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List of firsts in India

This is a list of firsts in India..

Contents
Architecture
Awards and titles
Nobel Prize
Oscar
Defence (in the Republic of India)
Economy
Exploration
Film, TV and entertainment
Governance
Science
Medical science
Sport[21]
Olympics
Chess
Football
Tennis
Cricket
Women in general
Women in Governance
States
Places
Transport
Literature and media
Others
References

Architecture
First dam in India: Kallanai Dam, one of the world's oldest, still in use; build across the Kaveri river in Thanjavur
District in the state of Tamil Nadu in South India.[1] originally constructed by the Chola king Karikala Cholan
around the 2nd century AD
First Stepwell still existing: Mata Bhavani's Stepwell, built in the 11th century in Gujarat
First temple constructed from a single rock, still standing: Kailasa temple, Ellora, built in 744 CE by Rashtrakuta
king Krishna I
First temple in Kalinga architecture still standing: Konark Sun Temple, built in 1255 AD
First temple with many interconnected structures still standing: Brihadeeswarar Temple, Tanjore, Tamil Nadu, built
in 1002 AD
First true dome: Alai Darwaza, Qutb complex, Delhi, built in 1311 CE, by first Khalji Sultan of Delhi, Ala-ud-din
Khalji

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First true arch: Balban's tomb, Mehrauli Archeological Park, Delhi, built c. 1287 CE, by Ghiyas ud din Balban of
Mamluk dynasty
First garden-tomb on the Indian subcontinent, also the first with Persian double-dome: Humayun's Tomb, Delhi,
built 1562–1571 CE
First chruch in India: St. Thomas Church, Palayoor Built in 52 AD under leadership of St. Thomas the Apostle its a
Mix of Persian and Kerala architecture
First mosque in India: Cheraman Juma Mosque in Methala, Kodungallur Taluk, Thrissur District of Kerala, Built in
629 AD.

Awards and titles

Mr. Universe: Monotosh Roy in 1952
Miss World: Reita Faria in 1966; also the first Asian to win the title
Miss Asia Pacific: Zeenat Aman in 1970
International Teen Princess: Radha Bartake in 1974
Miss Teenages Intercontinental: Elizabeth Anita Reddi in 1978
Miss World Amber: Mala Rai Singani in 1978
World Miss University: Priyadarshini Pradhan in 1989
Miss Universe: Sushmita Sen in 1994
Miss India Worldwide: Karminder Kaur Virk in 1994
Miss Intercontinental: Lara Dutta in 1997
Mr. International: Aryan Vaid in 2000
Manhunt International: Rajeev Singh in 2001
Miss Tourism International: Candice Pinto in 2001
Mrs. World: Aditi Gowitrikar in 2001
Miss Tourism Queen International: Zabina Abdul Rashid Khan in 2004
Miss World Tourism: Sonal Chauhan in 2005.
Best Model of the World: Siddharth Shukla in 2005
Miss Tourism: Priyanka Shah in 2007
Miss Earth: Nicole Faria in 2010
Miss Asia Pacific World: Himangini Singh Yadu in 2012
Mister United Nations: Rahul Vyas in 2013
Miss Supranational: Asha Bhat in 2014
Miss Universal Peace and Humanity: Ruhi Singh in 2014
Miss Tourism International (China version): Parul Bindal in 2014
Ms United Nations: Amiiee (Amisha) Chaudhary Verma in 2017
Mrs United Nations Classic: Neepa Singh in 2017
Mrs United Nations: Roshni Hassan in 2017
First Indian to win any literary award (the Newbery Medal) in the United States, in 1927 for Gay Neck, the Story of
a Pigeon: Dhan Gopal Mukerji
Mister World: Rohit Khandelwal; first Asian to win Mister World
First ever Miss World to win Beauty with a Purpose award: Manushi Chhillar.
Nirad C. Chaudhuri: first Indian to win a major non-fiction award, the Duff Cooper Prize in the United Kingdom, in
1966 for The Continent of Circe
Man Booker Prize: Arundhati Roy for her novel The God of Small Things in 1997
Bhaswati Bhattacharya was the first Indian to speak as orator at Harvard University, in the commencement
exercises in 1993.[1]
Bharat Ratna: Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, C. Rajagopalachari, and C. V. Raman in 1954
Padma Vibhushan: Satyendra Nath Bose, Nand Lal Bose, Zakir Hussain, Balasaheb Gangadhar Kher, Jigme
Dorji Wangchuk, V. K. Krishna Menon in 1954
Param Vir Chakra: Major Somnath Sharma
Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters: Mrinal Sen[2]
Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters: Sivaji Ganesan
Dadasaheb Phalke Award: Devika Rani in 1969
Ashoka Chakra Award to a civilian: D.K. Jatar (posthumous) and M.C Dixit, captain and co-captain respectively, of
the sabotaged plane Kashmir Princess, for "most conspicuous bravery, daring and self-sacrifice"

