The Blog of Awesome Women/ Rukmini Devi Arundale: Transforming Tradition and Speaking for the Silent

Rukmini Devi Arundale was a dancer and choreographer
who revived and transformed a branch of classical Indian
dance; she was also a theosophist and an activist for
the welfare and rights of animals. Born to a high-caste
Brahmin family in 1904 in Madurai, India, she was reared
in Madras (modern Chennai), where she was exposed
to theosophical thought not only by her father but by
famed theosophist leader Annie Besant and others. She
shocked the conservative society of the time by marrying
prominent British theosophist Dr. George Arundale at age
16. Three years later, Rukmini became President of the
All-India Federation of Young Theosophists, and then
President of the World Federation of Young Theosophists
in 1925.

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