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	\| known = Indian [[Resistance movement#Freedom fighter\|independence fighter]]<ref>{{Cite book\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iAQrpDW4-_YC~~&pg=PA98&lpg=PA98~~&dq=matadin+bhangi+1857#q=~~matadin%20bhangi%201857~~\|title=Women Heroes and Dalit Assertion in North India: Culture, Identity and Politics\|last=Narayan\|first=Badri\|date=2006-11-14\|publisher=SAGE Publications\|isbn=9780761935377\|language=en}}</ref>		\| known = Indian [[Resistance movement#Freedom fighter\|independence fighter]]<ref>{{Cite book\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iAQrpDW4-_YC&dq=matadin+bhangi+1857&pg=PA98\|title=Women Heroes and Dalit Assertion in North India: Culture, Identity and Politics\|last=Narayan\|first=Badri\|date=2006-11-14\|publisher=SAGE Publications\|isbn=9780761935377\|language=en}}</ref>
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	'''Matadin Valmiki''' was an Indian [[List of Indian independence activists\|freedom fighter]] who played a key part in the events immediately preceding the outbreak of the [[Indian rebellion of 1857]].<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/opinion/unwriting-history/cid/1021241\|title=UNWRITING HISTORY\|website=The Telegraph\|language=en\|access-date=2019-11-14}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.rediff.com/news/report/revolt/20051110.htm\|title=Dalits took part in 1857 revolt: Study\|website=Rediff\|language=en\|access-date=2019-11-14}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.dnaindia.com/analysis/comment-a-good-time-to-mourn-1124366\|title=A good time to mourn?\|date=2007-09-30\|website=DNA India\|language=en\|access-date=2019-11-14}}</ref> He was a [[Valmiki caste\|Valmiki]] worker in a cartridge manufacturing unit of [[East India Company\|British East India Company]]. He was the first person who sowed seeds of the 1857 revolt.<ref name="Crispin2">{{Cite book\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LRhBDwAAQBAJ~~&pg=PT34&lpg=PT34~~&dq=matadin+Valmiki+news#q=~~matadin%20Valmiki%20news~~\|title=Mutiny at the Margins: New Perspectives on the Indian Uprising of 1857: Volume V: Muslim, Dalit and Subaltern Narratives\|last=Bates\|first=Crispin\|date=2013-10-30\|publisher=SAGE Publishing India\|isbn=9788132119029\|language=en}}</ref>		'''Matadin Valmiki''' was an Indian [[List of Indian independence activists\|freedom fighter]] who played a key part in the events immediately preceding the outbreak of the [[Indian rebellion of 1857]].<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/opinion/unwriting-history/cid/1021241\|title=UNWRITING HISTORY\|website=The Telegraph\|language=en\|access-date=2019-11-14}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.rediff.com/news/report/revolt/20051110.htm\|title=Dalits took part in 1857 revolt: Study\|website=Rediff\|language=en\|access-date=2019-11-14}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.dnaindia.com/analysis/comment-a-good-time-to-mourn-1124366\|title=A good time to mourn?\|date=2007-09-30\|website=DNA India\|language=en\|access-date=2019-11-14}}</ref> He was a [[Valmiki caste\|Valmiki]] worker in a cartridge manufacturing unit of [[East India Company\|British East India Company]]. He was the first person who sowed seeds of the 1857 revolt.<ref name="Crispin2">{{Cite book\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LRhBDwAAQBAJ&dq=matadin+Valmiki+news&pg=PT34\|title=Mutiny at the Margins: New Perspectives on the Indian Uprising of 1857: Volume V: Muslim, Dalit and Subaltern Narratives\|last=Bates\|first=Crispin\|date=2013-10-30\|publisher=SAGE Publishing India\|isbn=9788132119029\|language=en}}</ref>

