SAROJINI NAIDU (சரோஜினி நாயுடு)

Sarojini Naidu:

Sarojini Naidu was a freedom fighter and poet of modern India. she was in a Bengal family 13, 1879 at Hyderabad and was educated in Chennai Movement, became a follower of Gandhirajulu Naidu and settled down in Hyderabad. Shebecame the President of indian National Congress and later she was appointed the Governor of the United Provinces, now Uttar Pradesh. Known as the “Nightingale of India’, she was also a noted poet. He poetry includes children’s poems, nature poems, patriotic poems and poem of love and death.

Political Career :

Naidu joined the Indian national movement in the wake of partition of Bengal in 1905. She came in contact with Gopal Krishna Gokhale, Rabindranath Tagore, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Annie Besant, C.P. Ramaswami Iyer, Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru.

In 1915-18, she travelled to different  regions in India delivering lectures on social welfare, women’s vote to the Joint Select Committee.

1 April 1947 she was present at the Asian Relations Conference in Delhi where the Tibeyan Government Representative, Sampho Theiji, said, “In a similar way we are very glad to meet representatives from all the Asian countries in this Conference and we wish to express our sincere gratitude to the great Indian leaders, Mahadma Gandhi, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru and Mrs. Saorojini Naidu, and to all the distinguished representatives who have gathered in this Conference.

Congress Party President :

In 1925, Naidu presided over the annual session of Indian National Congress at Cawnpore. In 1929, she  presided over East African indian Congress in South African. She was awarded the Kaisar-i-Hind Medal by the British government for her work during the plague epidemic in India.

In 1931, she participated in the round- table conference with Gandhi and Madan Mohan malaviya.

she played a leading role in the Civil Disobedience Movement was jailed along with Gandhi and other leaders. In 1942, she was arrested during period of “Quit India”.

Sarojini Naidu began writing at the age of twelve. Her Persian play, Maher Muneer, impressed the{Nawab of Hyderabad}.

In 1905, he first collection of poems, named The Golden Threshold was published. The volume bore an introduction by Arthur Symons. Her poems were admired by prominent Indian poloticians like Gopal Krishna Gokhale.

Death of Sarojini Naidu:

Sarojini Naidu died because of a heart attack while working in her office in lucknow on 2 March, 1949. She is commemorated in the names of several institution, including the Sarojini Naidu, the newly elected President of the All- Indian Congress and a women who combines in the most humour. If all Indian Politicians are like Mrs. Naidu, then the country is fortunate indeed.”