Subhadra Kumari Chauhan, honoured by Google Doodle

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An illustrated Google Doodle has honoured Subhadra Kumari Chauhan, India's first woman satyagrahi who also wrote the iconic Jhansi ki Rani poem on her 117th birth anniversary.

About Subhadra Kumari Chauhan

• Subhadra Kumari Chauhan was born on August 16, 1904, in Nihalpur village, Prayagraj.
• She attended the Crosthwaite Girls' School and passed middle-school in 1919 when she married Thakur Laxman Singh Chauhan of Khandwa at the age of just 16.
• Both SubhadraKumariChauhan and her husband became a part of Mahatma Gandhi's Non-cooperation movement in 1921.
• During the struggle, she became the first woman satyagrahi to court arrest and was subsequently jailed in Nagpur.
• Subhadra Kumari Chauhan continued to participate in the freedom struggle and joined Mahatma Gandhi's movements in 1923 as well as in 1942.
• In between this period she also became a member of the legislative assembly in what was formerly known as Central provinces.
• The country had honoured her by naming a coast guard ship after her and the state did so by putting up a statue in Jabalpur.   
• Chauhan became a prominent poet and freedom fighter in an age that was dominated by males.
• She used her poetry to boost the morale of the countrymen in their fight for freedom.
• She also highlighted the hardships faced by Indian women including "gender and caste discrimination".