Shyamji Krishna Varma

Pandit
Shyamji Krishna Varma
Born(1857-10-04)4 October 1857
Mandvi, Kutch State, British India
(now in Gujarat, India)
Died30 March 1930(1930-03-30) (aged 72)
Geneva, Switzerland
MonumentsKranti Teerth, Mandvi, Kutch
Alma materBalliol College, Oxford
Occupation(s)Revolutionary, lawyer, journalist
Organizations
MovementIndian Independence Movement
Spouse
Bhanumati
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(m. 1875)​
Parent(s)Karsan Bhanushali (Nakhua), Gomatibai

Shyamji Krishna Varma (4 October 1857 – 30 March 1930) was an Indian revolutionary fighter,[1] an Indian patriot, lawyer and journalist who founded the Indian Home Rule Society, India House and The Indian Sociologist in London. A graduate of Balliol College, Krishna Varma was a noted scholar in Sanskrit and other Indian languages. He pursued a brief legal career in India and served as the Divan of a number of Indian princely states in India.[2] He had, however, differences with Crown authority, was dismissed following a supposed conspiracy of British colonial officials at Junagadh[3] and chose to return to England. An admirer of Dayanand Saraswati's approach of cultural nationalism, and of Herbert Spencer, Krishna Varma believed in Spencer's dictum: "Resistance to aggression is not simply justified, but imperative".[2]

In 1905, he founded the India House and The Indian Sociologist, which rapidly developed as an organised meeting point for radical nationalists among Indian students in Britain at the time and one of the most prominent centres for revolutionary Indian nationalism outside India. Krishna Varma moved to Paris in 1907, avoiding prosecution.

  1. ^ Chandra, Bipan (1989). India's Struggle for Independence. New Delhi: Penguin Books India. p. 145. ISBN 978-0-14-010781-4.
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