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{{Short description|Indian revolutionary (1827–1857)}}
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'''Chetram Jatav''' was a freedom fighter who participated in the [[Indian Rebellion of 1857]]. He joined the mutiny on 26 May 1857 in the Soro region of [[Etah district|Eta district]], [[North-Western Provinces]] (now [[Uttar Pradesh]]). He was tied to a tree and shot.<ref name="tiwari"/>
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| birth_name        = Chetram jatav
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| birth_date        = 19 July 1827
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| occupation        = [[Revolutionary]]
|birth_place=  
| known_for        = Led initial actions against the [[British East India Company]] and Soldiers Killing without weapons
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| criminal_status  = [[Executed]]
|occupation = Soldier in the service of Maharaja of Patiala.
| movement          = [[Indian Rebellion of 1857]]
|citizenship = {{flag|East India Company}} ruled India. 
| victims          = [[British Soldiers]]
|known = Indian [[Resistance movement#Freedom fighter|independence fighter]]
| death_cause      = Tied to tree and [[Gun Shot]]
| organization      = [[Names of the Indian Rebellion of 1857]]
| criminal_penalty  = [[Death]]
| conviction        = [[Homicide|Killing]]
| death_date        = 26 May 1857 (Aged 30)
| other_names      = Cheta Ram
| birth_place      = Soro village of [[Etah district]], [[Uttar Pradesh]], [[British India]]
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'''Chetram Jatav''' (19 July 1827{{snd}}26 May 1857) was an Indian revolutionary who participated in [[Indian Rebellion of 1857]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Dinkar |first=D.C. |title=Swatantrata Sangram Mei Achhuton Ka Yogdan |date=14 April 2007 |publisher=Gautam Book Center |isbn=978-8187733720 |edition=1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th |location=Delhi, India. |pages=48 |language=Hi |quote=Chetram Jatav and his revolution in 1857}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite book |last=Singh |first=Satnam |title=Swatantrata Sanram Mei Achhut Jatiyon Ka Yogdan |publisher=Samyak Prakashan |year=2013 |isbn=9789391503079 |edition=1st, 2nd |location=Dehli, India. |pages=58 |language=Hi |quote=Chetram Lake}}</ref>


==Life==
He and his compatriot Ballu Mehtar were executed by being tied to a tree and then shot at.<ref name="tiwari" />
According to legends, Maharaja Patiala saw a man who was carrying a lion on his back. On being asked, it was found that the man had killed the lion without a weapon. The king asked him to join his army. At the instance of the king, he joined the army. The person's name was Cheta Ram Jatav. Cheta Ram fought the British. Seeing the British harassing the people, he fought them, after which the British arrested him and tied him with a tree.{{citation needed |date=July 2020}}The circumstances of Jatav's death have been highlighted by Badri Narayan Tiwari, a [[Subaltern Studies|Subaltern historian]] from the [[G. B. Pant Institute of Social Sciences]] in [[Allahabad]], but his life appears to be lost to history.<ref name="tiwari">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iAQrpDW4-_YC&pg=PA99 |title=Women Heroes and Dalit Assertion in North India: Culture, Identity and Politics |first=Badri Narayan |last=Tiwari |page=99 |publisher=SAGE |year=2006|isbn=9780761935377 }}</ref> Other sources have repeated Tiwari's research,<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.rediff.com/news/2005/nov/10revolt.htm |work=Rediff |title=Dalits took part in 1857 revolt: Study |date=10 November 2005 |agency=PTI |access-date=2016-09-21}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Mutiny at the Margins: New Perspectives on the Indian Uprising of 1857 |editor-first=Crispin |editor-last=Bates |publisher=SAGE Publications India |year=2013 |isbn=978-8-13211-864-0 |page=22 |chapter=Identity and Narratives |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EfWnAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA6}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Hindi Dalit Literature and the Politics of Representation |first=Sarah Beth |last=Hunt |publisher=Routledge |year=2014 |isbn=978-1-31755-952-8 |page=130 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HHc9BAAAQBAJ&pg=PA130}}</ref> which was taken from ''Swatantrata Sangram Mein Achhuton Ka Yogdan'', a 1990 work written by D. C. Dinkar.<ref name="conference">{{cite paper |url=http://www.csas.ed.ac.uk/mutiny/confpapers/Tiwari-Paper.pdf |pages=13, 27, 33 |title=Identity and Narratives: Dalits and memories of 1857 |first=Badri Narayan |last=Tiwari |publisher=University of Edinburgh: Mutiny at the Margins Conference |year=2007}}</ref>
 
==Early life==
Chetram Jatav was born on 19 July 1827 in Soro village of [[Etah district]], [[Uttar Pradesh]], into a [[Jatav]] family.<ref name=":1" /><ref name="tiwari">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iAQrpDW4-_YC&pg=PA99 |title=Women Heroes and Dalit Assertion in North India: Culture, Identity and Politics |first=Badri Narayan |last=Tiwari |page=99 |publisher=SAGE |year=2006|isbn=9780761935377 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.rediff.com/news/2005/nov/10revolt.htm |work=Rediff |title=Dalits took part in 1857 revolt: Study |date=10 November 2005 |agency=PTI |access-date=2016-09-21}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Mutiny at the Margins: New Perspectives on the Indian Uprising of 1857 |editor-first=Crispin |editor-last=Bates |publisher=SAGE Publications India |year=2013 |isbn=978-8-13211-864-0 |page=22 |chapter=Identity and Narratives |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EfWnAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA6}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Hindi Dalit Literature and the Politics of Representation |first=Sarah Beth |last=Hunt |publisher=Routledge |year=2014 |isbn=978-1-31755-952-8 |page=130 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HHc9BAAAQBAJ&pg=PA130}}</ref><ref name="conference">{{cite web |url=http://www.csas.ed.ac.uk/mutiny/confpapers/Tiwari-Paper.pdf |pages=13, 27, 33 |title=Identity and Narratives: Dalits and memories of 1857 |first=Badri Narayan |last=Tiwari |publisher=University of Edinburgh: Mutiny at the Margins Conference |year=2007 |access-date=22 September 2016 |archive-date=6 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211006062012/http://www.csas.ed.ac.uk/mutiny/confpapers/Tiwari-Paper.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>


