ABSTRACT
In 1909, a Criminal Intelligence Department official in Delhi warned of Russian-born anarchist Emma Goldman’s trip to India scheduled for the following year. The ‘arch priestess of anarchy’, as she was called in the file, a controversial figure in radical American politics, was planning to arrive from the US via Australia for a lecture series across India. Because she posed a definite threat to the British Raj, officials moved quickly to bar her entrance at either Bombay or Madras. 1
