Shyamji Krishna Varma

• The Prime Minister paid tributes to revolutionary freedom fighter Shyamji Krishna Varma on his birth anniversary on October 4^th.

ABOUT SHYAMJI KRISHNA VARMA

• He was born on 4th October, 1857 in Mandvi town of Kachchh district of Gujarat.
• He was an expert in Sanskrit and other languages.
• He was inspired by Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Swami Dayanand Saraswati and Herbert Spencer.
• He founded the Indian Home Rule Society, India House and The Indian Sociologist in London.
  • Indian Home Rule Society and the India House worked towards inspiring youngsters in Britain to take up revolutionary activities against their own representatives in India.
  • The monthly Indian Sociologist became an outlet for nationalist ideas and through the Indian Home Rule Society, he criticised the British rule in India.
• Varma became the first President of Bombay Arya Samaj.
• He inspired Veer Savarkar who was a member of India House in London.
• Verma also served as the Divan of a number of states in India.
• 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.
• A memorial called Kranti Teerth dedicated to him was inaugurated in 2010 near Mandvi, Kutch, Gujarat.