india 's firsts

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First British Governor General of Independent India- Lord Mountbatten

First Chief Justice of India- HJ .Kaniya

First Commander-in-Chief of Free India- General K M Kariappa

First Chief of Air Staff- Air Marshal Sir Thomos Elmhirst

First Acting PM of India- Gulsarilal Nanda

First Indian to become member of house of lords- S.P.Sinha

First Robot built in India- Progman 150

First Indian Air Chief- Air Marshal S Mukherjee

First Chief of Army Staff- General M Rajendra Singh

First Chief of Naval Staff- Vice Admiral R D Katari

First Chairman-Prasar bharati- Nikhil chakravarthy

First Cosmonaut- Rakesh Sharma

First Female Graduates- Kadambini Ganguly and Chandramukhi Basu

First Female Head of an Undergraduate Academic Institution- Chandramukhi Basu

First Female Honours Graduate- Kamini Roy

First Female Lawyer- Cornelia Sorabjee

First Female Physician- Kadambini Ganguly

First Field Marshal- SHFJ Manekshaw

First Governor-General of Indian Union- C Rajagopalachari

First Graduate in Medicine- Soorjo Coomar Goodeve Chuckerbutty

First Indian to get an Oscar- Bhanu Athaiya

First actress to get Padmasree- Nargis

First Indian to reach the South Pole- Col Jatinder Kumar Bajaj

First Indian to win a major literary award in the United States- Dhan Gopal Mukerji

First Indian to win an Olympic medal- Norman Pritchard

First Indian ICS Officer- Satyendranath Tagore

First Indian Man to swim across the English Channel- Mihir Sen

First Indian Woman to swim across the English Channel- Miss Arati Saha

First Magsaysay Award Winner- Acharya Vinod Bhave

First Nobel Prize Winner- Rabindranath Tagore

First President of the Indian National Congress- W C Bonnerjee

First President of the India- Rajendra Prasad

First Prime Minister of India- Jawaharlal Nehru

First Deputy Prime Minister of India- Vallabhbhai Patel

First Talkie Film- Alam Ara (1931)

First Woman President of the Indian National Congress- Annie Besant

First Woman Prime Minister- Indira Gandhi

First Woman Minister- Rajkumari Amrit Kaur

First Woman Chief Minister of a State- Sucheta Kripalani

First Woman Governor- Sarojini Naidu

First Woman central Minister- Vijayalakshmi Pandit

First Woman Speaker of a State Assembly- Mrs Shanno Devi

First Woman Airline Pilot- Durga Banerjee

First Woman to Win Asiad Gold- Kamlijit Sandhu
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First Woman to Win an Olympic medal- Karnam Malleswari

First Woman Judge of Supreme Court- Meera Sahib Fatima Beevi

First Woman IPS Officer- Kiran Bedi

First Woman to Win Miss Universe Title- Sushmita Sen

First Woman to win the Ford Supermodel of the World (contest)- Bipasha Basu

First Woman to Win Nobel Prize- Mother Teresa

First Woman to win Miss World title- Reita Faria

First Formula 1 Race Driver- Narain Karthikeyan

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