GPSC QUIZ-15 (03/04/2018)

GPSC QUIZ-15 (03/04/2018)

                            

                           Sarojini Naidu; née Chattopadhyay, (13 February 1879 – 2 March 1949) was a freedom fighter and poet of modern India. She was born in a Bengali Hindu family at Hyderabad and was educated in Chennai, London and Cambridge. She married Dr. Govindarajulu Naidu and settled down in Hyderabad. She took part in the National Movement, became a follower of Gandhiji (Mahatma Gandhi) and fought for the attainment of Swaraj. She became 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'^[1], she was also a noted poet. Her poetry includes children's poems, nature poems, patriotic poems and poems of love and death.

                                    Sarojini was born in a Bengali Hindu family in Hyderabad to Aghorenath Chattopadhyay and Barada Sundari Devi Chattopadhyay on 13 February 1879. Her parental home was at Brahmangaon in Bikrampur (in present-day Bangladesh).^[2] Her father, Aghorenath Chattopadhyay, with a doctorate of Science from Edinburgh University, settled in Hyderabad, where administered Hyderabad college, which later became Nizam College in Hyderabad. Her mother, Barada Sundari Devi Chattopadhyay, was a poet and used to write poetry in Bengali.

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