BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH QUESTION FOR PRACTICE:
P-II. Qn. 5A. Read the following details about Sarojini Naidu.
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
Nationality
Indian
Political party
Indian National Congress
Spouse
Govindarajulu Naidu (1898-1949).
Children
5; including Padmaja
Alma mater : University of Madras King's College London Girton College, Cambridge
Occupation : Political activist, poet-writer
Ist Governor of United Provinces in office 15 August 1947-2 March 1949
Positions held :
Now write a Biographical Sketch of Sarojini Naidu based on the details above.
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on Febrailly 13,1879, in Hyderabad, near
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Answers
Sarojini Naidu, née Sarojini Chattopadhyay, (born 13 February 1879, Hyderabad, India - died 2 March 1949, Lucknow), political activist, feminist, poet and the first Indian woman to be the President of the Indian National Congress and to be appointed by the Governor of an Indian state. She was sometimes called the "Indian Nightingale".
Sarojini was the eldest daughter of Aghorenath Chattopadhyay, a Bengali Brahmin who was the Principal of the Nizam's College in Hyderabad. She entered the University of Madras at the age of 12 and studied (1895–98) at King's College, London, and later at Girton College, Cambridge.
After some experience in the suffragist campaign in England, she was attracted by the Indian Congress movement and Mahatma Gandhi's non-cooperation movement. In 1924, she toured East Africa and South Africa in the interests of Indians there, and the following year became the first Indian president of the National Congress – eight years earlier she had been overtaken by the English feminist Annie Besant. In 1928–29 she toured North America lecturing on the Congress movement. Back in India, her anti-British activities earned her a series of prison terms (1930, 1932 and 1942–43). She accompanied Gandhi to London for the inconclusive second session of the Round Table Conference on Indo-British Cooperation (1931). After the outbreak of World War II, she supported the policy of the Congress Party, first of aloofness and then of overt championing of the Allied cause. She became the Governor of the United Provinces (now Uttar Pradesh) in 1947, a post she held until her death.
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