National Women Day

Sir I want to know that when is the national women day for India? How was it started?
Which personality is associated with it? So can you please answer my queries

[Shaleen]

Hey buddy the National Women's Day of India was celebrated first on 13 February 2014.

This day is observed on the date of birth of India’s first women governor Sarojini Naidu.

Sarojini Naidu was born on 13 February 1879 and died on 2 March 1949.


Her birthday has been selected to observe as a National Woman Day in recognition of the works done by her for women in India.

Her name and birth date was proposed to celebrate as the National Women’s Day in India by members of Bhartiya Mahila Sangh and Akhil Bhartiya Mahila Sammelan.

Sarojini Naidu

Sarojini Naidu is also known as the Nightingale of India
She was a child prodigy, a poet and an activist during the independence of India

From 1947 to 1949, she served as the first woman to become the governor of an Indian
state of United Provinces of Agra and Oudh

In 1925, she served as second woman to become President of the Indian National
Congress and the first Indian woman to do so

Naidu joined the Indian national movement after the partition of Bengal in 1905

In 1928, the British Government awarded her with the medal Naidu Kaiser-i-Hind for her work during the plague epidemic in India

Sarojini Naidu Achievements

Golden Threshold published in 1905 was her first collection of poems

The Bird of Time: Songs of Life, Death and the Spring

Feast of Youth

The Magic Tree

The Wizard Mask

Muhammad Jinnah: An Ambassador of Unity

The Sceptred Flute: Songs of India, Allahabad: Kitabistan

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