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Magsaysay Award: Vinoba Bhave, 1958

Stalin Peace Prize (now known as Lenin Peace Prize) in 1952: Saifuddin Kitchlew
Oscar for Lifetime Achievement: Satyajit Ray
Nishan-e-Pakistan: Morarji Desai, 1990

Nobel Prize
1913: Literature: Rabindranath Tagore; also the first Asian to win the prize
1930: Physics: Sir C. V. Raman; first Asian and first non-white person to win Science nobel prize.
1979: Peace: Mother Teresa; Indian citizen of Albanian origin
1998: Economics: Amartya Sen: First Indian for Economics
2014: Peace: Kailash Sathyarthi; first Indian-born recipient

Oscar
1982: Bhanu Athaiya for Costume Design
1992: Satyajit Ray, Honorary Oscar
2009: A. R. Rahman for Best Original Song, Best Original Score
2009: Resul Pookutty for Sound Mixing
2009: Gulzar for Best Original Song

Defence (in the Republic of India)

first President of Indian Republic: Dr. Rajendra Prasad
first Prime Minister of Indian Republic: Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru
first Vice President of Indian Republic: Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Defence Minister of India: Baldev Singh
Commander-in-Chief of Free India: Kodandera Madappa Cariappa
Indian Commander-in-Chief of Free India: General Kodandera Madappa Cariappa,1949
Chief of Air Staff: Subroto Mukerjee
Chief of Army Staff: Rajendrasinhji Jadeja
Commander-in-Chief, IAF: Subroto Mukerjee
Chief of Naval Staff: Sir Charles Thomas Mark Pizey
First Indian (pre-Independence) flying ace: Indra Lal Roy
India's first military helicopter pilot: Air Commodore Sudhindra Kumar Majumdar
Cosmonaut: Sqn Ldr Rakesh Sharma, 1984
Field Marshal: Sam Manekshaw (S.H.F Manekshaw), 1973
First female Jawan in the Army: Sapper Shanti Tigga[3] lp
First Param Vir Chakra winner: Major Som Nath Sharma

Economy
First power in India with Soviet Collaboration: Neyveli Lignite Corporation in 1962[4]
First central PSU to be privatized: Modern Food Industries in January 2000

Exploration
Person to ride alone around the world on motorcycle: Bharadwaj Dayala
Person to fly in a balloon and land in a parachute: Shibnath Majumdar
Person to reach the South Pole: Colonel Jatinder Kumar Bajaj
Person (Man) to scale Mount Everest: H.P.S. Ahluwalia
Woman to scale Mount Everest: Bachendri Pal on 23 May 1984; the 5th woman in the world to scale the peak

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Person to reach Mount Everest without oxygen: Sherpa Anga Dorjee

Woman to reach South Pole: Reena Kaushal Dharmshaktu
Person to reach the North Pole: Jagannathan Srinivasaraghavan on 23 April 1985.
Person to have walked across Gobi desert: Sucheta Kadethankar
Youngest person in the world to climb Everest: Malavath Purna on 25 May 2014 at the age of 13

