First Governer of Bengal | Lord Clive (1757-60) |
Lasr Governer of Bengal | Warren Hastings (1772-74) |
First Governor General of Bengal | Warren Hastings (1774-85) |
Last Governor General of Bengal | Lord William Bentic (1833-35) |
Last Governor General and First Viceroy of India | Lord Canning (1856-62) |
First president of Indian National Congress | W. C. Banerjee |
First Indian Governor General of Independent India | C. Rajgopalchri |
First Indian to pass ICS | Surendra Nath Banerjee |
First Indian I.C.S. Officer | Satyendra Nath Tagore |
first Governor General of India ( after independence ) | Lord Louis Mounlbatten |
First Indian Cosmonaut (to go into space) | Rakesh Sharma |
First temporary President of the Constituent Assembly | Dr. Sachchida Nand Sinha |
First Commander-in-Chief of Free India | General K. M. Cariappa |
First Indian Nobel Laureate | Rabindra Nath Tagore |
First Indian Judge of the International Court of Justice | Dr. Nagendra Singh |
First Indian to get Bharat Ratna Award | Dr. S. Radliakrishnan |
The President of Constituent Assembly | Dr. Rajendra Prasad |
First Indian to swim across the English Channel | Mihir Sen |
First Indian to get Jnanpeeth Award | G. Shankar Kurup |
First Muslim President of Indian Republic | Dr. Zakir Hussain |
First Speaker of Lok Sabha | G. V. Mavlankar (1952-57) |
First Person to make Printing Press popular in India | James Hicky |
First Education Minister of Independent India | Maulana Abul Kalam Azad |
First President of Indian Republica | Dr. Rajendra Prasad |
First Prime Minister of Independent India | Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru |
First Vice-President of Independent India | Dr. S. Radhakrishnan |
First Chief of Army Staff | General M. Rajenda Singh |
First Chief of Naval Staff of India | Vice-Admiral R. D. Katari |
First large-scale Atomic Reactor of India | Apsara (1965) |
First Person to get Paramvir Chakra | Major Somnath Sharma |