We always remember those, who stood first. It is human tendency no doubt on it. Anything happen or was done first time, it becomes a history.
You can consider anything that is done or happened first time, it includes first President or the first Man to walk on the Moon.
So why we should bother about it, what is the hell use of to remember these people name? This kind of knowledge is essential when you want to crack government exams.
This type of question can be asked in any entrance exams, these types of question fall under current affairs section.
So here we are going to list, First in India. What does it actually mean, in simple it is meant that what is happened/ occurred/ who became first / and all this kind of information is listed below
| Happened/Occurred | Done by |
| British Governor General of Bengal | Warren Hastings |
| Governor General of Independent India | Lord Mountbatten |
| Commander-in-chief of Free India | General Roy Bucher |
| Cosmonaut | Sqn. Ldr. Rakesh Sharma |
| Emperor of Moghul Dynasty in India | Babar |
| Field Marshal | S. H. F. J. Manekshaw |
| Indian Governor General of Indian Union | C. Rajagopalachari |
| Indian I.C.S. Officer | Satyendra Nath Tagore |
| Indian Member of Viceroy’s Executive Council | Sri S.P. Sinha |
| Indian to swim across English Channel | Mihir Sen |
| Indian woman to swim across English Channel | Miss Arati Saha |
| Man to climb Mount Everest | Tenzing Norgay |
| Man to climb Mount Everest without Oxygen | Phu Dorjee |
| Man to climb Mount Everest twice | Nwang Gombu |
| Nobel Prize winner | Rabindra Nath Tagore |
| President of Indian National Congress | W. C, Baneijee |
| President of Indian Republic | Dr. Rajendra Prasad |
| Talkie Film | Alam Ara (1931) |
| Test Tube Baby (Documented) | Indira |
| Viceroy of India | Lord Canning |
| Woman Minister of Indian Union | Rajkumari Amrit Kaur |
| Woman Chief Minister of State | Mrs. Sucheta Kriplani |
| Woman Governor | Mrs. Sarojini Naidu |
| Woman President of Indian National Congress | Dr. Annie Besant |
| Woman Prime Minister | Mrs. Indira Gandhi |
| Woman Speaker of a State Assembly | Mrs. Shanno Devi |
| Prime Minister of India | Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru |
| Muslim President of Indian Union | Dr. Zakir Hussain |
| Speaker of Lok Sabha | G. V. Mavlankar |
| Woman to climb mount Everest | Bachhendri Pal |
| Woman Judge in Supreme Court | Mrs. Meera Sahib Fatima Biwi |
| Woman Chief Justice of a High Court | Smt. Leela Seth |
| Indian Woman to go in space (Now U.S. Citizen) | Kalpana Chawla |
| The first Indian weightlifter to win bronze medal in Olympics |
Kamam Malleshwari (Sydney, in 2000) |
| The First Indian World Chess Champion | Vishwanathan Anand |
| India’s first paperless Newspaper | The News Today |
| India’s First woman Merchant Navy Officer | Sonali Baneijee |
| The first Dalit Speaker of the Lok Sabha | G. M. C. Balyogi |
| The first Vice-President of India to die in harness | Krishna Kant |
| The first Indian woman cricketer to score double century | Mithali Raj |
| The first woman Air Vice-Marshal | P. Bandopadhyaya |
| The first Indian to be appointed as United Nations Civilian Police Advisor |
Ms. Kiran Bedi |
| The first astronaut of Indian origin to perish aboard U.S. space shuttle in a tragic accident |
Dr. Kalpana Chawla |
| First woman to be appointed Deputy Governor of Reserve Bank of India | K. J. Udeshi |
| The first Indian girl to register a win in a Wimbledon tournament |
Sania Mirza (2003) |
| The first Indian lady to win a medal in World Athletic Championship |
Anju Bobby George (Aug. 2003) |
| The first woman Chairman and Managing Director of NABARD | Mrs. Ranjana Kumar |
| The highest individual test scorer of India | Virendra Sehwag |
| The first Indian cricketer to make double centuries five times | Rahul Dravid |
| The first Odisha woman to top I.A.S. | Smt. Roopa Misra (Indian Civil Services Exam., 2003). |
| The first Sikh Prime Minister of India | Dr. Manmohan Singh |
| The first woman Director General of Police of a State | Kanchan C. Bhattacharya (DGP Uttaranchal) |
| The first woman to be appointed as the crime branch chief | Meera Borwankar (took over as crime branch chief of Mumbai police) |
| The first woman to reach the rank of Lt. General in fire Indian army | Puneeta Arora (Commandant, Armed Forces Medical College. Pune) |
| The first Indian to cross seven important seas by swimming | Bula Chaudhury |
| The first woman to become Indian Air Force’s first woman Air Marshal | Air Marshal Padma Bandhopadhyay |
| The first youngest MP, at the age of 25 years | Dharmendra Yadav |
| India’s first woman athlete to win WTA open Tennis title | Sania Mirza |
| The first Indian to set a world record of ever having reached the highest of heights yet in a hot balloon. | Vijaypath Singhania (Nov. 26. 2005. 69852 ft.) |
| The first wonder child of Orissa only about 4 years and a half of age completes a race of 65 km. | Budhia (May 2006) |
| The first woman Commissioner of Police of an Indian metro (Chennai Metro Police) | Letika Saran |
| The first Indian to Ski to the North Pole | Ajeet Baja (April 26. 2006) |
| The first woman President of the Republic of India | Pratibha Patil |
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