Krishnavarma, Shyamji : (1857-1930) born in Māndavi, Cutch, joined Wilson High School in Mumbai & in 1875 he married the sister of his classmate who was the son of a wealthy Bhatia businessman. He became a disciple of Swami Dayānanda & earned the title of Pandit from the Pundits of Kāshi in 1877. In 1878, Monier Williams invited him to England as his assistant & got him admitted to Balliol College where he excelled in Latin, Greek, Sanskrit, Law, & Political Economy. In 1881, he represented India at the Berlin Congress of Orientalists. SK was elected a non-resident member of the Royal Asiatic Society after he delivered a speech on the origin of writing in India. Obtaining his B.A. in 1883, he continued as lecturer. In 1885, after a short stint as advocate in Bombay High Court, he became Dewan of Rutlām State but resigned in 1888. In 1893, he worked as Dewan of Udaipur & in 1895 as Dewan of the Nawab of Junāgadh. There he hired his Balliol ‘friend’ A.F. Machonochie (one of the British moles in Baroda administration who instigated the Bāpat Case) on a higher salary, only to be stabbed in the back by this ‘friend’ & British officials of the Nawab. Realising that the only way to fight these Govt.-sponsored freebooters exploiting & undermining Princely States was from England itself, SK returned to London in 1897, “to breathe the atmosphere of a free country where he could speak as well as think as he chose” (to quote Sri Aurobindo). The next year, he found a life-long friend in Sardar Singh Rāṇā from an old ruling family of Kathiawar who came to London to qualify for the Bar. In 1900, SK purchased a large mansion in Highgate (see India House). In January 1905, they launched The Indian Sociologist (q.v.); the next month they launched the Indian Home Rule Society to secure Home Rule through propaganda in England. In June 1907, when SK began to be hounded by India Office & Scotland Yard, he, Rāṇā & Cāmā shifted their base to Paris leaving India House in charge of Sāvarkar. In 1914 they were forced to shift to Geneva. After a long illness he died in 1930. He had made an arrangement with the Swiss Govt. And the local cemetery to preserve his ashes until India became independent. Requested by Dr. Prithwindra Mukherjee, the eldest grandson of Bāgha Jatin, in 2003, SK’s & his wife’s ashes were handed over by the Swiss to the Govt. of Gujarat & were brought to his birthplace in Māndavi. [Shyamji Krishnavarma…, Indulal Yāgnik, Bombay, 1950, & other sources]
... of British dignity and sobriety. Shyamji Krishnavarma The exaggerated view of Mr. Shyamji Krishnavarma as an arch conspirator of malign subtlety and power who has long been inculcating terrorist opinions among young men and building up a secret society, is one which none can accept who has any knowledge of this gentleman's past career. Mr. Shyamji Krishnavarma is an earnest, vehement and outspoken... the World . It seems that long ago the redoubtable Krishnavarma in a moment of benign and expansive frankness selected this gentleman and revealed to him the details of a gigantic plot he has been elaborating for the last eight years with a view to the murder wholesale and retail of Anglo-Indian officials. If the story were true, Krishnavarma's confidant ought certainly to have been put in the dock... of finding full sympathy and co-operation from the editor of the Indian Sociologist . The quarrel between the two resulting from the change in Mr. Krishnavarma's views is a matter of public knowledge. We refuse therefore to believe that Mr. Krishnavarma has been a plotter of assassination and secret disseminator of Terrorism or that the India House is a centre for the propagation and fulfilment of ...
... Sociologist , first an organ of Shyamji Krishnavarma's Home Rule Society and opposed to all methods of violence. The conversion of Krishnavarma to the Terrorism he once fiercely condemned, has been a very important factor in the growth of the new party. The propaganda has been driven from London only to spring at once into a ubiquitous activity abroad. From Paris Krishnavarma publishes the Indian Sociologist... defunct Bande Mataram and denouncing its originator and former Editor; a paper called the Free Hindustan maintains itself in America. Wealthy men and women stand behind these organs, the Kathiawar Krishnavarma, the Parsi lady Mrs. Kama and possibly others who do not advertise their names. Young men of all nationalities in India seem to have joined these organisations and occasional pamphlets find their ...
... scarlet coat is growing quite a dull and faded pink in these latter times. Mr. Dadabhai Naoroji was once denounced as a blatant extremist—that was the day before yesterday. But now that Mr. Shyamji Krishnavarma and his Home Rulers raise their wild heads above the terrified horizon, Mr. Naoroji is on a fair way to being admitted into the sacred fold of the "statesmanlike" and "moderate". A still worse ...
... connection with Krishnavarma, the expression "revolutionary", the use of the word "boys", and an anticipation of the agrarian outbreak in connection with the Punjab Government's ill-advised land legislation. The bubble has been speedily pricked by the simple statement of facts in the Punjabee and by Lajpat Rai's own evidence. That Lajpat Rai was acquainted with Shyamji Krishnavarma when he was in ...
... territory. They were tired of British law. They had received better treatment in French territory, and the French officers were very kind and courteous. He had received a letter from his friend Shyamaji Krishnavarma in Paris to say that the new Governor of Pondicherry would leave Paris in October next, and he appealed to Arabindo Ghose to prepare an address of welcome. It is stated that Arabindo agreed to do... seditious pamphlets and journals. On some there was the image of Kali and some writing in Bengali. The suspicion was supposed to be created that all these refugees were carrying on correspondence with Shyamji Krishna Varma, Madame Cama and other leaders of the revolutionary movement in Europe and were trying to hatch an Indian conspiracy with their help. The investigating magistrate who came to ...
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