Shyamji Krishna Varma, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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an Indian revolutionary, lawyer and journalist who founded the Indian Home Rule Society, India House and The Indian Sociologist in London
Date of Birth: 04-Oct-1857
Place of Birth: Mandvi, Gujarat, India
Date of Death: 30-Mar-1930
Profession: journalist, revolutionary
Zodiac Sign: Libra 
About Shyamji Krishna Varma
- Shyamji Krishna Varma (4 October 1857 – 30 March 1930) 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.
- 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 following a supposed conspiracy of local British officials at Junagadh 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".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.
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