List of Firsts in India
The first Indian to cross English Channel - Mihir Sen
The first Indian to get Nobel Prize in Physics - C.V. Raman
The first Indian to join the Indian Civil Services - Satyendra Nath Tagore
The first Indian to win Nobel Prize - Rabindranath Tagore
The first Indian lady to become Miss World - Rita Faria
The first Indian Judge of International Court of Justice - Dr. Nagendra Singh
The first person to reach Mt. Everest without oxygen - Sherpa Ang Dorjee
The first woman Lieutenant General - Puneet Arora
The first woman Air Vice Marshal - P. Bandopadhyaya
The first Indian woman to pilot an aircraft - Sarla Thukral
The first Indian woman commercial Pilot - Durba Banerjee
The first Indian woman Ambassador - Miss C.B. Muthamma
The first woman to receive Ashoka Chakra - Neerja Bhanot
The first woman to receive Bharat Ratna - Indira Gandhi
The first woman to receive Jnanpith Award - Ashapurna Devi
The first woman to receive the Nobel Prize - Mother Teresa
The first woman Asian Games Gold Medal Winner - Kamaljeet Sandhu
The first woman Chairman of Union Public Service Commission - Rose Millain Bathew
The first woman Chairperson of Indian Airlines - Sushma Chawla
The first woman Chief Justice of High Court - Leela Seth (Himachal Pradesh High Court)
The first woman Director General of Police - Kanchan Chaudhary Bhattacharya
The first woman Governor of a state in free India - Sarojini Naidu
The first woman Graduates - Kadambini Ganguly and Chandramukhi Basu, 1883
The first woman Honours Graduate - Kamini Roy, 1886
The first woman IPS Officer - Kiran Bedi
The first woman Judge - Anna Chandy
The first woman Judge in Supreme Court of India - M. Fathima Beevi
The first woman Lawyer - Cornelia Sorabjee
The first woman Minister in the Union Cabinet - Rajkumari Amrit Kaur
The first woman Olymic medal Winner - Kaarnam Malleswari, 2000
The first woman piolt to fly solo in the Indian Air Force - Harita Kaur Deol
The first woman President of Indian National Congress - Annie Besant
The first woman President of United Nations General Assemble - Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
The first woman Prime Minister - Indira Gandhi
The first woman Speaker of a state Assemble - Shanno Devi
The first woman to climb Mount Everest - Bachhendri Pal
The first woman to climb Mount Everest twice - Santosh Yadav
The first woman to cross English Channel - Arati Saha
The first Person to get Param Vir Chakra - Major somnath Sharma
The first Muslim President of India - Dr. Zakir Hussain
The first Person of Indian origin to receive Nobel Prize in Medicine - Hargovind Kurana
The first Person to recieve Jnanpith Award - G Shankara Kurup
The first Person to recieve Magsaysay Award - Acharya Vinoba Bhave
The first Person to recieve Noble Prize in Economics - Amartya Sen
The first Person to recieve stalin Prize - Saifuddin Kitchlu
The first Person to resign from the Central Cabinet - Shyama Prasad Mukherjee
The first President of India who died while in office - Dr. Zakir Hussain
The first President of Indian National Congree - W.C.Banerjee
The first President of Indian Republic - Dr. Rajendra Prasad
The first Prime Minister of free India - Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru
The first Prime Minister of India who didnot face the Parliament - Charan Singh
The first Prime Minister of India who resigned without completing the full term - Morarji Desai
The first Vice - President of India - Dr. Radhakrishnan
First Chinese pilgrim to visit India - Fa-Hien/Faxian
The first and last Muslim woman ruler of India - Razia Sultan
First English Ambassador to the court of a Mughal Emperor - Thomas Roe
The first British Governor - General of Bengal - Lord Warren Hastings (1773 -1785)
The first British Governor -General of India - Lord William Bentinck (1828 - 1835)
The first British Governor Viceroy of India - Lord Canning
First Post Office Opened in India - Kolkata (1727)
First Wax statue of a living Indian - Mahatma Gandhi at Madame Tussaud's in 1939
India's first Open Universsity - Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Open University, Hyderabad
India's first University - Nalanda University
India's first man in space - Rakesh Sharma
The first Speaker of the lok Shabha - Ganesh Vasudeva Mavalankar
First Indian to reach Antarctica - Lt. Ram Charan
First Muslim President of the Indian National Congress - Badruddin Tyabji
The first and the last Indian to be Governor - General of free India - C. Rajagopalachari
The first Chief Election Commissioner - Sukumar Sen
The first Chief Justice of Supreme Court - Justice Harilal J. Kania
The first Education Minister - Adbul Kalam Azad
The first Defence Minister of India - Baldev Singh
The first law Minister of India - Dr. B. R. Ambedkar
The first Railway Minister of India - John Mathai
The first Finance Minister of India - R K Shanmukham Chetty
The first Minister of Food and Agriculture in India - Rajendra Prasad
The first Field Marshal of India - S.H.F Manekshaw
The first Governor - General of free India - Lord Mountbatten
The first Home- Minister of India - Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel
The first Indian Air Chief Marshal - Subroto Mukerjee
The first Indian Commander - in- Chief of India - General Cariappa
The first Indian Member of the Viceroy's Executive Council - S P Sinha
The first Indian Naval Chief - Vice- Admiral R.D. Katari
