| First Newspaper |
Hickey's Kolkatta Gazette 1781 January 29 |
| First Postal Stamp |
Issued in Sind in
1825. |
| First Official
Telegraph Line |
Between Kolkatta and Diamond Harbour in October 1851. |
| First Indian
Railway |
Bombay to Thana on
April 16th 1853. |
| First Postage
Stamp |
On October 1st
1854. |
| First Modern Steel
Plant |
At Kutli in 1887. |
| First Electric
Train |
Between Bombay and
Kurla in 1925. |
| First Wireless
Broadcasting |
From Bombay in
1927. |
| First Nuclear
ractor |
Apsara was put in
to operation on 4th August 1956. |
| First Satellite |
Aryabhata launched
on 19th April 1975. |
| First Monsoon
experimental rocket |
launched from
Thumba on 6th January 1979. |
| First General
Election |
December 15, 1951. |
| First to visit
England |
Rajaram Mohan Roy
(1832) |
| First Governor |
Lord S. P. Sinha |
| First Congress
President |
W. C. Banerjee
(1885) |
| First Nobel Prize
Winner |
Rabindra Nath
Tagore |
| First member,
House of Lords |
Lord S. P. Sinha |
| First Field
Marshal |
S. H. F. J.
Manekshaw |
| First
Commander-in-Chief |
General K. M.
Cariappa |
| First Vice-Admiral |
R. D. Katari |
| First Air-Chief |
Air Marshal
Subrato Mukherjee |
| First I. C. S. |
Satheyendra Nath
Tagore |
| First member,
British Parliament |
Dadabhai Naoroji |
| First Bar-at-Law |
J. M. Tagore |
| First
hydro-electric station |
At Darjeeling
1897-98. |
| First
Governor-General |
C. Rajagopalachari |
| First President of
India |
Dr. Rajendra
Prasad |
| First member of
the U S Congress |
Dilip Singh Saund |
| First to climb
Everest |
Tenzing Norgav |
| First to win
Victoria Cross |
Khudadad Khan |
| First Woman
Governor |
Sarojini Naidu |
| First Woman M.A. |
Chandramukhi Bose |
| First Woman Doctor |
Khadambini Ganguli |
| First Woman
President of Congress |
Sarojini Naidu |
| First Woman Judge
(High Court) |
Anna Chandi (Kerala) |
| First Woman
President of U N |
Vijayalakshmi
Pandit (U. P.) |
| First Woman Chief
Minister |
Sucheta Kripalni
(U. P.) |
| First Woman Prime
Minister |
Indira Gandhi |
| First Woman
Speaker |
Sushila Nayar
(Delhi) |
| First Woman Mayor |
Sulochana Modi
(Bombay) |
| First Woman
Ambassador |
Vijayalakshmi
Pandit |
| First Woman
Pleader |
Regina Guha |
| First Woman
Barrister |
Cornelia Sorabji |
