Subhadra Kumari Chauhan, who passed
away on 15 February 1948, was an Indian poet. Chauhan 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 Lakshi Bai. The poem is one of the most recited and sung
poems in Hindi literature. An emotionally charged description of the life of
the queen of Jhansi (British India) and her participation in the 1857
revolution, it is often taught in schools in India.
This
and her other poems, Jallianwala Bagh mein Vasant, 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.
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.
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