Sarojini Naidu short note

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Born Sarojini Chattopadhyay 13 February 1879 Hyderabad, Hyderabad State, British India (now in Telangana, India) Died 2 March 1949 (aged 70) Lucknow, United Provinces, India (now in Uttar Pradesh, India) Nationality Indian Alma mater University of Madras King's College London Girton College, Cambridge Occupation Political activist, feminist, poet-writer Title Nightingale of India;[1] Governor of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh Term 15 August 1947 – 2 March 1949 Predecessor Francis Verner Wylie Successor Hormasji Peroshaw Mody Political party Indian National Congress Movement Indian independence movement Spouse(s) Govindarajulu Naidu (1898–1949) Children Padmaja and four others Parent(s) Aghore Nath Chattopadhyay, Barada Sundari Devi Relatives Harindranath Chattopadhyay, Virendranath Chattopadhyay, Suhasini Chattopadhyay , Leela Naidu Sarojini Naidu (née Chattopadhyay, 1879–1949), also known by the sobriquet Nightingale of India,[1] was a poet and politician. Naidu served as the first governor of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh from 1947 to 1949. She was the first woman to become the governor of an Indian state.[2] She was the second woman to become the president of the Indian National Congress in 1925 and the first Indian woman to do so.[3]

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