Shyamji Krishna Varma

Shyamji Krishna Varma

News: Recently, on the occasion of Shyamji Krishna Varma’s Jayanti, the Prime Minister paid tribute to the great revolutionary and freedom fighter.

Who was Shyamji Krishna Varma?
• Shyamji Krishna Varma (4 October 1857 – 30 March 1930) was an Indian revolutionary fighter, patriot, lawyer, and journalist.
• He was born in Mandvi, Cutch State (now Kutch, Gujarat).
• He was a noted scholar in Sanskrit and other Indian languages.
• He founded the Indian Home Rule Society, India House, and The Indian Sociologist in London. These organizations rapidly developed as an organized meeting point for nationalists among Indian students in Britain at the time and one of the most prominent centers for revolutionary Indian nationalism outside India.
• Varma moved to Paris in 1907 to avoid prosecution. His work significantly contributed to India’s struggle for independence against British rule.

About Indian Home Rule Society:
• The Indian Home Rule Society (IHRS) was an Indian organization founded in London on February 18, 1905.
• It was established by Shyamji Krishna Varma with the support of several prominent Indian nationalists in Britain at the time, including Bhikaji Cama, Dadabhai Naoroji, and S.R. Rana. The society sought to promote the cause of self-rule in British India.
• The IHRS was intended to be a rival organization to the British Committee of the Indian National Congress, which was the main avenue of loyalist opinion at the time. It had a written constitution and the stated aims to 'secure Home Rule for India, and to carry on a genuine Indian propaganda in this country by all practicable means'