Find The Case For India Compiled By Annie Besant Shown In Document

Wood Besantwas a prominent Theosophist, women's rights activist, writer and orator, She was born inin London into a middleclass family of Irish origin, She fought for the causes she thought were right, starting with freedom of thought, women's rights, secularism she was a leading member of the National Secular Society, birth control, Fabian socialism and workers' rights.
Soon she was earning a small weekly wage by writing a column for the National Reformer, the newspaper of the National Secular Society, She was one of the leading figures in Theosophy, Soon after becoming a member of the Theosophical Society she went to India for the first time in, She devoted much of her energy not only to the Society, but also to India's freedom and progress, It was an okay read,

It was an okay read, I wouldn't recommend as I have read better books sharing detailed information and more insightful The book or collection of articles/speeches is true to its name, It builds a strong case for India, Why it should be granted home rule Why it bears the burden of empire Complete with statistics to support, what's being argued,
This book narrates in detail about regressive policies pursued in India by the British Empire, Annie Besant being a moderate uses all the facts available to her to argue for home rule, Fascinating case put for selfrule in India put after the First Great World War inwhich ironically still seems pretty relevant in both India, Pakistan, Bangladesh etc when you consider opportunities accorded to the ordinary masses in these now very 'independent' countries.
Why have these countries lagged behind when other excolonies like Canada and Australia have done wonders for their people, when all were part of the Anglophile policy of British is a very interesting question indeed.
Is it down to cultural differences or racial policies or the socio economic conditions were so different for the indigenous native people that little could be achieved, I am not sure.
For me I think race and socio economic conditions have to be a major reason when you consider the sorry plight of natives in America, Australia and New Zealand.
An absolute waste of time for common Indian readers but good example of British Hippocratic writings, The author was British. And, according to this book, she had proud of its freedom, liberty and equality etc, After knowing everything Empire have done to this country, She was just little liberal who wanted India to be a democratic country but not Democratic Republic, I think after reading this book of her Home Rule means rule or government by People of the nation but Empire always be their, The other meaning of the home rule is self government without any interference, She wanted India to be Loyal with Empire and Briton, What are we dogs To be Loyal with them,
She was a proud British, And came here just grill people and find success for herself, Her written shows that she don't know anything about India, But she was considered One of the greatest freedom fighter of India, She became famous because she was white English speaking British, And, at that time most of the leader of the movement was in dire need of support of white or maybe because Indian freedom fighters considered whites English speakers greater than their people.
All in all she came just to show how good she was and her country was and made her carrier as a freedom fighter, I don't know Indian freedom fighter considered her as a their own, She didn't even wanted India to revolt against their own great Briton, It's Gandhi who started revolt against Briton in full swing but in different manner, Before that these of Freedom fighters were existed whose mass appeals were just restricted to urban upper or upper middle class, As an avid reader I must say that people responsible foryears British rule were these upper and upper middle classes, They worked for them for money or power, That's the only reason Gandhi succeeded in his struggle for freedom of India, Because he appealed to the masses of this country,
This book represent the author's biased view toward Empire and India, Mystar represent here for worst book, So don't read it if you are thinking that the author was great freedom fighter and want to learn from here, But If a person have a interest in history and its research, He should read it and analyse it in proper manner, Very very important to read, makes mockery of the bureaucratic system imposed upon india and british indifference towards indian aspirations, paints a bleak picture about the empire which plundered our wealth to serve its colonial aspiration, anyone who had gone though books about india's struggle for independence would had heard about 'Gokhale's comments on Indian budget', she makes good use of those to present her case.
a bit rhetoric when she blames the empire but she presents herself as a ambassador of british commonfolk known for their love of liberty and freedom,
sitelink gutenberg. org/ebooks/ The case for India is the presidential address delivered by Annie Besant duringIndian National congress held in Calcutta, So the content was not intended for a bookish material but for a speech,
The entire book is more like a ledger than a book which tells literally how the british used India to stop Axis power gaining the world with the motto self rule for every country and the hypocritical nature of britishers who denied self rule for India to loot it's wealth.
We can also see how Annie Besant made mockery of bureaucrasy system of british in India and why India needs Independence from the empire,

