Chetram Jatav (19 July 182726 May 1857) was an Indian revolutionary who participated in
Indian Rebellion of 1857
The Indian Rebellion of 1857 was a major uprising in India in 1857–58 against Company rule in India, the rule of the East India Company, British East India Company, which functioned as a sovereign power on behalf of the The Crown, British ...
.
He and his compatriot Ballu Mehtar were executed by being tied to a tree and then shot at.
Early life
Chetram Jatav was born on 19 July 1827 in Soro village of
Etah district,
Uttar Pradesh
Uttar Pradesh ( ; UP) is a States and union territories of India, state in North India, northern India. With over 241 million inhabitants, it is the List of states and union territories of India by population, most populated state in In ...
, into a
Jatav family.
In popular culture
The land behind Samta Mulak Chowk in
Lucknow
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was named by the
BSP government as ''Shaheed Chetram Jatav Park.''
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Revolutionaries of the Indian Rebellion of 1857
Year of birth unknown
19th-century executions by British India
People from Etah district
Dalit history
Indian independence activists from Uttar Pradesh
1827 births
1857 deaths
History of Uttar Pradesh