As far as the Indian participants were concerned, the Uprising was overwhelmingly expressed as a war of religion, and looked upon as a defensive action against the rapid inroads missionaries and Christianity were making in India, as well as a more generalised fight for freedom from foreign domination.

The most famous woman to have espoused Druidry is perhaps Boudicca (sometimes known as Boadicea) who, as leader of the Iceni tribe, was almost certainly steeped in Druidism.

Miranda Shaw’s Passionate Enlightenment reassessed women’s historical role in the formative years of Indian Vajrayāna.