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Sarojini Naidu was an Indian poet and political activist born on the 13th of February 1879 in Hyderabad. She was the first Indian woman to serve as president of the Indian National Congress (1925) and the first woman governor of an Indian state, appointed to the United Provinces in 1947. Gandhi gave her the nickname the Nightingale of India for the lyrical quality of her poetry.
Naidu's first collection, The Golden Threshold, was published in London in 1905 with an introduction by Arthur Symons. Her most strongly nationalist collection, The Bird of Time (1912), included the widely read poem "In the Bazaars of Hyderabad". The Broken Wing (1917), her last collection of new poems published in her lifetime, contains "The Gift of India" and "Awake!", which was dedicated to Muhammad Ali Jinnah.
Naidu, alongside Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay and Khurshed Naoroji, persuaded Gandhi to allow women to participate in the Salt March despite his initial reluctance. When Gandhi was arrested on the 6th of April 1930, he appointed Naidu as the new leader of the campaign.
Naidu served as a spokesperson for a women's delegation that met with Secretary of State Edwin Montagu and Viceroy Lord Chelmsford in 1917 to demand women's right to vote. In 1918 she moved a resolution on women's franchise at the Eighteenth Session of the Bombay Provincial Conference, and in 1919 she presented a memorandum to a Joint-Select Committee of Parliament in London arguing that Indian women were ready for the vote. Despite these efforts, the Government of India Act 1919 left the decision to provincial councils.
Naidu was jailed by the British in 1932 and again in 1942 for her participation in the Quit India Movement. The second imprisonment lasted twenty-one months.
Sarojini Naidu died of cardiac arrest at 3:30 p.m. on the 2nd of March 1949 at the Government House in Lucknow, aged 70. She had returned from New Delhi on the 15th of February and was advised to rest; her health declined rapidly, and she died the following month. Her last rites were performed at the Gomati River.