Whose famous literary work is "Mukul"?
- (a)Makhanlal Chaturvedi
- (b)Bhavani Prasad Mishra
- (c)Mukutdhar Pandey
- (d)Subhadra Kumari Chauhan
Correct — D, Subhadra Kumari Chauhan. Mukul (1930) is her well-known collection of Hindi poems, and it includes her most celebrated composition, the ballad 'Jhansi Ki Rani' (opening line: 'Khoob ladi mardani, woh to Jhansi wali Rani thi'), which commemorates Rani Lakshmibai's role in the 1857 revolt. Chauhan (1904–1948) was herself a freedom fighter — the first woman Satyagrahi to court arrest in Nagpur.
- (a)Makhanlal Chaturvedi — A noted Hindi poet and freedom fighter of MP in his own right, but Mukul is not his work — he is a separate literary figure of the same era.
- (b)Bhavani Prasad Mishra — A Hindi poet associated with Gandhian themes, but not the author of Mukul.
- (c)Mukutdhar Pandey — An early exponent of the Chhayavad school of Hindi poetry from the Chhattisgarh region, but not connected to Mukul.
Mukul situates Subhadra Kumari Chauhan within the freedom-movement generation of Hindi poets, where literary and political identity fused — her verse, most famously 'Jhansi Ki Rani', was written to stir nationalist sentiment rather than as a purely literary exercise, which is why MPPSC frequently pairs her name with both her poetry and her Satyagraha record.
'Whose work is X' questions on Hindi literature reward locking a title to exactly one author — don't let a plausible-sounding contemporary poet (several MP-linked Hindi poets belong to this same era) pull you toward a wrong option.
- Mukul (1930) — poetry collection by Subhadra Kumari Chauhan
- Contains her best-known poem, 'Jhansi Ki Rani' (on Rani Lakshmibai)
- Chauhan was the first woman Satyagrahi to court arrest in Nagpur
- She died in a car accident in 1948 near Seoni, Madhya Pradesh
- Confusing Subhadra Kumari Chauhan with other MP-linked Hindi poets of the same freedom-movement generation (Makhanlal Chaturvedi, Bhavani Prasad Mishra)
- Assuming 'Jhansi Ki Rani' is a standalone work rather than part of the Mukul collection
MPPSC tests 'whose work is X' pairs directly for MP-linked Hindi literary figures — memorise author–title–signature-poem triples rather than just author names.
No directly related past PYQ was found.
- practice — not a real PYQ
Subhadra Kumari Chauhan's famous ballad 'Jhansi Ki Rani', part of her collection Mukul, commemorates which figure of the 1857 revolt?
- (a)Rani Lakshmibai
- (b)Begum Hazrat Mahal
- (c)Rani Avantibai
- (d)Rani Durgavati
Answer(a) Rani Lakshmibai — the poem's subject is the Rani of Jhansi's role in the 1857 revolt.
- practice — not a real PYQ
Subhadra Kumari Chauhan was the first woman to court arrest as a Satyagrahi in which city?
- (a)Nagpur
- (b)Jabalpur
- (c)Allahabad
- (d)Indore
Answer(a) Nagpur — she was jailed for participating in the Nagpur Satyagraha.