Mahatma Gandhi With Mahadev Desai and Sarojini Naidu on their way to Buckingham Palace, London, to meet the King, 1931. Mohandas Gandhi (1869 – 1948) was the preeminent leader of the Indian independence movement in British-ruled India. Mahadev Desai (1892 – 1942) was an Indian independence activist and writer best remembered as Mahatma Gandhi's personal secretary. Sarojini Naidu (born as Sarojini Chattopadhyay) also known by the sobriquet as The Nightingale of India and was a poet. Naidu served as the first governor of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh from 1947 to 1949.

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Mahatma Gandhi With Mahadev Desai and Sarojini Naidu on their way to Buckingham Palace, London, to meet the King, 1931. Mohandas Gandhi (1869 – 1948) was the preeminent leader of the Indian independence movement in British-ruled India. Mahadev Desai (1892 – 1942) was an Indian independence activist and writer best remembered as Mahatma Gandhi's personal secretary. Sarojini Naidu (born as Sarojini Chattopadhyay) also known by the sobriquet as The Nightingale of India and was a poet. Naidu served as the first governor of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh from 1947 to 1949. She was the second woman to become the president of the Indian National Congress in 1925

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