First in India...

First in India (Miscellaneous)

• Earliest school of medicine known to humans: Ayurveda

• First Air Force in Asia to fly jets: Indian Air Force (1948)
• First Book in any Indian Language: It was printed in 1578 in Tamil.
• First Census in India: 1901
• First Cinema House in India: It was built by J.F.Madan in 1907 in Calcutta.
• First complete Technicolor film: Jhansi Ki Rani (1953)
• First Constitutional Amendment: 1950
• First country-wide agricultural census: 1970-71
• First English Newspaper in India: Bengal Gazette printed in 1790 by James Augustus in Calcutta.

First in India (Women)

 • First Woman President of India : Pratibha Patil
• Delhi’s First Mayor: Aruna Asaf Ali (1958)
• Delhi's First woman chief secretary: Shailja Chandra
• Fastest Asian to swim across the English Channel: Anita Sood
• First all-women crew to fly an air Force Chetak Helicopter: Flight Cadets Cheryl Dutta and Simran Sodhi of IAF (December, 1995).
• First Asian woman magistrate appointed in United Kingdom: Kantha Talwar
• First Asian woman mayor in United Kingdom: Lata Patel
• First Indian woman President of Indian National Congress: Sarojini Naidu (1925)

 

 

First in India (Men)

 • First American President to visit India: Dwight David Eisenhower
• First Asian to be elected president of Britain's Liberal Democratic Party (LDP): Lord Navnit Dholakia
• First Asian to head a British university: Lord Swaraj Paul (when he was elected Chancellor of the Wolverhampton University on May 9, 2000)
• First British Prime Minister to visit India: Harold Macmillan
• First Chairman of the University Grants Commission: S.S.Bhatnagar
• First Chief Election Commissioner of India: Sukumar Sen (21.3.1950 to 19.12.1958)
• First Chief Justice of India: Harilal J.Kania (26.1.1950-6.11.1951)
• First Chief Minister of the tri-lingual Bombay Presidency: B.G.Kher
• First Chief of Air Staff: Air Marshall Sir Thomas Elmherst (1947-1950)