The Bird of Time: Songs of Life, Death & the Spring – Sarojini Naidu (Presentation copy)

Description

– Presentation copy from the author to Dr. D.F. Malan (Minister of the Interior) at the conclusion of the Second Round Table, in Cape Town, between the Union Government, Indian Government and South African Indians Congress regarding the Class Areas Bill of 1924.

The inscription reads: “To Dr. Malan / from Sarojini Naidu / In remembrance of the Round Table Conference and a happy acquaintance / Cape Town 8th Feb 1932”

 

“Sarojini Naidu or Sarojini Chattopadhyaya (February 13, 1879, Hyderabad – March 2, 1949, Lucknow), also known by the sobriquet Bharatiya Kokila (The Nightingale of India), was a child prodigy, freedom fighter, and poet. Naidu was the first Indian woman to become the President of the Indian National Congress and the first woman to become the Governor of Uttar Pradesh.

She was active in the Indian Independence Movement, joining Mahatma Gandhi in the Salt March to Dandi, and then leading the Dharasana Satyagraha after the arrests of Gandhi, Abbas Tyabji, and Kasturba Gandhi.”

Price: POA

Edition: Reprint

Published: 1928

Publishers: William Heinemann

Condition: Hardcover  in fair/poor condition, with shelf wear and scuff marks around the edges and top and bottom of the spine. Discolouration and scuff marks on the covers.  Light foxing throughout the book. Crack on the inside of the front cover, Otherwise internally in good condition – clean and tightly bound.