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Rukmini Devi Arundale

Rukmini Devi Arundale (February 29, 1904 - February, 1986) has perhaps done more than any other individual to enrich India's artistic and cultural heritage. As one of India’s outstanding personalities, she inherited a background full with a cultural, artistic and learned atmosphere. Rukmini Devi devoted her entire life for the revival and re-established of many of the traditional arts and crafts of India. Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... Image File history File links Rukmini_Devi. ... Image File history File links Rukmini_Devi. ... is the 60th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1904 (MCMIV) was a leap year starting on a Friday (see link for calendar). ...

A pioneer and fearless crusader, she was the first highborn Indian lady, to espouse the cause of Bharata Natyam, which was considered a low and vulgar art in the early twenties. Recognizing the beauty and spiritual value of this art form, she had the courage not only to learn the dance, but also to present it on stage in spite of strong public protest. Her marriage to the prominent British Theosophist Dr. George Arundale was another shocking break from tradition and she faced the public outcry and ostracism of Victorian India with great courage. A Bharatanatyam Dancer Bharatanatyam (also spelled Bharathanatyam, Bharatnatyam or Bharata Natyam) is a South Indian classical dance form. ... Dr. George Sidney Arundale (1 December 1878 in Surrey, England — 12 August 1945 in Adyar, India) was a theosophist, freemason, president of the Theosophical Society Adyar and bishop of the Liberal Catholic Church. ...

Drawn into the Theosophical Movement, as a follower of Dr. Annie Besant, and her own husband who was a great triot and educationist, Rukmini Devi travelled all over the world as an ambassador of Indian culture. She established, Besant Theosophical High School and the Besant Arundale Senior Secondary School to impart education based on traditional Indian values. In 1936 she started Kalakshetra as a cultural academy for preservation of traditional values in Indian art, especially in the field of dance and music. Theosophy, literally god-wisdom (Greek: θεοσοφία theosophia), designates several bodies of ideas. ... Annie Besant Plaque on house in Colby Road, London SE19 where Annie Besant lived in 1874. ... Kalakshetra is a cultural academy for preservation of traditional values in Indian art, especially in the field of dance and music. ... // Music is an art form consisting of sound and silence expressed through time. ...

The Montessori method was first started in India, when Dr. Arundale invited Dr. Maria Montessori to start courses in the Besant Theosophical High School in 1939. The Montessori method is a methodology for nursery and elementary school education, first developed by Dr. Maria Montessori. ...

Rukmini Devi was nominated as member of the Rajya Sabha (Council of States) by the President of the Republic of India in April 1952 and re-nominated in 1956. Executive President Vice-President Prime Minister Dy. ...

Keenly interested in animal welfare, She was associated with various humanitarian organisations. As a Member of the Rajya Sabha, she was largely responsible for the legislation for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act (1960) and for setting up of the Animal Welfare Board under her chairmanship in 1962, to promote their welfare. She was a strict vegetarian and did much work to promote vegetarianism in the country. She was Vice President of International Vegetarian Union for 31 years from 1955, until her death in 1986. A variety of vegetarian food ingredients Vegetarianism is the practice of not consuming the flesh of any animal (including sea animals) with or without also eschewing other animal derivatives, such as dairy products or eggs[1]. Some vegetarians also choose to refrain from wearing clothing that has involved the death... The International Vegetarian Union (IVU) was founded in 1908 when the first World Vegetarian Congress was held in Dresden, Germany. ...

In 1977, Morarji Desai offered to nominate her for the post of President of India, which she turned down. Morarji Ranchhodji Desai (Hindi: ) (February 29, 1896 – April 10, 1995) was an Indian freedom fighter and the first Prime Minister that did not belong to the Indian Congress Party. ... The President of India (Hindi: Rashtrapati) is the head of state and first citizen of India and the Supreme Commander of the Indian armed forces. ...

Awards

• Padma Bhushan (1956)
• Sangeet Natak Akademi Award (1957)
• Desikothama (1972), from Viswa Bharati University
• Kalidas Samman (1984), from Government of Madhya Pradesh
• Prani Mitra (1968), meaning Friend of All Animals, from All-India Animal Welfare Board, Government of India
• Queen Victoria Silver Medal, from the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, London
• Addition of her name to the roll of honor by The World Federation for the Protection of animals, The Hague
• Honorary Doctorate, Wayne State University, USA
• Scrolls of Honor, County and City of Los Angeles

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Further reading

• India’s 50 Most Illustrious Women (ISBN 81-88086-19-3) by Indra Gupta
• Art and culture in Indian life. Kerala University Press, Trivandrum 1975
• Selections, Some selected speeches & writings of Rukmini Devi Arundale. Kalakshetra Foundation, Chennai 2003
• Gupta, Indra: India's 50 Most Illustrious Women. Icon Publications, 2003; ISBN 81-88086-19-3
• Kalakshetra Foundation (Hrsg.): Rukmini Devi Arundale birth centenary volume. Kalakshetra Foundation, Chennai 2004
• Kalakshetra Foundation (Hrsg.): Shraddanjali, brief pen portraits of a galaxy of great people who laid the foundations of Kalakshetra. Kalakshetra Foundation, Chennai 2004
• Meduri, Avanthi (Hrsg.): Rukmini Devi Arundale (1904-1986), A Visionary Architect of Indian Culture and the Performing Arts. Motilal Banarsidass, Delhi 2005; ISBN 81-208-2740-6
• Sarada, S.: Kalakshetra-Rukmini Devi, reminiscences. Kala Mandir Trust, Madras 1985

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