| First Census Of India | 1871 |
| First Constitutional Amendment | 1950 |
| First General Elections | 1952 |
| First census in India was conducted at the time of | 1871 under British empire |
| First India vs Pakistan war | 1947-48 (First Kashmir War) |
| First Census in India After Independence | 1951 (7th census in its continuous series) |
| First General Election in India | 1951-1952 |
| First Country-Wide Agricultural Census | 1970-71 |
| The first woman to cross English Channel | Aarti Saha |
| The first Education Minister | Abdul Kalam Azad |
| The first person to receive Magsaysay Award | Acharya Vinoba Bhave |
| First movie in India with sound | Alam Ara – 1931. |
| The first person to receive the Nobel Prize in Economics | Amartya Sen |
| First Indian state to set up a women’s court | Andhra Pradesh |
| The first woman Judge | Anna Chandy (She became judge in a district court in 1937) |
| First Nuclear Reactor in India | Apsara |
| First Zoo in India | Aringar Anna Zoo (1855) |
| First Television Reception Centre | Arvi, located in Maharashtra |
| India’s first Satellite | Aryabhatta, April 19, 1975 |
| The first woman to receive the Jnanpith Award | Ashapurna Devi |
| The first woman to climb Mount Everest | Bachhendri Pal |
| First Muslim President of the Indian National Congress | Badruddin Tayyabji |
| First English Newspaper in India | Bengal Gazette |
| India’s first manufacturer of light bulbs and electrical equipment | Bengal Lamps, Calcutta |
| Who invented zero first in India | Brahmagupta 650 AD |
| First Genetically modified food product in India | Bt. Brinjal |
| First genetically modified crop that is under cultivation in India | Bt. Cotton |
| The first and the last Indian to be Governor-General of Free India | C. Rajgopalachari |
| The first Indian to get the Nobel Prize in Physics | C.V.Raman |
| First university in India was founded at | Calcutta (1857) |
| First India Capital | Calcutta(Before 1911) |
| First bank in India to introduce credit card | Central Bank of India |
| First female mining engineer in India | Chandrani Prasad Verma |
| First moon mission of India | Chandrayan-1 (2008-2009) |
| The first Prime Minister of India who did not face the Parliament | Charan Singh |
| First emergency in India 1962 | China War |
| India’s first radio programme | ClubRadio in 1924. |
| First Space Shuttle Launched | Columbia |
| The first woman Lawyer | Cornelia Sorabjee |
| India’s First Oil well | Digboi |
| India’s First Open University | Dr B.R Ambedkar Open University |
| First Judge in International Court of Justice | Dr. Nagender Singh |
| The first Vice-President of India | Dr. Radhakrishnan |
| The first President of the Indian Republic | Dr. Rajendra Prasad |
| The first Muslim President of India | Dr. Zakir Hussain |
| The first woman Airline Pilot | Durba Banerjee |
| First Chinese pilgrim to Visit India | Fa-Hien/Faxian |
| First e-business Newspaper of India | Financial Express |
| The first Speaker of the Lok Sabha | Ganesh Vasudeva Mavalankar |
| The first Chief of Army Staff | Gen. Maharaj Rajendra Singhji |
| The first Indian Commander-in-Chief of India | General Cariappa |
| First Country to rule India | Greece invaded India in 120 BC |
| First Solar Energy Centre | Gwalpahar, Gurgaon, Haryana |
| The first person of Indian origin to receive the Nobel Prize in Medicine | Hargovind Khurana |
| The first woman pilot in Indian Air Force | Harita Kaur Dayal |
| First Largest circulated single edition newspaper in India | Hindustan Times from Delhi |
| First bank in India to introduce atm | HSBC (1987) in Mumbai |
| First Air Force In Asia To Fly Jets | Indian Air Force |
| India’s first indigenously built missile destroyer | INS ‘Delhi’ |
| India’s first indigenously built submarine | INS ‘Shakti’ |
| First solar crematorium | it is proposed to be set up in Valsad, Gujarat. |
