Raghuvir Singh Varma is a Professional Engineer and Professor Emeritus in Civil Engineering at Ryerson University. Varma was born in Northern India on January 5, 1933. He earned his Bachelor of Engineering in Civil Engineering and his Master of Engineering in Advanced Surveying and Photogrammetry from the University of Roorkee, India, where he taught for ten years after graduation. In 1967, Varma emigrated to Canada to pursue graduate studies in Photogrammetry at the University of Toronto and the University of New Brunswick (1967-1971). In 1971, he accepted a position at Ryerson University, where he taught until he retired to Emeritus status in 1998. He has written extensively on Hinduism and Jat History, and has been an active member of a number of Jat community organizations.