	==History==		==History==
	According to historical narratives, Matadin was a worker in a [[Cartridge (firearms)\|Cartridge]] manufacturing unit of East India Company. He was employed there as during those times working with leathers and skin of dead animals was considered as the occupation of low castes. The orthodox upper caste [[Hindu]]s used to consider them as "impure". One day [[Mangal Pandey]], a soldier in the company's service was asked for water by Matadin but due to age old belief of touching a low caste person as "polluting", he refused. Matadin thus made him realise that it is paradoxical that he is proud of his birth in a high [[Caste]] [[Brahmin]] family, but still he bites the cartridges which are made up of the fat of cows and pigs with his mouth. This propelled both [[Hindu]] as well as [[Muslim]] soldiers of the company to raise the banner of revolt as, while the cow was considered as sacred for [[Hindu]]s, the pigs were forbidden for Muslims.<ref name="Kumar">{{Cite web\|url=https://www.edtimes.in/back-in-time-162-years-ago-today-india-took-its-first-step-towards-independence-with-the-sepoy-mutiny/\|title=Back In Time: 162 Years Ago Today, India Took Its First Step Towards Independence With The Sepoy Mutiny\|last=Kumar\|first=Darshna\|date=2019-05-10\|website=ED Times {{!}} The Youth Blog\|language=en-US\|access-date=2019-11-14}}</ref><ref name="Crispin"/>		According to historical narratives, Matadin was a worker in a [[Cartridge (firearms)\|Cartridge]] manufacturing unit of East India Company. He was employed there as during those times working with leathers and skin of dead animals was considered as the occupation of low castes. The orthodox upper caste [[Hindu]]s used to consider them as "impure". One day [[Mangal Pandey]], a soldier in the company's service was asked for water by Matadin but due to age old belief of touching a low caste person as "polluting", he refused. Matadin thus made him realise that it is paradoxical that he is proud of his birth in a high [[Caste]] [[Brahmin]] family, but still he bites the cartridges which are made up of the fat of cows and pigs with his mouth. This propelled both [[Hindu]] as well as [[Muslim]] soldiers of the company to raise the banner of revolt as, while the cow was considered as sacred for [[Hindu]]s, the pigs were forbidden for Muslims.<ref name="Kumar">{{Cite web\|url=https://www.edtimes.in/back-in-time-162-years-ago-today-india-took-its-first-step-towards-independence-with-the-sepoy-mutiny/\|title=Back In Time: 162 Years Ago Today, India Took Its First Step Towards Independence With The Sepoy Mutiny\|last=Kumar\|first=Darshna\|date=2019-05-10\|website=ED Times {{!}} The Youth Blog\|language=en-US\|access-date=2019-11-14}}</ref><ref name="Crispin"/>

	According to [[Subaltern (postcolonialism)\|Subaltern]] historians as well as [[Dalit]] activists, he should be recognised as the real face behind the revolt of 1857. This is because he was the person who made Mangal Pandey aware of the fact that their religious sentiments are being hurt knowingly or unknowingly by the British. Thus, he was first person who sowed seeds of the 1857 revolt.<ref name="Crispin">{{Cite book\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LRhBDwAAQBAJ~~&pg=PT34&lpg=PT34~~&dq=matadin+bhangi+news#q=~~matadin%20bhangi%20news~~\|title=Mutiny at the Margins: New Perspectives on the Indian Uprising of 1857: Volume V: Muslim, Dalit and Subaltern Narratives\|last=Bates\|first=Crispin\|date=2013-10-30\|publisher=SAGE Publishing India\|isbn=9788132119029\|language=en}}</ref>		According to [[Subaltern (postcolonialism)\|Subaltern]] historians as well as [[Dalit]] activists, he should be recognised as the real face behind the revolt of 1857. This is because he was the person who made Mangal Pandey aware of the fact that their religious sentiments are being hurt knowingly or unknowingly by the British. Thus, he was first person who sowed seeds of the 1857 revolt.<ref name="Crispin">{{Cite book\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LRhBDwAAQBAJ&dq=matadin+bhangi+news&pg=PT34\|title=Mutiny at the Margins: New Perspectives on the Indian Uprising of 1857: Volume V: Muslim, Dalit and Subaltern Narratives\|last=Bates\|first=Crispin\|date=2013-10-30\|publisher=SAGE Publishing India\|isbn=9788132119029\|language=en}}</ref>

	==Legacy==		==Legacy==

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{{Short description|Indian first freedom fighter}}
{{Use Indian English|date=November 2019}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2019}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Matadin Valmiki
| image =
| birth_date =
| birth_place = [[Meerut]], [[Company rule in India|Company India]]
| death_place = [[Company rule in India|Company India]]
| occupation = [[East India Company|British East India Company]]
| known = Indian [[Resistance movement#Freedom fighter|independence fighter]]<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iAQrpDW4-_YC&pg=PA98&lpg=PA98&dq=matadin+bhangi+1857#q=matadin%20bhangi%201857|title=Women Heroes and Dalit Assertion in North India: Culture, Identity and Politics|last=Narayan|first=Badri|date=2006-11-14|publisher=SAGE Publications|isbn=9780761935377|language=en}}</ref>
}}