| First Postage Stamp | It was issued in India in 1852 at Karachi. |
| First Rupee in India | It was minted during the reign of Sher Shah Suri in 1542. |
| First Railway Line | It was opened on April 16, 1853 between Bombay and Thane. |
| First Printing Press | It was set up in Goa in 1556 by the Portuguese. |
| First Telephone system | It was started in 1881 from Calcutta |
| First Cinema House In India Was Built | J.F. Madan In Calcutta In 1907 |
| The first Indian Pilot | J.R.D. Tata (1929) |
| First ship built in India | Jala Usha built by Vishakapatnam Shipyard was commissioned in 1948. |
| The first man who introduced the printing press in India | James Hicky |
| First Marine National Park | Jamnagar |
| India’s first Antartica expedition | January 11, 1982 |
| First song-less film | JBH Wadia’s Naujawan |
| First Complete Technicolor Film | Jhansi Ki Rani |
| The first Chief Justice of Supreme Court | Justice Hirala J. Kania |
| The first woman Graduates | Kadambini Ganguly and Chandramukhi Basu, 1883 |
| First Temple constructed from a single rock | Kailasa Temple at Ellora |
| First dam in India river | Kallanai Dam 100 – 150 CE |
| First woman to go to space from India | Kalpana Chawla |
| First female entrepreneur in India | Kalpana Saroj |
| The first woman Honours Graduate | Kamini Roy, 1886 |
| The first woman Asian Games Gold Medal Winner | Kamlijit Sandhu |
| The first woman Director General of Police | Kanchan Chaudhary Bhattacharya |
| The first woman Olympic medal Winner | Karnam Malleswari, 2000 |
| First woman IPS officer in India | Kiran Bedi |
| India’s first indigenously made colour film | Kisan Kanya |
| First Post Office Opened in India | Kolkata(1727) |
| The first woman Judge in the Supreme Court of India | Kumari Justice M. Fathima Beevi |
| India’s First largest inland lake | Lake Chilika, Orissa |
| First Moonlit Animal House in Asia | Located in the Nehru Zoological Park, Hyderabad. |
| The first British Viceroy of India | Lord Canning |
| First census in India viceroy | Lord Mayo |
| The first Governor-General of free India | Lord Mountbatten |
| The first British Governor-General of Bengal | Lord Warren Hastings(1774-1885) |
| The first British Governor-General of India | Lord William Bentinck(1833-1835) |
| First Indian to reach Antarctica | Lt. Ram Charan |
| First Largest Stupa in India | Mahachaitya Stupa, Amravati, Andhra Pradesh |
| First Wax statue of a Living Indian | Mahatma Gandhi at Madame Tussaud’s in 1939 |
| The first person to get Param Vir Chakra | Major Somnath Sharma |
| First Largest circulated periodical in India | Malayala Manorama |
| First Wind farm | Mandvi, Kutch in Gujarat |
| First Film with an all-female cast | Marathi Film Bindhast |
| First foreigner came to India | Megasthenese (ambassador of Seleucus Nikator) |
| The first Indian to cross the English Channel | Mihir Sen |
| The first woman Ambassador | Miss C.B. Muthamma |
| The first Prime Minister of India who resigned without completing the full term | Morarji Desai |
| The first woman to receive the Nobel Prize | Mother Teresa |
| The first woman President of Indian National Congress | Mrs Annie Besant |
| The first woman Prime Minister | Mrs Indira Gandhi |
| The first woman Chief Justice of High Court | Mrs Leela Seth (Himachal Pradesh High Court) |
| The first woman Governor of a state in free India | Mrs Sarojini Naidu |
| The first woman Chief Minister of an Indian State | Mrs Sucheta Kripalani |
| The first woman President of United Nations General Assembly | Mrs Vijaya Laxmi Pandit |
| The first woman to receive Bharat Ratna | Mrs. Indira Gandhi |
| The first woman IPS officer | Mrs. Kiran Bedi |
| The first woman judge in the Supreme Court | Mrs. Meera Sahib Fatima Bibi |
| First 3d Movie in India | My Dear Kuttichathan |
| First international co-production | Nala Damayanti |
| India’s First University | Nalanda University |
