Bharat Ko Jano Q&A – English 02
First in Bharat
- First Governor General of Independent India :
Lord Mountbatten - First Bharatiya Governor General of Independent India :
C. Rajgopalachari (June 1948 to 25 January, 1950) - First President of Bharat :
Dr. Rajendra Prasad - First Vice President Bharat :
Dr. S. Radhakrishnan - First Speaker of Lok Sabha :
G.V. Mavalankar (1952-56) - First Prime Minister and Foreign Minister :
Jawahar Lal Nehru - First Deputy Prime Minister, Home Minister :
Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel - First Law Minister :
Dr. B. R. Ambedkar - First Education Minister :
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad - First Defence Minister :
Sardar Baldev Singh - First Finance Minister :
R. K. Shanmukham Chetty - First Woman Central Minister :
Rajkumari Amrit Kaur (Health) - First Agriculture and Food Minister :
Dr. Rajendra Prasad - First Minister for Industry :
Dr. Shyama Prasad Mukherjee - First Communication Minister :
Rafi Ahmed Kidwai - First Labour Minister :
Babu Jagjivan Ram - First Railway and Transport Minister :
John Mathai - First Commerce and Trade Minister :
Cooverji Hormusji Bhabha - First Minister for Energy :
N.V. Gadgil - First Chief Justice of Supreme Court :
Hiralal J. Kaniya (1950-51) - First Chief Election Officer :
Sukumar Sen (1950-58) - First Woman Chief election commissioner of India :
Smt. V.S. Rama Devi (26 Nov., 1990 to 11 Dec., 1990) - First Prime Minister to resign :
Morarjii Desai (1979) - First President to die in harness :
Dr. Zakir Hussain (1969) - First Prime Minister who died in a foreign country :
Lal Bahadur Shastri (1966 in Tashkand) - First Bharatiya I.C.S (Indian Civil Services). Officer :
Satyendra Nath Tagore (June, 1863.) - First Bharatiya member in Viceroy’s Executive Council also first Indian to become a member of the British Ministry:
Satyendra Prasanna Sinha - First Bharatiya man to swim across English Channel :
Mihir Sen (1966) - First Bharatiya woman to swim across English Channel :
Aarti Saha - First Bharatiya of Nepali origin to scale Everest :
Tenzing Norgay (1953) - First Bharatiya man to climb Mount Everest without oxygen :
Phu Dorjee, (1984) - First Bharatiya woman to climb Everest :
Bachhendri Pal (1984) - First Bharatiya woman Prime Minister :
Indira Gandhi - City where first Asian Games were played :
New Delhi(1951) - First Bharatiya to receive Nobel Prize :
Ravindra Nath Tagore(1913) - First Bhartiya Scientist to receive Nobel Prize :
Dr. C.V. Raman (1930) - First President of Indian National Congress :
W.C. Bannerjee (1885) - First Ten-yearly Census started in the year :
1881 - First lady Chief Minister in Bharat :
Sucheta Kriplani (U.P.) - First lady Governor in Bharat :
Sarojini Naidu (U.P. 1947) - The first woman President of UN General Assembly :
Vijay Laxmi Pandit - First Lady President of Indian National Congress :
Annie Besant (1917) - First Bharatiya Commander in Chief of Indian Army :
Gen. K.M. Kariappa - First woman speaker in any Bharatiya State :
Shanno Devi (Haryana legislative assembly,1966.) - First Bharatiya cosmonaut :
Rakesh Sharma (1984) - First Bharatiya woman Cosmomaut :
Kalpana Chawla - First Bharat Ratna Award recipient :
Dr. S Radhakrishanan, C.Rajagopalachari and Dr. C. V. Raman - First recipient of Bharat Ratna Award posthumously :
Lal Bahadur Shastri (1966) - First lady recipient of Bharat Ratna :
Indira Gandhi (1971) - First recipient of Bharat Ratna of foreign roots :
Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan (1987) - First foreign lady recipient of Bharat Ratna who had taken Bharatiya citizenship :
Mother Teresa (1980) - First Bharatiya to get Magsaysay award :
Vinoba Bhave(1958) - First Bharatiya woman Ambassador :
Vijay Laxmi Pandit (U.S.S.R. 1947-49) - First woman Judge of Supreme Court of Bharat :
Meera Sahiba Fatima Beebi (1989) - First lady to unfurl Indian flag in foreign land :
Madam Bhikaji Cama - First woman to appear on a postal stamp in free Bharat :
Meera Bai (1.10.1952) - First Athelete recipient of Padmashree :
Balbir Singh Senior (1957) - First lady recipient of Padmashree :
Film Star Nargis - First Bharatiya recipient of Param Vir Chakra :
Major Som Nath Sharma - Father of Nuclear Science in Modern Bharat :
Dr.Homi Jehangir Bhabha - First Indian lady IAS Officer (PostInependence) :
Anna Ranjan Malhotra - Who was the first woman Indian Administrative Services officer in Pre-Indepence Bharat?
