First in India, Male GK 

Male Personalities

Name

First President of the Indian Republic

Dr Rajendra Prasad

First Prime Minister of Free India

Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru

First Indian to win the Nobel Prize

Rabindranath Tagore

First President of the Indian National Congress

W.C. Banerjee

First Muslim President of the Indian National Congress

Badruddin

Tayyabji

First Muslim President of India

Dr Zakir Hussain

First British Governor General of India

Lord William Bentinck (1833 - 1835)

First British Governor General of Bengal

Lord Warren Hastings (1774 - 1885)

First British Viceroy of India

Lord Canning

First Governor General of Free India

Lord Mountbatten

First and last Indian Governor General of Free India

C. Rajgopalachari

The first man who introduced the printing press in India

James Hicky (Bengal Gazette)

The First Indian to join the I.C.S 

Satyendra Nath Tagore

First man in Space from India

Rakesh Sharma

The first Prime Minister of India who resigned without completing the full term

Morarji Desai

First Chief of Army Staff

Gen. Maharaj Rajendra Singhji

First Indian to join the Viceroy’s executive council

S.P.Sinha

The first President of India who died while in office 

Dr Zakir Hussain

First Muslim President of the Indian Republic

Dr Zakir Hussain

The first Prime Minister of India who did not face the Parliament 

Charan Singh

First Field Marshal of India

S.H.F. Manekshaw (1914 - 2008)

The first person to get a Nobel Prize in Physics from India 

C.V.Raman

First Indian to receive the Bharat Ratna award 

Dr Radhakrishnan

First Person to receive the Jnanpith award 

Sri Shankar Kurup

The first Speaker of the Lok Sabha

Ganesh Vasudeva Mavalankar

First Vice-President of India

Dr Radhakrishnan

First India Education Minister

Maulana Abul Kalam Azad

First India Home Minister

Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel

First Indian Air Marshal 

S. Mukherjee

First Indian Naval Chief

Vice Admiral R.D. Katari

First Indian Judge of the International Court of Justice

Dr Nagendra Singh

The first person to reach Mt. Everest without oxygen

Sherpa Ang Dorjee

The first person to get the Param Vir Chakra

Major Somnath Sharma

First Chief Election Commissioner 

Sukumar Sen

The first person to receive the Magsaysay Award

Acharya Vinoba Bhave

The first person of Indian origin to receive the Nobel Prize in Medicine

Hargovind Khurana

First Chinese traveller to visit India

Fahein

The first person to receive the Stalin Prize 

Saifuddin Kitchlu

The first person to resign from the Central Cabinet

Shyama Prasad Mukherjee

The first person to receive the Nobel Prize in Economics 

Amartya Sen

First Chief Justice of the Supreme Court

Justice Hirala J. Kania

First Indian Pilot 

J.R.D. Tata (1929)

Reasoning Free Study Materials PDF

Syllogism

Blood Relation

Coding Decoding

Inequality

Seating Arrangement

Alphanumeric Series

Number Sequence

Order and Ranking 

Puzzle

Direction Sense

Floor-Based Puzzle

Linear Seating Arrangement

Box-Based Puzzle

Floor and Flat-Based Puzzle

Year-Based Puzzle

Day-based puzzle

Age-Based Puzzle

Box with Stack Puzzle

Parallel Seating Arrangement

First in India Women's List

 Female Personalities

Names

First Indian woman to become Miss World

Rita Faria

First Indian woman judge in the Supreme Court

Mrs Meera Sahib Fatima Bibi

First woman Ambassador from India

Mrs C.B. Muthamma

First Indian woman Governor of a state in free India

Mrs Sarojini Naidu

First Indian woman Speaker of a State Assembly

Shanno Devi

First Indian woman Prime Minister

Mrs Indira Gandhi (sworn on January 24, 1966)

First Indian woman President

Pratibha Patil

First Indian woman Minister in the Government

Rajkumari Amrit Kaur

First woman in India to climb Mount Everest

Bachhendri Pal

First Indian woman to climb Mount Everest twice

Santosh Yadav

First woman President of the Indian National Congress

Mrs. Annie Besant

First Indian woman President of the Indian National Congress

Mrs Sarojini Naidu

First Indian woman President of the United Nations General Assembly

Mrs Vijay Laxmi Pandit

First Indian woman who get a Graduate degree

Kadambini Ganguly and Chandramukhi Basu, 1883

First Indian woman Honours Graduate

Kamini Roy, 1886

First Indian Woman Olympic Medal Winner

Karnam Malleswari, 2000

First Indian woman to win a Gold Medal in the Asian Games

Kamlijit Sandhu

First Indian woman Lawyer

Cornelia Sorabjee

First woman Chief Minister of an Indian State

Mrs Sucheta Kripalani

First Indian woman Chairman of the Union Public Service Commission

Roze Millian Bethew

First Indian woman Director General of Police

Kanchan Chaudhary Bhattacharya

First woman Judge of India

Anna Chandy (She became the judge in a district court in 1937)

First Indian woman Chief Justice of the High Court

Mrs Leela Seth (Himachal Pradesh High Court)

First Indian woman Lieutenant General

Puneeta Arora

First Indian woman Air Vice Marshal

P. Bandopadhyay

The first woman to receive the Jnanpith Award from India

Ashapoorna Devi

First Indian woman IPS officer 

Mrs Kiran Bedi (1972)

First woman IAS officer

Anna Hazare (1975)

