List of Firsts in India - Women

Women

  • Graduates: Kadambini Ganguly and Chandramukhi Basu, 1883
  • The first woman Honours Graduate :Kamini Roy, 1886
  • Head of an Undergraduate Academic Institution: Chandramukhi Basu, 1888
  • The first woman Director General of Police :Kanchan Chaudhary Bhattacharya
  • Honours Graduate: Kamini Roy (1886)
  • The first woman to receive Nobel Prize :Mother Teresa of Calcutta
  • Women Railway Minister of India :Mamata Banerjee
  • Court martialled: Anjali Gupta in 2005
  • Lawyer: Cornelia Sorabjee (1892) also the first female graduate from Bombay University, and the first woman in the world to read law at Oxford.
  • Photojournalist: Homai Vyarawalla (1913)
  • Doctorate of Science: Asima Chatterjee (1944)
  • Chief Justice of a High Court (Himachal Pradesh): Leila Seth, 1991
  • The first woman Air Vice Marshal :P. Bandopadhyaya
  • Supreme Court judge: Kumari Fathima Beevi
  • High Court Judge : Anna Chandy
  • Woman President of the United Nations General Assembly : Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, 1953
  • Physician: Kadambini Ganguly, 1886
  • Airline Pilot: Durba Banerjee
  • In space: 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.
  • Nobel Prize winner: Mother Teresa of calcutta in 1979 (Albanian born Indian citizen)
  • Women Railway Minister :Mamata Banerjee.
  • The first Indian woman to sit in civil services exam, to join IFS, to be a diplomat, to become the ambassador/High commissioner (She also to sue the Indian government for gender bias) : Muthamma Chonira.
  • The first woman to cross English Channel :Aarti Saha
  • Monarch of Delhi Sultanate: Razia Sultan (1205–1240) of Mamluk Sultanate (Delhi)
  • Prime Minister: Indira Gandhi, 1966
  • Minister in a government: Rajkumari Amrit Kaur in the Ministry of Health
  • Chief Minister of a State: Sucheta Kripalani, Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, 1963–1967
  • Chief Minister of West Bengal : Mamata Banerjee
  • Governor: Sarojini Naidu, Governor of Uttar Pradesh, 1947–1949
  • Women Governor of West Bengal: Padmaja Naidu, 1956–1967.
  • Central Minister (in pre-independent India): Vijayalakshmi Pandit, minister of local self-government and public health, 1937
  • Speaker of the Lok Sabha: Meira Kumar
  • Indian National Congress President: Annie Besant
  • President: Pratibha Patil, 2007
  • IPS Officer Kiran Bedi
  • Asian Games gold medal winner: Kamlijit Sandhu
  • The first Indian woman to climb Mount Everest : Bachendri Pal, 1984
  • Chess Grandmaster: Koneru Humpy, 2002. She was also the youngest woman in the world to become a grandmaster at 15 years old.
  • To win 1st round match in a Grand Slam event: Nirupama Vaidyanathan beat Italian Gloria Pizzichini in the first round of the 1998 Australian Open
  • To reach 4th round (highest as of 2008) of a Grand Slam event: Sania Mirza in the Singles category of the 2005 US Open.
  • Grand Slam junior title : Sania Mirza (partnering with Russian Alisa Kleybanova) in the Doubles category of the 2003 Wimbledon Championships.
  • State Finance Minister : Dr Upinderjit Kaur, in Punjab : October, 2010
  • Paris Cycling Event : Divya Tate(44) : August, 2011
  • The first Indian woman pilot : Harita Kaur Deol becomes the first Indian woman pilot in the Indian Air Force (IAF), on a solo flight in 1994.
  • To Cross Gobi Desert : Sucheta Kadethankar(33) :2011
  • First Indian woman to reach the final of an Olympic event Pilavullakandi Thekkeparambil Usha, popularly known as P. T. Usha
  • first woman IAS officer:Anna Rajan George(b1927)kerela qualified in 1950 sub divisional officer in Tamil Nadu 1951
  • First and youngest Indian female Ultramarathoner (23yrs) to run a 100 Mile Race(Himalayas) Priya Darshini (October, 2007)

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