The Marriage between the Theosophical Society and the Arya Samaj

Erik Reenberg Sand

doi:10.1093/oso/9780190853884.003.0012

The Marriage between the Theosophical Society and the Arya Samaj

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Abstract

This chapter explores the relationship between the Theosophical Society and the Indian Arya Samaj during the period between 1878 and 1882. While some of the overall details of these events are well known, this chapter offers new insight into how the two parties imagined and misrepresented each other and how these misrepresentations were reflections of the wider contemporary cultural representations of East and West. The chapter charts the relationship between the founders of the Theosophical Society, Helena Petrovna Blavatsky and Henry Steel Olcott, and Swami Dayananda Saraswati of the Arya Samaj over the course of their initial written correspondence and their subsequent personal encounters in India, which began enthusiastically on both sides but ultimately ended in a public breaking of ties.

Translated title of the contribution	Ægteskabet mellem Det Teosofiske Samfund og Arya Samaj
Original language	English
Title of host publication	Imagining the East : The Early Theosophical Society
Editors	Tim Rudbøg, Erik Reenberg Sand
Number of pages	19
Place of Publication	New York
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Publication date	2020
Pages	253-271
Chapter	11
ISBN (Print)	97801908533884
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190853884.003.0012
Publication status	Published - 2020

Series	Oxford Studies in Western Esotericism
Volume	5

Keywords

Faculty of Humanities

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The Marriage between the Theosophical Society and the Arya Samaj. / Sand, Erik Reenberg.
Imagining the East: The Early Theosophical Society. ed. / Tim Rudbøg; Erik Reenberg Sand. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. p. 253-271 (Oxford Studies in Western Esotericism, Vol. 5).

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