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[[File:Flag of India 1907 (Nationalists Flag).svg|right|thumb|220px|Based on the [[Calcutta Flag]], design of the "Flag of Indian Independence" raised by [[Bhikaji Cama]] of the Paris Indian Society on 22 August 1907, at the International Socialist Conference in Stuttgart, Germany.]]
The '''Paris Indian Society''' was an [[Indian Nationalism|Indian nationalist organisation]] founded in 1905 at [[Paris]] under the patronage of [[Madam Bhikaji Rustom Cama]], [[Munchershah Burjorji Godrej]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thebetterindia.com/69290/madam-bhikaji-cama-flag-stuttgart-india/|title=Remembering Madam Bhikaji Cama, the Brave Lady to First Hoist India’s Flag on Foreign Soil|date=24 September 2016|author=Sanchari Pal}}</ref> and [[S. R. Rana]]. The organisation was opened as a branch of the [[Indian Home Rule Society]] founded that same year in [[London]] under the patronage of [[Shyamji Krishna Varma]].<ref name=DAWN>{{cite web|author=MAH |publisher=Dawn group of newspapers |url=http://www.dawn.com/weekly/dmag/archive/011230/dmag16.htm |title=Two words about one parsi |access-date=2007-11-04 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070610045107/http://www.dawn.com/weekly/dmag/archive/011230/dmag16.htm |archive-date=June 10, 2007 }}</ref>
The Paris Indian Society also saw active participation from Indian nationalists who at various times were associated with the [[India House]] during its short existence. This included [[Virendranath Chattopadhyaya]], [[Har Dayal]], [[M.P.T. Acharya]] and [[Vinayak Damodar Savarkar]].<ref name=Parelxxviii>{{Harvnb|Parel|1997|p=xxviii}}</ref><ref name=Yadav23>{{Harvnb|Yadav|1992|p=23}}</ref> Other prominent Indians associated with the society included P.O. Mehta, H.M. Shah, P.C. Varma and a number of other prominent Indians in Paris at the time.<ref name=Chopra205>{{Harvnb|Chopra|1985|p=205}}</ref> The Paris Indian Society, under the strong leadership of Madam Cama, developed close links with the [[Socialist Party (France)|Socialist Party]] and Russian socialists in exile in Paris,<ref name=DAWN/> and Cama herself attended the Socialist Congress of the [[Second International]] at [[Stuttgart]] in 1907, where seconded by [[Henry Hyndman]],<ref name=Parelxxviii/> she demanded recognition of selfrule for India. It was at this congress that Cama famously unfurled one of the first [[Flag of India]].<ref name=Parelxxviii/>

Following the liquidation of the [[India House]] in the wake of [[William Hutt Curzon Wyllie|Curson Wyllie]]'s assassination in 1909 by [[Madanlal Dhingra]], the PIS became the refuge and hub of Indian revolutionaries who fled England.<ref name=Yadav23/> The Paris Indian Society at this time grew to be one of the most powerful Indian organisations outside India at the time,<ref name=Yadav26>{{Harvnb|Yadav|1992|p=26}}</ref> and grew to initiate contacts with not only French Socialists, but also those in continental Europe.<ref name=Yadav26/> It sent delegates at this time to the International Socialist Congress in August 1910. At the time of [[V.D. Savarkar]]'s rearrest at [[Marseilles]] following his escape during deportation from England, this socialist network was successfully able to exert pressure on the French government to press for Savarkar's extradition to France before the International Tribunal at Hague ruled in favour of Britain. In Paris, the Indian Society also held regular meetings and sought to train its members in skills necessary for revolution, which included training in firearms, learning military tactics, as well as organising the publication of revolutionary literature. It also sent recruits other countries and, after training, some were sent back to India to carry on propaganda work<ref name=Yadav26/> The Paris Indian Society produced the ''[[Bande Mataram (Paris publication)|Bande Mataram]]'' from 1909, and Madam Cama later financed the ''[[Talvar]]'' to be produced in Berlin.

==References==
{{reflist}}
* {{Citation
| surname1 = Chopra
| given1 = Pran Nath
| surname2= Xavier
| given2= Arakal
| year = 1985
| title = India's Struggle for Freedom: Role of Associated Movements
| publisher = Agam Prakashan on behalf of the Centenary Celebrations Committee of the Indian National Congress, New Delhi.
}}.
* {{Citation
| surname1 = Parel
| given1 = Anthony
| year = 1997
| title = Hind Swaraj and other writings.
| publisher = Cambridge University Press
| ISBN= 0-521-57431-5
}}.
* {{Citation
| surname1 = Yadav
| given1 = B.D
| year = 1992
| title = M.P.T. Acharya, Reminiscences of an Indian Revolutionary
| publisher = Anmol Publications Pvt ltd
| ISBN= 81-7041-470-9
}}.
==Further reading==
*Bose, Arun. ''Indian Revolutionaries Abroad, 1905-1922''. 1971. Bharati Bhawan.

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