05-01-2018, 04:28 PM
First Men in India
*First Muslim President of India
Ans : Dr. Zakir Hussain
*First president who died in harness
Ans : Dr. Zakir Hussain
*First Vice-President who died in harness
Ans : Krishan Kant
*First Dalit President
Ans : K.R. Narayanan
*First Dalit Speaker of Lok Sabha
Ans : G.M.C. Balayogi
*First Chief Justice of India
Ans : Harilal J. Kania
*First Dalit Chief Justice of India
Ans : K.G. Balakrishnan
*First Indian to become the Governor General free India
Ans : C. Rajagopalachari
*First Indian to join I.C.S. (now IAS)
Ans : Satyendranath Tagore
*First Indian to become the member of Viceroy’ Executive Council
Ans : Lord S.P. Sinha
Basic Facts
*First President of India-Dr. Rajendra Prasad
*First Vice-President of India-Dr. S. Radhakrishnan
*First Prime Minister of India-Jawaharlal Nehru
*First Governor General of Bengal-Warren Hastings
*First Governor General of British India-William Bentick
*First Viceroy of British India-Lord Canning
*First Governor General of Independent India-Lord Mount Batten
*First Deputy Prime Minister-Vallabhbhai Patel
*First Speaker of Lok Sabha-G.V.Mavalankar
*First Indian to get Nobel Prize-Rabindra Nath Tagore
*First Indian to get ‘Bharat Ratna’-C. Rajagopalachari
*First Judge to face impeachment in the Lok Sabha(1993)
Ans : Justice V. Ramaswami
*First Judge to face impeachment in the Rajya Sabha
Ans : Justice Soumitra Sen (2011)
*First Indian High Court Judge (1878)
Ans : Justice Syed Mahmood
*First Indian to become the Judge of International Court of Justice
Ans : Dr. B. N. Rao
*First Indian to become the President of ICJ
Ans : Justice Nagendra Singh
*First Indian in British Parliament
Ans : Dadabhai Naoroji
*First Indian Member of House of Lords (British)
Ans : S.P. Sinha
*First Industrial department minister
Ans : M. Vishweswarayya
*First Education Minister
Ans : Abul Kalam Azad
*First Indian to visit England (1832)
Ans : Raja Ram Mohan Roy
*First Chairman of Rajya Sabha
Ans : Dr. S. Radhakrishnan
*First Election Commissioner
Ans : Sukumar Sen
*First Chairman of UGC
Ans : Shantiswarup Bhatnagar
*First Indian to swim across the English Channel
Ans : Mihir Sen
*First Indian to make a solo air flight
Ans : JRD Tata
*First Chief of the Air Staff
Ans : Subroto Mukherjee
*First to climb Mount Everest without oxygen
Ans : Phu Dorjee
*First Indian in Space (first Indian cosmonaut)
Ans : Rakesh Sharma
*First Indian to circumnavigate the globe
Ans : Lt. Col. K.S. Rao
*First Indian to reach the South Pole
Ans : Col. J.K. Bajaj
*First Indian to reach the North Pole
Ans : Jaganathan Srinivasaraghavan
*First Indian to land on Antartica
Ans : Ram Charan
*First Magsaysay Award winner
Ans : Achaiya Vinoba Bhave
*First Indian Air force flying officer to get Param Vir Chakra
Ans : Nirmal Jit Singh Sekhon (Posthumously)
*First to get ‘Param Vir Chakra’
Ans : Major Somnath Sharma
*First Cricket (Test Cricket) Captain
Ans : C.K Nayudu
*First one day cricket Captain
Ans : Ajit Wadekar
*First Cricketer to score a Test Century
Ans : LalaAmamath
*First Twenty -Twenty Cricket Captain
Ans : Virender Sehwag
*First Indian bowler who got hatrick in world cup cricket
Ans : Chetan Sharma
*First Indian bowler who got hatrick in test cricket
Ans : Harbhajan Singh
*First Indian tennis player to win a grandslam event
Ans : Mahesh Bhupathi