Would be a decent read for the starters who doesn't know anything about India, Except that nothing new is there in this book, Annie Wood BesantOctoberSeptemberwas a prominent British socialist, theosophist, womens rights activist, writer and orator and supporter of Irish and Indian self rule, She married agedto Frank Besant, but separated from him over religious differences, She then became a prominent speaker for the National Secular Society NSS and writer and a close friend of Charles Bradlaugh, Inthey were prosecuted for publishing a book by birth control campaigner Charles Knowlton, The scandal made them famous, and Bradlaugh was elected M, P. for Northampton in. She became involved with union actions including the Bloody Sunday demonstration and the London matchgirls strike of, She was a leading speaker for the Fabian Annie Wood BesantOctoberSeptemberwas a prominent British socialist, theosophist, women's rights activist, writer and orator and supporter of Irish and Indian self rule.
She married agedto Frank Besant, but separated from him over religious differences, She then became a prominent speaker for the National Secular Society NSS and writer and a close friend of Charles Bradlaugh, Inthey were prosecuted for publishing a book by birth control campaigner Charles Knowlton, The scandal made them famous, and Bradlaugh was elected M, P. for Northampton in. She became involved with union actions including the Bloody Sunday demonstration and the London

matchgirls strike of, She was a leading speaker for the Fabian Society and the Marxist Social Democratic Federation SDF, She was elected to the London School Board for Tower Hamlets, topping the poll even though few women were qualified to vote at that time, InBesant met Helena Blavatsky and over the next few years her interest in theosophy grew while her interest in secular matters waned, She became a member of the Theosophical Society and a prominent lecturer on the subject, As part of her theosophy related work, she travelled to India, Inshe helped establish the Central Hindu College and inshe helped establish the Hyderabad Sind National Collegiate Board in Mumbai,India, In, she established the first overseas Lodge of the International Order of Co Freemasonry, Le Droit Humain, Over the next few years she established lodges in many parts of the British Empire, Inshe became president of the Theosophical Society, whose international headquarters were in Adyar, Madras, Chennai, She also became involved in politics in India, joining the Indian National Congress, When World War I broke out in, she helped launch the Home Rule League to campaign for democracy in India and dominion status within the Empire, This led to her election as president of the Indian National Congress in late, After the war, she continued to campaign for Indian independence and for the causes of theosophy, until her death in, She fought for the causes she thought were right, starting with freedom of thought, women's rights, secularism she was a leading member of the National Secular Society alongside Charles Bradlaugh, birth control, Fabian socialism and workers' rights.
Once free of Frank Besant and exposed to new currents of thought, she began to question not only her long held religious beliefs but also the whole of conventional thinking.
She began to write attacks on the churches and the way they controlled people's lives, In particular she attacked the status of the Church of England as a state sponsored faith, Soon she was earning a small weekly wage by writing a column for the National Reformer, the newspaper of the NSS, The NSS stood for a secular state and an end to the special status of Christianity, and allowed her to act as one of its public speakers, Public lectures were very popular entertainment in Victorian times, Besant was a brilliant speaker, and was soon in great demand, Using the railway, she crisscrossed the country, speaking on all of the most important issues of the day, always demanding improvement, reform and freedom, For many years Besant was a friend of the National Secular Society's leader, Charles Bradlaugh, Bradlaugh, a former soldier, had long been separated from his wife Besant lived with him and his daughters, and they worked together on many issues, He was an atheist and a republican he was also trying to get elected as Member of Parliament MP for Northampton, Besant and Bradlaugh became household names inwhen they published a book by the American birth control campaigner Charles Knowlton, It claimed that working class families could never be happy until they were able to decide how many children they wanted, It suggested ways to limit the size of their famil sitelink,