Adivasi Writers: An Introduction to India's Indigenous Literature

Sushila Samad (1906-1960)


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sushila_Samad


Wikipedia: "Sushila Samad or Sushila Samanta (Hindi: सुशीला सामद) (7 June 1906 – 10 December 1960) was an Adivasi Hindi poet, journalist, editor, and publisher. She was an active organiser of the Indian freedom movement. She belongs to the Munda tribal family of the village of Laujoda in the Indian state of Jharkhand.

"From 1925 to 1930, she edited and published literary-social magazine Chandni. She was Gandhi's only tribal woman 'Surajee' (freedom fighter). She served as MLC and carried out social-cultural, literary responsibilities. Her two poetry collections were Pralaap (1935) and Sapne Ka Sansar (1948).
       
Best known book: Pralaap (not translated. Recent edition edited by Vandana Tete)

A few of her poems in Hindi: 
https://www.hindwi.org/poets/sushila-samad/all
 

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