{"id":169962,"date":"2022-02-21T19:13:16","date_gmt":"2022-02-21T13:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=169962"},"modified":"2022-02-21T19:13:16","modified_gmt":"2022-02-21T13:43:16","slug":"azadi-ka-amrit-mahotsav-ihrs-indian-organisation-founded-in-london-on-18-feb-1905","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/azadi-ka-amrit-mahotsav-ihrs-indian-organisation-founded-in-london-on-18-feb-1905\/","title":{"rendered":"Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav: IHRS Indian organisation founded in London on 18 Feb, 1905"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5><b>What is the news?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Under Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav, the Government of India organised an event to recall the foundation of Indian Home Rule Society (IHRS).<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is Indian Home Rule Society (IHRS)?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Indian Home Rule Society (IHRS) was founded in 1905 in <strong>London<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Founded by<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: It was founded by <strong>Shyamji Krishna Varma<\/strong> with support from a number of prominent Indian nationalists in Britain at the time including Bhikaji Cama, Dadabhai Naoroji and Sardarsinh Ji Ravaji.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Aim:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> To promote the cause of self-rule in British India.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The organisation was intended to be a rival organisation to the <strong>British Committee of the Indian National Congress<\/strong> that was the main avenue of the loyalist opinion at the time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The organisation was modelled after <strong>Victorian public institutions<\/strong> of the time.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It had a <strong>written constitution<\/strong> and the stated aims to secure <strong>Home Rule for India<\/strong> and to carry on a <strong>genuine Indian propaganda<\/strong> in this country by all practicable means.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <strong>membership<\/strong> to the organisation was open to <strong>Indians only<\/strong> and found significant support amongst Indian students and other Indian populations in Britain. It recruited young Indian activists and maintained close contact with revolutionary movements in India.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This post is based on the article <\/span><b>\u201cAzadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav: IHRS Indian organisation founded in London on 18 Feb, 1905\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in <\/span><b>AIR <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">on <\/span><b>21st February 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the news? Under Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav, the Government of India organised an event to recall the foundation of Indian Home Rule Society (IHRS). What is Indian Home Rule Society (IHRS)? Indian Home Rule Society (IHRS) was founded in 1905 in London. Founded by: It was founded by Shyamji Krishna Varma with support&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/azadi-ka-amrit-mahotsav-ihrs-indian-organisation-founded-in-london-on-18-feb-1905\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav: IHRS Indian organisation founded in London on 18 Feb, 1905<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,9],"tags":[10552],"class_list":["post-169962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-air","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}