Hurrychund Chintamon

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Hurrichund Chintamon was a disciple of Dayanand and President of the Arya Samaj of Bombay in 1878, when the Theosophical Society formed an alliance with the organization. Soon after the Founders arrived in Bombay, they found out Chintamon had mishandled the funds sent by them from the USA and was expelled. He later was an important figure in the formation of the Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor.

He was also a pioneer of photography in India. Martin W. Sandler wrote:

The early popularity of photography in India, particularly in Bombay, was also due in great measure to the contribution of one pioneer photographer, Hurrychind Chintamon. . . . Chintamon was the most masterful and most successful of the early Indian photographers who captured carte-de-visite images of literary, political, and business figures.[1]

Theosophical involvement

The Readers Guide to The Mahatma Letters to A. P. Sinnett states:

Chintamon, Hurrychund, a chela of Dayanand of the Arya Samaj movement... While HPB and HSO were still in the USA they had correspondence with him and sent fees to the Arya Samaj through him. It was discovered that he had diverted these funds, amounting to about Rs. 600, to his own pocket. Later he attempted to arouse suspicion of HPB as a "Russian spy." He was expelled from both the TS and the Arya Samaj and decamped to England with Rs. 4,000 belonging to the latter body. He was the originator of the "Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor". He was forced to leave England and seems to have disappeared in the USA. See ML index; ODL2; SH index.[2]

He was expelled from the Theosophical Society of the Arya Samaj on May 13, 1879.

Online resources

Notes

  1. Martin W. Sandler, (New York: Oxford University Press, Inc, 2002), 32
  2. George E. Linton and Virginia Hanson, eds., Readers Guide to The Mahatma Letters to A. P. Sinnett (Adyar, Chennai, India: Theosophical Publishing House, 1972), 223.