Sunday, January 17, 2010

First in India Men

Field 

Person 

First Indian to swim across the English Channel 

Mihir Sen 

First to Climb Mount Everest 

Tenzing Norgay 

First to climb Mount Everest without Oxygen 

Phy Dorjee 

First Indian to join I.C.S. (I.C.S. now IAS) 

Satyendra Nath Tagore

First Indian to get Nobel Prize 

Rabindra Nath Tagore 

First Indian in Space (first Indian cosmonaut) 

Sqn. Ldr. Rakesh Sharma 

First British Governor General 

Warren Hastings 

First Governor General of Free India 

Lord Mountbatten 

First and the last Governor General of free India

C. Rajagopalachari 

First President of India 

Dr. Rajendra Prasad 

First Vice-President of India 

Dr. S. Radhakrishnan 

First Muslim President of India 

Dr. Zakir Hussain 

First Sikh President of India 

Giani Zail Singh 

First Prime Minister

Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru 

First Speaker of Lok Sabha 

G.V. Mavlankar 

First Chief Justice of India 

Justice H.L. Kania 

First President of Indian National Congress 

W.C. Bannerjee 

First Indian to become member of Viceroy's Executive Council 

Lord S.P. Sinha

First Indian to become President of International Court of Justice 

Dr. Nagendra Singh 

First Emperor of Moghul Dynasty 

Babar 

First Field Marshal 

S.H.F.J. Manekshaw 

First Indian Commander-in-Chief of India 

Gen. K.M. Cariappa 

First Chief of the Army Staff (Indian)

Sinhji 

First Chief of the Naval Staff (Indian) 

Vice Admiral R.D. Katari 

First Chief of the Air Force Staff (India) 

Subroto Mukherjee 

First Indian in British Parliament 

Dada Bhai Nauroji 

First Indian recipient of Victoria Cross (highest award before independence)

Khudada Khan 

First Indian to circumnavigate the globe 

Lt. Col K.S. Rao 

First Indian to reach the South Pole 

Col J.K. Bajaj (1989) 

First Indian to make a solo air flight 

JRD Tata 

First Indian to visit England 

Raja Rammohan Roy (1832)

First Indian Member of House of Lords (British) 

Lord S.P. Sinha 

First Bar-at-Law 

J.M. Tagore 

First Chairman of Rajya Sabha 

Dr. S. Radhakrishnan (1952 - 62) 

First Indian Test Cricketer 

K.S. Ranjitsingh 

First Air Marshall 

Arjan Singh 

First Judge to face impeachment in the Lock Sabha

Justice V.Ramaswami (1993) 

Fastest Shorthand writer 

Dr. G.D. Bhist (250 wpm) 

 

 
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