Subhadra Kumari Chauhan
Subhadra Kumari Chauhan, 1904-1948, writer and freedom fighter. Born in an orthodox middle-class Rajput family of Allahabad, U.P., she was married to Thakur Lakshman Singh, a lawyer of Jabalpur. She joined her husband in the Non-Cooperation Movement and was the first woman satyagrahi, and led a procession, along with her husband, in March 1923 in protest against the police atrocities. She was in jail in 1940 and again in 1942. She was elected to the Legislative Assembly of the former Central Provinces in 1936, and again in 1946. She was a writer too, and wrote many poems and short stories, including a famous poem on Rani of Jhansi. She died in a car accident in 1948.
