{"id":8996,"date":"2026-03-30T14:15:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T08:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=8996"},"modified":"2026-03-30T15:01:47","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T09:31:47","slug":"shyamji-krishna-varma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/shyamji-krishna-varma\/","title":{"rendered":"Shyamji Krishna Varma"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Shyamji Krishna Varma Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently, the <a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/upsc-exam\/prime-minister\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Prime Minister<\/strong><\/a> of India paid homage to freedom fighter Shyamji Krishna Varma on his death anniversary.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Shyamji Krishna Varma<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Shyamji Krishna Varma was born on <\/span><b>4th October, 1857<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in Mandvi town of Kachchh district of <\/span><b>Gujarat.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He was an <\/span><b>Indian freedom fighter, lawyer and journalist.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He became the <\/span><b>first President of Bombay Arya Samaj<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and was an <\/span><b>admirer of <a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/upsc-exam\/dayanand-saraswati\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dayanand Saraswati<\/a>.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Contributions<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Indian Home Rule Society (IHRS)<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was founded by <\/span><b>Shyamji Krishna Varma, with<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> support from <\/span><b>Bhikaji Cama, Dadabhai Naoroji and S.R. Rana.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was an Indian <\/span><b>organisation founded in London in 1905<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that sought to promote the cause of self-rule in British India.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><b>India House<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was founded by him in London.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was a <\/span><b>student residence<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that existed between 1905 and 1910 which was opened to promote <\/span><b>nationalist views among Indian students in Britain.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><b>Indian Sociologist: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was started in London. The monthly Indian Sociologist became an outlet for nationalist ideas<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b><\/b><strong>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2246733&amp;reg=3&amp;lang=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PIB<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shyamji Krishna Varma, PM pays tribute to freedom fighter; founder of India House and IHRS, he spread nationalist ideas and supported India\u2019s self-rule movement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":95544,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[246,3815,6456],"class_list":{"0":"post-8996","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-prelims-current-affairs","9":"tag-prelims-pointer","10":"tag-shyamji-krishna-varma","11":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8996"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95602,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8996\/revisions\/95602"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}