Sarojini Naidu was an Indian independence activist and poet who was born in 1879. She became involved in the Indian independence movement in 1905 and went on to hold several prominent leadership roles, including president of the Indian National Congress in 1925. As a poet, she wrote several collections including The Golden Threshold in 1905 and The Feather of Dawn in 1961. Naidu played a key role in Mohandas Gandhi's Salt Satyagraha campaign and helped lead a non-violent protest. She was also the first woman governor of the state of Uttar Pradesh. Naidu worked to inspire nationalism through her poetry and leadership in the independence movement until her death in 1949.

1. Sarojini Naidu
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2. Index
Topics Slide Number
Early Life 3
Political Career 4
President of the Congress Party 5
Role in Salt Satyagraha 6-7
Literary Career 8
Literary Works 9
Achievements 10
Famous Poems 11
Death and Legacy 12
The Golden Threshold 13
Thoughts about Naidu 14
Acknowledgement 15
Bibliography 16

3. Early Life
• Sarojini Naidu was born in Hyderabad on 13 february,1879.
• Naidu passed her matriculation exam from the University of
Madras
• In 1895, she went on to study at King's College in London and
later at Girton College, Cambridge University
• Sarojini Chattopadhyay was married to Govindarajulu Naidu,a
doctor by profession

4. Political Career
• She joined the Indian National Movement in the wake of
partition of Bengal in 1905
• During 1915 to 1918 she travelled to different parts of India
delivering speeches on nationalism
• Establishment of Women's Indian Association(WIA) in 1917
• In 1916, she took up the cause of the indigo worker of
Champaran.
• First woman Governor of U.P. Her Presidentship of the Asian
Relations conference in 1947 was remarkable.

5. As the President of the Congress Party
Date Works
1925 She presided over the annual session of Indian national congress
at Kanpur
1929 She presided over the East African Indian Congress in South Africa
1930 She protested against the British Government at Dharasana salts
works,Gujrat
1931 She participated in the round table conference with Gandhiji and
Madan Mohan Malaviya
1942 She was arrested during the quit India movement

6. Role of Sarojini Naidu in Salt
Satyagraha
• Gandhiji’s successor, Mr. Abbas Tyabji, ex-Justice of Baroda, was getting
ready at Karadi for the march to the Salt Works at Dharasana. But Tyabji
was arrested.
• Mrs. Sarojini Naidu succeeded Abbas Tyabji. On May 21 over 2,000
volunteers led by her and Imam Saheb raided Dharasana salt depot, about
150 miles north of Bombay.
• Mrs. Naidu led the volunteers in prayer and addressed them briefly:
“Gandhiji’s body is in jail but his soul is with you. India’s prestige is now
in your hands. You must not use any violence under any circumstances.
You will be beaten but you must not resist, you must not even raise a hand
to ward off blows.”

7. Role of Sarojini Naidu in Salt
Satyagraha
• The throng moved forward towards the salt pans, which were now
surrounded with barbed-wire stockade and ditches filled with water,
guarded by four hundred Surat police with half a dozen British officials in
command.
• Suddenly at a word of command, scores of native police rushed upon the
advancing marchers, and rained blows on their heads with steel-shod lathis.
Not one of the marchers even raised an arm to fend off the blows.
• In two or three minutes the ground was quilted with bodies.
• There were no outcries, only groans after they fell.
• Mrs. Naidu and Manilal Gandhi were arrested

8. Literary Career
• Sarojini Naidu's Persian play "Maher Muneer" impressed the
nawab of Hyderabad
• "The Golden Threshold" was published in 1905.Her poems
were admired by many prominent Indian politicians like Gopal
Krishna Gokhale
• It was Sree Gopal Krishna Gokhale who encouraged her to
write poetry on the ongoing freedom struggle of India and
inspire people to take participation in it by reviving their
patriotic spirit.
• Her collection of poems entitled "The Feather of Dawn" was
edited and published posthumously by her daughter Padmaja
in 1961

9. Literary Works
Date Works
1905 The Golden Threshold
1912 The Bird of Time: Songs of Life, Death & the Spring, published in
London[
1916 Muhammad Jinnah: An Ambassador of Unity
1917 The Broken Wing: Songs of Love, Death and the Spring
1943 The Sceptred Flute: Songs of India
1961 The Feather of the Dawn
1971 The Indian Weavers

10. Achievements
• She is known by the sobriquet as "the Nightingle of
India“
• In 1914 she was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of
Literature
• In 1925 she was elected as the President of the congress
• in 1929 she was awarded the Kesar-i-Hind medal by the
British Government
• Sarojini Naidu was the first woman Governor of Uttar
Pradesh
• She played a key role in the establishment of the
Women’s Indian Association (WIA) in 1917

11. Famous poems
• Damayante to Nala in the Hour of
Exile
• Ecstasy
• Indian Dancers
• The Indian Gypsy
• Indian Love-Song
• Indian Weavers
• In Salutation to the Eternal Peace
• In the Forest
• In the Bazaars of Hyderabad
• Ramamuratham
• Nightfall in the City of Hyderabad
• Palanquin Bearers
• The Pardah Nashin
• Past and Future
• The Queen's Rival
• The Royal Tombs of Golconda
• The Snake-Charmer
• Song of a Dream
• Song of Radha,the milkmaid
• The Soul's Prayer
• Suttee
• To a Buddha Seated on a Lotus
• To the God of Pain
• Wandering Singers
• Street Cries
• Alabaster
• Autumn Song
• Bangle Sellers
• The Coromandal Fishers
• To youth

12. Death and Legacy
•Sarojini naidu died on 2nd
march,1949
•She is commemorated
through the naming of
several institutions
•Sarojini naidu college for
Women,Dum Dum, Kolkata.
•Sarojini naidu medical
college,Agra
•Sarojini Devi eye
hospital,hyderabad
•Sarojini naidu school of arts
and
communication,Hyderabad
•Her 135th birth
anniversary(in 2014) was
marked by a doodle on
google India’s homepage

13. The Golden Threshold
The Golden Threshold is an offcampus annexe of university of
Hyderabad.The building was the residence of Naidu’s father Aghorenath
Chattopadhyay,the first principal of Hyderabad college.It was named after
Naidu’s collection of poetry.Golden Threshold now houses Sarojini Naidu
school of Arts and Communication of University of Hyderabad

14. Thoughts about Naidu
• Sarojini Naidu was a child prodigy,Indian Independence activist and poet
• Jawaharlal Nehru in his book “The Discovery of India” writes, “It was not
only the display of courage and daring, but what was even more surprising
was the organizational power she showed.”
• Aldous Huxley wrote "It has been our good fortune, while in Bombay, to
meet Mrs. Sarojini Naidu, the newly elected President of the All-India
Congress and a woman who combines in the most remarkable way great
intellectual power with charm, sweetness with courageous energy, a wide
culture with originality, and earnestness with humor. If all Indian
politicians are like Mrs. Naidu, then the country is fortunate indeed."

15. Bibliography
• "Colors of India". First Woman Governor of a State in India. Retrieved 25
March 2012.
• Jain, Reena. "Sarojini Naidu". Stree Shakti. Retrieved 25 March2012.
• "Google doodles Sarojini Naidu's 135th birth anniversary'".Indiavision.
February 13, 2015.
• "Biography of Naidu".
• compiled; Agrawal, edited by Lion M.G. (2008). Freedom fighters of India
(in four volumes).
• Wikipedia-the free encyclopedia