Sarojini Naidu

Sarojini Naidu (born as Sarojini Chattopadhyay), also known by the sobriquet as The Nightingale of India, was an 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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Sarojini Naidu
Birth dateFebruary 13, 1879
Birth nameSarojini Chattopadhyay
Birth place
Hyderabad State , Hyderabad , Presidencies and provinces of British India
Date of deathMarch 02, 1949
Place of death
Lucknow , Uttar Pradesh
Education
University of Madras
Girton College Cambridge
Cambridge
King's College London
Children
Padmaja Naidu
Relatives
TitleGovernor of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh

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