hindu scriptures, but they ... studied modern science. It took 3 years to raise the money for the CHC. Most of the money came from Indian princes.
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Mrs. Besant's account of her education shows that her new "Auntie" was a woman of common sense, independent of conventionality. Boys and girls were alike taught to sew; the only grammar used was the Latin, spelling-books were superseded by constant familiar letters or essays, written by the children and corrected in class, and geography by skeleton maps and puzzle maps. French and German were taught thoroughly, and finishedv afterwards in Paris and on the Rhine. Plenty of exercise, long walks, pony rides, and other delights of country life in a charming Devonshire village, kept the children healthy and happy. "Never was a healthier home, physically and mentally, made for young things than in that quiet village."
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Annie moved to India in 1893. Annie Besant was largely responsible for the upbringing of the world renowned philosopher K. Krishnamurti, having started the Home Rule League in India and playing a large part in reviving the country's glorious cultural heritage. At a key period in the history of modern India, she attended the 1914 session of the Indian National Congress and had the honour to preside over it in 1917.
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While in India, Annie worked with Gandhi, who credited her with "awakening India from her deep slumber." She ... led the Hindu nationalist movement, founded Central Hindu College at Barares, and organized the Indian Home Rule League, becoming president in 1916. During the First World War, she was interned by British authorities. Elected president of the Indian National Congress in 1917 and general secretary of the National Convention of India in 1923, she became a well-known figure remembered by many Indians to this day.
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Besant first visited India in 1893 and later settled there, becoming involved in the Indian nationalist movement. In 1916 she established the Indian Home Rule League, of which she became president. She was ... a leading member of the Indian National Congress.
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