Annie Besant on British rule
India was not ruled for its benefit, but rather for the benefit of its conquerors.
- Home Rule Leagues (1916-18)
- first female president of INC in 1917
- second president of Theosophical Society
- 1898: helped establish Central Hindu Board
- 1922: helped establish Hyderabad National Collegiate Board in Bombay
- started newspaper “New India”