List of First in India
2. The man whose birthday we celebrate as Teachers' Day in India! Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, the first Vice President and the second President of the country, was first and foremost a teacher. Coming from an extremely humble background, Dr Radhakrishnan began his teaching career sat the Madras Presidency College.
3. E.B Joshi is the first male IPS officer of independent india.
4. The first Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh was Neelam Sanjiva Reddy.
5. The first post office in India was established by the East India Company in 1774 in Calcutta (now known as Kolkata). The post office charged two annas per 100 miles. The use of the Scinde Dawk adhesive stamps to signify the prepayment of postage began on 1 July 1852 in the Scinde/Sindh district.
6. Who is called the first person of India? Pretty Padmaja, B-TECH History of India & Indian Police Service, Rajiv Gandhi University of Knowledge Technologies, RK Vall... President, is the first CITIZEN of India.
7. Meet India's first blind IFS officer. Beno Zephine is 25 and she made history when she became India's first 100 per cent visually challenged person to be inducted into the country's elite Indian Foreign Service (IFS).
8.Savitribai Phule (3 January 1831 – 10 March 1897) was an Indian social reformer, educationalist, and poet from Maharashtra. She is regarded as the first female teacher of India. Along with her husband, Jyotirao Phule, she played an important role in improving women's rights in India during British rule.
9. yotirao Phule is remembered as the champion of women's education in India. He, along with his wife Savitribai Phule, opened the first school for girls in 1848.
10. Merin Joseph made history last year by becoming the youngest IPS officer in the Kerala cadre at the age of 25. The Assistant Superintendent of Police of Munnar, Kerala is also the third Malayali woman officer in the cadre. After clearing the UPSC exams in her very first attempt in 2012, Merin joined the IPS.
11. The first woman Chief Minister in the history of independent India was Sucheta Kriplani of the Indian National Congress (INC). She served the post of the CM of Uttar Pradesh from 1963 to 1967.
12. Following the death of Indian Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri, Indira Gandhibecomes head of the Congress Party and thus prime minister of India. She was India's first female head of government and by the time of her assassination in 1984 was one of its most controversial.
13. Sarojini Naidu was the first female to become the governor of an Indian state. She governed Uttar Pradesh from 15 August 1947 to 2 March 1949. Her daughter,Padmaja Naidu, is the longest-serving governor with 11-year tenure in West Bengal.
14. Kiran Bedi. Kiran Bedi (born 9 June 1949) is a retired Indian Police Service officer, social activist, former tennis player and politician who is the current Lieutenant Governor of Puducherry. She is the first woman to join the Indian Police Service (IPS).
15. Megasthenes is the very first foreigner to be visited India from Greek. He had worked as ambassador of Selecus I of Syria. He came to the court of Sandrokattes who is none other than, the Great Chandragupta Maurya.
16. The very first Muslim attack on India in Sindh in the year 715 A.D by Arabs khaliffa led by Mohammad Bin Qasim(one of the loyal man to calipha). They had displacedRaja Dabir who ruled Sindh from his capital Deval (near modern Karachi). They even unsuccessfully tried to attack Malwa.
17. The first large scale invasion on Indian subcontinent is attributed to Alexander the great in 327 BC. [1] There were numerous small-scale invasions before and after that. He faught a great battle with indian ruler Porus [2] near the river Jhelum, battle of Hydaspes, as we know today.
18. Indira Gandhi became the first woman to receive the Bharat Ratna award in 1971.
19. Warren Hastings was the first Governor-General of Fort William or Governor-General of Bengal , he took office on 20 October 1773, appointed by the Court of Directors of the East India Company. Lord William Bentinck(1833)was the 1st Governor-General of British India.
20. Vasco da Gama lands in India. The first Portuguese encounter with the subcontinent was on 20 May 1498 when Vasco da Gama reached Calicut on Malabar Coast. Anchored off the coast of Calicut, the Portuguese invited native fishermen on board and immediately bought some Indian items.
21. Chandragupta Maurya, who established Maurya Dynasty and ruled almost the entire India, was the first Hindu King of India. However, if epics are to be believed, according to Mahabharata, the ancient Sanskrit epic, Bharat, the son of King Dushyant and Shakuntala was the first Hindu King of India.
22. The first recipients of the Bharat Ratna were politician C. Rajagopalachari, philosopher Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, and scientist C. V. Raman, who was honoured in 1954. Since then, the award has been bestowed on 45 individuals, including 12 who were awarded posthumously.
23. First Indian Resident to Win Booker Prize. Share: Arundhati Roy won the prestigious Booker Prize in 1997 for her first novel The God of Small Things. Two other Indian-origin authors had won it before her – Salman Rushdie's second novel, Midnight's Children won in 1981 and Sir V.S.
24. Pratibha Devisingh Patil (born 19 December 1934) is an Indian politician who served as the 12th President of India from 2007 to 2012. A member of the Indian National Congress, Patil is the only woman to hold the office.
25. Bhanu Athaiya became the first Indian to win an Academy Award in 1983, for designing the costumes for Richard Attenborough's Gandhi. Satyajit Ray became the first Indian to receive an Honorary Academy Award in 1992.
26. The Supreme Court of Judicature at Fort William, Calcutta (Kolkata) was founded by an Act of Parliament in 1774. It replaced the Mayor's Court of Calcutta and was British India's highest court from 1774 until 1862, when the High Court of Calcutta was established.
27. The supreme court saw its first woman judge when Justice M. Fathima Beevi was sworn into office in 1989. The seventh and the most recent woman judge in the court is Justice Indu Malhotra. In 1968, Justice Mohammad Hidayatullah became the first Muslim Chief Justice of India. In 2000, Justice K. G.
28. Somnath Sharma. Major Somnath Sharma, PVC (31 January 1923 – 3 November 1947), an Indian Army officer, was the first recipient of Param Vir Chakra (PVC), India's highest military decoration.
29. Ashok Chakra is equivalent to US Army's peacetime Medal of Honor and the British George Cross. Flt. Lt. Suhas Biswas was the first Indian Air Force officer to be awarded the Ashoka Chakra.
30. Fathima Beevi. M. Fathima Beevi (born 30 April 1927) is a former judge of the Supreme Court of India. Appointed to the tribunal in 1989, she became the first female judge to be a part of the Supreme court of India, and the first Muslim woman to be appointed to any of the higher judiciaries in country.
31. mitabh Bachchan is an Indian film actor, playback singer, producer and television personality. He made his acting debut in 1969 with Saat Hindustani, and narrated Mrinal Sen's Bhuvan Shome (1969).
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