Question

The Home Rule Society, popularly called ‘India House’, had been established in London to promote the cause of Indian Independence by____________________________________________
A. Lala Hardayal
B. Madan Lal Dhingra
C. Shyamji Krishna Varma
D. V.D Savarkar

Answer 1

Hint: Shyamji Krishna Varma was a staunch Indian nationalist leader and a freedom fighter that fought greatly for India’s independence. He founded the Indian Home Rule Society, India House as well as the Indian Sociologist in London.

Complete step by step answer:
The Indian Home Rule Society was an Indian organization founded in London in the year 1905. The organization focused on promoting a cause of self-rule in British India and it was founded by Shyamji Krishna Varma with immense support from a number of prominent Indian nationalists in Britain during that time which included supporters such as Bhikaji Cama, Dadabhai Naoroji, and S.R. Rana and this was intended to be a rival organization to the British Committee of the Indian National Congress that was the main avenue of the loyalist option at the time. The Home Rule Society was a metropolitan organization designed after Victorian public institutions of that time and it had a written constitution with an aim to secure the Home Rule for India and to carry on genuine Indian propaganda in the country by all practicable and possible means. The society recruited people such as activists. They also collected money, collected arms, and maintained close contact with revolutionary movements in India.
So, the correct answer is Option C.

Note: The Home Rule Society served as the foundation of the India House and along with Krishna Varma’s journal, The Indian Sociologist. It also laid the foundation of the militant Indian nationalist movement in Britain.