THE CHRONOLOGY OF MAIN EVENTS IN
PANDIT SHYAMAJI'S LIFE
[1] 1857 : BORN IN THE YEAR OF FIRST WAR OF INDIAN INDEPENDENCE-1857 ON 4/30TH OCTOBER AT MANDAVI (KUCHCHHA)
[2] MOTHER DIED IN 1867 AND GRAND MOTHER BROUGHT HIM UP.
[3] 1867-1874 : EDUCATION IN BHUJ & MUMBAI.
[4] 1874-75 : SHYAMAJI BECAME THE DESCIPLE OF SWAMI DAYANAND SARSWATI AND STUDIED PANINI’S ASHTHADHYAYI FROM SWAMIJI.
[5] 1875 : MARRIED TO BHANUMATI, A DAUGHTER OF PROMINENT BUSINESSMAN SHETH CHHABILDAS LALUBHAI OF MUMBAI.
[6] 1876 : MET PROFESSOR(SIR) MONIER- WILLIAMS, A SANSKRIT SCHOLAR FROM OXFORD UNIVERSITY, IN MUMBAI. SIR MONIER- WILLIAM WAS SO IMPRESSED WITH SHYAMAJI’S KNOWLEDGE IN SANSKRIT THAT HE OFFERED HIM A POSITION TO WORK AS HIS ASSISTANT AT OXFORD UNIVERSITY.
[7] 1876-1878 : DELIVERED LECTURES ON VEDIC TEACHINGS IN ENGLISH AND SANSKRIT AT NASIK, POONA, THE UNITED PROVINCES AND PUNJAB, MADHYAPADESH AND OTHER PLACES.
[8] 1877 : PUNDITS OF KASHI FELICITATED SHYAMAJI WITH THE CERTIFICATE AND CONFERRED HIM AN HONOURARY TITLE OF PANDIT FOR HIS OUTSTANDING KNOWLEDGE OF SANSKRIT LANGUAGE.
[9]1878: CAME IN CONTACT WITH MADAME BLAVATSKY ,THE FOUNDER OF THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY IN AMERICA, THROUGH SWAMI DAYANAND SARWATI AS HE TRANSLATED THE REPLY OF HER LETTERS FROM SWAMIJI.
[10] 1879-MARCH : BEGAN HIS JOURNY TO ENGLAND FROM MUMBAI PORT BY S S INDIA.
[11]1879-APRIL : ARRIVED AT LIVERPOOL PORTAND TRAVELLED TO OXFORD. JOINED BALLIOL COLLEGE OF OXFORD ON 29TH APRIL 1879.
[12]1879-MAY : PASSED THE PRILIMINARY EXAMINATION OF LAW.
[13]1879-JUNE-21 : JOINED THE INNER TEMPLE, OXFORD.
[14]1879-SEPT-24 : DIWAN OF KUCHCHA AWARDED A SCHOLARSHIP OF £100 AND SPECIAL SCHOLORSHIP OF £1000 FOR NEXT YEAR.
[15] 1881 : WAS SENT BY SECRETARY OF STATE FOR INDIA TO REPRESENT THE LEARNING OF HIS COUNTRY AT BERLIN CONGRESS OF ORIENTALISTS. HE READ THE PAPERS ON THE SUBJECT OF “SANSKRIT AS A LIVING LANGUAGE OF INDIA”.
[16] 1882 : HE WAS ELECTED AS AN HONARARY MEMBER OF PRESTIGIOUS “EMPIRE CLUB”.
[17] 1882 : GRADUATED ON MONDAY 18TH DECEMBER 1882.
[18] 1883-JULY : LORD NORTHBROOK INTRODUCED SHYAMAJI TO PRINCE EDWARD THE SEVENTH.
[19] 1883 : SHYAMAJI WAS SENT AS DELEGATE OF INDIA AND ENGLAND BY BRITISH GOVERNMENT TO THE CONGRESS OF ORIENTALISTS HELD AT LEYDEN.
[20] 1883-DECEMBER : RETURNED TO BHARAT(INDIA) TO PAY HOMAGE TO SWAMI DAYANANDJI AND TO ATTEND MEETING OF PAROPKARINI SABHA AT AJMER.