'''Matadin Valmiki''' was an Indian [[List of Indian independence activists|freedom fighter]] who played a key part in the events immediately preceding the outbreak of the [[Indian rebellion of 1857]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/opinion/unwriting-history/cid/1021241|title=UNWRITING HISTORY|website=The Telegraph|language=en|access-date=2019-11-14}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.rediff.com/news/report/revolt/20051110.htm|title=Dalits took part in 1857 revolt: Study|website=Rediff|language=en|access-date=2019-11-14}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.dnaindia.com/analysis/comment-a-good-time-to-mourn-1124366|title=A good time to mourn?|date=2007-09-30|website=DNA India|language=en|access-date=2019-11-14}}</ref> He was a [[Valmiki caste|Valmiki]] worker in a cartridge manufacturing unit of [[East India Company|British East India Company]]. He was the first person who sowed seeds of the 1857 revolt.<ref name="Crispin2">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LRhBDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT34&lpg=PT34&dq=matadin+Valmiki+news#q=matadin%20Valmiki%20news|title=Mutiny at the Margins: New Perspectives on the Indian Uprising of 1857: Volume V: Muslim, Dalit and Subaltern Narratives|last=Bates|first=Crispin|date=2013-10-30|publisher=SAGE Publishing India|isbn=9788132119029|language=en}}</ref>

==History==
According to historical narratives, Matadin was a worker in a [[Cartridge (firearms)|Cartridge]] manufacturing unit of East India Company. He was employed there as during those times working with leathers and skin of dead animals was considered as the occupation of low castes. The orthodox upper caste [[Hindu]]s used to consider them as "impure". One day [[Mangal Pandey]], a soldier in the company's service was asked for water by Matadin but due to age old belief of touching a low caste person as "polluting", he refused. Matadin thus made him realise that it is paradoxical that he is proud of his birth in a high [[Caste]] [[Brahmin]] family, but still he bites the cartridges which are made up of the fat of cows and pigs with his mouth. This propelled both [[Hindu]] as well as [[Muslim]] soldiers of the company to raise the banner of revolt as, while the cow was considered as sacred for [[Hindu]]s, the pigs were forbidden for Muslims.<ref name="Kumar">{{Cite web|url=https://www.edtimes.in/back-in-time-162-years-ago-today-india-took-its-first-step-towards-independence-with-the-sepoy-mutiny/|title=Back In Time: 162 Years Ago Today, India Took Its First Step Towards Independence With The Sepoy Mutiny|last=Kumar|first=Darshna|date=2019-05-10|website=ED Times {{!}} The Youth Blog|language=en-US|access-date=2019-11-14}}</ref><ref name="Crispin"/>

According to [[Subaltern (postcolonialism)|Subaltern]] historians as well as [[Dalit]] activists, he should be recognised as the real face behind the revolt of 1857. This is because he was the person who made Mangal Pandey aware of the fact that their religious sentiments are being hurt knowingly or unknowingly by the British. Thus, he was first person who sowed seeds of the 1857 revolt.<ref name="Crispin">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LRhBDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT34&lpg=PT34&dq=matadin+bhangi+news#q=matadin%20bhangi%20news|title=Mutiny at the Margins: New Perspectives on the Indian Uprising of 1857: Volume V: Muslim, Dalit and Subaltern Narratives|last=Bates|first=Crispin|date=2013-10-30|publisher=SAGE Publishing India|isbn=9788132119029|language=en}}</ref>

==Legacy==
In 2015, [[Meerut Municipal Corporation]] named Hapur Adda crossing at [[Meerut]] as ''Shaheed Matadin Chowk'' as a tribute to him.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/meerut/Three-city-roads-to-be-renamed-after-historical-figures/articleshow/49390389.cms|title=Three city roads to be renamed after historical figures|last=Sharma|first=Pankul |website=The Times of India|language=en|access-date=2019-11-14}}</ref>

==See also==
* [[Barrackpore Mutiny of 1824]]
* [[Mangal Pandey]]
* [[Gangu Baba]]

==References==
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