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First Asian to be electedpresident of Britain's
LiberalDemocratic Party (LDP): LordNavnit Dholakia? First Asian to
head aBritish university: LordSwaraj Paul (when he waselected
Chancellor of theWolverhampton University on
May 9, 2000)? First British Prime Ministerto visit India:
HaroldMacmillan? First Chairman of theUniversity Grants
Commission:
S.S.Bhatnagar? First Chief ElectionCommissioner of India:
SukumarSen (21.3.1950 to 19.12.1958)
? First Chief J ustice ofIndia: Harilal J
.Kania(26.1.1950-6.11.1951)? First Chief Minister of thetri-lingual
Bombay Presidency:B.G.Kher? First Chief of Air Staff:Air Marshall
Sir Thomas
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Elmherst (1947-1950)? First Chief of Army Staff:Gen. Maharaj
Rajendra Sinhji(1.4.1955 to 14.5.1955)? First
Commander-in-Chief:Gen.Sir Roy Bucher (1.1.1948 -14.1.1949)? First
Dalit Lok SabhaSpeaker: G M C Balayogi
? First Defence Minister ofIndependent India: SardarBaldev
Singh? First Deputy Prime Ministerof India: Sardar
VallabhaiPatel
? First Director General ofICAR: B.P.Pal? First Eunuch to be
electedas a Mayor of an Indian city:Kamla J aan, who elected
Mayorof Katni city in Madhya
Pradesh in J anuary 2000.? First Eunuch to get electedto a state
legislature:Shabnam Mausi, won theSohagpur Assembly constituencyin
Madhya Pradesh in theFebruary 2000 elections.? First European to
invade
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India: Alexander? First Field Marshal: Gen.S.H.F.J . Manekshaw?
First fighter pilot to winthe Param Vir Chakra: FlyingOfficer
Nirmaljeet SinghSekhon (posthumous) for IAF in1971 Indo-Pak
conflict.? First Foreign Secretary of
Free India: K.P.S.Menon? First Governor-General ofIndependent
India: LordMountbatten? First Indian bowler to get ahattrick in
Test cricket:
Harbhajan Singh? First Indian Chief of AirStaff: Air Marshal
SubrotoMukherjee (April 1, 1954).? First Indian Chief of
NavalStaff: Vice Admiral R.D.Katari
(1958-1962).? First IndianGovernor-General of
India:C.Rajagopalachari? First Indian to be awardedwith the
'Victoria Cross':Khuda Dad Khan (for Gallantryin Belgium during the
first
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World War)? First Indian to be elected amember of British
Parliament:Dadabhoi Naoroji? First Indian to be electedto the US
House ofRepresentatives: Dilip SinghSaund? First Indian to go in
space:
Squadron Leader Rakesh Sharma.He went in the Soyuz
7-IISpacecraft on April 3, 1984and returned on April 11,1984.?
First Indian to hoist the
National Flag over the NorthPole: Squadron Leader Sanjay
Thapar.? First Indian to record asong on a gramophone disc:Sashi
Mukhi of Classic
Theatres, Calcutta (1902)? First Indian to swim acrossthe
English Channel: Mihir Sen? First Indian to win anOlympic Bronze:
Khashaba
J adhav (wresting; 1952,Helsinki Olympics)? First Indian to win
the All
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England Open Badminton Tournament: Pullela Gopi Chand(March
11,2001)? First Indian to win theWorld Billiards Championship:Wison
J ones? First J nanpith Award Winner:G.Sankara Kurup (1965), forhis
work Ottakkuzhal in
Malyalam.? First Minister withoutPortfolio: N.GopalswamiAyengar
in J awaharlal Nehru'sCabinet. He, however, went onto become the
Minister of
Defence.? First Photographer in India:Raja Deendayal? First
President of India: DrRajendra Prasad (1950-1962)? First President
of the
Indian Union of CivilLiberties: Rabindranath Tagore(1930s).?
First Prime Minister ofIndia: J awaharlal Nehru(1947-1964)? First
Prime Minister to wina popular entertainment award:
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Atal Behari Vajpayee (when hewon the Screen-Videocon
"BestLyricist" prize in thenon-film music category forhis
collection of poems titled"Nayi Disha" in February2000).? First
Secretary-General ofSouth-South Commission: Dr
Manmohan Singh? First Surveyor General ofIndia: Sir George
Everest? First Vice-President ofIndia: Dr
S.Radhakrishnan(1952-1962)
? First Winner of Param VirChakra: Maj.Somnath
Sharma(posthumously) in November,1947? India's first Test-tubebaby:
Harsha (born on August
6, 1986).? Indian J ohann SebastianBach: Ustad Ali Akbar Khan?
India's longest servingChief Minister : J yoti Basu? Only Army
Chief to beawarded with Maha Vir Chakratwice: Late Gen.
A.S.Vaidya
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