[21] 1884 : RETURNED TO ENGLAND WITH HIS WIFE BHANUMATI.
[22]1884 : ELECTED AS LIFELONG NON-RESIDENTIAL FELLOW OF
THE ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY.
[23] 1884-NOV-17 : SHYAMAJI WAS CALLED TO THE BAR.
[24] 1884: HE WAS AWARDED M.A. DEGREE FROM OXFORD UNIVERSITY.
[25] 1885-JANUARY : RETURNED TO BHARAT AFTER FINISHING HIS EDUCATION AT OXFORD.
[26] 1885-JAN-19: ENROLLED AS ADVOCATE OF THE MUMBAI HIGH COURT.
[27] 1885 : APPOINTED AS DEWAN OF RATALAM STATE.
[28] 1888-DEC : CAME TO AJMER AND PRACTICED AS A BARRISTER AT LAW IN THE RULING BRITISH COURT AND ESTABLISHED INDUSTRIAL INVESTMENTS IN THREE COTTON PRESSES.
[29] 1891 SHYAMAJI SPENT TIME WITH SWAMI VIVEKANANAD DISCUSSING ARYA DHARMA, SHASHTRAS AND LITERATUES. WHEN SWAMIJI WAS NOT FAMOUS PERSON AND WAS JUST A WANDERING MONK AND DISCIPE OF RAMAKRISHNA PARAMHANSA. SWAMIJI LIVED NEARLY TWO WEEKS WITH PANDIT SHYAMAJI AT HIS RESIDENCE AT AJMER FOR NEARLY TWO WEEKS. SWAMIJI MIGHT HAVE SEVRAL TIPS FROM LEARNED PANDIT SHYAMAJI.
[30] 1892-DEC-21 ; APPOINTED AS MEMMER OF THE STATE COUNCILOF UDAIPUR AND SERVED MAHARANA OF UDAIPUR AS HIS PERSONAL ADVISOR.
[31] 1895-FEB-6 : APPOINTED AS DIWAN OF JUNAGADH.
[32] 1895 : RETURNED TO UDAIPUR AND TOOK OVER THE CHARGE OF HIS PREVIOUS POSITION.
[33] 1897 :AFTER THE ARREST OF HIS FRIEND AND COPATRIOT LOKMANYA TILAK, SHYAMAJI LEFT BHARAT TO SETTLE DOWN IN ENGLAND AND STARTED HIS LIFE MISSION OF LIBERATING HIS MOTHERLAND FROM THE IMPERIAL DOMINATION OF BRITAIN.
[34] 1897 : SARDAR SINH RANA CAME TO ENGLAND TO STUDY AND MET PANDIT SHYAMAJI.
[35] 1998 : SHYAMAJI SUBSCRIBED GENEROUSLY TO THE FUND OF FREE PRESS DEFENCE COMMITTEE WHICH WAS FORMED IN ORDER TO RESIST POLICE ATTACK ON LIBERTY OF ALL OPINIONS.
[36] 1899 : STRONGLY CRITICISED GANDHIJI , A LAWYER FROM NATAL, FOR SUPPORTING BRITISH GOVERNMENT IN BOER WAR.
[37] 1897-1905 : STUDIED THE PHILOSOPHY OF HERBERT SPECER AND CONSIDERED HIM AS HIS GURU ON THE SUBJECT OF SOCIOLOGY. DEVELOPED CONTACTS WITH SYMPATHETIC BRITISH POLITICIANS, LIKE MR HYNDMAN AND OTHERS, AND LEADERS OF IRISH FREEDOM MOVEMENT. MET MADAME
BHIKHAIJI CAMA THROUGH DADABHAI NAOROJI AND SARDARSINH RANA .
[38] 1903-DEC-14 : ATTENDED THE FUNERAL OF MR HERBERT SPENCER A GREAT BRITISH PHILOSOPHER & SOCIAL SCIENTIST AND ANNOUNCED THE DONATION OF £1000 TO ESTABLISH A LECTURESHIP IN THE MEMORY OF MR HERBERT
SPENCER AT OXFORD UNIVERSITY.
