ABSTRACT
Biographies and hagiographies of J. Krishnamurti (1895–1986), the anti-guru guru par excellence, have had to grapple with a life narrative delineated by a significant rupture centred on his path to guru-ship, centred around his transition from childhood to adulthood. In Krishnamurti’s case proto-guruship is centred around a text called At The Feet of the Master said to be composed by the child-guru Krishnamurti under his occult name of “Alcyone”. Through studying At the Feet of the Master this paper goes into the production of charisma and the formation of the child-guru at the interstices of race and religion, between the colony and the metropole in the Victorian Age.
