27 Facts About India House

India House was a student residence that existed between 1905 and 1910 at Cromwell Avenue in Highgate, North London.

Patrons of India House published an anti-colonialist newspaper, The Indian Sociologist, which the British Raj banned as "seditious".

The network created by India House played a key part in the Hindu–German Conspiracy for nationalist revolution in India during World War I In the coming decades, India House alumni went on to play a leading role in the founding of Indian communism and Hindu nationalism.

The Congress's British Committee, established in 1889, published a periodical called India House which featured moderate, loyalist opinion and provided information about India House tailored to a British readership.

India House preferred this position to working under what he considered the alien rule of Britain.

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India House returned to England, where he found freedom of expression more favourable.

India House's support was initially intellectual, and he was not actively involved in planning revolutionary violence.

India House devoted his efforts to writing nationalist material, organising public meetings and demonstrations, and establishing branches of Abhinav Bharat in the country.

India House proposed the indoctrination of Indian soldiery in the British army, just as the Young Italy movement had indoctrinated Italians serving in the Austrian forces.

India House was transformed into the headquarters of the Indian revolutionary movement in Britain.

The Free India House Society had a semi-religious oath of initiation, and served as a cover for the Abhinav Bharat Society's meetings.

The outbuilding of India House was converted to a "war workshop" where chemistry students attempted to produce explosives and manufacture bombs, while the printing press turned out "seditious" literature, including bomb-making manuals and pamphlets promoting violence toward Europeans in India.

Subsequently, India House took over the control of LIS when, at the annual general meeting that year, members of India House packed the gathering and ousted the old guard of the society.

An agent named "C" had been residing in India House for nearly a year; after convincing the residents that he was a genuine patriot, he began reporting back to India.

Police brought strong pressure on India House and began gathering intelligence on Indian students in London.

Political activities at India House were chiefly aimed at young Indians, especially students, in Britain.

Direct influences and incitement from India House were noted in several incidents of political violence, including assassinations, in India at the time.

India House had met some members of India House, including Savarkar, in London as well as in India, and disagreed with the adoption of nationalist and political philosophies from the west.

In New York, Indian students and ex-residents of London India House took advantage of liberal press laws to circulate The Indian Sociologist and other nationalist literature.

India House further feared interference from Japan, which was on friendly terms with Britain.

The India House in Tokyo was a residence for sixteen Indian students in 1908; it accepted students from other Asian countries including Ceylon, aiming to build a broad foundation for Indian nationalism based on pan-Asiatic values.

India House published other nationalist pamphlets which found their way to the Pacific coast and East Asian settlements.

The network founded at India House was to be key in the efforts by the Indian revolutionary movement against the British Raj through World War I During the war, the Berlin Committee in Germany, the Ghadar Party in North America, and the Indian revolutionary underground attempted to transport men and arms from United States and East Asia into India, intended for a revolution and mutiny in the British Indian Army.

The threat posed by the conspiracy was key in the passage of the Defence of India House Act 1915, and suppression of the movement necessitated an international counter-intelligence operation on the part of the British empire lasting nearly ten years.

Amongst Savarkar's work during his stay at India House was a history of the Maratha Confederacy which he described as an exemplary Hindu empire.

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Further, the Spencerian theories of evolutionism and functionalism that Savarkar examined at India House strongly influenced his social and political philosophy, and helped lay the foundations of early Hindu nationalism.

Savarkar's stay at India House is today commemorated with a blue plaque by English Heritage.