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[Annie Wood Besant, dressed in a sari, on a street in India] – Historic Photo Reproduction

[Annie Wood Besant, dressed in a sari, on a street in India] — historic photograph
[Annie Wood Besant, dressed in a sari, on a street in India]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Annie Besant appears here in a sari, a striking choice for a British-born woman whose public life was built on her English upbringing and her debates in London. She had arrived in India in 1893 and settled at Adyar, near Madras, where the Theosophical Society had its headquarters, and she became a prominent voice for Indian self-rule. In 1916 she founded the Home Rule League, and in 1917 she was elected president of the Indian National Congress. Photographs like this one, from 1926, show how fully she had become identified with the country she had adopted.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notes1926
SubjectsBesant, Annie Wood,--1847-1933.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,307 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-200422

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