Plaque

Savarkar at India House

Photograph by: London Remembers

Inscription

Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, 1883 - 1966, Indian patriot and philosopher, lived here.
Greater London Council

Savarkar was here from 1906 to 1909. The plaque was unveiled by Lord Fenner Brockway on 8 June 1985.

Site: Savarkar at India House (1 memorial)

N6, Cromwell Avenue, 65

Strangely the plaque does not mention that this building was known as India House, 1905 - 1910, and is considered so important in the history of Indian Home Rule that a life-size replica has been erected in India at the birth-place of its founder, Shyamji Krishna Varma.

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Savarkar at India House

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India House

An informal Indian nationalist organisation founded in 1905 by Shyamji Krishn...

Vinayak Damodar Savarkar

Indian patriot and philosopher. Born in Bhagur, District Nashik, Maharashtra.

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Savarkar at India House

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Greater London Council

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Fenner Brockway

Pacifist, Labour MP, life peer, CND founder, free-thinker, campaigner for pea...

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