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First in India

First President of India Dr. Rajendra Prasad

First Prime Minister of India Jawaharlal Nehru

First Governor-General of India Lord William Bentinck


First Vice-President of India Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

First Female President of India Pratibha Patil


First Female Prime Minister of India Indira Gandhi
First Women Finance Minister

First Chief Election Commissioner of India Sukumar Sen

First Viceroy of India Lord Canning

First Chief Justice of India H.J Kania


First Female Chief Justice of India Leila Seth

First Education Minister of India Maulana Abul Kalam Azad

First Muslim President of India Zakir Hussian

First Woman Speaker of Lok Sabha Meira Kumar (2009)


First Female Governor of India Sarojini Naidu

First Finance Minister of India R.K. Shanmukham Chetty

First woman Chief Minister of a State Sucheta kripalani

First NHRC of India Ranganath Misra

First Cabinet Secretary of India N.P.Pillai


First Minister of Information and Broadcasting Sadar Vallabhbhai Patel
First Deputy Prime Minister of India / Home Minister of India.

First women Minister of External Affairs Sushma Swaraj

First Speaker of Lok Sabha Ganesh Vasudev Mavalankar

First President of Indian National Congress W.C. Banerjee


First Indian to receive Gold Medal at Olympics Abhinav
Bindra – 2008 - Shooting

India’s first woman to win an Olympic medal Karnam


Malleswari – Weightlifiting ( Bronze )

First woman to win a medal in wrestling Sakshi Malik


( Bronze 2016)
First Chess Grandmaster of India Viswanathan Anand

First Win in Cricket World Cup for India 1983

First Win in Cricket 20-20 World Cup for India 2007

First Indian woman to fly fighter aircraft without co-pilot IAF Officer – Avani
Chaturvedi
First Indian Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore – 1913
Literature

First Bharat Ratna Award Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan, Sir C.V.


Raman, and Chakravarti Rajagopalachari in 1954.

First Indian to get Nobel Prize in Physics C.V. Raman ( 1930 ) – Scattering
Of Light

First woman to get Bharat Ratna Award Indira Gandhi - 1971


First Indian to get Jnanpith Award G. Shankar Kurup

First Indian to receive Paramvir Chakra Major Somnath Sharma

First hydroelectric plant Sidrapong (Darjeeling)

First Defence Minister of India Baldev Singh Chokkar


First Indian to receive Oscar award Bhanu Athaiya

First Indian to receive Magsaysay Award Acharya Vinoba Bhave

First Indian to receive Nobel Prize in Economics Amartya Sen

First Chairperson of Lokpal of India Pinaki Chandra Ghose


First Satellite Launched by India Aryabhata

First Computer developed in India TIFRAC (Tata Institute of Fundamental


Research Automatic Calculator)

First Newspaper in India The Bengal Gazette, 1780

First Indian to be in Space Rakesh Sharma


First moon mission of India Chandrayan-1 (2008-2009)

First Indian to develop an Airplane Shivkar Bapuji Talpade

First Nuclear Plant in India Tarapur Atomic Power Plant

First Silent movie in India Raja Harishchandra


First IAS officer of India Satyendranath Tagore

First successful nuclear test in India Operation Smiling Buddha, 18th


May 1974

First General Election in India 1951-1952

First woman IPS officer in India Kiran Bedi


First Hindi newspaper in India Udant Martand (30 May 1826)

First woman to climb Mount Everest Bachhendri Pal

First Asian Games in India New Delhi, 1951

First Nuclear Reactor in India Apsara

First successfully indigenous launch vehicle SLV-3


First Temple constructed from a single rock Kailasa Temple at Ellora

First Dam in India Kallanai Dam (Kaveri river of TN)

2nd Century AD , Chola Dynasty ( King Karikala )


First Space Shuttle launched in India RLV-TD, 2016

First Indian Pilot in India J.R.D. Tata

First woman to go to space from India Kalpana Chawla


First RBI Governor of India Sir Osborne Smith

First woman judge in Supreme Court Mrs. Meera Sahib Fatima Bibi

First lady to become Miss World Rita Faria ( 1966)

First Chinese Pilgrim to Visit India Fa-Hien


First lady to become Miss Universe Sushmita Sen (1994)
The first woman to receive the Nobel Prize Mother Teresa
First woman President of the Indian
Mrs Annie Besant (1917)
National Congress
First woman President of the United
Mrs Vijaya Laxmi Pandit
Nations General Assembly
First and last Muslim woman ruler of Indi
Razia Sultan
a (Before Independence)
First and last Indian Governor General of
C. Rajgopalachari
Independent India
First Muslim President of the Indian Nati
Badruddin Tayyabji
onal Congress

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