==In popular culture==
==In popular culture==
The [[Bahujan Samaj Party]] has adopted Jatav and some others who died as a result of the 1857 rebellion as icons of [[Dalit]] heroism.<ref>{{cite book |title=Kanshiram: Leader of the Dalits |first=Badri Narayan |last=Tiwari |publisher=Penguin UK |year=2014 |isbn=978-9-35118-670-0 |page=113 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0bo0AwAAQBAJ&pg=PT113}}</ref> According to Tiwari, Dalit intellectuals supported by BSP, which is trying to mobilise grassroot Dalits using local heroes, histories, myths and legends found a wealth of resources in the oral history of the regions of [[Uttar Pradesh]] centering around the 1857 rebellion. The political strategy of the party is to tell and retell the stories of these heroes, build memorials and organize celebrations around their stories repeatedly to build a collective memory in the psyche of the people. The stories are narrated in such a manner that the Dalits imagine the story of the making of this nation in which they played a significant role.<ref name="conference"/>
The land behind Samta Mulak Chowk in [[Lucknow]] was named by the [[Bahujan Samaj Party|BSP]] government as ''Shaheed Chetram Jatav Park.''<ref>{{cite book |title=Kanshiram: Leader of the Dalits |first=Badri Narayan |last=Tiwari |publisher=Penguin UK |year=2014 |isbn=978-9-35118-670-0 |page=113 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0bo0AwAAQBAJ&pg=PT113}}</ref><ref name="conference"/>


==References==
==References==
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[[Category:Revolutionaries of the Indian Rebellion of 1857]]
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[[Category:People executed by British India]]
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[[Category:19th-century executions by British India]]
[[Category:19th-century executions by British India]]
[[Category:People from Etah district]]
[[Category:People from Etah district]]
[[Category:Dalit history]]
[[Category:Dalit history]]
[[Category:Bahujan Samaj Party]]
[[Category:Indian independence activists from Uttar Pradesh]]
[[Category:Indian independence activists from Uttar Pradesh]]
[[Category:1827 births]]
[[Category:1857 deaths]]

Latest revision as of 11:48, 7 March 2026


Chetram Jatav
Born
Chetram jatav

19 July 1827
Soro village of Etah district, Uttar Pradesh, British India
Died26 May 1857 (Aged 30)
Cause of deathTied to tree and Gun Shot
Other namesCheta Ram
OccupationRevolutionary
OrganizationNames of the Indian Rebellion of 1857
Known forLed initial actions against the British East India Company and Soldiers Killing without weapons
MovementIndian Rebellion of 1857
Criminal statusExecuted
Conviction(s)Killing
Criminal penaltyDeath
Details
VictimsBritish Soldiers

Chetram Jatav (19 July 1827 – 26 May 1857) was an Indian revolutionary who participated in Indian Rebellion of 1857.[1][2]

He and his compatriot Ballu Mehtar were executed by being tied to a tree and then shot at.[3]

Early life[edit | edit source]

Chetram Jatav was born on 19 July 1827 in Soro village of Etah district, Uttar Pradesh, into a Jatav family.[2][3][4][5][6][7]

In popular culture[edit | edit source]

The land behind Samta Mulak Chowk in Lucknow was named by the BSP government as Shaheed Chetram Jatav Park.[8][7]

References[edit | edit source]

  1. ↑ Dinkar, D.C. (14 April 2007). Swatantrata Sangram Mei Achhuton Ka Yogdan (in हिन्दी) (1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th ed.). Delhi, India.: Gautam Book Center. p. 48. ISBN 978-8187733720. Chetram Jatav and his revolution in 1857
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Singh, Satnam (2013). Swatantrata Sanram Mei Achhut Jatiyon Ka Yogdan (in हिन्दी) (1st, 2nd ed.). Dehli, India.: Samyak Prakashan. p. 58. ISBN 9789391503079. Chetram Lake
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Tiwari, Badri Narayan (2006). Women Heroes and Dalit Assertion in North India: Culture, Identity and Politics. SAGE. p. 99. ISBN 9780761935377.
  4. ↑ "Dalits took part in 1857 revolt: Study". Rediff. PTI. 10 November 2005. Retrieved 21 September 2016.
  5. ↑ Bates, Crispin, ed. (2013). "Identity and Narratives". Mutiny at the Margins: New Perspectives on the Indian Uprising of 1857. SAGE Publications India. p. 22. ISBN 978-8-13211-864-0.
  6. ↑ Hunt, Sarah Beth (2014). Hindi Dalit Literature and the Politics of Representation. Routledge. p. 130. ISBN 978-1-31755-952-8.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Tiwari, Badri Narayan (2007). "Identity and Narratives: Dalits and memories of 1857" (PDF). University of Edinburgh: Mutiny at the Margins Conference. pp. 13, 27, 33. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 October 2021. Retrieved 22 September 2016.
  8. ↑ Tiwari, Badri Narayan (2014). Kanshiram: Leader of the Dalits. Penguin UK. p. 113. ISBN 978-9-35118-670-0.

Further reading[edit | edit source]

  • Dinkar, D. C. (1990). Swatantrata Sangram mein Achhuton ka Yogdan. Lucknow: Bodhisatva Prakashan.
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