Sarojini Naidu
 
Print available as:
A6 / 148 x 105mm
A5 / 210 x 148mm
A4 / 297 x 210mm
 
Open edition print, signed and dated in pencil.
 
Depicting Sarojini Naidu (1879 – 1949) Indian political activist and poet. Read more about this woman's incredible story here.

Ready to be mounted and framed, each print is accompanied by a short bio and posted with a protective greyboard backing in a bio-degradable sleeve, in a hard-backed envelope.
 
Sarojini is also available as a pin badge and earrings, and features in the Up the Women collection.
 
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Sarojini Naidu (1879 – 1949) Indian political activist and poet.

Naidu was born in Hyderabad & educated in Chennai, London & Cambridge. Following her time in England where she worked as a suffragist, she was drawn to the Indian National Congress movement for India's independence from British rule. Between 1915-1918, Naidu travelled to different regions in India delivering lectures on social welfare, emancipation of women and nationalism. She also helped to establish the Women’s Indian Association (WIA) in 1917.

Following India's independence from the British rule in 1947, Naidu was appointed as the governor of the United Provences (present-day Uttar Pradesh), making her India's first woman governor. She remained in office until her death in March 1949.

Naidu's work as a poet earned her the sobriquet 'Nightingale of India' from Gandhi. Her first collection of poems, named The Golden Threshold was published in 1905. A further collection entitled The Bird of Time was published in 1912 and included the poem ”In the Bazaars of Hyderabad” which was well received by critics, who variously noted Naidu's visceral use of rich sensory images in her writing.