Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Sarojini Naidu
Sarojini Naidu
or
Sarojini Chattopadhyaya
(
February 13
,
1879
,
Hyderabad
–
March 2
,
1949
,
Lucknow
), also known by the sobriquet
Bharatiya Kokila
(
The Nightingale of India
), was a
child prodigy
,
freedom fighter
, and
poet
. Naidu was the first Indian woman to become the President of the
Indian National Congress
and the first woman to become the
Governor
of
Uttar Pradesh
.
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