Shyamji Krishnavarma (Shyamji Krishna Nakhua) (1857–1930) was an Indian
revolutionary fighter, 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 local British 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".