{"id":374,"date":"2016-03-02T02:32:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-02T02:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/on-this-day\/2-march-1949-sarojini-naidu-the-nightingale-of-india-passed-away-at-70\/"},"modified":"2016-03-02T02:32:00","modified_gmt":"2016-03-02T02:32:00","slug":"2-march-1949-sarojini-naidu-the-nightingale-of-india-passed-away-at-70","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/on-this-day\/2-march-1949-sarojini-naidu-the-nightingale-of-india-passed-away-at-70","title":{"rendered":"2 March 1949: Sarojini Naidu, The Nightingale of India, passed away at 70"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">A Bengali by religion, and popularly known as The Nightingale of India, Sarojini Naidu (born as Sarojini Chattopadhyay) was an Indian independence activist and poet. She served as the first governor of the United Provinces of <\/span>Agra<span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> and <\/span>Oudh<span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> from 1947 to 1949. She was also the second woman to become the president of the Indian National Congress in 1925. After passing her matriculation examination from the <\/span>University of Madras<span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">, Naidu took a four-year break from her studies. It was in 1895 that the Nizam Scholarship Trust founded by the 6<\/span><sup>th<\/sup><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> Nizam, Mir Mahbub Ali Khan, gave her a chance to study in <\/span>England<span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">, first at King\u2019s College London, followed by the <\/span>GirtonCollege<span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> in <\/span>Cambridge<span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">In 1925, Sarojini Naidu presided over the annual session of Indian National Congress at Cawnpore (now called <\/span>Kanpur<span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">). Later, in 1929, she presided over East African Indian Congress in <\/span>South Africa<span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> and was awarded the Kaisar-i-Hind Medal by the British government for her phenomenal work during the plague epidemic in <\/span>India<span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">. Naidu died of a heart attack while working in her office in <\/span>Lucknow<span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> on 2 March 1949.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Bengali by religion, and popularly known as The Nightingale of India, Sarojini Naidu (born as Sarojini Chattopadhyay) was an Indian independence activist and poet. She served as the first governor of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh from 1947 to 1949. 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