Sunday, 29 March 2015

FIRST WOMEN IN INDIA


First women's court in India: Malda, West Bengal (24/1/2013)[25]

Graduates: Kadambini Ganguly and Chandramukhi Basu, 1883

The first woman Honours Graduate: Kamini Roy, 1886

Head of an Undergraduate Academic Institution: Chandramukhi Basu, 1888

The first woman Director General of Police: Kanchan Chaudhary Bhattacharya

Honours Graduate: Kamini Roy (1886)

The first woman to receive Nobel Prize: Mother Teresa of Calcutta

Woman Railway Minister of India: Mamata Banerjee

Woman to become Railway Minister of India twice in her tenure: Mamata Banerjee

Woman to pilot a locomotive engine (train driver) : Surekha Yadav

Woman to become Railway Minister of India in two different Governments (NDA & UPA) :Mamata Banerjee

Woman to be the Chairperson of State Bank of India:Arundhati Bhattacharya

Court martialled: Anjali Gupta in 2005

Lawyer: Cornelia Sorabjee (1892) also the first female graduate from Bombay University, and the first
woman in the world to read law at Oxford.

Photojournalist: Homai Vyarawalla (1913)[11]

Doctorate of Science: Asima Chatterjee (1944)

Chief Justice of a High Court (Himachal Pradesh): Leila Seth, 1991

The first woman Air Vice Marshal: P. Bandopadhyaya

Supreme Court judge: Justice M. Fathima Beevi

High Court Judge: Anna Chandy

Woman President of the United Nations General Assembly: Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, 1953

Physician: Kadambini Ganguly, 1886

Airline Pilot: Durba Banerjee

In space: Kalpana Chawla aboard Space Shuttle Columbia flight STS-87, on 19 November 1997. She was a naturalized United States citizen, and represented the US during the event.

Nobel Prize winner: Mother Teresa of calcutta in 1979 (Albanian born Indian citizen)

The first Indian woman to sit in civil services exam, to join IFS, to be a diplomat, to become the ambassador/High commissioner (She also to sue the Indian government for gender bias): Muthamma Chonira.

The first woman to cross English Channel: Aarti Saha

Monarch of Delhi Sultanate: Razia Sultan (1205–1240) of Mamluk Sultanate (Delhi)

Prime Minister: Indira Gandhi, 1966

Minister in a government: Rajkumari Amrit Kaur in the Ministry of Health
Chief Minister of a State: Sucheta Kripalani, Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, 1963–1967

Governor: Sarojini Naidu, Governor of Uttar Pradesh, 1947–1949

Central Minister (in pre-independent India): Vijayalakshmi Pandit, minister of local self-government and public health, 1937

Speaker of the Lok Sabha: Meira Kumar

Asha Pande, first Indian woman to be the member of Legion of Honour

Anjali Gopalan, first Tamil woman member of the royal French Legion of Honour.

Indian National Congress President: Annie Besant

President: Pratibha Patil, 2007

IPS Officer Kiran Bedi

Asian Games gold medal winner: Kamlijit Sandhu

The first Indian woman to climb Mount Everest: Bachendri Pal, 1984

Chess Grandmaster: Koneru Humpy, 2002. She was also the youngest woman in the world to become a grandmaster at 15 years old.
To win 1st round match in a Grand Slam event: Nirupama Vaidyanathan beat Italian Gloria Pizzichini in the first round of the 1998 Australian Open

To reach 4th round (highest as of 2008) of a Grand Slam event: Sania Mirza in the Singles category of the 2005 US Open.

Grand Slam junior title: Sania Mirza (partnering with Russian Alisa Kleybanova) in the Doubles category of the 2003 Wimbledon Championships.

State Finance Minister: Dr Upinderjit Kaur, in Punjab: October, 2010

Paris Brest Paris Cycling Event: Divya Tate (44): August, 2011[26]

The first Indian woman pilot: Harita Kaur Deol becomes the first Indian woman pilot in the Indian Air Force (IAF), on a solo flight in 1994.
To Cross Gobi Desert: Sucheta Kadethankar (33): 2011[27]

First Indian woman to reach the final of an Olympic event Pilavullakandi Thekkeparambil Usha, popularly known as P. T. Usha

first woman IAS officer: Isha Basant Joshi(b1908) Joint Magistrate and Assistant Commissioner of Lucknow, Joshi also served as Deputy and Joint Secretary Ministry of Education in the Government of India.

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