Isha Basant Joshi (She hold the office after independence) - First lady IPS Officer :
Kiran Bedi - First Bharatiya President of International Court of Justice :
Nagendra Singh (1985) - Leader of first Bharatiya team to reach Antartica :
Dr. Syed Zahoor Qasim - First doctor to perform in-vitro fertilisation (Test Tube Baby) in India.
Dr. Subhas Mukhopadhyay - First Bharatiya test tube baby :
Durga (Kanu Priya Aggawal – Oct 1978) Harsha chawda is the Second (1986) - First Officer of Air Fforce to get Param Vir Chakra :
Flying Office Nirmaljeet Singh Sekjhon (1971) - First Bharatiya Chess Grandmaster :
Vishwanathan Anand (1987) - First Asian snooker champion :
Yasin Merchant (1989) - First non-Congress Prime Minister :
Morarji Desai - First Vice President to die in harness :
Krishna Kant - First Prime Minister to die in harness :
Jawahar Lal Nehru - First atomic station established in Bharat :
Tarapore - First bank established in Bharat :
Bank of Hindustan (Near Mumbai) - First Indigenous Bank established in Bharat :
Punjab National Bank - Which is the oldest Botanical Garden in Bharat :
Farhat Baksh Botanical Garden, Saharanpur (U.P.) - First college established in India by British :
Fort Williams College, Kolkata - First Women College established in Bharat by British :
Bethune College, Kolkata - First medical College established in Bharat by British :
Medical College of Bengal (Now Kolkata Medical College, 28 Jan, 1835) - First Engineering College established in Bharat by British :
Thomson College (Now IIT Roorkee) - First Dam in Bharat :
Kalnai Dam on Kaveri River - First Dynasty of Bharat :
Brihaedrath dynasty, 648 B.C - First General Election held in free Bharat :
1952 - First use of indeligible ink in General Elections :
During third Lok Sabha election in 1962 - First use of electronic machines in election :
Kerala Bye elections in 1982 - First Narrative film of Bharat :
Raja Harishchandra, Produced by Dada Saheb Phalke in 1913 - First Talkie film of Bharat :
Alam Ara directed by Ardeshir Irani in 1931 - First Golden Jubilee film of Bharat :
Sant Tukaram in Marathi - First film produced in Sanskrit :
Sankaracharya - First Hollywood film dubbed in Hindi :
Jurassic Park - First male child star of Bharatiya film :
Balchandra S/o Dada Saheb Phalke - First female child star of Bharatiya film :
Mandakini D/o Dada Saheb Phalke - Existing Oldest Fort of Bharat :
Kalinger (M.P.) - First hospital in Bharat :
Saint George Hospital, Chennai - First Eye Hospital in Bharat :
Chennai Eye Hospital. - First women hospital in Bharat :
Muslim Maternity and Zenana Hospital, Hyderabad (A.P.) - First Library in Bharat :
William Carry Library at Serampur, 1800 - First Milk Powder Plant in Bharat :
Kheda District Cooperative Milk Producers Union, Anand, Gujarat - When was National Anthem sung for the first time :
On Dec. 27, 1911 in Session of All India National Congress, Kolkata - The First Time Hoisting of National flag :
On Aug 7, 1906 by Surendra Nath Banerji at Green Park, Kolkata - First Newspaper of Bharat :
Bengal Gazette or Calcutta General Advertiser, from Kolkata in 1780 - First Vernacular Newspaper :
Samachar Darpan from Serumpur on 31 May, 1818 in Bengal - First daily Newspaper : Mumbai Samachar (Launched by Furdonji Murzoban on July 1, 1822)
- Oldest English newspaper which is being published even today :
The Times of India, started in 1838 from Mumbai - The oldest Observatory in Bharat :