The first Indian Pilot - J.R.D. Tata (1929)
The first Indian to get Nobel Prize in Physics - C.V. Raman
The first Indian to join the Indian Civil Services - Satyendra Nath Tagore
The first Indian to win Nobel Prize - Rabindranath Tagore
The first Indian lady to become Miss World - Rita Faria
The first Indian Judge of International Court of Justice - Dr. Nagendra Singh
The first person to reach Mt. Everest without oxygen - Sherpa Ang Dorjee
The first woman Lieutenant General - Puneet Arora
The first woman Air Vice Marshal - P. Bandopadhyaya
The first Indian woman to pilot an aircraft - Sarla Thukral
The first Indian woman commercial Pilot - Durba Banerjee
The first Indian woman Ambassador - Miss C.B. Muthamma
The first woman to receive Ashoka Chakra - Neerja Bhanot
The first woman to receive Bharat Ratna - Indira Gandhi
The first woman to receive Jnanpith Award - Ashapurna Devi
The first woman to receive the Nobel Prize - Mother Teresa
The first woman Asian Games Gold Medal Winner - Kamaljeet Sandhu
The first woman Chairman of Union Public Service Commission - Rose Millain Bathew
The first woman Chairperson of Indian Airlines - Sushma Chawla
The first woman Chief Justice of High Court - Leela Seth (Himachal Pradesh High Court)
The first woman Director General of Police - Kanchan Chaudhary Bhattacharya
The first woman Governor of a state in free India - Sarojini Naidu
The first woman Graduates - Kadambini Ganguly and Chandramukhi Basu, 1883
The first woman Honours Graduate - Kamini Roy, 1886
The first woman IPS Officer - Kiran Bedi
The first woman Judge - Anna Chandy
The first woman Judge in Supreme Court of India - M. Fathima Beevi
The first woman Lawyer - Cornelia Sorabjee
The first woman Minister in the Union Cabinet - Rajkumari Amrit Kaur
The first woman Olymic medal Winner - Kaarnam Malleswari, 2000
The first woman piolt to fly solo in the Indian Air Force - Harita Kaur Deol
The first woman President of Indian National Congress - Annie Besant
The first woman President of United Nations General Assemble - Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
The first woman Prime Minister - Indira Gandhi
The first woman Speaker of a state Assemble - Shanno Devi
The first woman to climb Mount Everest - Bachhendri Pal
The first woman to climb Mount Everest twice - Santosh Yadav
The first woman to cross English Channel - Arati Saha
The first Person to get Param Vir Chakra - Major somnath Sharma
The first Muslim President of India - Dr. Zakir Hussain
The first Person of Indian origin to receive Nobel Prize in Medicine - Hargovind Kurana
The first Person to recieve Jnanpith Award - G Shankara Kurup
The first Person to recieve Magsaysay Award - Acharya Vinoba Bhave
The first Person to recieve Noble Prize in Economics - Amartya Sen
The first Person to recieve stalin Prize - Saifuddin Kitchlu
The first Person to resign from the Central Cabinet - Shyama Prasad Mukherjee
The first President of India who died while in office - Dr. Zakir Hussain
The first President of Indian National Congree - W.C.Banerjee
The first President of Indian Republic - Dr. Rajendra Prasad
The first Prime Minister of free India - Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru
The first Prime Minister of India who didnot face the Parliament - Charan Singh
The first Prime Minister of India who resigned without completing the full term - Morarji Desai
The first Vice - President of India - Dr. Radhakrishnan
First Chinese pilgrim to visit India - Fa-Hien/Faxian
The first and last Muslim woman ruler of India - Razia Sultan
First English Ambassador to the court of a Mughal Emperor - Thomas Roe
The first British Governor - General of Bengal - Lord Warren Hastings (1773 -1785)
The first British Governor -General of India - Lord William Bentinck (1828 - 1835)
The first British Governor Viceroy of India - Lord Canning
First Post Office Opened in India - Kolkata (1727)
First Wax statue of a living Indian - Mahatma Gandhi at Madame Tussaud's in 1939
India's first Open Universsity - Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Open University, Hyderabad
India's first University - Nalanda University
India's first man in space - Rakesh Sharma
The first Speaker of the lok Shabha - Ganesh Vasudeva Mavalankar
First Indian to reach Antarctica - Lt. Ram Charan
First Muslim President of the Indian National Congress - Badruddin Tyabji
The first and the last Indian to be Governor - General of free India - C. Rajagopalachari
The first Chief Election Commissioner - Sukumar Sen
The first Chief Justice of Supreme Court - Justice Harilal J. Kania
The first Education Minister - Adbul Kalam Azad
The first Defence Minister of India - Baldev Singh
The first law Minister of India - Dr. B. R. Ambedkar
The first Railway Minister of India - John Mathai
The first Finance Minister of India - R K Shanmukham Chetty
The first Minister of Food and Agriculture in India - Rajendra Prasad
The first Field Marshal of India - S.H.F Manekshaw
The first Governor - General of free India - Lord Mountbatten
The first Home- Minister of India - Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel
The first Indian Air Chief Marshal - Subroto Mukerjee
The first Indian Commander - in- Chief of India - General Cariappa
The first Indian Member of the Viceroy's Executive Council - S P Sinha
The first Indian Naval Chief - Vice- Admiral R.D. Katari
The first Indian Pilot - J.R.D. Tata (1929)