A Popular Dictionary of Hinduism
(1847–1933) originally a free thinker, pacifist and socialist, she joined the Theosophical Society in England in 1889 after she reviewed H.P.Blavatsky’s monumental work, The Secret Doctrine, and in 1893 she moved to India and became the president of the Society in 1907. She founded the Central Hindu School in 
which later became a College and received University status in 1915.
She also promoted Indian classical dance. She sought to raise the self-confidence of the Hindu mind in face of Christian missionary activities and was active also in the political field. In 1917 she was even elected to chair the Indian National Congress which earned her temporary internment by the British administration. She wrote several books on Theosophical teachings which overlap in many areas with those of Hinduism.
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