Jantar Mantar Delhi built by Maharaja Jai Singh II of Jaipur in 1724 - Oldest Political Party in Bharat :
Indian National Congress - First GPO of Bharat :
St. George Square, Chennai - First state of Bharat to issue a stamp :
Kathiyawar, Saurshtra (Now Gujarat) - First stamp in free Bharat carrying a National leader :
Mahatma Gandhi, 15th Aug., 1948 - First Air Mail in Bharat :
Allahabad to Naini, Feb. 18, 1911 - First Railway Company of Bharat :
East India Railway Company and Great Indian Peninsula Railway Company. - First Railway Journey in Bharat :
Mumbai to Thane (34 km) 16 April, 1853 (According to a research of IIT Roorkee, a train, from Roorkee to Kaliyar has been moved on 22 December, 1851 for the Department of Ganga Canal) - First Railway Terminus of Bharat :
Bori Bander (V.T.) Mumbai - First City with Metro Railway :
Kolkata - First Electric train :
Between Mumbai and Kurla in 1925 - First Solar Powered Station :
Yeda Kumeri (on Hasan-Mangal Section) - First Oil refinery of Bharat :
Digboi, Assam - First Satyagrah by Gandhiji in Bharat :
at Champaran, Bihar in 1917 - First School established in Bharat by British :
St. Mary’s Church Charitable School, Chennai - First school for girls established in Bharat by British :
Baptist Mission School, Gauribari, Kolkata - First Public School for Girls :
Maharani Gayatri Devi Public School, Jaipur - First Lady Mayor of Delhi :
Mrs. Aruna Asaf Ali - First Bharatiya Captain of Cricket team after independence :
Lala Amarnath - First Indian (born in India) to climb Mount Everest. :
Avtar Singh Cheema(1965) - The first woman President of the Indian National Congress :
Annie Besant - The first Indian woman to be appointed as the Chief Information Commissioner :
Deepak Sandhu - The first woman advocate of India
Cornelia Sorabjee - The first woman judge of India and also the first woman judge of High Court :
Justice Anna Chandy - The first woman Chief Justice of a state High Court :
Justice Leila Seth - The first Indian woman to win an Olympic medal :
Karnam Malleswari - The first Indian woman to win an Asiad medal :
Kamaljit Sandhu - The first Indian woman to ski to the South Pole :
Reena Kaushal DharmaShaktu - The first Indian woman to receive a Gallantry Award in the Indian Army (Sena Medal for her acts of bravery in Afghanistan)
Major Mitali Madhumita - The first Indian woman to receive Ashok Chakra :
Neerja Bhanot - The first Indian woman to join the Territorial Army as a jawan :
Shanti Tigga - The first Indian woman to win the Miss Asia-Pacific title :
Zeenat Aman - The first Indian woman to win the Miss Universe title :
Sushmita Sen - The first Indian woman to win the Miss World title :
Reita Faria - The first Indian woman to win the Miss Earth title :
Nicol Faria - The first Indian woman to be appointed as the Minister of External Affairs of India
Sushma Swaraj. (Note: Mrs. Indira Gandhi held the additional charge as Minister of External Affairs while being the Prime Minister of India.) - The first woman Speaker of Lok Sabha
Mrs Meira Kumar - First Newspaper :
Hicky Calcutta Gazette (29 Jan 1781) - First issue of Postal Stamp :
1825 (in Sind) - First Telegraph line :
1851 (Calcutta & Diamond Harbour) - Railways started in Bharat :
16 April 1853 - Broadcasting started in India :
1927 - First Chief Justice of India :
Harilal J Kania - First Lokpal :
Pinaki Chandra GhoseHaryana legislative assembly