Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

General Test

Chapter

General Knowledge

Topic

Modern Histoy

Question:

Who formed the Theosophical Society in India?

Options:

Annie Besant

Madam Cama

Rabindra Nath Tagore

Madam Blavatsky

Correct Answer:

Madam Blavatsky

Explanation:

The correct answer is Option 4 - Madam Blavatsky

Madam Blavatsky and Colonel Henry Steel Olcott formed the Theosophical Society in India in 1882. Annie Besant became the leader of the Society in 1893, after the death of Olcott.

Rabindra Nath Tagore was a Bengali poet, writer, and philosopher who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913. He was not a founder of the Theosophical Society.

Madam Cama was an Indian revolutionary who played a leading role in the Indian independence movement. She was not a founder of the Theosophical Society.