Sarojini Naidu becomes India's first woman governor
1947 · Event
The 'Nightingale of India' is appointed Governor of the United Provinces at independence and dies in office two years later.
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- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
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- Mughal Empire (1526)
- Maurya Empire (322 BCE)
- British Raj (1858)
- Gupta Empire (320)
- Reign of Ashoka the Great (268 BCE)
- Delhi Sultanate (1206)
Around 1947
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- Korean War (1950)
- Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
- Battle of Britain (1940)
- Suez Crisis (1956)
- Apartheid (1948)
- Chinese Civil War (resumed) (1945)
- Manhattan Project (1942)
- World War II (1939)