Subhadra Kumari Chauhan

August 18, 2023

Google honoured Subhadra Kumari Chauhan with a special graphic on her 117th birth anniversary on August 16.

ABOUT SUBHADRA KUMARI CHAUHAN

On August 16, 1904, Subhadra Kumari Chauhan was born in Nihalpur, Uttar Pradesh.
She was known to write constantly, even in the horse cart on the way to school, and her first poem was published when she was just 9.
Subhadra Kumari Chauhan was a trailblazing writer and freedom fighter whose work rose to national prominence during a male-dominated era of literature.
She published a total of 88 poems and 46 short stories.
Jhansi ki Rani, Subhadra’s nationalist poem, is regarded as one of the most recited poems in Hindi literature.
She was India’s first woman Satyagrahi to be arrested in 1923 in Nagpur.
Her poetry and prose primarily centered around the hardships that Indian women overcame, such as gender and caste discrimination.
She died in 1948 in a car accident near Seoni, Madhya Pradesh on her way back to Jabalpur from Nagpur.