B. P. Wadia, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Indian trade unionist nd theosophist
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Place of Birth: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
About B. P. Wadia
- Bahman Pestonji Wadia or Bomanji Pestonji Wadia (BP Wadia, B.P.
- Wadia or BPW) (* 8 October 1881 in Mumbai, India; †20 August 1958 in Bangalore, India) was an Indian theosophist and labour activist.
- He was first a member of the TS Adyar, later of the United Lodge of Theosophists.
- On 13 April 1918, along with V.
- Kalyanasundaram Mudaliar, Wadia founded the Madras Labour Union, one of India's first organised labour unions. In 1903 he joined the TS in Mumbai and moved to Adyar in 1908.
- He worked for the journal The Theosophist.
- He became president of the Madras Textile Workers' Union and engaged himself for worker's rights. In 1919 he visited the ULT in Los Angeles and was very impressed.
- When he returned to Adyar in 1919, he tried to work for a change of direction in the TS Adyar, based on the ideals of the ULT, but didn't succeed.
- He became disappointed and left the TS Adyar to work for the ULT in Los Angeles. In 1923 he founded several lodges on the east coast of the States.
- In 1925 he founded a lodge in the UK.
- In 1928 a lodge was founded in France, in 1929 in Mumbai, and in 1930 he began publishing the journal The Aryan Path. In 1928 he married Sophia Camacho (1901-1986).
- In 1945 he founded The Indian Institute of World Culture (IIWC) in Bangalore.
- Other lodges of the ULT were founded in the States, Europe and India. A street in Bangalore, B.P.
- Wadia Road, is named after him.
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