Raghavendra Kumar ‘Raghav’—
The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi has paid tributes to Shyamji Krishna Varma on his Jayanti. The Prime Minister also shared his speech in which he has spoken about greatness of Shyamji Krishna Varma.
The Prime Minister tweeted; “Tributes to the brave Shyamji Krishna Varma on his Jayanti. This fearless son of Maa Bharti devoted his life to freeing India and furthering a spirit of pride among our people. Sharing a speech of mine in which I have spoken of his greatness.”
Shyamji Krishna Varma was an Indian revolutionary fighter, 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.
In 1905, Shyamji focused his activity as a political propagandist and organiser for the complete independence of India. Shyamji made his debut in Indian politics by publishing the first issue of his English monthly, The Indian Sociologist, an organ and of political, social and religious reform.
He was also closely associated with Swami Dayanand Saraswati himself and over frequent talks and discussions he was motivated to reach out to India House in England and furthermore inspire several other revolutionaries; Veer Savarkar being one of them. He was also inspired by Bal Gangadhar Tilak and Herbert Spencer.
The activity carry out by shyamji Krishna Verma. Shyam Ji Krishna Verma play a vital role he establishing the “Indian home rule society” to propagate this society he start a daily named India’s sociologist. He arranged scholar ship to help Indian living in England. He started India House for promotion of revolutionary activities.
In the face of criticism by the British, Varma shifted his base from England to Paris and continued his movement.
After the outbreak of the First World War (1914-18), however, he moved to Geneva in Switzerland and spent the rest of his life there. He died on 30th March, 1930.
