sarojini Naidu

Sarojini Naidu, born as Sarojini Chattopadhyay (Bengali: সরোজিনী চট্টোপাধ্যায়) also known by the sobriquet as The Nightingale of India,[1] was a child prodigy, Indian independence activist and poet. Naidu served as the first governor of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh from 1947 to 1949;[2] the first woman to become the governor of an Indian state.[3] She was the second woman to become the president of the Indian National Congress in 1925 and the first Indian woman to do so.

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