First in India Politics, First President Prime Minister, governor of India, First Man and Women in India politics
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First in India Politics, First President Prime Minister, governor of India, First Man and Women in India politics
| First in Politics | |
| President of Indian Republic | Dr. Rajendra Prasad |
| Prime Minister of free India | Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru |
| President of Indian National Congress | W.C. Banerjee |
| Muslim President of Indian National Congress | Badruddin Tayyabji |
| Muslim President of India | Dr. Zakir Hussain |
| British Governor General of India | Lord William Bentinck(1833-1835) |
| British Governor General of Bengal | Lord Warren Hasting(1774-1885) |
| British Viceroy of India | Lord Canning |
| Governor General of free India | Lord Mountbatten |
| and the last Indian to be Governor General of free India | C. Rajgopalachari |
| Prime Minister of India who resigned without completing the full term | Morarji Desai |
| President of India who died while in office | Dr. Zakhir Hussain |
| Muslim President of Indian Republic | Dr. Zakhir Hussain |
| Prime Minister of India who did not face the Parliament | Charan Singh |
| The first Speaker of the Lok Sabha | Ganesh Vasudeva Mavalankar |
| Vice-President of India | Dr. Radhakrishnan |
| Education Minister | Abdul Kalam Azad |
| Home minister of India | Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel |
| Chief Election Commissioner | Sukumar Sen |
| Other First Person in India | |
| Indian Commander-in-Chief of India | General Cariappa |
| Chief of Army Staff | Gen. Maharaj Rajendra Singhji |
| Indian Member of the Viceroy’s executive council | S.P.Sinha |
| man who introduced printing press in India | James Hicky |
| Indian to join the I.C.S | Satyendra Nath Tagore |
| India’s first man in Space | Rakesh Sharma |
| Field Marshal of India | S.H.F. Manekshaw |
| Indian to get Nobel Prize in Physics | C.V.Raman |
| Indian to receive Bharat Ratna award | Dr. Radhakrishnan |
| Indian to cross English Channel | Mihir Sen |
| Person to receive Jnanpith award | Sri Shankar Kurup |
| Indian Air Chief Marshal | S. Mukherjee |
| Indian Naval Chief | Vice Admiral R.D. Katari |
| Judge of International Court of Justice | Dr. Nagendra Singh |
| person to reach Mt. Everest without oxygen | Sherpa Anga Dorjee |
| person to get Param Vir Chakra | Major Somnath Sharma |
| person to receive Magsaysay Award | Acharya Vinoba Bhave |
| person of Indian origin to receive Nobel Prize in Medicine | Hargovind Khurana |
| Chinese traveller to visit India | Fahein |
| person to receive Stalin Prize | Saifuddin Kitchlu |
| person to resign from the Central Cabinet | Shyama Prasad Mukherjee |
| person to receive Nobel Prize in Economics | Amartya Sen |
| Chief Justice of Supreme Court | Justice Hirala J. Kania |
| Indian Pilot | J.R.D. Tata (1929) |
| Indian to win Nobel Prize | Rabindranath Tagore |
| Female | |
| lady to become Miss World | Rita Faria |
| woman judge in Supreme Court | Mrs. Meera Sahib Fatima Bibi |
| woman Ambassador | Miss C.B. Muthamma |
| woman Governor of a state in free India | Mrs Sarojini Naidu |
| woman Speaker of a State Assembly | Shanno Devi |
| woman Prime Minister | Mrs Indira Gandhi |
| woman Minister in a Government | Rajkumari Amrit Kaur |
| woman to climb Mount Everest | Bachhendri Pal |
| woman to climb Mount Everest twice | Santosh Yadav |
| woman President of Indian National Congress | Mrs Annie Besant |
| woman pilot in Indian Air Force | Harita Kaur Dayal |
| woman Graduates | Kadambini Ganguly and Chandramukhi Basu, 1883 |
| woman Airline Pilot | Durga Banerjee |
| woman Honours Graduate | Kamini Roy, 1886 |
| woman Olympic medal Winner | Karnam Malleswari, 2000 |
| woman Asian Games Gold Medal Winner | Kamlijit Sandhu |
| woman Lawyer | Cornelia Sorabjee |
| woman President of United Nations General Assembly | Mrs Vijaya Laxmi Pandit |
| woman Chief Minister of an Indian State | Mrs Sucheta Kripalani |
| woman Chairman of Union Public Service Commission | Roze Millian Bethew |
| woman Director General of Police | Kanchan Chaudhary Bhattacharya |
| woman Judge | Anna Chandy (She became judge in a district court in 1937) |
| woman Cheif Justice of High Court | Mrs Leela Seth (Himachal Pradesh High Court) |
| woman Judge in Supreme Court of India | Kumari Justice M. Fathima Beevi |
| woman Lieutenant General | Puneeta Arora |
| woman Air Vice Marshal | P. Bandopadhyaya |
| woman chairperson of Indian Airlines | Sushma Chawla |
| woman IPS officer | Mrs. Kiran Bedi |
| and last Muslim woman ruler of India | Razia Sultan |
| woman to receive Ashoka Chakra | Nirja Bhanot |
| woman to receive Jnanpith Award | Ashapurna Devi |
| woman to cross English Channel | Aarti Saha |
| woman to receive Nobel Prize | Mother Teresa |
| woman to receive Bharat Ratna | Mrs Indira Gandhi |
| woman to receive Jnanpith Award | Ashpurna Devi |
First CM of Uttar Pradesh :
| Nawab Sir Muhammad Ahmad Said Khan Chhatari | 3 Apr 1937 | 16 Jul 1937 |  Independent |