- Civil rights, women's emancipation, and anti-imperialistic ideas
- Inter-Caste Marriage with Govindrajulu Naidu
- President Congress INC 1925, first Indian women president
- Awarded Kaisar-i-hind medal by British government for her work during plague epidemic in India
- Traveled across the country and encouraged people to join - especially inspiring for the women: can be credited with bringing them out of the kitchen and into the national consciousness
- participated in the round-table conference with Gandhi and Madan Mohan Malaviya
- Participated in CDM, Quit India, Noncooperation and Dharasana Salt Satyagraha
- Her literary work purely Indians and portrayed festivals, occupations, and life of the Indians praised by Tagore and Gokhale
- Governor of UP
- Hindu Muslim Unity; Praised Jinnah
- Famous Work: Golden Threshold, The Bird of Time
With the passage of time, she and other greats like her are mostly forgotten. The vagaries of time and inevitability of death are best described in her own words:
“Dream yields to dream, strife follows strife, And Death unweaves the webs of Life.”
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