First In Governance

First In Governance
First President of India	Dr. Rajendra Prasad (1950-1962)
First Prime Minister of India	Jawaharlal Nehru (1947-1964). The first term lasted till 1952 after which he was re-elected.
First Vice President of India	Dr. S Radhakrishan
First Deputy Prime Minister of India	Vallabhbhai Patel
First Prime Minister to be voted out of Office	India Ghandi (1977) when the Indian National Congress lost to Janta Party.
First Sikh Prime Minister	Manmohan Singh
First Sikh President	Giani Zail Singh
First Non-Congress Government	by Janta Party with Morarji Desai as the Prime Minister (1977-1980)
First woman Speaker of the Lok Sabha	Meira Kumar
First Prime Minster of India resigned without completing his full term	Morarji Desai
First Prime Minister to lead a minority government for a full term(five years)	P.V. Narasimha Rao, June 21, 1991 to May 16 1996
First Prime Minster from South India	P.V. Narasimha Rao, June 21, 1991 to May 16 1996
First Governor-General	Warren Hastings
First British Governor-General	Lord William Bentick
First British Viceroy of India	Lord Canning
First Governor General of Independent India	Lord Mountbatten, 1947
First and Last Indian Governor-General of Indian Union	C Rajagopalachari, 1948
First Chief Justice of India	Justice Hiralal J Kania
First Indian to pass ICS	Surendra Nath Banerjee
First Indian ICS Officer	Satyendranath Tagore, 1863
First Speaker of Lok Sabha	Shri G.V. Mavlankar
First Finance Minister of Independent India	Shri R.K.Shanmukhan Chettys
Presentation of First Budget after India's Independence	Shri R.K.Shanmukhan Chettys on Nov. 26, 1947
First President to die in Office	Dr. Zakhir Hussain
First Prime Minister who did not face the Parliament	Charan Singh
First Chief Justice of Supreme Court to become President of India	Justice M Hidaytullah
First Education Minister	Abul Kalam Azad
First Home Minister	Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
First Chief Election Commissioner	Sukumar Sen
First Minister to regin from Union Cabinet	Frama Prasad Mukherjee (1950)
President of the Indian National Congress	Womesh Chandra Bannerjee, 1885
President of the Indian National Congress of independent India	Acharya Kripalani, till November 1947
First Woman President	Pratibha Patil (2007–2012)
Vice-President	Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

First Female In India

First Female In India
The first lady to become Miss World	Rita Faria
The first woman judge in Supreme Court	Mrs. Meera Sahib Fatima Bibi
The first woman Ambassador	Miss C.B. Muthamma
The first woman Governor of a state in free India	Mrs Sarojini Naidu
The first woman Speaker of a State Assembly	Shanno Devi
The first woman Prime Minister	Mrs Indira Gandhi
The first woman Minister in a Government	Rajkumari Amrit Kaur
The first woman to climb Mount Everest	Bachhendri Pal
The first woman to climb Mount Everest twice	Santosh Yadav
The first woman President of Indian National Congress	Mrs Annie Besant
The first woman pilot in Indian Air Force	Harita Kaur Dayal
The first woman Graduates	Kadambini Ganguly and Chandramukhi Basu, 1883
The first woman Airline Pilot	Durba Banerjee
The first woman Honours Graduate	Kamini Roy, 1886
The first woman Olympic medal Winner	Karnam Malleswari, 2000
The first woman Asian Games Gold Medal Winner	Kamlijit Sandhu
The first woman Lawyer	Cornelia Sorabjee
The first woman President of United Nations General Assembly	Mrs Vijaya Laxmi Pandit
The first woman Chief Minister of an Indian State	Mrs Sucheta Kripalani
The first woman Chairman of Union Public Service Commission	Roze Millian Bethew
The first woman Director General of Police	Kanchan Chaudhary Bhattacharya
The first woman Judge	Anna Chandy (She became judge in a district court in 1937)
The first woman Cheif Justice of High Court	Mrs Leela Seth (Himachal Pradesh High Court)
The first woman Judge in Supreme Court of India	Kumari Justice M. Fathima Beevi
The first woman Lieutenant General	Puneeta Arora
The first woman Air Vice Marshal	P. Bandopadhyaya
The first woman chairperson of Indian Airlines	Sushma Chawla
The first woman IPS officer	Mrs. Kiran Bedi
The first and last Muslim woman ruler of India	Razia Sultan
The first woman to receive Ashoka Chakra	Nirja Bhanot
The first woman to receive Jnanpith Award	Ashapurna Devi
The first woman to cross English Channel	Aarti Saha
The first woman to receive Nobel Prize	Mother Teresa
The first woman to receive Bharat Ratna	Mrs Indira Gandhi
The first woman to receive Jnanpith Award	Ashpurna Devi