[39] 1904-DEC-8 : ANNOUNCED HERBERT SPENCER INDIAN FELLOWSHIP AND SWAMI DAYANAND SARSWATI FELLOSHIP WITH FUTURE FOUR FELLOWSHIPS IN MEMORY OF GREAT PERSONALITIES OF BHARAT.
[40] 1905 : COMPLETELY DEVOTED HIMSELF TO WORK RESTLESSLY FOR THE EMANCIPATION OF INDIA FROM FOREIGN YOKE.
[41] 1905-JAN : PUBLISHEDA MAGAZINE CALLED “INDIAN SOCIOLOGIST”- AN ORGAN OF FREEDOM AND OF POLITICAL,SOCIAL AND RELIGIOUS REFORM.
[42] 1905-FEB-18 : FOUNDED THE INDIAN HOME RULE SOCIETY IN LONDON TO FIGHT FOR INDIAN INDEPENDENCE.
[43] 1905-JULY-01 : ESTABLISHED “INDIA HOUSE”, THE HOSTEL FOR INDIAN STUDENTS AT 65 CROMWELL AVENUE, HIGHGATE WHICH WAS INAUGURATED BY H M HYNDMAN, A LEADER OF SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC FEDERATION.
[44] 1905-JULY-29 : ATTENDED THE MEETING OF THE UNITED CONGRESS OF DEMOCRATS AT HOLBORN TOWN HALL AS A CHIEF DELEGATE OF THE INDIAN HOME RULE SOCIETY. HE RECEIVED AN ENTHUSISTIC OVATION FROM ENTIRE
CONFERENCE WHEN HE ROSE TO MOVE THE RESOLUTION ON INDIA.
[45] 1905 : CAME IN CONTACT WITH DADABHAI MANY IRISH HOME RULERS.
[46]1906-JULY : V D SAVARKAR, THE FUTURE CHIEF DESCIPLE OF PANDIT SHYAMAJI, CAME TO ENGLAND ON SHYAMAJI’S SCHOLARSHIP TO STUDY AND MET HIM AT INDIA HOUSE.
[47] 1906 : SHYAMAJI MET GANDHIJI WHEN HE VISITED AND STAYED AT “ INDIA HOUSE” ONLY FOR A DAY AS HE COULD NOT AGREE WITH SHYAMAJI’S VIEWS.
[48] 1907-FEB-23 : DONATED RS. 10000 FOR POLITICAL MISSIONARIES IN INDIA.
[49] 1907: MADANLALA DHINGRA, A GREAT PATRIOT AND STUDENT OF SHYAMAJI’S SCHOOL, CARRIED OUT POLITICAL ASSASINATION OF COL. W H C WYLLIE WHO TRIED TO DEFAME AND HUMILIATE SHYAMAJI BY FRAMING EVENT IN INDIA WHILE SHYAMAJI WAS RE-APPOINTED BY MAHARANA OF UDAIPUR.
[50] 1907-JUNE : SHIFTED HIS HEADQUARTER TO PARIS AS BRITISH GOVERNMENT BECAME SUSPICIOUS OF SHYAMAJI’S ANTI BRITISH ACTIVITIES AND WANTED TO ARREST HIM.
[51] 1909-APR-30 : DEBARRED FROM THE INNER TEMPLE, OXFORD, FOR HIS HIGHLY VOLCANIC AND INFLAMMATORY PROPAGANDA AGAINS BRITISH GOVERNMENT.
[52] 1909 :WROTE A LETTER TO PRESIDENT TAFT OF USA WARNING HIM AGAINST A PACT OF ENGLAND, THE ARCH ROBBER AND ENSLAVER OF NATIONS.
[53] 1911-MARCH : HIS ARTICLE WAS PUBLISHED IN GERMAN MAGAZINE “DIE ZEITCHRIFT”- ON INDIAN UNREST.
[54] 1912-OCT-20 : THE FAMOUS RUSSIAN PATRIOT MAXIM GORKY PRAISED HIM FOR HIS WORK AND CALLED HIM THE MAZZINI OF INDIA.
