Rhetoric Review Apr 2017

Sarojini Naidu—The Forgotten Orator of India

Ummekulsoom Shekhani Pennsylvania State University

Abstract

Sarojini Naidu’s platform rhetoric suggests that she functioned as the representative for Indian women due to her presence in the public sphere as first a poet, and then a nationalist leader. Naidu used her role as a jingoistic orator to persuade her audiences to believe that female equality was a necessary precursor to the independence of India. In her speeches, she reasoned with her listeners using the ancient Indian method of Nyaya and other various rhetorical techniques to strengthen her arguments.

Journal
Rhetoric Review
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2017-04-03
DOI
10.1080/07350198.2017.1282223
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