<Tr> <Th> Alma mater </Th> <Td> University of Madras King's College London Girton College, Cambridge </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Occupation </Th> <Td> Political activist, poet - writer </Td> </Tr> <P> Sarojini Naidu; née Chattopadhyay, (13 February 1879--2 March 1949) was an Indian independence activist and poet . 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 Mahatma Gandhi and fought for the attainment of Swaraj . She became the President of Indian National Congress and later she was appointed to the Governor of the United Provinces, now Uttar Pradesh . Known as the' Nightingale of India', she was also a noted poet . Her poetry includes children's poems, nature poems, patriotic poems and poems of love and death . She also wrote poetry in praise of Muslim figures like Imam Hussain . </P> <P> Sarojini was born in a Bengali Hindu family in Hyderabad . Her parental home was at Brahmangaon in Bikrampur (in present - day Bangladesh). 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 . </P>

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