Film, TV and entertainment

1896: First film to be exhibited in India: on 7 July, with the Lumiere Brothers' Cinematography, unveiling six silent
short films at the Watson's Hotel in Bombay: Entry of Cinematographe, The Sea Bath, Arrival of a Train, A
Demolition, Ladies & Soldiers on Wheels and Leaving the Factory
1902: Music record was recorded by Gauhar Jaan[5] singing a khayal in Raag Jogiya,[6] recorded on 2 November,
by Fred Gaisberg, assistant to Emile Berliner, the father of the gramophone record.[7]
1913: Silent film to be made in India: Raja Harishchandra, by Dadasaheb Phalke and released on 3 May.
1913: Actress of Indian cinema: Durgabai Kamat in Mohini Bhasmasur, released in November, second movie of
Phalke[8][9]
1931: Sound film: Alam Ara directed by Ardeshir Irani[10]
1937: Government award for films: Bengal Film Journalists' Association Awards
1937: Colour film: Kisan Kanya, directed by Moti B. Gidvani
1946: Palme d'Or at 1946 Cannes Film Festival: Neecha Nagar, directed by Chetan Anand
1954: National Film Award for cinema: Shyamchi Aai
1955: Film to attract International critical attention: Pather Panchali
1957: Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Language Film: Mother India
1959: Film to be banned: Neel Akasher Neechey, directed by Mrinal Sen[11]
1959: Cinemascope film: Kaagaz Ke Phool, directed by Gurudutt[12][13]
1960: First actor to win an international film award ( Afro Asian film awards ceremony) : Sivaji Ganesan for
Veerapandia Kattabomman.
1964: Guinness Book of World Records in the category "Fewest actors in a narrative film": Yaadein directed and
acted by Sunil Dutt[14]
1967: 70 mm film: Hindi film Around the World
1969: Dadasaheb Phalke Award recipient: Devika Rani
1982: Oscar winner: Bhanu Athaiya for Best Costume Design for the film Gandhi
1984: 3-D film: My Dear Kuttichathan, a Malayalam film, produced in 1984, dubbed in Hindi as Chhota Chetan
1984: Sponsored TV serial: Hum Log, started on 7 July, was also the first soap opera of India, ran for 156
episodes
1985: Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Order of Arts and Letters) – Director: Mrinal Sen
1987: First film to shoot underwater - Kannada movie Ondu Muttina Kathe, was the first Indian movie to be shot
under water in Maldives
1992: Oscar for Lifetime Achievement: Satyajit Ray
1992: Indian filmmaker to get Bharat Ratna: Satyajit Ray
1995: Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Order of Arts and Letters) – Actor: Sivaji Ganesan
2004: Colorized film: Mughal-e-Azam in 2004 (the original black-and-white version was released in 1960)
2004: Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Order of Arts and Letters) – Actress: Sharmila Tagore
2006: Film screened at the United Nations: Lage Raho Munna Bhai, on 10 November, directed by Rajkumar
Hirani
2008: Actor to enact most roles (10): Kamal Haasan in Dasavathaaram
2009: Music director to win an Oscar and first double Oscar winner: A. R. Rahman for Slumdog Millionaire
2009: Actress to enact most roles (12): Priyanka Chopra in What's Your Raashee?
2016: First Indian Editor who got recognized by Avid Editors : GA Gowtham

Governance
First President of the Indian National Congress: Womesh Chandra Bannerjee, 1885
First President of the Indian National Congress of independent India: Acharya Kripalani, until November 1947
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President: Dr. Rajendra Prasad (1950–62)

The first Chief Election Commissioner: Sukumar Sen
First Industries and Supplies Minister: Shyama Prasad Mukherjee
First person to resign from the Central Cabinet: Shyama Prasad Mukherjee
Vice-President: Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Prime Minister: Jawaharlal Nehru (1947–64); India held its first constitutional elections in 1952 after which he was
re-elected
Deputy Prime Minister: Vallabhbhai Patel (1947–50)
Law Minister of India: B. R. Ambedkar
Leader of Opposition: A. K. Gopalan
Prime Minister to be voted out of office: Indira Gandhi (1977), when the Indian National Congress lost to the
Janata Party
Non-Congress government: Janata Party, with Morarji Desai as the Prime Minister (1977–1980)
Non-Congress State government with Majority by a single party: E. M. S. Namboodiripad of CPI, Kerala 1957
Prime Minister to lead a minority government for a full term (five years): P. V. Narasimha Rao, 21 June 1991 – 16
May 1996
Person outside the Nehru-Gandhi family to serve as Prime Minister for a full term (five years): P. V. Narasimha
Rao, 21 June 1991 – 16 May 1996
Non Congress Prime Minister to serve a full term: Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Prime Minister from South India: P. V. Narasimha Rao, 1991, H.D.Deve Gowda
The first Viceroy of India: Lord Canning, 1858
Governor-General of India: Warren Hastings, 1773
Governor-General of Independent India: Lord Mountbatten, 1947
Indian Governor-General of Indian Union: C Rajagopalachari, 1948
Chief Justice of India: H. J. Kania (1947–51)
First Sikh Prime Minister: Manmohan Singh (2004–14)
First Muslim President: Zakir Hussain (1967–69)
First Sikh President: Giani Zail Singh
Indian ICS Officer: Satyendranath Tagore, 1863
Speaker of Lok Sabha: G. V. Mavlankar (1952–56)
Finance Minister of Independent India: R. K. Shanmukham Chetty (1947–49), for others see First Nehru ministry
Presentation of the first budget after India's Independence: R. K. Shanmukham Chetty on 26 November 1947
First Home Minister of India: Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel[15]
First Indian President to die in Office: Zakir Hussain, 3 May 1969
First Chief Minister to die in Office: C. N. Annadurai, Tamil Nadu
First Indian Prime Minister to resign from office: Morarji Desai, 1979
First Prime Minister born after India's independence: Narendra Modi, born 17 September 1950

