biography
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Naidu, Sarojini
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née Chattopadhyay
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pronunciation:
[niydoo]
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| female
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| lived:
| (1879–1949)
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| biography:
| Feminist and poet, born in Hyderabad, S India. She studied at Chennai (Madras), London, and Cambridge, and became known as ‘the nightingale of India’. She published three volumes of lyric verse: The Golden Threshold (1905), The Bird of Time (1912), and The Broken Wing (1915). She organized flood-relief in Hyderabad (1908), and lectured and campaigned on feminism, particularly the abolition of purdah. Associated with Mahatma Gandhi, she was imprisoned several times for civil disobedience incidents, and took part in the negotiations leading to independence. She was the first Indian woman to be president of the Indian National Congress (1925) and to be appointed an Indian state governor (1947). |
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