MSN: Beyond poetry: Sarojini Naidu, India's first female governor and freedom icon
Sarojini Naidu is known best as the 'Nightingale of India'. She was an excellent poet and many of us former CBSE students might fondly recall her colourful imagery in 'Bazaars of Hyderabad', included ...
Sarojini Naidu was a political activist, feminist, poet, and the first Indian woman to be president of the Indian National Congress and to be appointed an Indian state governor. She was sometimes called ‘the Nightingale of India.’ Learn more about Naidu’s life and career.
Sarojini Naidu was an Indian independence activist, poet and politician. This biography traces her childhood, life, and achievements.
Sarojini Naidu: poet, activist, and key figure in India's struggle for independence, and first woman governor of Uttar Pradesh.
This was an astonishing feat for such a young girl, writes Padmini Sengupta in Sarojini Naidu: A Biography. "Her success was all the more surprising as the examination in 1891 was by no means easy.
Hugely respected and revered in her native India, Sarojini Naidu and her work is perhaps overlooked by the rest of the world. But her legacy is fully deserving of a greater degree of...
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India Today on MSN: Beyond poetry: Sarojini Naidu, India's first female governor and freedom icon
Naidu—or Kapu, an alternative name for the same subcaste—is known as one of Andhra Pradesh's economically and politically dominant castes, along with the Reddis and the Kammas.
Naidu was the first Indian woman to become the President of the Indian National Congress and the first woman to become the governor of an Indian state, the large state of Uttar Pradesh (fourth largest in India).