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An informal Indian nationalist organisation founded in 1905 by Shyamji Krishna Varma at 65 Cromwell Avenue. The term is also used to describe the building in Highgate where many of the student adherents lived and from where the organisation operated. Opened by Henry Hyndman. It was here that Varma founded the Indian Home Rule Society in 1905. In October 1906 Gandhi visited India House and met Savarkar.
The full story of India House is available at Wikipedia.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
India House
This town is the birthplace of Shyamji Krishna Varma, who founded India House.
Savarkar was here from 1906 to 1909. The plaque was unveiled by Lord Fenner B...
International activist and renowned pan Africanist (favouring the unification of Africa). Born Malcolm Ivan Meredith Nurse in Trinidad. Travelled a lot. but settled in London in 1935. Worked as ...
Person, Nationalism, Politics & Administration, Africa, Caribbean Islands, Ghana
A social, cultural and political hub for Austrian exiles from the Nazis. The Centre housed a library, restaurant, theatre, political cabaret, concert venue and functioned as a publisher. It also of...
Poet. Born on the island of Zakynthos (then part of the Venetian Republic). In 1802 his father took him and his brother to a Greek community in Livorno, Italy and he never saw his mother again. He ...
This all took place between Lyme Regis and Bristol, and finished at the battle of Sedgemoor. See Duke of Monmouth.
Born: Caracas, Venezuela.
Person, Nationalism, Philosophy, Politics & Administration, Venezuela