| First Film Centre | Nandan (Calcutta) |
| First Largest Nandi in India | Nandi of the Leepakshi Temple at Andhra Pradesh |
| First Navodaya School | Navegaon-Khairi in Nagpur |
| First Man to climb Mount Everest twice | Nawang Gombu Sherpa |
| First Asian Games in India | New Delhi, 1951 |
| The first woman to receive Ashoka Chakra | Nirja Bhanot |
| First veterinary college | Opened in Parel in Bombay in 1885 |
| First successful nuclear test in India | Operation Smiling Buddha, 18th May 1974 |
| The first woman Air Vice Marshal | P. Bandopadhyaya |
| India’s First Lok Sabha Member to be elected with a record maximum number of votes | P.V.Narasimha Rao |
| The first Prime Minister of free India | Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru |
| First silent feature film in India | Pundalik |
| The first woman Lieutenant General | Puneeta Arora |
| The first Indian to win the Nobel Prize | Rabindranath Tagore |
| India’s first fully indigenous silent feature film | Raja Harishchandra |
| The first woman Minister in a Government | Rajkumari Amrit Kaur |
| First Indian to be in Space | Rakesh Sharma |
| First woman in India to be hanged | Rattan Bai Jain, on 3 January 1955 at Tihar Jail |
| The first and last Muslim woman ruler of India | Razia Sultan |
| The first lady to become Miss World | Rita Faria |
| First Space Shuttle launched in India | RLV-TD, 2016 |
| First Largest circulated multi-edition daily in India | Roudramukhi Swar |
| The first woman Chairman of the Union Public Service Commission | Roze Millian Bethew |
| First Female Doctor in India | Rukhmabai Bhimrao Raut |
| The first Indian Air Chief Marshal | S. Mukherjee |
| The first Field Marshal of India | S.H.F. Manekshaw |
| The first Indian Member of the Viceroy’s executive council | S.P.Sinha |
| The first person to receive the Stalin Prize | Saifuddin Kitchlu |
| India’s first colour film | Sairandhri |
| The first woman to climb Mount Everest twice | Santosh Yadav |
| The first Home Minister of India | Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel |
| First Telefilm | Satyajit Ray’s Sadgat |
| The first Indian to join the Indian Civil Services | Satyendra Nath Tagore |
| First IAS officer of India | Satyendranath Tagore |
| The first woman Speaker of a State Assembly | Shanno Devi |
| First Indian person to climb Mount Everest without Oxygen cylinder | Shepra Phu Dorji |
| The first person to reach Mt. Everest without oxygen | Sherpa Anga Dorjee |
| First hydroelectric project in India | Shivasamudram, across the River Kaveri in 1902 |
| First Indian to develop an Airplane | Shivkar Bapuji Talpade |
| The first person to resign from the Central Cabinet | Shyama Prasad Mukherjee |
| First successfully indigenous launch vehicle | SLV-3 |
| First Indian Cosmonaut (to go into space) | Sqn.Ldr.Rakesh Sharma |
| The first person to receive the Jnanpith award | Sri Shankar Kurup |
| First Five-Year Plan | Started in 1951 |
| The first Chief Election Commissioner | Sukumar Sen |
| The first woman chairperson of Indian Airlines | Sushma Chawla |
| First Telegraph Line | t was laid between Calcutta and Agra in 1854 |
| First Book Printed In Language | Tamil |
| First south Indian film to be released in Korea | Tamil Film Muthu Maharaja |
| First Nuclear Plant in India | Tarapur Atomic Power Plant-1 |
| World’s First University | Taxila (700 B.C.) |
| First Newspaper in India | The Bengal Gazette, 1780 |
| First British to Visit India | Thomas Roe |
| First Computer developed in India | TIFRAC |
| First train in India ran between | Train ran between Bori Bunder (Bombay) and Thane, a distance of 34 km |
| First Hindi newspaper in India | Udant Martand (30 May 1826) |
| The first Indian Naval Chief | Vice-Admiral R.D. Katari |
| The first President of the Indian National Congress | W.C. Banerjee |
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