death_date children birth_date term alma_mater death_place title spouse image name occupation predecessor birth_place party relatives parents movement successor article_title birth_name
2 march 1949 padmaja and four others 13 february 1879 15 august 1947 -- 2 march 1949 king ; girton college , cambridge ; university of madras 's college london -lrb- 1895 -- 1898 -rrb- lucknow , united provinces , indian union governor of the united provinces of agra and oudh govindarajulu naidu -lrb- 1898 -- 1949 -rrb- sarojini naidu in bombay 1946.jpg sarojini naidu poet , politician francis verner wylie hyderabad , hyderabad state , british india indian national congress harindranath chattopadhyay , virendranath chattopadhyay , suhasini chattopadhyay aghore nath chattopadhyay , barada sundari debi indian independence movement hormasji peroshaw mody sarojini naidu
 sarojini chattopadhyay
sarojini naidu

sarojini naidu -lrb- born as sarojini chattopadhyay -rrb- , also known by the sobriquet as the nightingale of india , was an indian independence activist and poet .
naidu served as the first governor of the united provinces of agra and oudh from 1947 to 1949 ; the first woman to become the governor of an indian state .
she was the second woman to become the president of the indian national congress in 1925 and the first indian woman to do so .
