Subhadra Kumari Chauhan
1904–1948
Biography
Subhadra Kumari Chauhan (1904–1948) was an Indian poet and writer who worked in Hindi. She was born near Allahabad, in the United Provinces, and became one of the best-known voices of the national movement in modern Hindi literature. Her verse was direct and stirring, and it was widely read by people who followed the struggle for independence.
Her most famous poem is Jhansi Ki Rani (The Queen of Jhansi), which honours the queen who resisted British forces during the rebellion of 1857. It remains one of the most familiar poems in Hindi. Chauhan was herself jailed twice for her part in the freedom movement, and those experiences led her to express some of what she felt in prose as well as in verse.
The book on this site, बिखरे मोती (Scattered Pearls), is a collection of her short stories. It is a useful counterweight to her reputation as a poet, because it lets readers meet the prose she wrote alongside the verse that made her famous.
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Books
बिखरे मोती
by सुभद्रा कुमारी चौहान
Fifteen stories by the poet Subhadra Kumari Chauhan, first published in 1932, mostly about women and the household: a childless wife, a fisherman's daughter, a village girl. The title means scattered pearls.
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