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The Paris Indian Society was an Indian nationalist organisation

Indian nationalism

Indian Nationalism describes the many underlying forces that moulded the Indian independence movement, and strongly continue to influence the politics of India, as well as being the heart of many contrasting ideologies that have caused ethnic and religious conflict in Indian society....
founded in 1905 at Paris

Paris

Paris is the Capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the ?le-de-France Regions of France ....
under the patronage of Madam Bhikaji Rustom Cama, B.H. Godrej and S. R. Rana

S. R. Rana

Sardar Singh Rewabhai Rana , often abbreviated 'S.R. Rana', was an Indian political activist, founding member of the Paris Indian Society and the vice-president of the Indian Home Rule Society....
. The organisation was opened as a branch of the Indian Home Rule Society

Indian Home Rule Society

The Indian Home Rule Society was an Indian organisation founded in London in 1905 that sought to promote the cause of self-rule in British India....
founded that same year in London

London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
under the patronage of Shyamji Krishna Varma. The Paris Indian Society also saw active participation from Indian nationalists who at various times were associated with the India House

India House

India House was an informal Indian nationalism organization based in London between 1905 and 1910. With the patronage of Shyamji Krishna Varma, its home in a student residence in Highgate, North London was launched to promote Nationalism views among Indian students in Britain....
during its short existence.

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The Paris Indian Society was an Indian nationalist organisation

Indian nationalism

Paris

S. R. Rana

Indian Home Rule Society

The Indian Home Rule Society was an Indian organisation founded in London in 1905 that sought to promote the cause of self-rule in British India....
founded that same year in London

London

India House

Virendranath Chattopadhyaya

Virendranath Chattopadhyaya alias Chatto was a prominent Bengali people Indian revolutionary who aimed to overthrow the British Raj in India by using violence as a tool....
, Har Dayal

Har Dayal

Lala Har Dayal was an Indian revolutionary and founder of the Ghadar Party....
, M.P.T. Acharya and Vinayak Damodar Savarkar

Vinayak Damodar Savarkar

Vinayak Damodar Savarkar was an Indian politician and an Indian Independence Movement activist, who is credited with developing the Hindu nationalist political ideology Hindutva....
. Other prominent Indians associated with the society included P.O. Mehta, H.M. Shah, P.C. Varma and a number of other prominent Indians in Paris at the time. The Paris Indian Society, under the strong leadership of Madam Cama, developed close links with the Socialist Party

Socialist Party

Socialist Party is the name of several different list of political parties around the world that are explicitly called Socialist. All of these parties claim to uphold socialism, though they might belong to different branches of the socialist movement and might therefore have different interpretations of what socialism means....
and Russian socialists in exile in Paris, and Cama herself attended the Socialist Congress of the Second International

Second International

The Second International was an organization of workers' movement formed in Paris on July 14, 1889. At the Paris meeting delegations from 20 countries participated....
at Stuttgart

Stuttgart

Stuttgart is the capital of the state of Baden-W?rttemberg in southern Germany. The list of cities in Germany, Stuttgart has a population of 590,429 while the metropolitan area referred to as Stuttgart Region has a population of 2.7 million ....
in 1907, where seconded by Henry Hyndman

Henry Hyndman

Henry Mayers Hyndman was an England writer and politician, and the founder of the Social Democratic Federation and the National Socialist Party ....
, she demanded recognition of selfrule for India. It was at this congress that Cama famously unfurled one of the first Flag of India

Flag of India

File:Flag of India.svgFile:Sarnath Lion Capital of Ashoka.jpgThe National Flag of India was adopted in its present form during an ad hoc meeting of the Constituent Assembly held on the 22 July 1947, twenty-four days before India's independence from the British on 15 August 1947....
.

Following the liquidation of the India House

India House

William Hutt Curzon Wyllie

Sir William Hutt Curzon Wyllie Order of the Indian Empire, was an British Indian Army, and later an official of the British Indian Government. Over a long career spanning three decades, Curzon Wyllie rose to be Lieutant Colonel in the British Indian Army and occupied a number of administrative and diplomatic posts including the British resid...
's assassination in 1909 by Madanlal Dhingra, the PIS became the refuge and hub of Indian revolutionaries who fled England. The Paris Indian Society at this time grew to be one of the most powerful Indian organisations outside India at the time, and grew to initiate contacts with not only French Socialists, but also those in continental Europe. It sent delegates at this time to the International Socialist Congress in August 1910. At the time of V.D. Savarkar's rearrest at Marseilles following his escape during deportation from England, this socialist network was successfully able to exert pressure on the French government to press for Savarkar's extradition to France before the International Tribunal at Hague ruled in favour of Britain. In Paris, the Indian Society also held regular meetings and sought to train its members in skills necessary for revolution, which included training in firearms, learning military tactics, as well as organising the publication of revolutionary literature. It also sent recruits other countries and, after training, some were sent back to India to carry on propaganda work The Paris Indian Society produced the Bande Mataram
Bande Mataram (Paris publication)

For other uses of the term Bande Mataram, see Bande Mataram .The Bande Mataram was a nationalist publication from Paris begun in September 1909 by the Paris Indian Society....
from 1909, and Madam Cama later financed the Talvar
Talvar

Madan's Talwar, later known as The Talvar, was an early-20th century Indian Nationalist periodical published from Berlin.Originally named after Madan Lal Dhingra, one of the heroes of the Indian independence movement who had been executed for the political assassination of William Hutt Curzon Wyllie, the publication was establ...
to be produced in Berlin.

Paris Indian Society

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