Veer Narayan Singh

Veer Narayan Singh (1795–1857)[1] was a landlord from Sonakhan, in the present-day Indian State of Chhattisgarh.

Among his relatives, Saheed Madho Singh Bariha from Ghess in Bargarh district of Odisha also fought against the British and was martyred in 1858.

His great-grandfather was Deewan of Sonakhan and at the age of thirty five he took over the landlordship rights from his father Ram Rai.

[2] The British arrested him in 1856 for looting a trader's grain stocks and distributing it amongst the poor in a severe famine year.

Veer Narayan Singh's martyrdom has been resurrected in the 1990s and he has become a potent symbol of Chhattisgarhi pride.