On the 117th anniversary of her birth, Google honoured the famed Hindi poet and satyagrahi Subhadra Kumari Chauhan, who is recognised as India's first woman protester during the country's freedom fight, with a doodle. Chauhan was dressed in a white sari with a brown stripe across the borders in the doodle. In the picture, she is seen in a thoughtful position with a pen and paper.
In the backdrop, the doodle portrays young Jhansi ki Rani riding her white horse. The illustrator also sketched a large gathering of satyagrahis waving flags on the right side.
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The Google Doodle page reads: “In 1923, Chauhan’s unyielding activism led her to become the first woman satyagrahi, a member of the Indian collective of nonviolent anti-colonialists to be arrested in the struggle for national liberation. She continued to make revolutionary statements in the fight for freedom both on and off the page into the 1940s, publishing a total of 88 poems and 46 short stories”.
One of the most repeated and sung poems in Hindi literature is Chauhan's 'Jhansi ki Rani,' which describes the life of Rani Lakhmi Bai.
In 1904, she was born into a Rajput family in the village of Nihalpur in Uttar Pradesh. In 1919, she passed from Crosthwaite Girls' School in Prayagraj with a middle-school education.
She joined Mahatma Gandhi's Non-Cooperation Movement against the British after marrying Thakur Lakshman Singh Chauhan of Khandwa and became the country's first lady satyagrahi. In 1923 and 1942, she was imprisoned twice for her role in anti-British riots.
She has been writing since from an early age. When she was nine years old, her first poetry was published.
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She utilised her significant writing and poems as a weapon to encourage others as a member of the Indian National Movement. Her works portrayed the difficulties and obstacles encountered by Indian women throughout the country's independence fight.
Chauhan wrote in a Hindi dialect known as Khariboli. She has also created children's poetry and short tales focused on the lives of the society's middle class.
On February 15, 1948, Chauhan died away. An Indian Coast Guard ship was named after her in recognition of her outstanding service. Madhya Pradesh's government erected a monument of her in front of the Jabal Municipal Corporation office.
'Khilonewala,' 'Tridhara,' 'Mukul,' and 'Yeh Kadamb Ka Ped' are among her famous works, in addition to Jhansi ki Rani.