9. First Person in India

➔ First Governor General of independent India – Lord Mountbatten     

➔First Indian Governor General of independent India – C. Rajagopalachari     

➔ First Commander-in-Chief (of India) – K.M. General Cariappa     

➔ First Field Marshal – Manik Shah     

➔ First Air Marshal – Arjun Singh     

➔ ** First astronaut – Rakesh Sharma     

➔ ** First ICS – Satyendra Nath Tagore     

➔ First woman to swim the English channel – Aarti Shah     

➔ ** The first person to receive the Nobel Prize – Rabindranath Tagore (1913 Gitanjali book)     

➔ The first president of the Indian National Congress – W.C. Banerjee     

➔ First Woman Governor – Sarojini Naidu     

➔ First Lok Sabha Speaker – G.V. Mavalankar     

➔ First Deputy Prime Minister – Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel     

➔ First Chief Election Commissioner – Sukumar Sen     

➔ Chairman of the International Court of First Indian – Dr. Nagendra Singh     

➔ First lady IPS – Kiran Bedi    

➔ First lady ruler – Razia Sultan     

➔ First foreign person to get Bharat Ratna – Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan     

➔ First Indian awarded Peace Nobel Prize – Mother Teresa     

➔ Head of the first Indian Antarctic expedition – Z.A. Qasim     

➔ First Miss World – Rita Faria (1966)     

➔ First Miss Universe – Sushmita Sen     

➔ First Lady in the Central Cabinet – Princess Amrit Kaur     

➔ First Woman Chief Minister – Sucheta Kripalani (UP)     

➔ Supreme Court’s first female judge – Mira Sahib Bibi Fatima     

➔ Planning Commission’s first woman president – Indira Gandhi     

➔ The first Indian to become a member of the US Congress – Dilip Singh Sand     

➔ the first state to use electronic voting machines – Kerala     

➔ the first state to conduct the entire assembly elections from electronic voting machines – Goa     

➔ First Indian film – Raja Harishchandra (screened in 1913)     

➔ Raja Harishchandra Film Producer – Dadasaheb Phalke     

➔ India’s first speaking film – Alam Ara (1931)     

➔ first actress awarded the Filmfare awards – Nargis Dutt     

➔ First temporary president of the Constituent Assembly – Dr. Sachidananda Sinha     

➔ First Field Marshal – General Manik Shah     

➔ First writer to receive the award Library – G. Shankar Kurup     

➔ First Muslim President – Dr. Zakir Hussain     

➔ First Education Minister of Independent India – Abul Kalam Azad     

➔ First Home Minister – Sardar Patel     

➔ First Air Chief – Air Marshal S Mukherjee     

➔ First Chief of the Naval Staff – Vice Admiral RD Katari     

➔ First nuclear reactor – Apsara (in Tramway)     

➔ First Paramvir Chakra recipient – Major Somnath Sharma     

➔ India’s first submarine – INS Cauvery     

➔ First nuclear submarine – Arihant

➔ihant First Aircraft Carrier – INS Vikrant     

➔ First Missile – Prithvi     

➔ First Atomic Center – Tarapur     

➔ first scientific awarded Nobel Prize – Indian CV Raman (1930)     

➔ Supreme Court’s first Chief Justice – Hiralal Jay. Cania     

➔ awarded the first Bharat Ratna – Chakravarti Rajagopalachari, Dr. S. Radhakrishnan, C.V. Raman (1954)     

➔ First Lady of the High Court – Justice Leila Seth     

➔ First Lady to climb Mount Everest – Bachendrai Pal     

➔ First Posthumously awarded Bharat Ratna – Lal Bahadur Shastri     

➔ ** The first person to be awarded the Gyanpeeth award – G. Shankar Kurup (Malayalam language 1965)     

➔ India’s first census – 1872 (invalid)     

➔ India’s first ten-year-old regular census – 1881 (Ripon)     

➔ first nuclear tests in India – May 18, 1974, (Indira Gandhi)     

➔ ** First Indian satellite – Aryabhata (Apr. 19, 1975)     