[55] 1907-1914 SETTLED IN PARIS AND WORKED TIRELESSLY TO AQUIRE SUPPORT FROM EUROPEAN COUNTRIES TO ACHIEVE FREEDOM FOR INDIA AND ESTABLISHED GOOD RELATIONSHIP WITH FRENCH SOCIALISTS.
[56] 1914 : FIRST WORLD WAR BROKE OUT AND BRITISH SECRET AGENT TRIED HARD TO EXTRADITE SHYAMAJI AND OTHER REVOLUTIONARIES. SHYAMAJI FORESEEN THE FATE AND SAFELY MOVED TO GENEVA, SWITZERLAND TO SAFEGUARD HIS POSSIBLE ARREST ANDSUBSEQUENT EXTRADICTION TO ENGLAND ORINDIA.
[57] 1914-DEC : FIRST PUBLICATION OF “INDIAN SOCIOLOGY” FROM GENEVA EXPLAINIG HIS INABILITY TO CONTINUE HIS PUBLICATION UNDER PRESENT POLITICAL SITUATION IN THE WORLD.
[58] 1914 ; OFFERED A DONATION OF 10000 SWISS FRANKS TO THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS( PRESENT UNO) TO ESTABLISH PRESIDENT WILSON LECTURESHIP TO START THE MOVEMENTS WORLDWIDE TO SAFEGUARD NATIONAL INDEPENDENCE CONSISTENT WITH FREEDOM BUT THEY REJECTED THE OFFER UNDER THE PRESSURE OF BRITISH GOVERNMENT.SIMILAR OFFERS WERE ALSO MADE TO SWISS GOVERNMENT AND PRESS ASSOCIATION OF GENEVA BUT
THEY MET WITH THE SAME FATE.
[59] 1920-DECEMBER : INDIAN SOCIOLOGIST RESTARTED AFTER SIX YEARS.
[60] 1922 SEPT : THE PUBLICATION OF “ INDIAN SOCIOLOGIST” WAS STOPPED WITH REGRETS.
[61] 1914-1930 : LIVED IN GENEVA AT 1, RUE DE VOLLANDES ON THE BANK OF FAMOUS GENEVE LAKE.BECAME A MEMBER OF PRESS ASSOCIATION”CIRCLE DE LA PRESS, GENEVE” AND ALSO TRADED AT GENEVA STOCK EXCHANGE.
[62] 1930-MARCH-30 : PANDIT SHYAMAJI KRISHNAVARMA, A GREAT PATRIOT REVOLUTIONARY, DIED AT 11:30 PM IN CLINIQUE LA COLLINE. BABU SHIV PRASAD GUPTA, THE LEADER OF NON-COOPERATIVE MOVEMENT AND CHIEFPATRON OF BANARAS NATIONALIST UNIVERSITY OF BANARAS PERFORMED THE LAST RITES AS SHYAMAJI DID NOT HAVE ANY CHILDREN.
[63] PANDIT SHYAMAJI AND HIS WIFE MADE PREPAID ARRANGEMENT CONTRACT WITH THE VILLE DE GENEVE, THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT OF GENEVA, TO STORE AND PRESERVE THEIR ASTHIS [ ASHES OF BODY REMAINS] IN URNS AT ST GEORGES CEMETARY AFTER THEIR DEATH FOR ONE HUNDRED YEARS AND SEND THEM TO INDIA WHENEVER INDIA BECAME FREE OF BRITISH RULE.
[64] 2003 - AFTER LONG WAITED PERIOD OF 73 YEARS OF HIS DEATH AND FIFTY SIX YEARS OF INDIAN INDEPENDENCE THEIR ASHTI WERE BROUGHT TO INDIA IN 2003 AND KEPT AT THE BIRTH PLACE MUSEUM OF PANDIT SHYAMAJI AT MANDAVI, KUCHCHA, GUJARAT STATE BHARAT. AT LAST, THE LAST WISH OF A GREAT INDIAN FREEDOM FIGHTER REVOLUTIONARY AND HIS WIFE WAS FULFILED !
VANDE MATARAM
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