Mistaken.: Annie Besant in India

Explores the incredible story of Annie Besant’s relationship with India and the boy who went on to become one of India’s greatest teachers and thinkers – Krishnamurti.

1916: India is simmering with discontent against the Raj. Enter English proto—feminist Annie Besant, notorious at home for the match—girls’ strike, political, charismatic. In India she finds a new family and a new cause.

Gandhi hails her as the leader of the Congress Party after she courts imprisonment for promoting Indian Home...