Sehrawat

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.

ehrawat clan concentration

New Delhi

Delhi has a major concentration of Sehrawats and are found mainly in villages Mahipalpur, Malik pur kohi alias Rangpuri, Nangal Dewat (now acquired & shifted due to expansion of IGI Airport; shifted behind Indian spinal injuries hospital in a resettlement colony ), Kair, Kishan Garh, Bawana, Bakkarwala, Hiran Kudna alias Jaffarpur, Baprola, Sahipur, Pochan Pur, Dhool Siras, Mehram Nagar.

Haryana

In Haryana the main village of Sehrawats in Haryana is Khard Alipur, Niyana, Bhainswal, Dipalpur, Bhadani, Kultana and some villages near Tauru (Sehrawats in Tauru are basically from the villages of New Delhi; namely Mahipalpur, Nangal Dewat etc. who migrated there after land acquisition in New Delhi), Sukhrali (Gurgaon), Hassanpur (Tauru) and Dhakiya (Rewari). Few families of Sehrawat are also located in Dubaldhan Majra (Jhajar).

Madhya Pradesh

Bhopal, Mandsaur, Gwalior

Uttar Pradesh

Muzaffarnagar, Yusufpur, Nauna, Tissa Alipur, Nona, Mathedi, Bhokerehri, Meerut, Mathura

Rajasthan

Bharatpur, Kakrauli (Alwar)

Notable people of the clan

Media and ntertainment

*Manish Sehrawat (Bakkarwala, New Delhi) - Associate Vice President at Star TV/Channel V. Manish is an alumnus of the National Institute of Design (NID), Ahmedabad

*Mallika Sherawat - Indian film actress

*Padam Sherawat - Zee Sports anchor

*Vinod Sherawat - Host of popular TV shows "Bluffmaster" and "Kisko Cash Milega"

ports

*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 Director of Education in New Delhi. Satpal is also the coach of Sushil Kumar who won the bronze medal in the Men's 66 kg freestyle wrestling event at 2008 Beijing Olympics.

*Sarika (Sehrawat) Vohra - India's only woman professional car rallyist. Sarika has an MBA from the Fore School of Management, New Delhi. http://www.sarikasehrawat.com/ Randhir Singh Sehrawat, Gold Medelist Asiad Kabbadi, Arjun Award resident of village kair, Delhi Sh.Kishan Sehrawat from Kabbadi National Player Gian Chand Sehrawat international wrestler Kuldip Sehrawat International wrestler Sunil Sehrawat, Boxer, gold medalist

Information technology

*Rajdeep Sehrawat - Senior executive at NASSCOM responsible for Education, Innovation, Public Policy, Quality and developing the domestic IT market.

*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.

Public administration

*Mehtab Singh Sehrawat - I.A.S. Haryana.

*V.S.Sehrawat - Chartering Officer, Dept.of Shipping, Ministry of Shipping, Road Transport and Highways, Parivahan Bhawan, Parliament Street, New Delhi.

*J.S. Sehrawat - Under Secretary, Ministry of Commerce & Industry, Department of Industrial Policy & Promotion, Udyog Bhawan, New Delhi.

*Mahabir Singh Sehrawat (Sahipur, New Delhi) - Asst. Commissioner of Police, Delhi Police.

*Chander Bhan - Commissioner (Central Excise and Customs)

Commerce

*Vandana Rana Sehrawat (Bakkarwala, New Delhi) - Vandana is Executive Director at QGL out of Ontario which has representation in U.S., Canada and EMEA markets. She is also on the Board of Directors of Groupsoft Canada Inc. Vandana has an MBA from the prestigious Richard Ivey School of Business, University of Western Ontario in London-Ontario. She also completed 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.

*Mahabir Singh Sehrawat (Bakkarwala, New Delhi) - General Manager at Metro Group (Metro Tyres Limited, Metro International Limited and Metro Ortem Limited).

*Sanjeev Sehrawat - Head - Business Banking at ICICI Bank Limited. Sanjeev is an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Bangalore

*Manoj Sehrawat - Vice President of Principal Investment Management at JP Morgan.

Education

*Dr. Samiksha Sehrawat - Samiksha was appointed to the John Anderson Lectureship in History at the History Department in October 2006. She was Research Officer at the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, University of Oxford in March-September 2006. http://www.strath.ac.uk/history/staff/sehrawatsamikshadré

*Dr. Chandra Pal Singh - H.O.D. Geography at Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi.

*Dr. Surinder Kumar Sehrawat - Professor, CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar

ocialites

*Ch. Yudhvir Sehrawat - General Secretary to All India Jat Mahasabha, and a social worker. Ch.Joginder Singh Sehrawat, Advocate, social worker and Member of All INdia Jat Mahasabha from Kair Village Ch.Amar Singh Sehrawat Former Chairmen of Najafgarh Block Panchayat Samilti of 69 Village and reputed social worker in Jat Community from Kair Village

Freedom Fighters

*Ch. Mani Ram Sehrawat (Khard Alipur, Hisar Haryana) - Destroyed the statue of George Pancham in New Delhi.

Armed Forces

*Major Jage Ram Sehrawat (Bakkarwala, New Delhi)

*Flying Officer Shekhar Sehrawat (Bakkarwala, New Delhi)

*Colonel Birender Singh Sehrawat (Bakkarwala, New Delhi)

*Naval Officer (Submarine) Neeraj Sehrawat (Bakkarwala, New Delhi)

*Major Anup Singh (Dubaldhan Majra)

*Rattan Singh Sehrawat (Mahipalpur - New Delhi) - Ex-Serviceman (JAT Regiment), SA-I, Lok Sabha Sect. Parliament House, New Delhi.

References

* Ram Swarup Joon: History of the Jats, Rohtak, India (1938, 1967)