Rail Adda

First Male In India

1.        First Governor of Bengal                                                       Lord Clive (1757-60)

2.        Last Governor of Bengal                                                       Warren Hastings (1772-74)

3.        First Governor General of Bengal                                         Warren Hastings (1774-85)

4.        First Governor General of India                                             Lord William Bentic (1833-35)

5.        Last Governor General and first viceroy of India                  Lord Canning (1856-62)

6.        First president of Indian National Congress                          W.C. Banerjee

7.        First Indian Governor general of Independent India              C.Rajgopalachari

8.        First Indian to pass I.C.S.                                                        Surendra Nath Benerjee

9.        First Indian I.C.S. Officer                                                      Satyaendra Nath Tagore

10.    First Governor General of India  (After Independence)         Lord Louis Mountbatten

11.    First Indian Cosmonaut (to go into space )                             Sqn. Ldr. Rakesh Sharma

12.    First temporary president of the Constituent Assembly          Dr. Sachchida Nand Sinha

13.    First Commander-in-chief of free India                                   General K.M. Cariappa

14.    First Indian Nobel Laureate                                                     Rabindra Nath Tagore

15.    First Indian Judge of the Indian international Court of Justice  Dr. Nagendra Singh

16.    First Indian go to Bhart Ratna Award                                      Dr.S. Radhakrishnan

17.    First field Marshal                                                                    General S.F.J. Manekshaw

18.    The president of Constituent Assembly                                    Dr. Rajendra Prasad

19.    The first Indian( man ) to swim across the English Channel    Mihir Sen

20.    First Indian to get Jnanpeeth Award                                         G. Shankar Kurup

21.    First Muslim President of Indian Republic                               Dr. Zakir Hussain

22.    First Indian to win Palk-Strait Ocean Swimming Contest        Baidyanath Nath

23.    First Speaker of Lok Sabha                                                       G.V. Mavlankar (1952-57)

24.    First person to make printing press popular in India                 James Hicky

25.    First Education Minister of Independent India                          Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad

26.    First president of Indian Republic                                              Dr. Rajendra Prasad

27.    First Prime Minister of Independent India                                 Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru

28.    First Home Minister of Independent India                                 Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel

29.    First vice president of Independent India                                   Dr. S. Radhakrishan

30.    First chief of Air Staff    Air Marshal                                        sir Thomas Elmhirst

31.    First Indian air Chief of India     Air Marshal                            S. Mukherjee

32.    First Chief of Army Staff                                                           General M.Rajendra Singh

33.    First chief of Naval Staff of India                                              Vice- Admiral R.D Katari

34.    First large-scale Atomic Reactor of India                                  Apsara (1956)

35.    First person to get Paramvir Chakra                                           Major Somnath Sharma

36.    First atomic Submarine of India                                                 I.N.S. Chakra

37.    First Indian Scientist to get Nobel Prize                                     C.V. Raman (Physics)

38.    First Indian submarine                                                                I.N.S. Cauveri

39.    First Scientist Indian origin,
to get Nobel prize in the field of Medical Science                             Dr. Hargovind Khurana

40.    First Aircraft Carrier Indian Ship                                                I.N.S. Vikrant

41.    First Chinese pilgrim to visit India                                              Fa-hien

42.    First medium range Missile                                                         Agni

43.    First e-business news paper of India                                            Financial Express

44.    First Scientist of Indian origin
to win Nobel prize in Physics                                                        Subrahmanium Chandrasekhar

45.    First Indian Missile                                                                   Prithvi ( Striking range-250 kms)

46.    First Indian to win Stalin Award                                                Saiffudin Kichlu

47.    India’s first Nuclear Center                                                        Tarapur

48.    First Indian to win Magsaysay Award   Acharya                      Vinoba Bhave (1958)

49.    India’s first Open university                                                      Andhra Pradesh Open University

50.    India’s first Lok Sabha Member
 to be elected with a record Maximum number of votes                  P.V. Narasimha Rao

51.    India’s first minister to resign form Union Cabinet                  Shyama Prasad Mukherjee (1950)

52.    First British to visit India                                                          Hawkins

53.    India’s first Election Commissioner                                         Sukumar Sen

54.    First Muslim President of Indian National Congress                Badruddin Tayab Ji

55.    First Chief justice of India                                                          Justice Hiralal J. Kania

56.    India’s first University                                                               Nalanda University

57.    First Indian
to climb Mt. Everest without using Oxygen cylinder                       Sherpa  Phu Dorji

58.    First foreigner recipient of Bharat Ratna Award                       Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan

59.    First Indian recipient of Nobel Prize in Economics                   Dr. Amartya Sen

60.    First Army Institute of Information Technology Founded        Hyderabad

61.    First Test Tube Baby of India                                                     Indira (Baby Harsha)

62.    First Indian Pilot                                                                         J.R.D. Tata (1929)

63.    First Indian to reach Antarctica                                                  Lt. Ram Charan (1960)

64.    First post-office opened in India                                                Kolkata (1727)

65.    First Deputy prime Minister of India                                         Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel

66.    First Indian Prime Minister to resign from office                      Morarji Desai

67.    First Indian Prime Minister to loose an election                        Indira Ghandi

68.    First President of India to die in office                                       Dr. Zakir Hussain

69.    First man to climb Mt. Everest twice                                        Nawang Gombu

70.    First Indian to reach the south Pole                                          Col. I.K.Bajaj

71.    First Indian recipient of ‘Oscar Award’                                    Bhanu Athaiya

72.    First American president to visit India                                      Dwight David Eisenhower

73.    First British Prime Minister to visit India                                 Harold Mc Millon

74.    First Indian author to get Anderson Award                              Ruskin Bond

75.    First Indian to win world Billiards Trophy                               Wilson ones

76.    First Indian Space Tourist                                                         Santosh George

77.First nobel prize winner in Chemistry                                          Venkatraman Ramakrishnan