Indian weavers

•Sarojini Naidu, (born February 13, 1879, Hyderabad, died March 2, 1949, Lucknow),

• political activist, feminist, poet, and the first Indian woman to be president of the Indian

National Congress and to be appointed as Indian state governor of Utterpradesh. She was called as “ The Nightingale of India.”

•Sarojini Naidu also led an active literary life and attracted notable Indian intellectuals to her famous salon in Bombay (now Mumbai). Her first volume of poetry, The Golden Threshold (1905), was followed by The Bird of Time (1912), and in 1914 she was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Her collected poems, all of which she wrote in English, have been published under the titles The Sceptered Flute (1928) and The Feather of the Dawn (1961).