First In India
This is the general knowledge reference guide section on “First In India” with explanation for various interview, competitive examination and entrance test. Solved examples with detailed answer description, explanation are given and it would be easy to understand.
First In India
| First British Governor General | Warren Hastings |
| First British Governor General of Independent India | Lord Mountbatten |
| First Chief Justice of India | Hiralal J Kania |
| First commander- In – Chief of Free India | General K.M Cariappa |
| First Chief of Air Staff | Air Marshal Sir Thomas Elmhirst |
| 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 Katati |
| First Cosmonaut | Sqn. Ldr. Rakesh Sharma |
| First Emperor of Mughal dynasty in India | Babar |
| First Field Marshal | SHFJ Manekshaw |
| First Filmstar Chief Minister of a State | M.G. Ramachandran |
| First Indian to get an Oscar | Bhanu Athaiya |
| First Indian to reach South pole | Col. K Bajaj |
| First Indian ICS officer | Satyendra Nath Tagore |
| First Indian Member of the Vicerou’s Executive Council | Sir S.P.Singha |
| First Indian Woman to swim across English Channel | Miss. Arati Saha |
| First Indian Woman to swim across the strait of Gibraltar | Arto Pradhan |
| First man to climb mount Everest | Tensing Norgay |
| First man to climb mount Everest without Oxygen | Phu Dorjee |
| First man to climb mount Everest twice | Nawang Gombu |
| First Muslim Women to sit on the throne of Delhi | Razia Begum |
| First Magsaysay Award Winner | Acharya Vinoba Bhave (1958) |
| First Nobel Prize Winner | Rabindra Nath Tagore |
| First President of Indian National Congress | W.C. Banerjii |
| First Women president of Indian National Congress | Annie Bensant |
| First President of Indian Republic | Dr. Rajendra Prasad |
| First President to die in harness | Dr. Zakir Hussain |
| First Prime Minister | Jawaharlal Nehru |
| First prime minister to lose an election | Indira Ghandhi |
| First Prime Minister to resign from office | Morajee Desai |
| First Deputy Prime minister | Vallabhai Patal |
| First talkie film | Alam Ara (1931) |
| First test-tube baby | Indira (Baby Harsha) |
| First Viceroy | Lord Canning |
| First Women Central Minister | Rajkumari Amrit Kaur |
| First Women Central Minister of a State | Mrs. Sucheta kirpalani |
| First Women Governor | Mrs. Sarojini Naidu |
| First Women minister | Mrs. Vijaya Lakshmi pandit of UP |
| First Women to Climb Mt. Everest | Bachindri pal |
| First Women prime minister | Mrs. Indra Gandhi |
| First Women Speaker of a state Assembly | Mrs. Shanno Devi |
| First women in space | Kalpana Chaula |
| First women airline pilot | Durga Banerjee |
| First Women to win an Asiad gold | Kamaljit Sandhu |
| First Women Judge of supreme Court | Meera Sahib Fatima Beevi |
| First Women IPS Officer | Kiran Bedi |
| First Indian Women to win Miss. Universe Title | Ms. Sushmita Sen |
| First Indian in the British parliament | Dadabhai Naoroji |
| First women president of UN (general assembly) | Vijayalakshmi pandit (1953) |
| First women to win Nobel Prize | Mother Theresa (1979) |
| First women to become “Miss. World” | Reita Faria |
| First speaker, Lok Sabha | GV Mavalankar |
| First chairman, Rajya Sabha | SV.Krishnamoorthy (1952) |
| First Indian to pass ICS | Surendra Nath Banerji (1862) |
| First chief justice of India | Justice Hiralal Kania (1950-51) |
| First Indian Pilot | JRD Tata (1929) |
| First to reach Antartica | LT Ram Charan (1960) |
| First Judge to face impeachement proceeding in Lok Sabha | Justice V. Ramaswami (1993) |
| First Newspaper | Bengal Gazatte (1781) |
| First Vernacular daily | Samchar Darpan (1818) |
| First post office opened at | Kolkata (1927) |
| First telegraph line installed | Between Diamond and Harbour and Kotakata (1851) |
| First train steamed off from | Bombay to Thene (1853) |
| First electric train | Bombay VT to Kurla (1925) |
| First silent movie | ‘Raja Harish Chandra’ made by Dada Saheb Phalke (1913) |
| First technicolour movie | ‘Aan’(1952) |
| First black & white cinemascope film | ‘kaagaz ke Phool’ (1957) |
| First coloured cinemascope film | ‘Pyar Ki Pyas’ (1961) |
| First satellite launched | ‘Aryabhatta’ (1975) |
| First indegeniously built satellite | INSAT- 2A (1992) |
| First atomic device exploded at | Pokharan in Rajesthan (1974) |
| First large scale nuclear reactor | ‘Apsara’ (1956) |
| First hydro electric station set up at | Darjeeling (1898) |
| First indigenously designed and built missile | Prithvi (1988) |
| First youngest women Mayor | Panchamarthi Anuradha (26 years old ) 30th March 2000) |
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