First And Last Amongst India
No.
|
First or Last
|
Name
|
1.
|
First Indian
Chief Justice of India
|
Justice
H.J.Kania
|
2.
|
First Indian
Governor of a Province
|
Lord
S.P.Sinha
|
3.
|
First
President of Indian National Congress
|
W.C.Banerjee
(1885)
|
4.
|
First Indian
Commander-in-Chief
|
General K.M.
Carippa
|
5.
|
First Indian
Naval chief
|
Vice-Admiral
R.D.Katari
|
6.
|
First Indian
Air Chief
|
Air Marshal
S.Mukherjee
|
7.
|
First Indian
I.C.S.
|
Satyendra
Nath Tagore
|
8.
|
First P.M. of
India
|
Jawaharlal
Nehru
|
9.
|
First Indian
who became President of U.N. General Assembly
|
Vijaya Laxmi
Pandit
|
10.
|
First Indian
who became a Minister in the Union Cabinet
|
Rajkumari
Amrit Kaur
|
11.
|
Dr.Annie
Besant
|
|
12.
|
First Indian
Judge of High Court
|
Rama Prasad
Roy
|
13.
|
First Indian
and the last Governor General of India
|
C.Rajagopalachari
|
14.
|
First
President of India
|
Dr.Rajendra
Prasad
|
15.
|
First Indian
Nobel Prize Winner
|
Rabindranath
Tagore
|
16.
|
First Indian
Member of the Executive Council of Viceroy
|
Sir S.P.Sinha
|
17.
|
First Indian
Everest Climber
|
Tenzing
Norgay
|
18.
|
First Indian
Test Cricket Player
|
K.S.Ranjitsingh
Ji
|
19.
|
First Indian
Woman Governor
|
Sarojini
Naidu
|
20.
|
First Woman
Chief Minister of a State
|
Sucheta
Kriplani (U.P.)
|
21.
|
First Woman
Ambassador of India
|
Vijayalakshmi
Pandit (to soviet Union,1947-49)
|
22.
|
Last Viceroy
of India
|
Lord
L.Mountbatten
|
23.
|
First Indian
in Space
|
Sqn.Ldr.Rakesh
Sharma
|
24.
|
First Indian
Woman to Scale Mount Everest
|
Bachendri Pal
|
25.
|
First Indian
Woman Supreme Court Judge
|
Mrs.Mira
Saheb Fathima Beevi
|
26.
|
First Field
Marshal of India
|
S.H.F.J.
Manekshaw
|
27.
|
First Woman
P.M. of India
|
Mrs.Indira
Gandhi
|
28.
|
First Muslim
President of India
|
Dr.Zakir
Hussain
|
29.
|
First Sikh
President of India
|
Giani Zail
Singh
|
30.
|
First Talkie
(film with dialogue)
|
Alam Ara
(1931)
|