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First British Governor General of India |
Lord William Bentinck |
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Last Viceroy of India |
Lord Mountbatten |
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Last Governor General and first Viceroy of India |
Lord Canning |
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Independent India’s first Governor General |
Lord Mountbatten |
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First President of India |
Dr. Rajendra Prasad |
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First and last Indian to be Governor General of independent India |
Chakravarti Rajagopalachari |
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First Vice-President of India |
Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan |
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India’s first Muslim President |
Zakir Hussain |
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India’s first Prime Minister |
Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru |
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India’s first education minister |
Abul Kalam Azad |
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First minister to resign from the Central Cabinet of India |
Shyama Prasad Mukherjee (1950) |
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First Chief of Air Staff |
Air Marshal Sir Thomas Amherst |
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First Deputy Prime Minister of India |
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel |
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India’s first Home Minister |
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel |
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India’s first Chief of Air Staff |
Air Marshal S. Mukherjee |
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First Field Marshal |
General Manik Saw |
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India’s first Speaker |
Ganesh Vasudev Mavalankar |
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First Election Commissioner of India |
Sukumar Sen |
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India’s first Chief of Naval Staff |
Vice Admiral R. D. Katari |
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First Chief of Army Staff |
General M. Rajendra Singh |
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Independent India’s first Commander-in-Chief |
General Cariappa |
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First Indian judge of the International Court |
Dr. Nagendra Singh |
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Congress first Chairman |
Vyomeshchandra Banerjee |
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Congress’s first Muslim Chairman |
Badruddin Tayyib |
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First Indian to receive Stalin award |
Saifuddin Kitchlu |
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India’s first man in Space |
Rakesh Sharma |
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First Indian to cross the English Channel |
Mihir Sen |
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First Indian to receive Bharat Ratna award |
Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan |
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First foreign to win Bharat Ratna award |
Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan |
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First Indian Nobel Prize Winner |
Rabindranath Tagore |
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First Indian to win Nobel Prize in Physics |
C. V. Raman (Physics) |
32
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First Indian to win Magsaysay award |
Acharya Vinoba Bhave |
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First Indian to win Jnanpith award |
Mr. Sankara Kurup |
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First Indian to join the ICS |
Satyendranath Tagore |
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Palk Strait was the first Indian to win the swimming competition |
Vaidyanath |
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First person to climb Mount Everest without Oxygen |
Sherpa Ang Dorje |
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First Chinese traveller to visit India |
Fahien |
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First Englishman to visit the Mughal court |
Hawkins |
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First American president to visit India |
Dwight David Eisenhower |
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India’s first individual Olympic gold medal winner the player |
Abhinav Bindra (10m. Air rifle 2008) |
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First Indian to become a member of the British Parliament |
Dadabhai Naoroji |
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First British Prime Minister to visit India |
Harold Macmillan |
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First Russian prime minister to visit India |
Nikolai A. Bulgarian |
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First person to start newspaper in India |
James A. Hickey |
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First person who introduced printing press in India |
James A. Hickey |
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First Indian Pilot |
J. R. D. Tata |
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First Indian to win Lenin award |
Dr. Saifuddin Kitchlu |
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First Indian to play test cricket |
K. S. Ranjit Singh (from England) |
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First Indian Antarctic expedition leader |
Dr. Syed Zahoor Qasim |
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First songwriter to win Dada Saheb Phalke Award |
Majrooh Sultanpuri |
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First person to awarded Bharat Ratna posthumously |
Lal Bahadur Shastri |
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First Indian to win Grammy awards |
Pandit Ravishankar |
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First Indian Managing Director of the World Bank |
Gautam Kaji |
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First scientist MP of Lok Sabha |
Dr. Meghnad Saha |
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First successful human heart transplant operation conducted by |
Dr. P. Venugopal (AIIMS, New Delhi) |
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First cricketer to win Padma Bhushan award |
C. K. Nayudu |
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First person residing in Rashtrapati Bhavan |
Viceroy Lord Irwin |
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First Hindi litterateur to win Jnanpith Award |
Sumitranandan Pant |
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First person to win Vyas Samman |
Ram Vilas Sharma |
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First Indian High Commissioner of Britain |
V. K. Krishna Menon |
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First Indian to become member of British Parliament |
Dadabhai Naoroji (1822) |
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First Indian to become member of United States Congress |
Dalip Singh Saund |
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First Indian batsman scored sixteen thousand run in one day match |
Sachin Tendulkar |
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First player to get Padma Vibhushan |
C. K. Nayudu |
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First batsman to score a triple century in test cricket |
Virender Sehwag |
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First player to receive Bharat Ratna |
Sachin Tendulkar |
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