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Organisation founded in in London

The Indian Home Rule Society (IHRS) was an Indian organisation founded in London in 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 nationalists in Britain at the time, including Bhikaji Cama, Dadabhai Naoroji and S.R.

Rana,^[1][2] 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.^[3]

Founded on 18 February , the IHRS was a metropolitan organisation modelled after Victorian public institutions of the time.^[4] 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".^[5] The IHRS was open for membership "to Indians only", and found sign