subhadra kumari chauhan - biography

Subhadra Kumari Chauhan

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Born 1904

Nihalpur Village, Allahabad District,

Uttar Pradesh, British India

Died May 15, 1948[1] (aged-43/44)

Occupation Poet

Nationality Indian

Subhadra Kumari ChauhanFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Subhadra Kumari Chauhan (1904 – February 15, 1948)

was an Indian poet famous for Hindi poems composed

primarily in Veer Ras, one of the nine Ras' (English:

Flavour/Subgenre).

Contents

1 Early life

2 Family

3 Career

3.1 Writing career

4 Death

5 Works

5.1 Collections of poems

6 References

7 External links

Early life

Born in Nihalpur village in Allahabad District in Uttar Pradesh. She initially studied in the Crosthwaite Girls’

School in Allahabad and passed the middle-school examination in 1919. After her marriage to Thakur

Lakshman Singh Chauhan of Khandwa in the same year, she moved to Jabalpur.

Family

She had five children: Sudha Chauhan (now deceased), Ajay Chauhan (now deceased), Vijay Chauhan (now

deceased), Ashok Chauhan (now deceased) and Mamta Chauhan (Bhargava), currently residing in Buffalo,

India. The widows of Ajay and Ashok Chauhan currently live in Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh.[citation needed]

Career

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

and 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 (http://www.anubhuti-

hindi.org/sankalan/vasanti_hava/veeronka.htm), Rakhi Ki Chunauti, and Vida (http://www.kavitakosh.org

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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:

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Roman transliteration using ITRANS:

simhasan hil uthe, rajavanshon ne bhrikuti tani thi,

boodhhe bharat mein aayi, phir se nayi jawaani thi,

gumi hui azadI ki keemat sab ne pahachani thi,

door firangi ko karne ki sab ne man mein thani thi.

chamak uthi san sattawan mein, woh talwaar puraani thi,

bundele harbolon ke munh ham ne sunI kahani thi,

khoob ladi mardani woh to jhansI wali rani thi.

English translation:

The thrones shook and royalties scowled

Old India was re-invigorated with new youth

People realised the value of lost freedom

Everybody was determined to throw the foreigners out

The old sword glistened again in 1857

This story we heard from the mouths of Bundel bards

Like a man she fought, she was the Queen of Jhansi

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.

Death

She died in 1948 in a car accident near Kalbodi (in Seoni, Madhya Pradesh). An Indian Coast Guard ship has

been named after her.[1] A Statue of Subhadra Kumari Chauhan has been installed by the Madhya Pradesh

Government in front of the Municipal Corporation office of Jabalpur.

Works


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Collections of poems

Tridhara

Mukul (1930)

Yeh Kadamb Ka Ped

These anthologies consist some of the well-known poems like Jhansi ki Raani, Veeron Ka Kaisa Ho Basant and

Yeh Kadamb Ka Ped.

Seedhe-Saade Chitra (1946)

Seedhe-saade Chitra(1946)

Mera naya bachpan(1946)

References

^ a b R. P. Tiwari (1999). Perspectives On Indian Women (http://books.google.com/books?id=npwz9iE5KMUC).

APH Publishing. p. 137 (http://books.google.com.ph/books?id=npwz9iE5KMUC&pg=PA137).

ISBN 978-81-7648-025-3.

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Nalini Natarajan, Emmanuel Sampath Nelson (1996). Handbook of Twentieth-century Literatures of

India (http://books.google.com/books?id=vfSPI2irzUgC&pg=PA146&lpg=PA146&

dq=subhadra+kumari+chauhan&source=web&ots=gIEswPt640&sig=qA4sdurkWJYNDj48iRirZaQbiVg).

Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 0-313-28778-3. by Natarajan, N.

External links

Subhadra Kumari Chauhan at Kavita Kosh (http://www.kavitakosh.org/kk/index.php?title=

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Another brief biography (http://web.archive.org/web/20091027173647/http://geocities.com

/dakshina_kan_pa/art31/women6.htm)

Short note and recitation of the poem Jhansi Ki Rani (http://www.historytalking.com/hindi.htm)

Jhansi Ki Rani English Translation By Qazi Muhammad Ahkam (http://oldpoetry.com/opoem/41054-

Subhadra-Kumari-Chauhan-Jhansi-Ki-Rani--With-English-Translation-)

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