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Achievement of
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Person Name
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First Chief Election Commissioner
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Sukumar Sen
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First Chief Justice of India
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H. J. Kania (1947–1951)
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First Chief Minister to die in Office
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C.N.Annadurai, Tamil Nadu
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First Deputy Prime Minister
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Vallabhbhai Patel (1947–1950)
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First Finance Minister of Independent India
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R.K. Shanmukhan Chetty (1947–1949)
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First Governor-General of Independent India
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Lord Mountbatten, 1947
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First Governor-General of India
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Warren Hastings, 1773
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First Home Minister of India
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Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel
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First Indian Governor-General of Indian Union
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C Rajagopalachari, 1948
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First Indian ICS Officer
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Satyendranath Tagore, 1863
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First Indian President to die in Office
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Zakir Hussain, 3 May 1969
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First Indian Prime Minister to resign from office
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Morarji Desai, 1979
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First Industries and Supplies Minister
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Shyama Prasad Mukherjee
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First Law Minister of India
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B. R. Ambedkar
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First Leader of Opposition
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A. K. Gopalan
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First Muslim President
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Zakir Hussain (1967–1969)
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First Non-Congress government
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Janata Party, with Morarji Desai as the Prime Minister (1977–1980)
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First Non-Congress State government with Majority by a single party
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E. M. S. Namboodiripad of CPI, Kerala 1957
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First Person outside the Nehru-Gandhi family to serve as Prime Minister
for a full term (five years)
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P. V. Narasimha Rao, 21 June 1991 – 16 May 1996
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First person to resign from the Central Cabinet
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Shyama Prasad Mukherjee
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First Presentation of First Budget after India's Independence
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R. K. Shanmukhan Chetty on 26 November 1947
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First President
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Rajendra Prasad (1950–1962)
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First President of the Indian National Congress
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Wyomesh Chandra Bannerjee, 1885
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First President of the Indian National Congress of independent India
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Acharya Kripalani, till November 1947
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First Prime Minister
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Jawaharlal Nehru.
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First Prime Minister from South India
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P. V. Narasimha Rao, 1991,
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First Prime Minister to be born after India's independence
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Narendra Modi , 17 September 1950(birth)
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First Prime Minister to be voted out of office
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Indira Gandhi (1977), when the Indian National Congress lost to the Janata
Party
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First Prime Minister to lead a minority government for a full term (five
years)
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P. V. Narasimha Rao, 21 June 1991 – 16 May 1996
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First Sikh President
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Giani Zail Singh
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First Sikh Prime Minister
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Manmohan Singh (2004–2014)
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First Speaker of Lok Sabha
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G.V. Mavlankar (1952–1956)
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First Vice-President
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Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
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First Viceroy of India
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Lord Canning, 1858
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First woman Cabinet Minister in India
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Rajkumari Amrit Kaur
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First woman Chief Minister
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Sucheta Kriplani
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First woman Finance Minister of State Government in India
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Dr. Upinderjit Kaur, in Punjab Govt.
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First woman Governor of a State
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Sarojini Naidu (Governor of Uttar Pradesh, 1947–49)
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First woman Home Minister
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Sabitha Indra Reddy in Andhra Pradesh Govt.
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First woman Minister in India
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Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
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First Woman President
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Pratibha Patil (2007–2012)
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First woman Speaker of the Lok Sabha
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Meira Kumar
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First Women Railway Minister of India
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Mamata Banerjee
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First Man in space
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Rakesh Sharma aboard Soyuz T-11, on 3 April 1984. He was the 138th man in
space worldwide.
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First Indian Woman in space
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Kalpana Chawla aboard Space Shuttle Columbia flight STS-87, on 19 November
1997. She was a naturalized United States citizen, and represented the US during
the event.
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First Test-tube baby
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Durga Agarwal, born 1978
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Youngest Woman in the world to climb Everest
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Malavath Purna on 25 May 2014 at the age of 13.
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First Woman to scale Mount Everest
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Bachendri Pal on 23 May 1984.
She was the 5th woman in the world to scale the peak.
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First Woman to reach South Pole
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Reena Kaushal Dharmshaktu
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First Person to reach the South Pole
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Bijoy Kumar Das
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First Person to reach the North Pole
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Jagannathan Srinivasaraghavan on April 23, 1985.
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First Person to have walked across Gobi desert
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Sucheta Kadethankar
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First Person to fly in a balloon and land in a parachute
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Shibnath Majumdar
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Chief of Air Staff
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Air Marshal Sir Thomas Elmhurst
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Chief of Naval Staff
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Vice Admiral R D Katari
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Commander-in-Chief of Free India
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General Sir Roy Bucher
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Commander-in-Chief, IAF
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Air Marshal Subroto Mukherjee, 1954
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Cosmonaut
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Sqn. Ldr. Rakesh Sharma, 1984
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Defence Minister of India
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Baldev Singh
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Field Marshal
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Sam Manekshaw, 1973
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First female jawan in the Army
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Sapper Shanti Tigga
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First Indian (pre Independence) flying ace
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Indra Lal Roy
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First Param Vir Chakra Winner
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Major Som Nath Sharma
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Indian Chief of Staff
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General Kodandera Madappa Cariappa, 1947
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Indian Commander-in-Chief of Free India
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General Kodandera Madappa Cariappa, 1949
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India's first military helicopter pilot
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Air Commodore Sudhindra Kumar Majumdar
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President of Indian Republic
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Dr. Rajendra Prasad
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