First in India

First Acting President of India -V.V.Giri

First Chief Election commissioner of India -Sukumar Sen

First Chief Justice of India -Harilal. J.Kania

First Commander in Chief of free India - Gen.K.M.Kariappa

First Comptroller and Auditor General of India -Narahari Rao

First Deputy Chairman of Planning Commission -Gulsarilal Nanda

First Deputy Prime Minister of India -Sardar Vallabhai Patel.

First Field Marshal of India -S.H.F.J. Maneskhaw

First Indian Cosmonaut –Squadron Leader Rakesh Sarma

First Indian man to swim across English Channel -Mihir Sen

First Indian Pilot -J.R.D.Tata

First Indian State to be formed on linguistic basis after the independence –Andra Pradesh

First Indian to become member of Viceroy’s Executive Council -Lord. S. P.Sinha

First Indian to become the member of British Parliament -Dadabhai Naoroji

First Indian to become the President of International Court of Justice -Dr. Nagendra Singh

First Indian to climb Everest without Oxygen -Phu Dorjee

First Indian to enter into Civil Service -Satyendranath Tagore

First Indian Woman to climb Everest -Bachendripal

First Indian woman to swim across English Channel - Arati Saha / Arati Gupta

First Law Minister of Independent India -Dr.B.R.Ambedkar

First Magsaysay Award Winner of India -Acharya Vinoba Bhave.

First man in India to climb Everest -Tenzing Norgay

First man in India to climb Everest twice -Nawang Gombu

First Muslim Woamn to sit on the throne of Delhi -Sultana Rasia

First Nobel Prize winner of India -Rabindra Nath Tagore(1913)

First Opposition leader of Indian Parliament -Dr.Ram Subhag Singh

First President of India -Dr.Rajendra Prasad.

First President of Indian National Congress -W.C.Banerjee

First Prime Minister of India -Jawaharlal Nehru

First Prime Minister to resign from Office -Morarji Desai

First Railway Minister of India -Lal Bahadur Sasthri.

First speaker of Lok Sabha -G.V.Mavlankar

First State in India to introduce Panchayati Raj System -Rajastan

First to be crowned as Miss. India -Reeta Faria

First to be crowned as Miss. Universe -Susmitha Sen

First University in India was started at -Kolcutta

First Vice Chairman of Rajya Sabha -S.V. Krishnan Moorthi Rao

First Vice President of India - Dr.S.Radhakrishnan.

First woman Airline Pilot -Durba Banerjee

First woman Central Minister of India -Rajkumari Amrit Kaul

First woman Chief Minister of a state -Sucheta Kripalani

First Woman Governor of a state -Sarojini Naidu

First Woman IPS Officer -Kiran Bedi

First woman judge of Supreme Court -Justice. Fatima Beevi

First Woman President of Indian National Congress -Annie Besant

First Woman President of United Nations General Assembly -Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

First Woman Speaker of a state assembly -Mrs. Shano Devi

First Woman to win an Asian Gold -Kamaljit Sandhu

First woman who secured the Nehru Literacy Award -Mother Theresa

First Youngest Woman to climb Everest -Dickey Dolma