Martyr Sitaram Gupta

Fearless Patriot of Bewar (Mainpuri, Uttar Pradesh)

Martyr Sitaram Gupta at a Glance

  • Name: Sitaram Gupta (सीताराम गुप्त)​

  • Age at martyrdom: About 42 years in 1942​

  • Native Place: Bewar, District Mainpuri, Uttar Pradesh​

  • ​Contribution: Local leadership in the Quit India Movement (August 1942)

Martyr Sitaram Gupta was one of the three immortal heroes of Bewar who laid down their lives on 15 August 1942 while facing British bullets with the Tricolour in their hands.​
A resident of Bewar in Mainpuri district, he emerged as a brave and outspoken voice of ordinary people and became a symbol of courage, sacrifice and unwavering commitment to India’s freedom.

Fearless Freedom Fighter of Bewar

Front‑rank leader of the 1942 Quit India Movement in Bewar, standing firmly against British rule.

Martyr of 15 August 1942

Laid down his life in police firing while marching with the Tiranga towards Bewar police station.

Eternal Guardian at Shaheed Mandir

Honoured every year at Shaheed Mandir and 21‑day Shaheed Mela, inspiring new generations.

Roots of Sacrifice: Early Life and Family of Martyr Sitaram Gupta

Martyr Sitaram Gupta was born in 1900 in the town of Bewar. His father’s name was Shri Mathura Prasad Gupta. Martyr Sitaram’s mother was a very simple and ideal woman who, heartbroken by the loss of her beloved son, ended her own life.

Young Sitaram was deeply influenced by his mother’s simplicity and tolerance. Due to poverty, he could only receive a basic education.

In his youth, he was married with great fanfare. He initially engaged in the ghee trade to earn a living, but later started a cloth shop.

Martyr Sitaram had two brothers – Shri Puttulal (Bhuta) and Shri Ram Lal Gupta (Mahashay Ji).

Sitaram left behind young children after his martyrdom, including two sons and several daughters. The daughters’ marriages were somehow arranged with the help of family and community members, but his two sons struggled for years to make a living. Sitaram Gupta’s sons, Rambabu Gupta and Ramkrishna Gupta, still run a small business today, somehow managing to eke out a living and keep their lives going.

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Gentle Soul, Limitless Courage: The Life and Martyrdom

Martyr Sitaram Gupta was an extremely generous citizen. The saying, “Simple and virtuous beyond measure,” truly applies to such noble men. He was never heard speaking harshly to anyone.

Although Gupta Ji was not a politically inclined person, like other ordinary citizens of those days, he was deeply imbued with feelings of patriotism. Because of this, he was among the young men who marched at the forefront of the protest procession that day, and bravely faced the British regime’s bullets, succumbing to his injuries at the age of 42. This immortal martyr breathed his last amidst cries and groans of “water, water” while under police custody. Exactly four years after Shri Sitaram Gupta’s martyrdom, on the same date and at the same time (August 15, 1946), his devoted wife also joined her beloved. The story of the patriotism and sacrifice of the immortal martyr Sitaram Gupta will be remembered for generations to come.

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