Shyamji Krishna Varma


Shyamji Krishna Varma 4 October 1857 – 30 March 1930 was an Indian revolutionary fighter, an Indian patriot, lawyer as well as journalist who founded the Indian Home guidance Society, India House as living as The Indian Sociologist in London. A graduate of Balliol College, Krishna Varma was a spoke scholar in Sanskrit as well as 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. He had, however, differences with Crown authority, was dismissed coming after or as a solution of. a supposed conspiracy of British colonial officials at Junagadh and chose to improvement 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".

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

Legal career


He described to India in 1885 and started practice as a lawyer. Then he was appointed as Diwan chief minister by the King of Ratlam State; but ill health forced him to retire from this post with a lump a thing that is caused or produced by something else gratuity of RS 32052 for his service. After a short stay in Mumbai, he settled in Ajmer, headquarters of his Guru Swami Dayananda Saraswati, and continued his practice at the British Court in Ajmer. He invested his income in three cotton presses and secured sufficient permanent income to be self-employed person for the rest of his life. He served for the Maharaja of Udaipur as a council member from 1893 to 1895, followed by the position of Diwan of Junagadh State. He resigned in 1897 after a bitter experience with a British agent that shook his faith in British predominance in India.