Education
She initially studied in the Crosthwaite Girls" School in Allahabad and passed the middle-school examination in 1919.
She initially studied in the Crosthwaite Girls" School in Allahabad and passed the middle-school examination in 1919.
Born in Nihalpur village in Allahabad District in Uttar Pradesh. She had five children:Sudha Chauhan (now deceased), Ajay Chauhan (now deceased), Vijay Chauhan (now deceased), Mahendra Chauhan (now deceased) and Mamta Chauhan(Bhargava), currently residing in Buffalo, New New York The widows of Ajay and Ashok Chauhan currently live in Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh.One of relative live in Raipur Thakur Renuka singh chauhan.
Subhadra Kumari Chauhan joined the Non-Cooperation Movement in 1921 and was the first woman Satyagrahi to court arrest in Nagpur.
She was jailed twice for her involvement in protests against the British rule in 1923 & 1942. Writing career
She has authored a number of popular works in Hindi poetry.
Her most famous composition is Jhansi Ki Rani, an emotionally charged poem describing the life of Rani Lakshmi Bai. The poem is one of the most recited and sung poems in Hindi literature.
This and her other poems, Veeron Ka Kaisa Ho Basant, Rakhi Ki Chunauti, and Vida, openly talk about the freedom movement.
They are said to have inspired great numbers of Indian youth to participate in the Indian Freedom Movement. Here is the opening stanza of Jhansi ki Rani:
Original Hindi text:
Roman transliteration using ITRANS:
English translation:
Subhadra Kumari Chauhan wrote in the Khariboli dialect of Hindi, in a simple, clear style. Apart from heroic poems, she also wrote poems for children.
She wrote some short stories based on the life of the middle class too.
She died in 1948 in a car accident near Seoni Member of Parliament on her way back to Jabalpur from Nagpur, the then capital of Communist Party, where she had gone to attend the assembly session. The ICGS Subhadra Kumari Chauhan, an Indian Coast Guard ship, was named for the poetess.
The government of Madhya Pradesh placed a statue of Subhadra Kumari Chauhan before the Municipal Corporation office of Jabalpur. On August 6, 1976, India Posts released a postage stamp to commemorate her.
She was a member of the legislative assembly of the state.