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Sarojini Naidu (1879–1949)

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Bildnachweis: Sarojini Naidu (left), 1932. (Deutsches Bundesarchiv Bild 102-12899)

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The Penguin Book of Women Poets (1978) — Mitwirkender — 298 Exemplare
Decadent Poetry (2006) — Mitwirkender — 91 Exemplare
Empire Writing: An Anthology of Colonial Literature 1870-1918 (1998) — Mitwirkender — 84 Exemplare
Fairy Poems (2023) — Mitwirkender — 13 Exemplare

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Geburtstag
1879-02-13
Todestag
1949-03-09
Geschlecht
female
Nationalität
India
Geburtsort
Hyderabad, Pakistan
Wohnorte
Madras, India
Ausbildung
Cambridge University (Girton College)
Berufe
Governor of Uttar Pradesh
President of Indian National Congress
Poet
social reformer
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Sarojini Chattopadhya was the daughter of the scientist and educator Aghorenath Chattopadhya. She was educated at home in Madras, and then travelled to England to study at Cambridge and in London. In 1898, Sarojini married Govindarajulu Naidu, a physician; they became the parents of politician and social activist Padmaja Naidu. Sarojini Naidu first achieved notice as a social activist for helping to organize relief for flood-stricken Hyderabad in 1908. She lectured publicly to abolish the ancient Indian system of isolation and subjection of women known as purdah. Sarojini Naidu was the first Indian woman to be appointed President of the Indian National Congress (1925). She was imprisoned because of her activities in the civil disobedience movement led by Mahatma Gandhi. Following India's independence from Great Britain in 1947, Naidu was appointed Governor of Uttar Pradesh, the fist woman ever to hold such an office in India. Naidu also wrote several volumes of poetry with Indian themes. Her talent with lyric verse earned her the popular nickname "the nightingale of India."

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This is a short collection of poems, mostly about spring, taken from The Bird of Time - Songs of Life, Death & the Spring (1912), The Broken Wing - Songs of Love, Death & the Spring (1917) and The Golden Threshold (1905). They are very lyrical, typically fairly short, and rather old-fashioned - think Romantic in an Indian setting.
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