During this time, her first collection of poems, named "The Golden Threshold" was published and was admired by the prominent leaders.ĭuring 1915-1918, she travelled to different parts of India delivering lectures on social welfare, women's empowerment and nationalism. In 1905, when Partition of Bengal was announced, Sarojini Naidu joined the Indian national movement where she came in contact with the influential leaders of India namely Gopal Krishna Gokhale, Rabindranath Tagore, Annie Besant, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru and many others. In 1895, Naidu got a chance from the "Nizam scholarship Trust" founded by the 6th Nizam of Hyderabad - Mir Mahbub Ali Khan, to pursue higher studies in England first at King's College London and later at Girton College, Cambridge. She took a break of four years from her studies.
In 1891, Sarojini Naidu passed her matriculation examination from the University of Madras. Her Persian play ‘Maher Muneer’ impressed the Nawab of Hyderabad. Naidu began writing at the age of twelve. Her father settled in Hyderabad and founded Hyderabad College, which was later named as Nizam’s college.
Sarojini Naidu was born to father Aghor Nath Chattopadhyay and mother Barada Sundari Debi. She was the second woman to become the president of the Indian National Congress in 1925 and the first Indian woman to do so.
Naidu served as the first governor of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh from 1947 to 1949 and became the first woman to become the governor of an Indian state. On account of her beautiful poems and songs she was also known as ‘The Nightingale of India’. She was a child prodigy and actively took part in the activities for the independence of India. Sarojini Naidu (real name: Sarojini Chattopadhyay) was born on 13th February 1879, in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh.
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