A SEDITION-MONGER.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 7, 8 July 1909, Page 7

A SEDITION-MONGER.

MR. KRISHNA VARMA AND OXFORD. iMuoh of the responsibility for the Imperi ! il Institute nTurders lies with Mr. Krishnayarina. editor of tho Indian Sociologist, who was lately disbarred by iiis fellow-barristers. This man openly advocated in his paper the doctrine that political killing is not murder. He founded an India House for students, and Dhingra, came under his influence. Our London correspondent, writing under date 28th May, writes : — "The wretched discussion about the disbarring and disqualifying of the Indian eeditionist, Mr. Krishna varma (editor of the Indian Sociologist) still drags along. Counsul has given the opinion that there is no power to determine legally the trust under which Mr. Krishnavarma founded a Herbert Spencer Lectureship at Oxford. "Of this denouement Mr. Krishnavarma. in a letter to The Times from Paris, remarks: 'I can well understand, and in a way admire, the feelings of men like iProfessor Oman, who is reported to 'ha-va said in reference to my endowment that the whole university is humiliated by being under obligations to a man who extols murder and glorifies assassins as "martyrs," and who is spreading the poison of sedition in India.' Ho then proceeds to offer his assistance in determining the trust, so that the university shall not have forced upon it a duty it is unwilling to perform. With regard to the suggestion Iha-t Ml". Krishna-varma should be deprived of his M.A. degree, he writes : 'I may mention that it was not an honorary degree conferred op me like that received by my colleagues teaching Oriental languages at Oxford, but that I earned it by hard work m 1882, iis testified by the then Vice-Chancellor and 'Master of 'Balliol College (Professor Jowetl), who put on record his opinion about me.'" It was lately reported by cable that 'Mr. Krishnavarma. had accepted the return of his endowment for the Spencer Scholarship.