Freedom fighters of India

Sarojini Naidu
Subhas Chandra Bose

Sarojini Naidu
Sarojini Naidu (born as Sarojini Chattopadhyay), also known by the sobriquet as The Nightingale
of India,[1] was an Indian independence activist and poet. Naidu served as the first governor of
the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh from 1947 to 1949;[2] the first woman to become the
governor of an Indian state.[3] She was the second woman to become the president of the Indian
National Congress in 1925 and the first Indian woman to do so.[4][5]
Early life
Sarojini Naidu was born in Hyderabad to Aghore Nath Chattopadhyay and Barada Sundari Debi
on 13 February 1879. Her father, with a doctorate of Science from Edinburgh University, settled
in Hyderabad, where he found and administered the Hyderabad College, which later became the
Nizam's College in Hyderabad. Her mother was a poetess and used to write poetry in Bengali.
She was the eldest among the eight siblings. Her brother Virendranath Chattopadhyaya was a
revolutionary and her other brother, Harindranath was a poet, a dramatist, and an actor.[6]

Subhas Chandra Bose

Subhas Chandra Bose (About this sound listen (helpinfo); 23 January 1897 18 August 1945
(aged 48)[1]) was an Indian nationalist whose attempt during World War II to rid India of British
rule with the help of Nazi Germany and Japan left a troubled legacy.[4][5][6] The honorific Netaji
(Hindustani language: "Respected Leader"), first applied to Bose in Germany, by the Indian
soldiers of the Indische Legion and by the German and Indian officials in the Special Bureau for
India in Berlin, in early 1942, is now used widely throughout India.[7]
Early life: 18971921
Subhas Chandra Bose was born on 23 January 1897 (at 12.10 pm) in Cuttack, Orissa Division,
Bengal Province, to Prabhavati Devi and Janakinath Bose, an advocate.[30] He was the ninth
child of a total of fourteen siblings. He was admitted to the Protestant European School like his
other brothers and sisters in January 1902. He continued his studies at this school which was run
by the Baptist Mission up to the year 1909 and then shifted to the Ravenshaw Collegiate School.
The day Subhas was admitted to this school, Beni Madhav Das, the then Headmaster of the
school, understood how brilliant and scintillating was the genius of this little boy. After securing
the second position in the matriculation examination in 1913, he got admitted to the Presidency
College where he studied briefly.[31] His nationalistic temperament came to light when he was
expelled for assaulting Professor Oaten for the latter's anti-India comments. He later joined the
Scottish Church College at the University of Calcutta and passed his B.A. in 1918 in philosophy.
[32] Bose left India in 1919 for England with a promise to his father that he would appear in the
Indian Civil Services (ICS) Examination. He went to study in Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, and
matriculated on 19 November 1919. He came fourth in the ICS examination and was selected
but he did not want to work under an alien government which would mean serving the British. As
he stood on the verge of taking the plunge by resigning from the Indian Civil Service in 1921, he
wrote to his elder brother Sarat Chandra Bose: "Only on the soil of sacrifice and suffering can we
raise our national edifice".[33] Finally, he resigned from his civil service job on 23 April 1921 and
returned to India.