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.mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size: 100%;"><div class="fn" style="font-size:125%;">Padmaja Naidu</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">4th <a href="/wiki/Governor_of_West_Bengal" class="mw-redirect" title="Governor of West Bengal">Governor of West Bengal</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />3 November 1956 – 1 June 1967</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Phani_Bhusan_Chakravartti" title="Phani Bhusan Chakravartti">Phani Bhusan Chakravartti</a> <i>(acting)</i></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Dharma_Vira" title="Dharma Vira">Dharma Vira</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data">17 November 1900<br /><a href="/wiki/Hyderabad" title="Hyderabad">Hyderabad</a>, Hyderabad State, British India</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">2 May 1975 (aged 74)<br /><a href="/wiki/New_Delhi" title="New Delhi">New Delhi</a>, India</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Parent(s)</th><td class="infobox-data">Mutyala Govindrajulu Naidu<br /> <a href="/wiki/Sarojini_Naidu" title="Sarojini Naidu">Sarojini Naidu</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Occupation</th><td class="infobox-data">Politician</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Padmaja Naidu</b> (17 November 1900 – 2 May 1975) was an Indian freedom fighter and politician who was the 4th Governor of West Bengal from 3 November 1956 to 1 June 1967. She was the daughter of <a href="/wiki/Sarojini_Naidu" title="Sarojini Naidu">Sarojini Naidu</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Padmaja_Naidu&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Padmaja Naidu was born in <a href="/wiki/Hyderabad" title="Hyderabad">Hyderabad</a> to a <a href="/wiki/Telugu_language" title="Telugu language">Telugu</a> <a href="/wiki/Balija" title="Balija">Balija</a> father and a <a href="/wiki/Bengali_Brahmin" title="Bengali Brahmin">Bengali Brahmin</a> mother.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Her mother was the poet and Indian freedom fighter, <a href="/wiki/Sarojini_Naidu" title="Sarojini Naidu">Sarojini Naidu</a>. Her father Mutyala Govindrajulu Naidu was a physician.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She had four siblings, Jayasurya, Leelamani, Nilawar and Randheer.<sup id="cite_ref-Paranjape2012_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Paranjape2012-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Political_career">Political career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Padmaja_Naidu&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Political career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>At the age of 21, she co-founded the <a href="/wiki/Indian_National_Congress" title="Indian National Congress">Indian National Congress</a> in the Nizam ruled <a href="/wiki/Princely_state" title="Princely state">princely state</a> of <a href="/wiki/Hyderabad_state" class="mw-redirect" title="Hyderabad state">Hyderabad</a>. She was jailed for taking part in the "<a href="/wiki/Quit_India" class="mw-redirect" title="Quit India">Quit India</a>" movement in 1942. After Independence, she was elected to the Indian Parliament in 1950. In 1956 she was appointed the Governor of <a href="/wiki/West_Bengal" title="West Bengal">West Bengal</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She was also associated with the <a href="/wiki/International_Red_Cross_and_Red_Crescent_Movement" title="International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement">Red Cross</a> and was the chairperson of the <a href="/wiki/Indian_Red_Cross_Society" title="Indian Red Cross Society">Indian Red Cross</a> from 1971 to 1972.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Padmaja_Naidu&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Early in her life, Padmaja was a close friend of <a href="/wiki/Rattanbai_Jinnah" title="Rattanbai Jinnah">Ruttie Petit</a> who married <a href="/wiki/Muhammad_Ali_Jinnah" title="Muhammad Ali Jinnah">Muhammad Ali Jinnah</a>, later the founder of <a href="/wiki/Pakistan" title="Pakistan">Pakistan</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Hajari2015_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hajari2015-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Padmaja Naidu had a close relationship with the Nehru family, including with <a href="/wiki/Jawaharlal_Nehru" title="Jawaharlal Nehru">Jawaharlal Nehru</a> and his sister, <a href="/wiki/Vijaya_Lakshmi_Pandit" title="Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit">Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Mehta2008_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Mehta2008-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Pandit later told <a href="/wiki/Pupul_Jayakar" title="Pupul Jayakar">Pupul Jayakar</a>, <a href="/wiki/Indira_Gandhi" title="Indira Gandhi">Indira Gandhi</a>'s friend and biographer, that Padmaja Naidu and Nehru lived together for many years. Nehru did not marry Padmaja because he did not want to hurt his daughter, Indira.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, Padmaja never married Nehru in the hope that he would propose one day.<sup id="cite_ref-Tunzelmann2007_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Tunzelmann2007-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Hajari2015_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hajari2015-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After retiring, Padmaja lived until her death in 1975 in a bungalow on the <a href="/wiki/Teen_Murti_Bhavan" title="Teen Murti Bhavan">Teen Murti Bhavan</a> estate, Prime Minister Nehru's official residence and later a museum dedicated to his memory.<sup id="cite_ref-Paranjape2012_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Paranjape2012-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Legacy">Legacy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Padmaja_Naidu&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Legacy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Padmaja_Naidu_Himalayan_Zoological_Park" title="Padmaja Naidu Himalayan Zoological Park">Padmaja Naidu Himalayan Zoological Park</a> in <a href="/wiki/Darjeeling" title="Darjeeling">Darjeeling</a> was named after her death. