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Sarojini Naidu 13 February — 2 March [1] was an Indian political activist and poet who served as the first Governor of United Provinces, after India's independence.

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She played an important role in the Indian independence movement against the British Raj. She was the first Indian woman to be president of the Indian National Congress and appointed governor of a state. Following her time in Britain, where she worked as a suffragist, she was drawn to the Congress party's struggle for India's independence.

She became a part of the national movement and became a follower of Mahatma Gandhi and his idea of swaraj self-rule. She was appointed Congress president in and, when India achieved its independence, became Governor of the United Provinces in. Naidu's literary work as a poet earned her the nickname the "Nightingale of India" by Gandhi because of the colour, imagery, and lyrical quality of her poetry.

Published in , "In the Bazaars of Hyderabad" remains one of her most popular poems.

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She was the eldest of the eight siblings. Her brother Virendranath Chattopadhyay was a revolutionary, and another brother Harindranath was a poet, a dramatist, and an actor. Their family was well-regarded in Hyderabad. Sarojini Naidu passed her matriculation examination to qualify for university study, earning the highest rank, in , when she was twelve.

Chattopadhyay returned to Hyderabad in [6] That same year, she married Govindaraju Naidu Hailing from Machilipatnam, Andhra Pradesh , a doctor whom she met during her stay in England, [2] in an inter-caste marriage which has been called "groundbreaking and scandalous". They had five children. Beginning in , Naidu became an increasingly popular orator, promoting Indian independence and women's rights, especially women's education.