Sehrawat
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Sehrawat or Sherawat or Sahrawat or Rawat or Rae are the same and gotra of Jats found in New Delhi, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh in India. Rai, Rao, Rawat and Sahrawat were only titles used by Tanwar sardars which later began to be used as gotras. The Rawat Jats have 800 villages in district Gurgaon and 8 villages in district Aligarh.
The capital of Sehrawats is Kishan Garh, Mehrauli in New Delhi where a very old house is still called a Palace.
12 villages near Mehrauli belong to the Sehrawat Jats. In Haryana they are found in Kair, Dipalpur, Bhadani, Kultana and other villages, and some are found in district Meerut also.
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[edit] Sehrawat clan concentration
[edit] New Delhi
Mahipal pur, Kair, Mehrauli, Kishan Garh, Najafgarh, Nangloi, Bawana, Bakkarwala, Hiran Koodna, Baprola, Kair, Sahipur,Pochan Pur, Dhool Siras, Mehram Nagar
[edit] Haryana
Khard Alipur, Bhainswal, Dipalpur, Bhadani, Kultana, Sukhrali,Hassanpur(tauru),Tauru (mewat)
[edit] Madhya Pradesh
Bhopal, Mandsaur, Gwalior
[edit] Uttar Pradesh
Muzaffarnagar, Yusufpur, Nauna, Tissa Alipur, Nona, Mathedi, Bhokerehri, Meerut, Mathura
[edit] Rajasthan
Bharatpur, Kakrauli (Alwar)
[edit] Notable people of the clan
[edit] Media & Entertainment
Mallika Sehrawat - The famous Indian film actress
[edit] Sports
Satpal Sehrawat (Bawana, New Delhi) - Heavyweight Wrestling Gold Medalist at Asian Games 1982, New Delhi. The feat earned him the Padma Shri in 1983. He had earlier received the Arjuna Award in 1974. He is currently serving as Dy. Director of Education in New Delhi.
Sarika (Sehrawat) Vohra - India's first and only woman professional car rallyist. Sarika has an MBA from the Fore School of Management, New Delhi. http://www.sarikasehrawat.com/
[edit] Information Technology
Rajdeep Sehrawat - Senior executive at NASSCOM responsible for Education, Innovation, Public Policy, Quality and developing the domestic IT market.
Check Pal Sehrawat (Kair, New Delhi)- first Sehrawat Jat in the IT Department and in-house developer of Delhi Police.
Rajiv Seharawat (Mahipalpur, New Delhi) - Manager Outsourcing at Infopro Corp. one of biggest e-Learning company in India.
Karan singh Sehrawat(Hassanpur ,Tauru(Haryana))- D.O.in Education Department Haryana. First Jat Sehrawat in this Department.
[edit] Bureaucracy
Mehtab Singh Sehrawat - I.A.S.
J.S. Sehrawat - Under Secretary, Ministry of Commerce & Industry, Department of Industrial Policy & Promotion, Udyog Bhawan, New Delhi
[edit] Commerce
Vandana Rana Sehrawat (Bakkarwala, New Delhi) - Vandana is on the Board of Directors at QGL out of Ontario which has representation in U.S., Canada and EMEA markets. Vandana has an MBA from the prestigious Richard Ivey School of Business, University of Western Ontario in London-Ontario. She did her Masters in Mathematics from Hindu College, University of Delhi.
Rajesh Sehrawat - Head of Business Services at Tesco. Rajesh was with GE for 7 years and has also worked with Time Warner and Worldcomm. Rajesh has a BA degree from Delhi University, India, and a Post Graduation in Management from Clarion University, Pennsylvania, USA.
Sheela Seharawat (Mahipalpur, New Delhi) - Dietician , experience in Weight Loss, therapeutic diets. Open's her Diet Clinic (www.dietclinic.in) in 2005 with a simple philosophy: Helping people to lose weight with out lifestyle changes.
[edit] Socialites
Ch. Yudhvir Sehrawat - General Secretary to All India Jat Mahasabha, and a social worker, A person fought for reservation in Rajasthan, a notable person.
[edit] Freedom Fighters
Ch. Mani Ram Sehrawat (Khard Alipur, Hisar Haryana) - Destroyed the statue of George Pancham in New Delhi.
[edit] Armed Forces
Late Major Jage Ram Sehrawat (Bakkarwala, New Delhi)
Late Flying Officer Shekhar Sehrawat (Bakkarwala, New Delhi)
Naval Officer (Submarine) Neeraj Sehrawat (Bakkarwala, New Delhi)
Rattan Singh Sehrawat (Mahipalpur - New Delhi) - Ex-Serviceman (JAT Regiment), SA-I, Lok Sabha Sect. Parliament House, New Delhi.
[edit] References
- Ram Swarup Joon: History of the Jats, Rohtak, India (1938, 1967)
