Baburam Yadav
A Moradabad brass engraver with six decades in the craft who has trained hundreds of young people free of charge, honoured with the Padma Shri in 2024.
Baburam Yadav is a brass engraver from Moradabad in Uttar Pradesh, a city famous for its brassware. He was named for the Padma Shri in 2024 in the field of art, from Uttar Pradesh [1].
Learning the craft
He was born on 16 February 1949 [2]. His father electroplated brass utensils and handicrafts, and Yadav took up engraving on brass [2]. He began learning in 1960 from Maqbool Hussain, trained at Moradabad’s District Industries Centre in 1962–63, and then studied for ten years with Amar Singh [2].
After some 25 years of work, he won his first state award in 1987 and a National Certificate of Merit in 1991 [2].
Teacher
Yadav has taught engraving free of charge to 160 girls and 730 boys and has led many training programmes, including under the government’s skill-development schemes [2]. Five of his students have gone on to win state awards and three national awards [2].
He has shown his work at craft fairs across India, including 14 times at Shilpgram in Hyderabad, and abroad in France (2005), Sri Lanka (2009), Bangladesh (2010) and Algeria (2014) [2]. In 2014 the Government of India named him a Shilp Guru, its title for master craftspeople [2].
Sources
- [1] Padma Awards 2024: list of awardees — Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. Accessed 15 October 2026.
- [2] Padma Awards 2024: citation for Baburam Yadav — Padma Awards, Government of India. Accessed 15 October 2026.
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