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Firsts in India (Female)

S.No Field Name of the Year Birth Place Person

1 First Indian Woman Doctor Anandi Gopal 1886 Pune, British India Joshi 2 First Woman President of INC Annie Besant 1917 London, UK

3 First Indian Woman President of Sarojini Naidu 1925 Hyderabad, INC Andhra Pradesh (Now Telangana)

4 First Indian Woman Airline Pilot Sarla Thakral 1936 New Delhi

5 First Indian Woman to swim Arati Saha 1959 , West across English Channel Bengal

6 First Indian woman to get Arjuna Stephie D'Souza 1963 Goa Award

7 First Indian Woman to become Miss Reita Faria 1966 British Bombay Miss World (Now Mumbai) 8 First Indian Woman to win Gold Kamaljeet 1970 Punjab in Asian Sandhu Games 9 First Indian Woman to get Indira Gandhi 1971 Allahabad, Uttar Bharat Ratna Pradesh 10 First Indian Woman to get Ashapoorna Devi 1976 Culcutta (Now Jnanpith Award Kolkata, )

11 First Indian Woman to get Nobel Mother Terasa 1979 West Germany Prize (Now Macedonia)

12 First Indian Women to win Bhanu Athaiya 1983 Kolhapur, British Oscar Award India (Now Maharashtra)

13 First Indian Woman to climb Mt 1984 Uttrakashi (Now Everest Uttarakand)

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14 First Woman to get Ashok Nirja Bhanot 1987 Chandigarh, Chakra Punjab

15 First Woman Judge of Supreme Meera Sahib 1989 Pathanamthitta, Court Fatima Bibi Kerala

16 First Indian Woman to become Susmita Sen 1994 Hyderabad, Miss Universe Andhra Pradesh (Now Telangana)

17 First Indian Woman to Booker Arundhati Roy 1997 Shillong, Assam Prize (Present Meghalaya) 18 First Indian Woman to go to Kalpana Chawla 1997 Karnal, Punjab space (Now Haryana) 19 First Woman Musician to get MS 1998 Madurai, Bharat Ratna Subbalakshmi Tamilnadu 20 First Indian Woman to win Karnam 2000 Andhra Pradesh Medal in Olymbic Malleswari

21 First Indian Woman to win WTA 2004 Hyderabad, Title Andhra Pradesh (Now Telangana)

22 India’s First Woman Governor Sarojini Naidu 1947 - 1949 Hyderabad, (Uttar Pradesh) Andhra Pradesh (Now Telangana)

23 First Indian Woman Ambassador Vijalakshmi 1947 - 1949 Allahabad, Uttar at UN Pandit Pradesh

24 First Woman Union Minister Rajkumari 1947 - 1957 Lucknow, Uttar (Minister of Health) Amrita Kaur Pradesh

25 First Woman Chief Minister of Sucheta Kripalani 1963 - 1967 Ambala, Punjab State (Uttar Pradesh) (Now in Haryana)

26 India’s First Woman Prime Indira Gandhi 1966-1977 Allahabad, Uttar Minister Pradesh 27 India’s First Woman IPS Officer Kiran Bedi 1975 (In Amritsar, Punjab. Delhi) 28 First Indian Woman to climb Mt Santhosh Yadhav 1992, 1993 Haryana Everest twice

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29 India’s First Woman President Pratiba Patil 2007 - 2012 Maharashtra

30 First transgender woman to be a K Prithika 2017 Tamilnadu police officer in India Yashini (Dharmapuri) (Dharmapuri)

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