Talk:Annie Besant

message: I have made some minor improvements to this article by uploading a more flattering photograph, and doing some minor editing in the first paragraphs of the President and Home Rule Movement sections.  I hope these improvements are agreeable to other editors of this page.RAmesbury (talk) 15:31, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Some minor improvements

message: It should also be addressed that the section on her Early Life needs to be cleaned up.  What is her background, when was she married, give birth, give birth to whom, where was she educated...  This part is very off-the-cuff and not appropriate as an encyclopedic entry...  These questions need to be addressed and answered and a more comprehensive and narrative account of her earlier years should be given...
As far as an encyclopedic contribution is concerned, this section is non-contributing.  And yes, I too, thought her contributions to the Home Rule movement were substantial.
Stevenmitchell 10:13, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Additional lapses

message: should the reference to Adyar be as Adyar, Chennai, India?
Chirag 20:27, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Adyar, India or Adyar, Chennai, India? 

message: Scouting for native Indians was started by Vivian Bose, Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya, Pandit Hridayanath Kunzru, Annie Besant and George Arundale, in 1913. Chris 08:31, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: [[The Bharat Scouts and Guides]]

message: Anne Besant was a Christian turned atheist turned Theosophist, not a adherent of Hinduism
So I have removed two catagories from the article ("Converts to Hinduism" and "English Hindus")  RustDragon (talk) 21:16, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Religious adherence 

message: I have added a section about Annie Besant's involvement in founding the British Federation of the International Order of Co-Freemasonry, Le Droit Humain, and her contributions towards making co-freemasonry more widely available across the globe.
Comason (talk) 20:50, 21 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Co-Freemasonry

message: Does this section really serve a useful purpose. It's certainly worth summarising Besant's attitude to Islam somewhere in the article, because it's obviously germane to her Home Rule politics in India. But I don't see that a section consisting of just an extended quote really belongs here. I propose to summarise the content elsewhere and delete it if nobody puts up a good argument to the contrary.Sjwells53 (talk) 18:19, 14 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Islam

message: Is the IPA version of her name in the first section correct? Taylor and others seem to think it's a z sound in the middle, which is a z in IPA too. It's derived from the word bezant, which was a Byzantine coin. Perhaps I'm wrong, so I'll await comment.Sjwells53 (talk) 10:17, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: The correct pronunciation of a person's name is that which that person chooses, regardless of derivation.  That said, many famous people's names are commonly mispronounced by the public.  I used to pronounce her name Bess-ONT.  Those more conversant with the society and her history, I have found, call her BESS-nt, so I have come to believe that to be correct, since some of them heard her speak.  The TSA offices in Wheaton, Illinois have a toll-free number, if you are so inclined.  rags (talk) 10:08, 7 October 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: As a point of interest, Henry David Thoreau pronounced his name the same as "thorough," and I'm told different branches of the Roosevelt clan say "roos" as in kangaroos, or "ROSEuvelt", as I do.  H. Ross Perot said he was just "Ross" until the press got hold of his name, and before he went into the service, all of his family pronounced his name "pea-row".  I guess that's better than pea-rot, esp. if you're raising peas.  rags (talk) 10:08, 7 October 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Pronunciation

message: When I was downloading free books onto my eReader, I noticed a good number of her writings on secularism, humanism, freethought, and socialism--all from the 1870s, prior to her involvement with the Theosophical Society, Leadbeater and the Krishnamurti/Star of the East mess (which occurred in the early 20th C)--were available through Google books, which has been scanning old, out-of-print books into epub format and posting them on the web for free.
If there's interest in adding those links here, I can get them.  I haven't yet read all of them, so can't offer a summary or review, but I've been involved with theosophy, freethought, secular humanism and democratic socialist/social democratic movements either in the past or currently so am pretty familiar with past history and current events in those movements.  At one time, I did a good bit of research into the various offshoots from the Theosophical Society, which does seem to be a rather . . . um . . . volatile, dynamic organization.  To be polite. Sdwahlen (talk) 09:17, 18 September 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I think you should add whatever links you consider useful and important. Most of the activity on this page seems to come from people with a their own agenda re Theosophy, and there's been almost no significant movement on her tremendous importance to humanism, socialism and the labour movement in the UK since I greatly expanded and reshaped the page well over four years ago.Sjwells53 (talk) 14:46, 18 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  More on her Secular Humanist/Socialist ties? 

message: I cannot say which is correct, but the Wikipedia article on the London Matchgirls Strike states explicitly that Annie Besant did not start that action.Scorwin (talk) 13:55, 12 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Contradicts London Matchgirls Strike article 

message: Does she really write a book titled "The life and teaching of Muhammad"? Could not find any reference or citation for that.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sreejithsasikumar (talk • contribs) 14:09, 14 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Muhammad

message: Substituted at 07:56, 29 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Assessment comment

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message: A great deal of material has been added to the article, without too much regard to referencing and getting the details straight, and compliance with the Manual of Style. I'm currently working through it, to get the story clear at least. Charles Matthews (talk) 07:53, 20 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Major edit