Science
The first president of the inaugural session of the Indian Science Congress: Sir Ashutosh Mukherjee in 1914
Hydroelectric plant: Sidrapong near Darjeeling. commissioned in 1897,[16]
Place to get electricity: Darjeeling in 1897, followed by Calcutta (now Kolkata)[17][18] in 1898 and Kolar Gold Fields
in 1902.
Man in space: Rakesh Sharma aboard Soyuz T-11, on 3 April 1984. He was the 138th man in space worldwide.
Woman in space: Kalpana Chawla aboard Space Shuttle Columbia flight STS-87, on 19 November 1997. She
was a naturalized United States citizen, and represented the US during the event.
Test-tube baby: Durga Agarwal, born 1978
Scientific Expedition to Antarctica: 1981
Nuclear Reactor: Apsara, Mumbai, Maharashtra
First Genetically modified food product in India: Bt. Egg plant Hybrid (Bt. – Bacilius thuringiensis)
Satellite: Aryabhata, launched on 19 April 1975
Satellite dedicated exclusively for educational services: EDUSAT
Successfully indigenous launch vehicle: SLV-3
Prospective space tourist: Santhosh George Kulangara, proposed in 2009 aboard Virgin Galactic

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Cloned animal: Bhass, sampura

In 1850, the first experimental electric telegraph line was started between Kolkata and Diamond Harbor. In 1851,
it was opened for the use of the British East India Company
1854: Telegraph service opened to the Public
First telephone exchange: On 28 January 1882, Major E. Baring, Member of the Governor General of India's
Council declared open the Telephone Exchanges in Calcutta, Bombay and Madras. The exchange in Calcutta
named the "Central Exchange", was opened at third floor of the building at 7, Council House Street, with a total of
93 subscribers. Later that year, Bombay also witnessed the opening of a telephone exchange.
1902 – First wireless telegraph station established between Sagar Islands and Sandheads.
1907 – First central battery of telephones introduced in Kanpur.
1913–1914 – First automatic exchange installed in Shimla.
1927 – Radio-telegraph system between the UK and India, with Imperial Wireless Chain beam stations at Khadki
and Daund. Inaugurated by Lord Irwin on 23 July by exchanging greetings with King George V.
1933 – Radiotelephone system inaugurated between the UK and India.
1953 – 12 channel carrier system introduced.
1960 – First subscriber trunk dialing route commissioned between Lucknow and Kanpur.
1975 – First PCM system commissioned between Mumbai City and Andheri telephone exchanges.
1976 – First digital microwave junction introduced.
1979 – First optical fibre system for local junction commissioned at Pune.
1980 – First satellite earth station for domestic communications established at Secunderabad, Telangana
1983 – First analog Stored Program Control exchange for trunk lines commissioned at Mumbai.
1984 – First Underground Metro Railways System at Calcutta.
1984 – C-DOT established for indigenous development and production of digital exchanges.
1990 – First technology park in India, Technopark, Trivandrum was launched
1995 – First mobile telephone service started on non-commercial basis on 15 August 1995 in Delhi.
2014 – First country to enter Mars' orbit on their first attempt with successful launch of Mars Orbiter Mission
(Mangalyaan)[19]
2015– First 3D printed humanoid robot in India at A-SET Training & Research Institutes – Manav (robot)

Medical science
First graduate in medicine: Surjo Kumar Chakraborty
First rhinoplasty noted in the world/India: Over Ksatji, a British soldier by a Kumhar Vaidya.
First physician in India and second in the world to perform the In vitro fertilization: Subhash Mukhopadhyay.
First in India to receive a fellowship of the International Federation for Emergency Medicine – Dr. K. Hari
Prasad[20]
First Indian to be appointed as the deputy director general of programmes (DDP) of the World Health
Organisation (WHO): Dr. Soumya Swaminathan

Sport[21]
Indian to swim across the English Channel: Mihir Sen, 1958
Woman to swim across the English Channel: Arati Saha, 1959
Anju Bobby George: First Indian Athlete ever to win a Medal in World Championships in Athletics.She Won the
Bronze Medal in Long Jump at the 2003 World Championships in Athletics in Paris.
Formula One driver: Narain Karthikeyan
Formula One team: Force India F1
A1 GP race victory: Narain Karthikeyan, Zhuhai, China, 2007
Person to equal world record in Archery: Limba Ram, 1992
Person to walk across the Mongolian Gobi Desert: Sucheta Kadethankar who achieved the feat in 51 days, 11
hours and 40 minutes in 2011
Ashish Kumar, first Indian to win a medal in both Asian games( 12 to 27 November November 2010,
Guangzhou(China)) and Commonwealth games (Delhi, India, from 3 to 14 October 2010). He won Bronze medal
in both games.
Shiva Keshavan, first Indian to win two gold medals for India in winter sports at the Asia Cup in Japan in 2011 and
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49.590 seconds
Santhi Soundarajan: first World Peace Sports Festival Ambassador from India and first Indian woman to win a
medal at Asian Games
Aanchal Thakur gives India its 1st international bronze medal in skiing.[22]
Navjot Kaur became the first Indian woman wrestler to win an Asian gold medal.[23][24]

Olympics
Olympic Team Medal: Gold in Field Hockey at 1928 Summer Olympics, Amsterdam, beating Netherlands
Individual Medal (in British India): Two Silver Medals by Norman Pritchard in 200 metres and 200 metres Hurdles
at the 1900 Summer Olympics, Paris (This is disputed however. The IOC claims he participated for India. The
IAAF records him as a participant for Great Britain.)
Individual Medal: Bronze by K. D. Jadhav for Wrestling at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki
Medal in Tennis: Leander Paes at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta
Individual Medal Woman: Bronze by Karnam Malleswari for Weightlifting 54 kg class, at the 2000 Summer
Olympics Sydney
Individual Gold Medal: Abhinav Bindra in the 10 m Air Rifle event at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.
Individual Silver Medal (Independent India): Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore in the Men's Double Trap event at the
2004 Summer Olympics in Athens
Medal in Boxing: Vijender Singh in the Beijing Olympics 2008
Medal in Badminton: Saina Nehwal, Bronze in the London Olympics 2012
Back to Back Medal: Sushil Kumar,Bronze in the Beijing Olympics 2008 and Silver in the London Olympics 2012
Medal in Boxing Women: MC Mary Kom, Bronze in the London Olympics 2012
First Woman to Win an Olympic Silver Medal: P. V. Sindhu in Badminton at the 2016 Summer Olympics
First Woman to Win a Medal in Wrestling: Sakshi Malik Bronze in the 2016 Summer Olympics
First Indian Golfer : Aditi Ashok, 2016 Summer Olympics

Chess
Chess Grandmaster: Male – Viswanathan Anand, 1988
Chess Women Grandmaster: Female – Bhagyashree Thipsay, 1986
Female – Koneru Humpy – 2002; also the youngest woman to become a grandmaster, at 15 years old. (Hou Yifan
of China is the youngest woman to become a grandmaster, at 14 years and 6 months.)

Football
First Indian footballer to play overseas: Mohammed Salim
First Indian football goalkeeper to play overseas: Subrata Paul
First footballer to be named the Indian footballer of the century (20th century): Pradip Kumar Banerjee
First Indian as well as an Asian to be declared best captains in the world by English FA: Shailen Manna
First Indian to manage a Bundesliga football club: Robin Dutt
First Indian to be inducted in the AFC Hall of Fame: Baichung Bhutia
First Indian to score the fastest goals (third fastest in the world): I. M. Vijayan

Tennis
Grand Slam title: Mahesh Bhupathi (partnering with Japanese Rika Hiraki) in the mixed doubles category of the
1997 French Open
Woman to win a match in a Grand Slam event: Nirupama Vaidyanathan beat Italian Gloria Pizzichini in the first
round of the 1998 Australian Open
Woman to reach 4th round (highest as of 2009) of a Grand Slam singles event: Sania Mirza in the singles
category of the 2005 US Open
Woman to win a Grand Slam title: Sania Mirza (partnering with Mahesh Bhupathi) in the mixed doubles category
of the 2009 Australian Open
Grand Slam junior title: Ramanathan Krishnan in the singles category of the 1954 Wimbledon Championship
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Grand Slam junior title by a woman: Sania Mirza (partnering with Russian Alisa Kleybanova) in the doubles
category of the 2003 Wimbledon Championships
Yuki Bhambri became the first Indian to win the singles in the Junior Australian Open, when he defeated the
Greek Alexandros-Ferdinandos Georgoudas in the final 6–3, 6–1 in the finals in 2009.
Sania Mirza became the first Indian to reach No. 1 doubles WTA ranking.[25]

