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First Woman Governor Of State In India

                                                                         A poet, patriot, orator and wit all made into one was Mrs. Sarojini Naidu . Born on 13th February 1879, she is better remembered as the “Nightingale of India,” as Gurudev Tagore hailed her, than as the governor of a province which post she occupied at the time of her death in 1949.Naidu was the first Indian woman to become the President of the Indian National Congress and the first woman to become the Governor of Uttar Pradesh. She was famously known as Bharatiya Kokila (The Nightingale of India).She was active in the Indian Independence Movement, joining Maha...