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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




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