Sarojini Naidu
Indian poet, politician, governor of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh from 1947 to 1949
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Sarojini Naidu was an Indian poet and political leader who played significant roles in both literature and governance during India's independence era. She served as governor of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh from 1947 to 1949, making her a notable figure in early independent India's administration.
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- 1879
- Died
- 1949
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- 35
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- 奈都夫人詩全集
- The great trial of Mahatma Gandhi & Mr. Sankarlal Banker
- Bird of Time - Songs of Life, Death & the Spring - with a Chapter from 'Studies of Contemporary Poets' by Mary C. Sturgeon
- Songs of Love - with an Introduction by Edmund Gosse
- Songs of India - with an Introduction by Edmund Gosse
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Sarojini Naidu (née Chattopadhyay) ( Bengali pronunciation: [ʃɔrod͡ʒini]; 13 February 1879 – 2 March 1949) was an Indian political activist and poet who served as the first Governor of United Provinces, after India's independence. She played an important role in the Indian independence movement against the British Raj. She was the first Indian woman to be president of the Indian National Congress and appointed governor of a state.
Born in a Bengali family in Hyderabad, Naidu was educated in Madras, London and Cambridge. Following her time in Britain, where she worked as a suffragist, she was drawn to the Congress party's struggle for India's independence. She became a part of the national movement and became a follower of Mahatma Gandhi and the idea of swaraj (self-rule). She was appointed Congress president in 1925 and, when India achieved its independence, became the Governor of the United Provinces in 1947.
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