Shahu of Kolhapur#Shahu
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#Shahu
Shahu of Kolhapur · 1874–1922
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Who this is
Poetry and the freedom movement — the “Nightingale of India,” first Indian woman president of the Congress, commander of the Dharasana salt raid, first woman governor of an Indian state.
“The verse that earned her the nightingale title has faded; the work that lasts was performed, not written — and the morning she directed it, a woman poet held the discipline of thousands while an empire beat them, and lost.”
The big idea, in the book's words:
“A poet gave up poetry for politics — and produced her masterpiece anyway: 2,500 volunteers walking unresisting into police clubs at Dharasana under her command, the performance of disciplined nonviolence that turned the world’s press against the Raj.”
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