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Alpheus--Theospohy as a Political Movement |
 | | Although the All-India Home Rule League remained independent of the Society, and although Besant generally continued to deny that the Theosophical Society was in any way political, the League relied heavily on people and networks brought together by the Society. |
 | | British rule had led to increased taxation of the Indian peasant, and so, in turn, to recurring famines and a neglect of the public works, such as irrigation, that were needed to promote economic development. |
 | | She demanded self-government for India in the immediate future, and she wanted the Congress to advance this demand by heading a campaign of educative propaganda, a campaign using many of the techniques with which she had become familiar as a radical agitator in Britain. |
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