First Indian and last Muslim woman ruler of India

Razia Sultana 

First Indian woman to receive the Ashoka Chakra 

Nirja Bhanot

The first woman to cross the English Channel from India

Aarti Saha

First Indian woman to receive the Nobel Prize

Mother Teresa

First Indian woman to receive the Bharat Ratna

Mrs Indira Gandhi

First Indian woman pilot in the Indian Air Force

Harita Kaur Dayal

The first Indian woman appeared on the Time Magazine cover

Parveen Babi

India's first test tube baby

“Durga” (Kanupriya Agarwal)

Quantitative Aptitude Free Study Materials PDF

Quadratic Equation

Simplification

Data Interpretation

Time and Work

Number Series

Time Distance Speed

Mixture and Allegations

Pipes and Cisterns

Average

Simple and Compound Interest

Boats and Streams 

Problems On Trains

Ages

Partnership

Profit Loss Discount

Percentage

Bar Graph DI

Pie Chart DI

Ratio and Proportion

Radar Graph DI

 Defence

First Defence Minister of India

Baldev Singh Chokkar

First Army Chief of Free India

Kodandera Madappa Cariappa

First Chief of Air Staff

Air Marshal Sir Thomas Elmhirst

First Indian Air Chief of India

Air Marshal Subroto Mukherjee

First Chief Army Staff

General Maharaja Sri Rajendra Singh Ji Jadeja

First Chief of Naval Staff of India

Vice Admiral R.D. Katari

First Commander-in-Chief, Indian Air Force

Subroto Mukherjee

First Field Marshal

Sam Manekshaw

First Nuclear Submarine of India

I.N.S. Chakra

First Param Vir Chakra Winner

Major Somnath Sharma

First female Jawan in the Army

Shanti Tigga

First large-scale Atomic Reactor in India

Apsara

First Indian woman to fly a fighter aircraft without a co-pilot

IAF Officer Avani Chaturvedi

The First Aircraft Carrier Indian Ship

I.N.S. Vikrant

First cosmonaut

Sqn Ldr Rakesh Sharma

First Indian Submarine

I.N.S. Kalvari

First Nuclear Centre

Tarapur

First Medium-Range Missile

Agni

First woman in the Indian Army awarded the coveted ‘Sword of Honour’ prize

Divya Ajith Kumar

English Free Study Materials PDF

Reading Comprehension

Word Rearrangement

Cloze Test

Word Swap

Sentence Rearrangement

Match the column

Word Usage

Error Spotting

Starters

Sentence Improvement

Misspelt

Jumbled Sentence

Pairs of Words

Single Fillers

Double Fillers

Sports

First Olympic Team Medal

Gold in Field Hockey (1928, Summer Olympics)

First Indian woman wrestler to win an Asian gold medal

Navjot Kaur

First Badminton player of India to achieve the world no. 1 spot

Prakash Padukone

First Asian Games Organised in India

New Delhi (1951)

First Badminton player of India to win a medal at the Olympics

Saina Nehwal

First Formula One Driver

Kumar Ram Narain Karthikeyan

First Indian woman badminton player to win an Asian Games medal

Saina Nehwal

First Indian woman to win a medal at the Asian Games

Santhi Soundarajan

First Batsman of India to score a century for India in Test cricket

Lala Amarnath Bhardwaj

The first person to win the international bronze medal in skiing

Aanchal Thakur

First Woman to Win an Olympic Silver Medal

P. V. Sindhu in Badminton

First Female boxer to win 6 gold medals at the World Championships

Mary Kom

First female to represent India at the Summer Olympics

Nora Polley, 1924 Summer Olympics

First Indian weightlifter to win a gold medal at the Olympics

Karnam Malleswari

First Individual Gold Medal won by

Abhinav Bindra, 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing

First Woman to Win a Medal in Wrestling

Sakshi Malik (won Bronze in the 2016 Summer Olympics)

First Indian Swimmer to cross the English Channel

Mihir Sen

First Indian sportswoman to be awarded the Padma Shri

Arati Saha

First India vs Pakistan match

1952

First Indian cricket captain

C. K. Nayudu

Science

First hydroelectric plant

Sidrapong (Darjeeling)

First Man in Space

Rakesh Sharma

First Nuclear Reactor

Apsara (Maharashtra)

First Indian satellite

Aryabhatta

First successful Indigenous launch vehicle

SLV-3

First genetically modified food product in India

Bt. Eggplant Hybrid [Banned]

First satellite earth station for domestic communications

Secunderabad

First Indian to get the Nobel Prize in Physics

C.V. Raman

First Census in India After Independence

1951 (7th census in its continuous series)

The first census in India Viceroy

Lord Mayo

First Newspaper in India, Hindi

Udant Martand

The first foreigner came to India

Megasthenese (ambassador of Seleucus Nikator)

First Country to rule India

Greece invaded India in 120 BC

The first train in India ran between

The train ran between Bori Bunder (Bombay) and Thane, a distance of 34 km

First dam in the Indian River

Kallanai Dam 100 – 150 CE

First woman in India to be hanged

Rattan Bai Jain, on 3 January 1955, at Tihar Jail

First movie in India with sound

Alam Ara - 1931.

First 3d Movie in India

My Dear Kuttichathan

Who invented zero first in India

Brahmagupta 650 AD

First India vs Pakistan war

1947-48 (First Kashmir War)

First Zoo in India

Aringar Anna Zoo (1855)

First emergency in India, 1962

China War

The first university in India was founded at

Calcutta (1857)

The first census in India was conducted at the time of

1871 under the British Empire

First India Capital

Calcutta(Before 1911)

First bank in India to introduce atm

HSBC (1987) in Mumbai

First bank in India to introduce a credit card

Central Bank of India