Sarojini Naidu was an Indian political activist and poet. A proponent of civil rights, women's emancipation, and anti-imperialistic ideas, she was an important figure in India's struggle for independence from colonial rule. Naidu's work as a poet earned her the sobriquet 'the Nightingale of India’ or 'Bharat Kokila' by Mahatma Gandhi because of colour, imagery and lyrical quality of her poetry.
She died of a cardiac arrest on 2 March 1949. Naidu began writing at the age of 12. Her play, Maher Muneer, written in Persian, impressed the Nizam of the Kingdom of Hyderabad. Naidu is known as "one of India's feminist luminaries." She was awarded the 'Kaiser-e-Hind' medal by the British government for the work done during the plague epidemic in India.
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