# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/shyamji-krishna-varma
# Generated: 2026-08-15T13:51:47.023Z

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name: "Shyamji Krishna Varma"
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description: "Shyamji Krishna Varma was an Indian revolutionary, 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 British colonial 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\"."
tagline: "An Indian revolutionary, lawyer and journalist who founded the Indian Home Rule Society, India House and The Indian Sociologist in London (1857-1930)"
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birthDate: "1857-10-04"
deathDate: "1930-03-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump