INDIAS FIRST..

Know India's First.

• Governor-General of Independent India—Lord Lewis Mountbatten.

•Indian Governor-General of Independent India—Chakrabourty  Rajgopalachari.

• Indian Commander-in-Chief of Free India —General Kodandera Madappa Cariappa, 1949.

• Field Marshall—General S.H.F.J. Manekshaw.

• Speaker of Loksabha—Shri G.V. Mavalankar (15 May 1952- 27 February 1956).

• President—Dr. Rajendra Prasad. • Vice-President—Dr. Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan.

• Prime-Minister—Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru.

• Home Minister—Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel.

• Finance Minister of India—R.K. Shanmukham Chetty.

• Auditor General of India—V. Narahari Rao.

• Director of CBI— DP Kohli. • National Security Adviser— Brijesh Mishra.

• Governor of RBI— Sir Osborne Smith.

• Non-Congress Prime-Minister— Morarji Desai from Janata Party in 1977-79.

• British Governor-General of Bengal—Warren-Hastings.

• Space traveller—S. Leader-Rakesh Sharma.

•I.C.S.—Satendra Nath Tagore.

• Woman IAS—Anna Ranjan George, 1950.

• Sportsperson to received Bharat Ratna—Sachin Tendulkar.

• Swimmer who crossed over the English channel by swimming—
Mihir Sen.

• Woman to swim across the English Channel—Arati Saha, 1959.

• Raman-Magsaysay awardee—Acharya Vinoba Bhave.

• Novel prize winner—Rabindranath Tagore.

• Nobel Prize in Physics—C.V.Raman in 1930.

• President of National Congress—W.C. Banerjee.

• Chairman of Lok Sabha—G.B. Mavlankar.

• First Woman Chief Minister—Sucheta Kriplani.

• Woman Speaker of Lok Sabha—Smt. Meira Kumar, 2009.

• Chief Election Commissioner—Sukumar Sen.

• Indian Chairman in International Court—Justice Dr. Nagendra Singh.

• Foreigner awardee of Bharat Ratna—Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan.

• Leader of the Indian Antarctica Mission—Dr. Syed Zahuv Quasim.

• Chief Justice of Supreme Court—Justice Hiralal J.Kaniya.

• Awarded with ‘Bharat Ratnas’—
Dr. Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan, Chakrabourty Rajgopalachari,
Sir C.V.Raman.

• Woman Awarded with ‘Bharat Ratnas’— Indira Gandhi.

• Commandeur of the Order of Arts and Letters— Mrinal Sen.

• Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letter—Sivaji Ganeshan.

• Posthumally Bharat Ratna Awardee—Lal Bahadur Shastri.

• Person awarded Bhartiya-Gyan-Peeth Purskar—G.Shankar Kurup (Malayalam–1965).

• Woman awarded with Bhartiya-Gyan-Peeth Purskar—Ashapurna Devi, 1976.

• Woman Sahitya Akademi Award Winner—Amrita Pritam, 1956.

• Woman Honours Graduate—Kamini Roy.

• Woman Director General of Police—Kanchan C Bhattacharya.

• Successful Surgeon who transplanted heart—Dr. P.Venugopal.

• Woman to received Nobal Prize— Mother Teresa.

• Woman Governor—Sarojini Naidu.

• Licensed Pilot— J R D Tata.

• Woman Air Pilot—Durba Banerjee.

• Woman Teacher—Savitribai Phule.

• Successful heart transplanted person—Devi Ram (1994).

• President of National Human Rights Commission—Justice Rangnath Mishra.

• Hindi Literature person-awarded Bhartiya Gyan Peeth Purskar— Sumitra Nandan Pant(1968).

• Indian who won the World Billiard award—Wilson Jans.

• Indian who won the Grammy award—Pt. Ravi Shankar.

• Person delivered the Lecture in Hindi in U.N.O.— Atal Bihari Bajpai (1977).

• Indian member in British House of Commons— Dada Bhai Naoroji (1892).

• First President of Indian Science Congress—Sir Asutosh Mukherjee.

• Mountaineer who scaled Mount Everest 8 times—Sherpa-Augarita.

• Writer who was awarded ‘Vyas Samman’—Ramvilas Sharma.

• Indian Managing Director of World Bank—Gautam Kazi.

• Player awarded ‘Padam Bhusan’— C. K. Naidu.

• Actress to win Padma Shri Award—Nargis Dutt, 1958.

• Indian players played Davis Cup— M. Salim and S. M. Jacob (Singles), A. A. Faiyaz and L. S. Dare (Doubles) (1921).

• Tennis Grandslam title winner—Mahesh Bhupati.

• Indian player who played the test cricket—K. S. Ranjeet Singh (from England).

• Scientist elected for Lok Sabha— Dr. Meghnad Saha.

*MSG BY Deepak.S.G (gklights)*