| Name(s) |
SUBHADRA KUMARI
CHAUHAN |
| Date of
Birth |
August 16, 1904 |
| Date of
Death |
February 15, 1948 |
|
Identity |
Indian Hindi poetess |
|
Date-wise Events / Works |
August 06, 1976
- India Posts released a commemorative postage stamp in her
honour. |
|
Other Events &
Developments |
- She was famous for Hindi poems
composed primarily in Veer Ras, one
of the nine Rasas (English:
Flavour/Subgenre).
- She joined the Non-Cooperation
Movement in 1921.
- She 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 and 1942.
- Her most famous composition is
Jhansi Ki Rani, which is one of the
most recited and sung poems in Hindi
literature:
- सिंहासन हिल उठे
राजवंशों ने भृकुटी तानी थी,
- बूढ़े भारत में आई फिर से नयी
जवानी थी,
- गुमी हुई आज़ादी की कीमत सबने
पहचानी थी,
- दूर फिरंगी को करने की सबने
मन में ठानी थी।
- चमक उठी सन सत्तावन में, वह
तलवार पुरानी थी,
- बुंदेले हरबोलों के मुँह हमने
सुनी कहानी थी,
- खूब लड़ी मर्दानी वह तो झाँसी
वाली रानी थी।।
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Commemorations |
- An Indian Coast Guard ship, ICGS
Subhadra Kumari Chauhan has been
named after her.
- Her Statue has been installed by
the Madhya Pradesh Government in
front of the Municipal Corporation
office of Jabalpur.
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