Cricket
First cricket club in India: Calcutta Cricket and Football Club (1792) in Calcutta (now Kolkata)
First test match played in India: India vs England in Eden Gardens, Calcutta (result draw) (5–8 Jan 1934)
First Indian captain and the third in history to have led his team to victory after being enforced to follow on, against
Steve Waugh's Australia in 2001–02: Sourav Ganguly
First cricket stadium: Eden Gardens in Kolkata
First test victory: against England At Madras
Cricket tournament: the Bombay Triangular (1905–1911) which later became the Bombay Quadrangular (1912–
1936)
First Indian captain to win more than 21 test matches as a captain: Mahendra Singh Dhoni
Test match: against England at Lord's, 25 June 1932
Captain in tests: C. K. Nayudu for the 1932 tour of England.
ODI captain: Ajit Wadekar
Cricketer to score a century in a test match: Lala Amarnath, 118 against England in December 1933 at Bombay
Gymkhana grounds.
First Indian to score the highest runs in a World Cup: Sourav Ganguly 183 runs vs Sri Lanka in 1999 World Cup
Cricket.
Cricketer to score a double century in a test match: Polly Umrigar, 223 against New Zealand at Hyderabad in
1955–56
Cricketer to score a triple century in a test match: Virender Sehwag, 309 against Pakistan in Multan in 2004.
Indian to score an ODI century: Kapil Dev, 175* against Zimbabwe in the 1983 Cricket World Cup.
Indian to score an ODI double century is Sachin Tendulkar, 200* against South Africa at Gwalior, 24 February
2010 (he was the first in the World to achieve this feat).
Indian to score two ODI double centuries and the highest individual runs in ODI is Rohit Sharma, 264 against Sri
Lanka in 2014.
Hat-trick in an ODI: Chetan Sharma against New Zealand in 1987.
Hat trick in test cricket: Harbhajan Singh against Australia in 2001 at Kolkata.
First World Cup Runners up captain: Sourav Ganguly (2003)
World Cup: At the 1983 World Cup when India beat West Indies in the finals, under the captaincy of Kapil Dev
Batsman to complete 10,000 runs in Tests: Sunil Gavaskar (first in the world to achieve this feat)
Batsman to complete 10,000 runs in ODIs: Sachin Tendulkar (first in the world to achieve this feat)
Winner of the first T20 World Cup: India (in 2007) against Pakistan
Cricketer to score 100 centuries in Test and ODIs combined: Sachin Tendulkar (he was the first in the World to
achieve this feat)
First bowler to take all 10 wickets in an innings: Anil Kumble (against Pakistan)
First batsman to score 50 centuries in Test cricket: Sachin Tendulkar
First woman to score a double hundred in Test cricket: Mithali Raj (214* against New Zealand at Wellington,
2004); first in the world to achieve this feat
First Indian to score a T20 century: Suresh Raina (India vs South Africa)
Six sixes in an Over: Yuvraj Singh in a T20 match vs England
First nation to win a World Cup Finale on its home ground: India (ICC 2011 Cricket World Cup) final held at
Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai
Fastest fifty in a T20I: 50 runs off 12 balls by Yuvraj Singh (vs England in the Inaugural World T20 Championship
held in South Africa, 2007)

Women in general
First women's court in India: Malda, West Bengal[26]
Graduates: Kadambini Ganguly and Chandramukhi Basu, 1883

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The first woman honours graduate: Kamini Roy, 1886

Head of an undergraduate academic institution: Chandramukhi Basu, 1888
Honours graduate: Kamini Roy (1886)
Pilot a locomotive engine (train driver): Surekha Yadav
Chairperson of State Bank of India: Arundhati Bhattacharya
Court martialled: Anjali Gupta in 2005
Lawyer: Cornelia Sorabjee (1892), also the first female graduate from Bombay University, and the first woman in
the world to read law at Oxford
Muskan Sethi, 2015 India's first female Professional Poker Player
Photojournalist: Homai Vyarawalla (1913)[27]
Doctorate of Science: Asima Chatterjee (1944)
Chief Justice of a High Court (Himachal Pradesh): Leila Seth, 1991
Air Vice Marshal: Padmavathy Bandopadhyay
Supreme Court judge: Justice M. Fathima Beevi
High Court Judge: Anna Chandy
Woman President of the United Nations General Assembly: Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, 1953
Physician: Kadambini Ganguly, 1886
Airline Pilot: Durba Banerjee
Space: Kalpana Chawla aboard Space Shuttle Columbia flight STS-87, on 19 November 1997. She was a
naturalized United States citizen, and represented the US during the event.
Nobel Prize winner: Mother Teresa of calcutta in 1979 (Albanian born Indian citizen)
To cross English Channel: Aarti Saha
Monarch of Delhi Sultanate: Razia Sultana (1205–1240) of Mamluk Sultanate (Delhi)
Minister in a government: Rajkumari Amrit Kaur in the Ministry of Health
Speaker of the Lok Sabha: Meira Kumar
Asha Pande, first Indian woman to be the member of Legion of Honour
Anjali Gopalan, first Tamil woman member of the royal French Legion of Honour.
Asian Games gold medal winner: Kamlijit Sandhu
Climb Mount Everest: Bachendri Pal, 1984
Chess Grandmaster: Koneru Humpy, 2002. She was also the youngest woman in the world to become a
grandmaster, at 15 years old.
To win 1st round match in a Grand Slam event: Nirupama Vaidyanathan beat Italian Gloria Pizzichini in the first
round of the 1998 Australian Open
To reach 4th round (highest as of 2008) of a Grand Slam event: Sania Mirza in the Singles category of the 2005
US Open.
Grand Slam junior title: Sania Mirza (partnering with Russian Alisa Kleybanova) in the doubles category of the
2003 Wimbledon Championships.
Paris Brest Paris Cycling Event: Divya Tate (44): August 2011[28]
Pilot (Indian Air Force): Harita Kaur Deol
Pilot (aircraft): Sarla Thakral
To Cross Gobi Desert: Sucheta Kadethankar (33): 2011[29]
Reach the final of an Olympic event: P. T. Usha
IAS officer:Isha Basant Joshi
Youngest Ultramarathoner to run a 100-mile race (Himalayas)[30]
Magasasay Award: Mother Teresa
Bus driver at Delhi Transport Corporation: Sarita[31]
Managing Director of LIC of India : Usha Sangwan
First woman appointed as the United Nations Civil Police adviser: Kiran Bedi (2003)
First woman boxer (in world too) to win a medal in all six World championships: Mary Kom
First and the only Indian golfer to participate in Asian Youth Games (2013), Youth Olympic Games (2014), Asian
Games (2014) and Olympic Games (2016): Aditi Ashok