➔ awarded First Lady of the Sahitya Akademi Award – Amrita Pritam     

➔ ** Awarded the Library award First Lady – Asha Purna Devi     

➔ reach the first Indian woman at the North Pole – love Sengupta     

➔ The first Indian woman to travel around the world by boat – Ujjwala Patil     

➔ First woman doctor of the country – Dr. Kadambini Ganguly     

➔ ** India’s first female pilot – Sushma     

➔ First female railway driver – Surekha Shankar Yadav     

➔ the first woman to perform at the United Nations – MS Subulakshmi     

➔ first woman graduated – Kadambini Ganguly     

➔ First Lady Ambassador of India – Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit (Russia)     

➔ NCW’s first president – Jayanti Patnaik     

➔ First test tube baby – Harsha (1986)     

➔ climb the first woman on Mount Everest twice – Santosh Yadav     

➔ the first to receive the Ramon Magsaysay Award India – Vinova Bhave     

➔ ** First to receive Dadasaheb Phalke Award – Devika Rani (1969)     

➔ Doctor who performed the first successful operation of a heart transplant – Dr. P. Venugopalan     

➔ NHRC’s first president – Ranganath Mishra     

➔ ** First Hindi writer awarded with Indian Jnanpith Award – Sumitra Nandanpant (1968)     

➔ country’s first football club – Mohun Bagan (1889)     

➔ ** First Indian to be awarded Grammy Award – Pt. Ravi Shankar     

➔ ** First National Park of India – Jim Corbett     

➔ ** First newspaper of the country – Bengal Gazette (Editor James Augustus Hickey)     

➔ first newspaper in Hindi – udant martand (Editor – Jugal Kishore Shukla)     

➔ India’s first hydropower project – Shiva Samudram Kaveri (Karnataka, 1902)     

➔ First Indian elected to the British Parliament – Dadabhai Naoroji (1892)     

➔ first Biosphere Reserve in India – Eucalyptus     

➔ First Solar pond in the country – Bhuj (Gujarat)     

➔ First Chairman of the National Science Congress – Sir Ashutosh Mukherjee     

➔ First Indian to be appointed managing director of World Bank – Gautam Kazi     

➔ the first scientist to be elected to the Lok Sabha – Dr. Meghanaath Saha     

➔ Oscar-winner first Indian – Bhanu Muttiah     

➔ Country’s First Lady Judge – Anna Chandy (Kerala)     

➔ Indian Air Force’s first female pilot – Harita Deol     

➔ First Lady Magistrate – Omana Kunjamma     

➔ India’s first Sikh president – Gyani Jail Singh     

➔ first Indian to get the Victoria Cross – Khudada Khan (pre-independence highest award)     

➔ First Justice of Indian High Court – Justice Syed Mahmood (1878)     

➔ the first Indian to fly single seater aircraft – J. R. D. Tata     

➔ First Indian Cricketer – K. S. Ranjit Singh     

➔ First Judge, impeached in Lok Sabha – Justice V. Ramaswamy (1993)     

➔ First Woman Bank Manager – Shanta Kumar (Syndicate Bank, Bengaluru)     

➔ First woman general secretary of Rajya Sabha – VS. Rama Devi     

➔ First Lady / women Commonwealth Games medalist – Kanwal Thakur Singh and Ami Ghia Singh (bronze medal women’s doubles badminton)     

➔ The first woman to make a hat-trick in international football – Shirin Khusrau Kias     

➔ First Lady First Grand Master Woman – Bhagyashree Thipsay     

➔ First woman to reach the semi-finals of the Olympic Games – Shiny Abraham (Wilson)     

➔ First female athlete to participate in the Olympic Games – Mary Liz Roe     

➔ First Indian to play Test cricket – K. S. Ranjit Singh (from England)     

➔ The first player to be awarded the Padma Vibhushan – C.K. Naidu     

➔ First Electric Train – Mumbai VT To Kurla (1925)     

➔ First Satellite manufactured in India – INSAT-2A (1992)     

➔ First mobile police station – Hoshiarpur (Punjab)     

➔ First Export Principal Industrial Park – Sitapur (near Jaipur)     

➔ First Science City – Kolkata     

➔ First Solar City – Kolkata     

➔ 100 percent computer literate village – Chamravattam (Kerala)     

➔ ** country’s first fully literate district – Dungarpur (Rajasthan)     

➔ First Lady Advocate – Cornelia Sorabji     

➔ First Indian to visit England – Raja Rammohan Roy (1832)     

➔ ** Youngest Indian to climb Everest – Arjun Vajpayee