Editing List of Firsts in India

{{Short description|Pioneering milestones in Indian politics, judiciary, sport and administration}}
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'''List of Firsts in India''' covers the pioneering milestones in politics, judiciary, the Olympics, education, and administration that defined the founding and growth of the Republic of India.

== Constitutional and Political Firsts ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
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! Post / Milestone !! Person !! Notes
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| First Prime Minister || [[Jawaharlal Nehru]] || Served 1947–1964
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| First President (Elected) || [[Rajendra Prasad]] || —
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| First Indian Governor General || [[C. Rajagopalachari]] || —
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| First Vice President || [[Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan|Dr. S. Radhakrishnan]] || —
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| First Chief Justice of India || Justice Harilal J. Kania || —
|-
| First Home Minister and Deputy PM || [[Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel]] || —
|-
| First Education Minister || [[Maulana Abul Kalam Azad]] || —
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| First Finance Minister || R. K. Shanmugham Shetty || —
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| First Chief Election Commissioner || Sukumar Sen || —
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| First female PM (1966–1977 and 1980–1984) || [[Indira Gandhi]] || —
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| First female President (2007–2012) || [[Pratibha Patil]] || —
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| First female CM (Uttar Pradesh) || [[Sucheta Kriplani]] || 1963–1967
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| First female President of INC (1917) || [[Annie Besant]] || —
|-
| First Indian female President of INC (1925) || [[Sarojini Naidu]] || Also first woman Governor (U.P.)
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| First female doctor of India || [[Anandi Gopal Joshi|Anandi Gopal Rao Joshi]] || —
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| First woman IAS officer || Anna Rajam Malhotra || —
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| First female High Court judge || [[Anna Chandy]] || Kerala High Court
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| First barrister of India || Monomohun Ghose || —
|-
| First private bank of India || IndusInd Bank || —
|}

== Sports Firsts ==
{| class="wikitable"
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! Milestone !! Person / Event !! Notes
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| First Olympics || Athens, 1896 || —
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| First Paralympic Games || Rome, 1960 || —
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| First captain of Indian Cricket Team in ODI || [[Ajit Wadekar]] || —
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| First Indian woman to summit Everest || [[Bachendri Pal]] || —
|-
| First woman to win Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna || Rani Rampaul || —
|}

== Social Reform Organizations ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
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! Organization !! Year Founded !! Founder
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| [[Brahmo Samaj]] || 1828 || [[Raja Ram Mohan Roy]]
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| [[Prarthana Samaj]] || 1867 || Atmaram Pandurang
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| [[Arya Samaj]] || 1875 || [[Dayananda Saraswati]]
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| [[Aligarh Muslim University]] || 1875 || [[Syed Ahmad Khan]]
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| [[Bombay Stock Exchange]] || 1875 || Premchand Roychand (cotton merchant)
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| [[Indian National Congress]] || 1885 || [[Allan Octavian Hume]]
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| [[Ramakrishna Mission]] || 1897 || [[Swami Vivekananda]]
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| Gadar Party || 1913 || Sohan Singh Bhakna and Har Dayal Singh
|}

== Books and Authors (Selected) ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
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! Year !! Book !! Author
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| 1776 || ''The Wealth of Nations'' || [[Adam Smith]]
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| 1859 || ''On the Origin of Species'' || [[Charles Darwin]]
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| 1882 || ''Ananda Math'' || [[Bankim Chandra Chatterjee]]
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| 1909 || ''Hind Swaraj'' || [[Mahatma Gandhi]]
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| 1913 || ''The Gardener'' || [[Rabindranath Tagore]]
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| 1925 || ''My Experiments with Truth'' || [[Mahatma Gandhi]]
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| 1981 || ''Midnight's Children'' || [[Salman Rushdie]]
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| 1988 || ''The Alchemist'' || [[Paulo Coelho]]
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| 1997 || ''The God of Small Things'' || [[Arundhati Roy]]
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| 2006 || ''The Inheritance of Loss'' || [[Kiran Desai]]
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| 2008 || ''The White Tiger'' || [[Aravind Adiga]]
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| 2022 || ''Tomb of Sand'' || [[Geetanjali Shree]]
|}

== See also ==
* [[Constituent Assembly of India]]
* [[Republic Day (India)]]
* [[History of India]]

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

[[Category:Firsts in India]]
[[Category:Indian politics]]
[[Category:Indian history]]
[[Category:Women in India]]