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{{Short description|Organisation founded in 1905 in London}}
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The '''Indian Home Rule Society''' (IHRS) was an Indian organisation founded in London in 1905 that sought to promote the cause of self-rule in [[British India]]. The organisation was founded by [[Shyamji Krishna Varma]], with support from a number of prominent [[Indian people|Indian]] nationalists in Britain at the time, including [[Bhikaji Cama]], [[Dadabhai Naoroji]] and [[S.R. Rana]],<ref name=Innes171>{{Harvnb|Innes|2002|p=171}}</ref><ref name=Joseph59>{{Harvnb|Joseph|2003|p=59}}</ref> and was intended to be a rival organisation to the British Committee of the [[Indian National Congress]] that was the main avenue of the loyalist opinion at the time.<ref name=Owen62>{{Harvnb|Owen|2007|p=62}}</ref>

Founded on 18 February 1905, the IHRS was a metropolitan organisation modelled after Victorian public institutions of the time.<ref name=Owen67>{{Harvnb|Owen|2007|p=67}}</ref> It had a written constitution and the stated aims to "secure Home Rule for India, and to carry on a genuine Indian propaganda in this country by all practicable means".<ref name="Fischer-Tinē330">{{Harvnb|Fischer-Tinē|2007|p=330}}</ref> The IHRS was open for membership "to Indians only", and found significant support amongst Indian students and other Indian populations in Britain. It recruited from amongst young Indian activists, collected money, and may have been collecting arms and maintaining close contact with revolutionary movements in India.<ref name=Owen63>{{Harvnb|Owen|2007|p=63}}</ref><ref name=Parekh158>{{Harvnb|Parekh|1999|p=158}}</ref> The society was foundations of the [[India House]] and, along with Krishna Varma's journal ''[[The Indian Sociologist]]'', was the foundation of the militant Indian nationalist movement in Britain. After Krishna Varma's shift to Paris in 1907, the society gave way the secret nationalist society of [[Abhinav Bharat Mandal]], founded by [[V.D. Savarkar]]. The society was founded amongst efforts and movements that arose to reverse the flow of authority and power from Britain to India.<ref name=Owen62/><ref name=Majumdar299>{{Harvnb|Majumdar|1971|p=299}}</ref> along with substantial help from [[Bhikaji Cama]].

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