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Chapekar brothers
Also known as Chapekar brothers
The Chapekar brothers — Damodar Hari Chapekar (1869-1898) and Balkrishna Hari Chapekar (1873-1899) — the Pune Chitpavan Brahmin brothers who assassinated the Pune Plague Commissioner W.C. Rand and Lt C.E. Ayerst on 22 June 1897 as revenge for the brutal British plague-control measures (forcible entry into homes, segregation of plague suspects, cremation against religious practice). The June 1897 assassinations at Ganeshkhind Road were among the earliest anti-colonial political killings in India. Damodar was hanged at Yerwada on 18 April 1898; Balkrishna was hanged on 12 May 1899. The 1897 Chapekar incident radicalised a generation of Deccan nationalists including Vinayak Damodar Savarkar.
- Date
- 1869–1899
- Function
- Social reform & movement
- Confidence
- Established / referenced
Connections (1)
- CampaignPune/ Poona
The Chapekar brothers' 22 June 1897 assassination of Plague Commissioner W.C. Rand and Lt C.E. Ayerst at Ganeshkhind Road, Pune, was in response to the brutal British plague-control measures across Pune city during the 1897 Bubonic Plague outbreak. The Chapekar brothers were Chitpavan Brahmins from the Pune Chitpavan community and their 1897 action radicalised a generation of Deccan nationalists.
Sources
Standard biography; regional historiography.
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