Known as the ‘first woman satyagrahi’ Chauhan played an important role in India’s freedom movement
After celebrating India’s 75th Independence Day and marking it on doodle on Sunday, Google dedicated Monday’s doodle to Indian poet Subhadra Kumari Chauhan.
Today (August 16, 2021) is Chauhan’s 117th birth anniversary. She was born on August 16, 1904 in Nihalpur village, the Indian State of Uttar Pradesh. The village falls in Prayagraj (formerly Allahabad).
Known as the ‘first woman satyagrahi’ Chauhan played an important role in India’s freedom movement.
Google used New Zealand-based artist Prabha Mallya’s painting in which she has depicted Jhasi ki Rani (Queen of Jhasi) in the background. Chauhan is known for her most iconic Hindi poem ‘Jhasi ki Rani’ .
“Subhadra Kumari Chauhan was a trailblazing writer and freedom fighter who rose to national prominence during a male-dominated era of literature.”
Subhadra Kumari Chauhan is seen with a pen and paper in the doodle.
Google called the poetess “a trailblazing writer and freedom fighter who rose to national prominence during a male-dominated era of literature.”
“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,” a statement from Google said.
“She was known to write constantly, even in the horse cart on the way to school, and her first poem was published at just nine years old. The call for Indian independence reached its height during her early adulthood. As a participant in the Indian Nationalist Movement, she used her poetry to call others to fight for their nation’s sovereignty,” Google said.