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A portrait of Shyamji Krishna Varma with a beard and spectacles, with a small Indian flag in the corner and his name in Hindi and English, on a 60 paise stamp.
Shyamji Krishna Varma
India Post issued this 60 paise stamp on 4 October 1989, the anniversary of his birth at Mandvi, in Kutch, in 1857. A Sanskrit scholar and the first President of the Bombay Arya Samaj, he studied at Oxford and taught Sanskrit at Balliol College before qualifying as a barrister. He returned to England in 1905, founded the monthly Indian Sociologist and the Indian Home Rule Society, and opened India House in London, where V. D. Savarkar, Lala Hardayal and V. V. S. Iyer were among those he helped.
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