[1] In 1875 Swami Dayanda Saraswati founded in Mumbai the Hindu reform movement Arya Samaj.
In the same year, the Theosophical Society was founded by Madame Blavatsky and Henry Olcott in New York.
He described its goals and gave Olcott the address of its president in Mumbai Hari Chand Chintamani (Hurrychund Chintamon).
Chintamani then became a member of the Theosophical Society, and Olcott began a correspondence with Dayananda Saraswati.
A branch of the Theosophical Society was founded on June 27, 1878 by Charles Carleton Massey in London.