Kama-Sutra - Timeline

  • 1821 Sir Richard Burton born
  • 1842-49 Burton in India
  • 1857 Obscene Publications Act in the UK
  • Indian Mutiny
  • 1861 Burton marries Isabel
  • 1871 Burton transferred to Trieste
  • 1877 Herman Hesse born
  • 1883 Burton publishes The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana
  • 1885 Burton publishes Ananga Ranga, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night
  • 1886 Burton finishes The Perfumed Garden
  • Krafft-Ebing’s Psychopathia Sexualis is published
  • 1890 Death of Burton
  • 1893 Burton biography by his wife Isabel
  • 1894 Aldous Huxley born
  • 1895 Krishnamurti born
  • 1901-2 Aleister Crowley visits India
  • 1904 Birth of Joseph Campbell
  • Hesse marries Maria
  • 1909 Krishnamurti embraced by the Theosophists
  • 1911 Hesse visits India
  • 1917 Maharishi Mahesh Yogi born
  • 1918 Oswald Spengler’s The Decline of the West published
  • 1919 Massacre in Amritsar by the British
  • Hesse publishes Demian but his marriage is finished
  • 1922 Hesse publishes Siddhartha (he started it in 1919 and finished it in 1920)
  • Krishnamurti’s life-changing experience in Ojai
  • 1923 Arthur Moeller van den Bruck’s The Third Reich published
  • 1925 Guru Dutt born
  • 1925-26 Aldous Huxley visit to India
  • 1927 Hesse’s Steppenwolf is published
  • 1929 Krishnamurti dissolves Theosophist religion
  • 1931 Birth of Rajneesh (Osho)
  • 1932 Hesse publishes Journey to the East
  • 1937 Huxley and his wife move to Hollywood
  • 1938 Beginning of Huxley’s interest in Krishnamurti
  • Campbell marries his wife Jean
  • 1940 Thomas Mann’s The Transposed Heads: A Legend of India
  • 1943 Hesse’s The Glass Bead Game published
  • 1945 Aldous Huxley publishes The Perennial Philosophy
  • 1948 Indian independence
  • 1949 Campbell’s The Hero with a Thousand Faces
  • 1951 Hesse’s Siddartha published in the U.S.
  • 1954 Huxley’s The Doors of Perception published (and Heaven and Hell in 1956)
  • 1954 Campbell’s first visit to India
  • 1962 Aldous Huxley’s Island published
  • UK passes the Commonwealth Immigrants Act
  • Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam released
  • Beatles get their first recording contract
  • Death of Hermann Hesse
  • Pete Best fired
  • India military defeat by China
  • 1963 Death of Huxley
  • 1964 Death of Guru Dutt; Meena Kumari separates from her husband
  • 1968 Beatles in Rishikesh; The Beatles (White Album)
  • 1972 Death of Meena Kumari and Geeta Dutt
  • 1980 Death of John Lennon
  • 1987 Death of Joseph Campbell
  • 1990 Death of Rajneesh (Osho)