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a 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Penguin Books Limited. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-81-8475-966-2" title="Special:BookSources/978-81-8475-966-2"><bdi>978-81-8475-966-2</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Freedom%27s+Child%3A+Growing+Up+During+Satyagraha&rft.pub=Penguin+Books+Limited&rft.date=2008-08-25&rft.isbn=978-81-8475-966-2&rft.au=Chandralekha+Mehta&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DGm9tAwAAQBAJ%26pg%3DPT7&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APadmaja+Naidu" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFJayakar1995" class="citation book cs1">Jayakar, Pupul (1995). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=gm5JGkb2rhkC&q=padmaja&pg=PR9"><i>Indira Gandhi, a biography</i></a> (Rev. ed.). 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K. Laxman">R. K. Laxman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Birju_Maharaj" title="Birju Maharaj">Birju Maharaj</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kishan_Maharaj" title="Kishan Maharaj">Kishan Maharaj</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lata_Mangeshkar" title="Lata Mangeshkar">Lata Mangeshkar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sonal_Mansingh" title="Sonal Mansingh">Sonal Mansingh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mallikarjun_Mansur" title="Mallikarjun Mansur">Mallikarjun Mansur</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zubin_Mehta" title="Zubin Mehta">Zubin Mehta</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mario_Miranda" title="Mario Miranda">Mario Miranda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chhannulal_Mishra" title="Chhannulal Mishra">Chhannulal Mishra</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kelucharan_Mohapatra" title="Kelucharan Mohapatra">Kelucharan Mohapatra</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Raghunath_Mohapatra" title="Raghunath Mohapatra">Raghunath Mohapatra</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jasraj" title="Jasraj">Jasraj Motiram</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Benode_Behari_Mukherjee" title="Benode Behari Mukherjee">Benode Behari Mukherjee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hrishikesh_Mukherjee" title="Hrishikesh Mukherjee">Hrishikesh Mukherjee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rajinikanth" title="Rajinikanth">Rajinikanth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ram_Narayan" title="Ram Narayan">Ram Narayan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/D._K._Pattammal" title="D. 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Varadaraja Rao">V. K. R. V. 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Sivaraman">Balaram Sivaraman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chandrika_Prasad_Srivastava" title="Chandrika Prasad Srivastava">Chandrika Prasad Srivastava</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/T._Swaminathan" title="T. Swaminathan">T. Swaminathan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arun_Shridhar_Vaidya" title="Arun Shridhar Vaidya">Arun Shridhar Vaidya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dharma_Vira" title="Dharma Vira">Dharma Vira</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Narinder_Nath_Vohra" title="Narinder Nath Vohra">Narinder Nath Vohra</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:6em;font-weight:normal;">Literature and <br />education</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="padding:0;line-height:1.3em; white-space:normal;"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/V._S._R._Arunachalam" title="V. S. R. Arunachalam">V. S. R. 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Shanta</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vithal_Nagesh_Shirodkar" title="Vithal Nagesh Shirodkar">Vithal Nagesh Shirodkar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prakash_Narain_Tandon" title="Prakash Narain Tandon">Prakash Narain Tandon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brihaspati_Dev_Triguna" title="Brihaspati Dev Triguna">Brihaspati Dev Triguna</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/M._S._Valiathan" title="M. S. Valiathan">M. S. Valiathan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dilip_Mahalanabis" title="Dilip Mahalanabis">Dilip Mahalanabis</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:6em;font-weight:normal;">Other</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="padding:0;line-height:1.3em; white-space:normal;"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sunderlal_Bahuguna" title="Sunderlal Bahuguna">Sunderlal Bahuguna</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/B._K._S._Iyengar" title="B. K. S. Iyengar">B. K. S. 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V. Rajeswar">T. V. Rajeswar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saiyid_Nurul_Hasan" title="Saiyid Nurul Hasan">Saiyid Nurul Hasan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/B._Satya_Narayan_Reddy" title="B. Satya Narayan Reddy">B. Satya Narayan Reddy</a>‡</li> <li><a href="/wiki/K._V._Raghunatha_Reddy" title="K. V. Raghunatha Reddy">K. V. Raghunatha Reddy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Akhlaqur_Rahman_Kidwai" title="Akhlaqur Rahman Kidwai">Akhlaqur Rahman Kidwai</a>‡</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shyamal_Kumar_Sen" title="Shyamal Kumar Sen">Shyamal Kumar Sen</a>♯</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Viren_J._Shah" title="Viren J. Shah">Viren J. Shah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gopalkrishna_Gandhi" title="Gopalkrishna Gandhi">Gopalkrishna Gandhi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Devanand_Konwar" title="Devanand Konwar">Devanand Konwar</a>‡</li> <li><a href="/wiki/M.K._Narayanan" class="mw-redirect" title="M.K. Narayanan">M.K. Narayanan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/D._Y._Patil" title="D. Y. Patil">D. Y. 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