Women in Governance
Indian National Congress President: Annie Besant

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Prime Minister: Indira Gandhi, 1966

President: Pratibha Patil, 2007
IPS Officer Kiran Bedi
Cabinet Minister in India: Rajkumari Amrit Kaur
Minister in India: Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
Chief Minister: Sucheta Kriplani Uttar Pradesh
Governor: Sarojini Naidu (Governor of Uttar Pradesh, 1947–49)
Home Minister of a state: Sabitha Indra Reddy, Andhra Pradesh
Speaker of the Lok Sabha: Meira Kumar
Finance Minister of State Government in India: Dr Upinderjit Kaur, in Punjab Govt.
President: Pratibha Patil (2007–2012)
Director General of Police: Kanchan Chaudhary Bhattacharya
Railway Minister of India: Mamata Banerjee
Fully blind IFS officer: Beno Zephine N L[32]
To join IFS, to be a diplomat, to become the ambassador/High commissioner (also sued the Indian government
for gender bias): C. B. Muthamma.
IPS officer, Assam: Yamin Hazarika[33]
IPS officer, Sikkim: Aparajita Rai
IPS officer, Maharashtra: Meera Borvankar

States
First state to

achieve 100% primary education[34] – Kerala 2016

become a fully organic state[35] – Sikkim 2016
unveil retail policy[36] – Andhra Pradesh 2016
complete 100% online electoral enrollment[37] – Kerala
e-auction limestone blocks[38] – Jharkhand 2016
build first gender park[39] – Kerala 2016
become a 'complete digital state'[40] – Kerala 2016
World’s Largest Community Kitchen (Golden Temple) -Amritsar

Places
First partition of Indian state: Bengal
First road which is a connected to a Wi-Fi zone: Rajarhat (connecting Rajarhat Main Arterial Road to the airport to
Sector V in the city of Kolkata with 10.5 km)[41]
District to achieve a 100% literacy rate: Ernakulam district, Kerala, 1990. Pothanicad in Ernakulam district is the
first panchayath in India that achieved 100% literacy.
City/town to achieve a 100% literacy rate: Kottayam, Kerala, 1989
District to achieve a 100% literacy rate and lowest population growth rate: Pathanamthitta district, Kerala
District to be polio-free: Pathanamthitta district, Kerala
District to become tobacco-free: Kottayam district, Kerala, 27 September 2008
District to become India's 'total electrified district': Palakkad, Kerala, 2011
City to have an e-court: Ahmedabad, 8 February 2009
City to ranked as the No.1 Indian city for ‘quality of life’[42] – Chennai, Tamil Nadu
India's first Wi-Fi city: Kolkata

Transport
First City to get India's first underwater Metro which is below the flowing Hooghly River : Kolkata Metro at Kolkata
[43]

