Indian freedom fighter Sarojini Naidu became the first female Governor of a state in independent India when she was appointed as Governor of United Provinces, now Uttar Pradesh, in 1947. Also known as the ‘Nightingale of India’, Naidu also served as the first Indian woman President of the Indian National Congress. She was born on February 13, 1879.
Her collection of poems entitled “The Feather of The Dawn” was later edited and published after her death in 1961 by her daughter Padamaja.
Born as Sarojini Chattopadhyaya on February 13, 1879 in Hyderabad she received her higher education from King’s College London and later at Girton College, Cambridge.
She married Govindarajulu Naidu, a doctor by profession, when she was 19 and the couple had five children.
Sarojini Naidu died of a heart attack on March 2, 1949.
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