Subhadra Kumari Chauhan (Aged 44) born on 16 August 1904 in Nihalpur village in Allahabad District, Uttar Pradesh, India. She was an Indian poet, best known for her popular poem “Jhansi ki Rani” which celebrates the valiant Queen of Jhansi. Chauhan received her initial education at the Crosthwaite Girls’ School in Allahabad, where she befriended and was senior to Mahadevi Verma, and passed her middle-school examination in 1919.
At the age of sixteen, Chauhan married Thakur Lakshman Singh Chauhan of Khandwa in 1919 and moved to Jubbulpore (now Jabalpur), Central Provinces. She and her husband joined Mahatma Gandhi’s Non-Cooperation Movement in 1921, and Chauhan became the first woman Satyagrahi to be arrested in Nagpur, where she was jailed twice for her participation in protests against British rule in 1923 and 1942.
Chauhan was also a member of the legislative assembly of the state (formerly Central Provinces). Sadly, she passed away in 1948 in a car accident near Seoni, Madhya Pradesh, while traveling back to Jabalpur from Nagpur, the then capital of Central Provinces, where she had gone to attend the assembly session.
Subhadra Kumari Chauhan
(1904 – 1948) – (Uttar Pradesh)
Subhadra Kumari Chauhan (Aged 44) born on 16 August 1904 in Nihalpur village in Allahabad District, Uttar Pradesh, India. She was an Indian poet, best known for her popular poem “Jhansi ki Rani” which celebrates the valiant Queen of Jhansi. Chauhan received her initial education at the Crosthwaite Girls’ School in Allahabad, where she befriended and was senior to Mahadevi Verma, and passed her middle-school examination in 1919.
At the age of sixteen, Chauhan married Thakur Lakshman Singh Chauhan of Khandwa in 1919 and moved to Jubbulpore (now Jabalpur), Central Provinces. She and her husband joined Mahatma Gandhi’s Non-Cooperation Movement in 1921, and Chauhan became the first woman Satyagrahi to be arrested in Nagpur, where she was jailed twice for her participation in protests against British rule in 1923 and 1942.
Chauhan was also a member of the legislative assembly of the state (formerly Central Provinces). Sadly, she passed away in 1948 in a car accident near Seoni, Madhya Pradesh, while traveling back to Jabalpur from Nagpur, the then capital of Central Provinces, where she had gone to attend the assembly session.
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