![]() ![]() ![]() There she met famous laureates of her time such as Arthur, Symons and Edmond Gosse. At the age of 16, she traveled to England to study first at King's College London and later at Girton College, Cambridge. Impressed by her play Maher Muneer, the Nizam of Hyderabad gave her scholarship to study abroad. Her father wanted her to become a mathematician or scientist but Sarojini Naidu was interested in poetry. At the age of 12, Sarojini Naidu attained national fame when she topped the matriculation examination at Madras University. She was proficient in Urdu, Telugu, English, Bengali, and Persian. One of her brothers Birendranath was a revolutionary and her other brother Harindranath was a poet, dramatist, and actor. Sarojini Naidu was the eldest among the eight siblings. Her mother, Barada Sundari Devi, was a poetess baji and used to write poetry in Bengali. ![]() Her father was a linguist and thinker, and the first member of Indian National Congress in Hyderabad. After receiving a doctor of science degree from Edinburgh University, her father settled in Hyderabad State, where he founded and administered the Hyderabad College, which later became the Nizam College in Hyderabad. She was born in Hyderabad, India as the eldest daughter of scientist, philosopher, linguist and educator Aghornath Chattopadhyaya, and Barada Sundari Devi, a Bengali poetess. Sarojini Chattopadhyay, later Naidu, belonged to a Bengali family of Kulin Brahmins. Her birthday is celebrated as Women's Day in India. Naidu was the second Indian woman to become the President of the Indian National Congress and the first woman to become the Governor of Uttar Pradesh state. Sarojini Naidu (née Chattopadhyaya 13 February 1879 – 2 March 1949), also known by the sobriquet The Nightingale of India (Bharatiya Kokila), was a child prodigy, Indian independence activist and poet. ![]()
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