Sarojini Naidu

NAME:Subhasis Ray

IndexTopics 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

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

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.

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

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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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."

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