Editing Sarojini Naidu (section)

== Personal life ==
Sarojini Naidu was born in [[Hyderabad]] on 13 February 1879 to [[Aghorenath Chattopadhyay]].<ref name="Raman2006">{{Cite encyclopedia |year=2006 |title=Naidu, Sarojini |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of India |publisher=Charles Scribner's Sons |last=Raman |first=Sita Anantha |editor-last=Wolpert |editor-first=Stanley |volume=3 |pages=212–213}}</ref> Her father was from [[Brahmangaon]], [[Bikrampur]], [[Dhaka]], Bengal (now in [[Bangladesh]]).<ref name="Ahmed2015">{{Cite web |last=Ahmed |first=Lilyma |title=Naidu, Sarojini |url=http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Naidu,_Sarojini |access-date=5 August 2015 |publisher=[[Banglapedia]]: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh}}</ref> Her father was a Bengali Brahmin and the principal of [[Nizam College]].<ref name="Raman2006" /> He held a doctorate of Science from [[University of Edinburgh|Edinburgh University]]. Her mother wrote poetry in [[Bengali language|Bengali]].<ref name="Raman2006" />

[[File:Sarojini Naidu by JB Yeats.jpg|thumb|upright|left|Drawing of Naidu by [[John Butler Yeats]], 1896, from the [[book frontispiece|frontispiece]] of ''The Golden Threshold'' (1905)]]
She was the eldest of the eight siblings. Her brother [[Virendranath Chattopadhyay]] was a revolutionary, and another brother [[Harindranath Chattopadhyay|Harindranath]] was a poet, a dramatist, and an actor. Their family was well-regarded in Hyderabad.

=== Education ===

Sarojini Naidu passed her [[matriculation examination]] to qualify for university study, earning the highest rank, in 1891, when she was twelve.<ref name="Raman2006" /> From 1895 to 1898 she studied in England, at [[King's College London|King's College, London]] and then [[Girton College, Cambridge]], with a scholarship from the [[Nizam of Hyderabad]].<ref name="TimesIndia">{{Cite news |title=Nizam's kin pulls out 'firmans' showing last ruler's generosity |work=[[The Times of India]] |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/hyderabad/nizams-kin-pulls-out-firmans-showing-last-rulers-generosity/articleshow/67416257.cms}}</ref> In England, she met artists from the [[Aestheticism|Aesthetic]] and [[Decadent movement|Decadent]] movements.<ref name="Reddy2010">{{Cite journal |last=Reddy |first=Sheshalatha |date=2010 |title=The Cosmopolitan Nationalism of Sarojini Naidu, Nightingale of India |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/25733492 |journal=Victorian Literature and Culture |volume=38 |issue=2 |pages=571–589 |doi=10.1017/S1060150310000173 |jstor=25733492 |s2cid=162597244 |issn=1060-1503}}</ref>

=== Marriage ===

Chattopadhyay returned to Hyderabad in 1898.<ref name="EGS">{{Cite encyclopedia |year=2009 |title=Naidu, Sarojini (1879-1949) |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of Gender and Society |publisher=SAGE Publications Inc |last=O'Brien |first=Jo9167 }}</ref> That same year, she married Govindaraju Naidu (Hailing from [[Machilipatnam]], [[Andhra Pradesh]]), a doctor whom she met during her stay in England,<ref name="Raman2006" /> in an [[inter-caste marriage]] which has been called "groundbreaking and scandalous".<ref name="EGS"/> Both their families approved their marriage, which was long and harmonious. They had five children.<ref name="Raman2006" /> Their daughter [[Padmaja Naidu|Padmaja]] also joined the [[Quit India Movement]], and she held several governmental positions in independent India.