Sarojini Naidu
Politician
1879 – 1949
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Who was Sarojini Naidu?
Sarojini Naidu, born as Sarojini Chattopadhyay also known by the sobriquet as The Nightingale of India, was a child prodigy, Indian independence activist and poet. Naidu served as the first governor of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh from 1947 to 1949; the first woman to become the governor of an Indian state. She was the second woman to become the president of the Indian National Congress in 1925 and the first Indian woman to do so.
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- Born
- Feb 13, 1879
Hyderabad - Also known as
- Sarodžini Naidu
- Naidu, Sarojini
- Bharatiya Kokila
- The Nightingale of India
- Parents
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Muthyala Govindarajulu Naidu
(1898 - 1949/03/02)
- Muthyala Govindarajulu Naidu
- Children
- Ethnicity
- Indian people
- Nationality
- India
- Profession
- Education
- King's College London
(1895 - 1898) - Girton College, Cambridge
- University of Madras
- King's College London
- Died
- Mar 2, 1949
Lucknow
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on July 23, 2013
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