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First (Metro) rail to become zone of Indian Railways: Kolkata Metro as the (17Th Zonal Headquarter) (30
December 2010)[44]
First and the only Indian (Metro) rail under Indian Railways: Kolkata Metro
First private railwa station: Habibganj railway station from June 2017[45][46]
First passenger train: between Mumbai and Thane on 16 April 1853
First suburban railway line: Mumbai Suburban Railway in 1857
First rapid transit (Metro) rail: Kolkata Metro in 1984
First motorcar: in 1897, Mr Forster of Crompton Greaves
First motorcar in regular use: Francis Spring, Chennai in 1901
First Indians to own a motorcar: Jamshedji Tata and Rustom Cama, a Parsi Lawyer in 1901.
First competitive event: Delhi – Bombay trials in 1905 at the behest of Lord Curzon and otor Union of Western
India to test the suitability of the Automobile for Indian roads and to facilitate interaction between the fledging
Automobile Industry and prospective Indian clients[47][48][49][50][51]
Oldest surviving and running cars in India: De Dion Bouton 1904, Rover 1905
First woman to drive a car in India: Eshan Ulla Robet, RD Tata 1905
First woman to drive a railway train in India: Surekha Yadav
First female auto-rickshaw driver – Shila Dawre; Pune, 1988[52]
First motor taxi: Mumbai, 1911
First large scale import of motor cars: relatively large contingent of motorcars imported for the Delhi Darbar held in
1911 to mark the arrival of King George V[53]
First registration scheme for motor vehicles in India: 1912
Arrival of mass production technology makes the Automobile a practical means of transport by the 1920s and
most British officers had cars
First assembly of motor cars: General Motors sets up the first assembly unit to assemble cars from imported parts
in 1928. The National Series AB sedan is produced.
First manufacture of motor cars: Hindustan Motors begins production of cars in 1942. Premier automobiles and
Standard Motors setup. Technology stagnates as a result of economic autarky as India is isolated from the rest of
the world
First act leading to liberalization of the Auto sector: Maruti 800 launched in 1983 and the automotive industry is
progressively liberalized
First fully indigenous passenger car developed in India: Tata Indica, launched in 1998
First expressway: Mumbai - Pune Expressway in 2000,
First major acquisition of a foreign company by an Indian company: Tata Motors acquires Jaguar and Land Rover
in 2007. Mahindra Automotive emerges as the top bidder for SsangYong Motor Company in 2010.
First aeroplane in India: Maharaja of Patiala, 1910[54]
Domestic commercial aviation is born in India in 1911 when on 18 February, Henri Piquet, flying a Humber
biplane, carries mail from Allahabad to Naini Junction, some six miles away.
1927: India's first airline, Imperial Airways, extends its Empire Routes to India, connecting India with the outside
world for the first time through an air network. A de Havilland Hercules flies the Cairo-Basra-Karachi-Jodhpur-
Delhi route. It is also the first domestic passenger flight to be operated in India. Passengers could be for the first
time fly from Karachi to Jodhpur and to Delhi on Imperial Airways.
On 10 February 1929, J. R. D. Tata is awarded India's first pilot licence, Pilot Licence No.1 by Federation
Aeronotique International signed by Sir Victor Sasoon on behalf of the Aero Club of India and Burma.
1932: Urmila K Parikh becomes the first woman to get a pilot licence when she is given a licence by the Aero
Club of India and Burma.
1932: J. R. D. Tata launches India's first scheduled airline, Tata Airlines, by piloting the first flight himself from
Karachi to Bombay via Ahmedabad on a single-engine Puss Moth with a load of airmail.
2009: India's first electric motorcycle[55]

Literature and media

Newspaper: Hicky's Bengal Gazette started in 1780.
Hindi newspaper: Udant Martand on 30 May 1826; published and edited by Jugal Kishore Shukla from
Calcutta.[56]
Hindi monthly magazine: Saraswati on 1 January 1900, started by Chintamani Ghosh in Allahabad[57]
Exclusive Internet magazine: Bharat Samachar

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Others
The first Indian to cross English Channel: Mihir Sen[58]
First practicing barrister of Indian origin: Monomohun Ghose
First Indian as well as an Asian to be called to the bar in England: Gnanendramohan Tagore
First post office opened in India: Kolkata (1727)
First telegraph message: on 5 November 1850, between Calcutta (now Kolkata) and Diamond Harbour, a
distance of about 50 km.[59]
Wax statue of a living Indian: Mahatma Gandhi at Madame Tussaud's in 1939
Miss India to participate in Miss Universe: Indrani Rahman in the Miss Universe 1952 Pageant at Long Beach,
California
India's first woman Merchant Navy Officer: Sonali Banerjee
First woman teacher: Savitribai Phule
First woman doctor: Anandi Gopal Joshi
First Indian World No. 1 women's tennis sportsperson (doubles): Sania Mirza
First Indian No. 1 women's badminton player: Saina Nehwal
The first record holder in the field of development of eco-innovation: Shripad Vaidya[60] 13 June 2010; Vaidya is
the first Nagpurian to get two Limca records within a year, as the first record holder in the field of development of
eco-innovation.
World's first hand written needle book: Madhushala[61]
Writer of world's first hand written needle book (Madhushala): Piyush Goel[62]
First disabled friendly bank ATM: Union Bank of India[63]

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