:Chetram Jatav
{{Short description|Indian revolutionary (1827–1857)}}
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{{Infobox criminal
| name = Chetram Jatav
| image =
| birth_name = Chetram Raidass
| birth_date = 19 July 1827
| nationality = Indian
| occupation = Revolutionary
| known_for = Led initial actions against the British East India Company and Soldiers Killing without weapons
| criminal_status = Executed
| movement = Indian Rebellion of 1857
| victims = British Soldiers
| death_cause = Tied to tree and Gun Shot
| organization = Names of the Indian Rebellion of 1857
| criminal_penalty = Death
| conviction = Killing
| death_date = 26 May 1857 (Aged 30)
| other_names = Cheta Ram
| birth_place = Soro village of Etah district, Uttar Pradesh, British India
}}
Chetram Jatav (19 July 1827{{snd}}26 May 1857) was an Indian revolutionary who participated in Indian Rebellion of 1857.{{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}}{{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}}
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, into a Jatav family.{{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 }}{{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}}{{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}}{{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}}{{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 }}
In popular culture
The land behind Samta Mulak Chowk in Lucknow was named by the BSP government as Shaheed Chetram Jatav Park.{{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}}
References
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Further reading
- {{cite book |first=D. C. |last=Dinkar |year=1990 |title=Swatantrata Sangram mein Achhuton ka Yogdan |publisher=Bodhisatva Prakashan |location=Lucknow}}
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Category:Revolutionaries of the Indian Rebellion of 1857
Category:Year of birth unknown
Category:19th-century executions by British India
Category:People from Etah district