Tag: Kumari Jayawardena

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  May 12, 2017

  Kumari Jayawardena: “The White Woman’s Other Burden.” Blavatsky and Emancipation in South Asia

  From the outset, Kumari Jayawardena’s “The White Woman’s Other Burden” (1995) demonstrates, theosophy emphasized the absence of any distinction of race, creed, sex, caste or color in its theory and practice; and gender equality was therefore, one of its distinctive features. The 1995 work of Jayawardena details the roles and activities of foreign women in…