Talk:Shyamji Krishna Varma

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Much of this article was moved from Shyamji Krishnavarma in a cut/paste by User:Jethwarp on 19 March 2011.FlagSteward (talk) 12:36, 20 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Yes, and it's pretty dreadful. Apart from the nationalistic 'boosting' language, the facts are wonky. In the Paris and Geneva section, 'Mr Merlin, an Englishman' is actually the Belgian-born naturalised Briton Edward F. Mylius; the journal 'liberators' is actually 'The Liberator'; and 'Shyamji's friend Mr James' is Edward H. James, expatriate American attorney in Paris, nephew of novelist Henry James and psychologist William James. Edward James was a crank who published the anarchist paper The Liberator from Paris in English. The paper was circulated in London and in November 1910 Mylius wrote an article for it, repeating the ancient, false rumour that King George V had made a secret morganatic marriage in Malta in 1890 when he was a young naval officer. Special Branch at Scotland Yard probably became aware of this obscure publication because they were monitoring Krishnavarma and his contacts in Paris. (Not surprisingly, since, apart from anything else, Krishnavarma was the sponsor of the Hindu nationalist terrorist, gun-runner and later Nazi sympathiser VD Savarkar -- whose name is misspelt in the article as 'Savarker'. Savarkar approved of the Nazis mainly because, what they did to Europe's Jews, Savarkar wanted to see happen to India's Muslims. Not a nice guy. And a friend of Krishnavarma's.) Mylius was arrested in December 1910 and, in February 1911, convicted of criminal libel and given a year in jail, after which he emigrated to the United States and made an unsuccessful nuisance of himself there instead. https://olebirklaursen.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/a-sham-and-shameful-marriage-an-anarchist-a-republican-and-an-anti-imperialist-against-the-british-monarchy/ Khamba Tendal (talk) 20:08, 7 March 2019 (UTC)