Shyamji Krishna Varma was born on 4 October 1857 in Mandvi, Kutch in Gujrat.
Shyamji Krishna Varma was an Indian revolutionary fighter, lawyer and journalist who founded the Indian Home Rule Society, India House and The Indian Sociologist in London.
Krishna Varma was a noted scholar in Sanskrit and other Indian languages. He became the first non-Brahmin to receive the prestigious title of Pandit by the Pandits of Kashi in 1877. He came to the attention of Monier Williams, an Oxford professor of Sanskrit who offered Shyamji a job as his assistant.
He was disbarred from Inner Temple and removed from the membership list on 30 April 1909 for writing anti-British articles in The Indian Sociologist. His movements were closely watched by British Secret Services, so he decided to shift his headquarters to Paris, leaving India House in charge of Vir Savarkar.
Shyamji left Britain secretly before the government tried to arrest him. He published two more issues of Indian Sociologist in August and September 1922, before ill health prevented him continuing.
He died in hospital on 30 March 1930 leaving his wife, Bhanumati Krishnavarma. News of his death was suppressed by the British government in India.
Nevertheless, tributes were paid to him by Bhagat Singh and other inmates in Lahore Jail where they were undergoing a long-term drawn-out trial.
Maratha, an English daily newspaper started by Bal Gangadhar Tilak paid tribute to him.
Finally on 22 August 2003, the urns of ashes of Shyamji and his wife Bhanumati were handed over to then Chief Minister of Gujarat State Narendra Modi by the Ville de Genève and the Swiss government 55 years after Indian Independence.