First in India: Part II

Governance:

• First President of Indian National Congress: Womeshchandra Bannerjee (1885)
• First President of the Indian National Congress of independent India: Acharya Kriplani (1947)
• First President of India: Dr. Rajendra Prasad (1905-1962)
• First Prime Minister: Jawaharlal Nehru (1947-64)
• First women President : Pratibha Patil (2007-2014)
• First Chief Election Commissioner: Sukumar Sen
• First Industries and Supplies Minister: Shyam Prasad Mukherjee
• First Vice-President: Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
• First Deputy Prime Minister: Vallabhbhai Patel (1947-50)
• First Law Minister: Dr. B R Ambedkar
• First Leader of Opposition: A K Gopalan
• Non-Congress government: Janata Party (1977-1980 with Morarji Desai as PM)
• Non-Congress State government with majority by single party: E M S Namboodiripad of CPI Kerala (1957)
• Prime Minister to lead minority government for for a full term: P V Narsimha Rao (1991-1996)
• Person outside Nehru-Gandhi family to serve as prime Minister for a full term: P V Narsimha Rao (1991-1996)
• First women Railway Minister: Mamta Banerjee
• First Viceroy of India: Lord Canning (1858)
• Governor General of India: Warren Hastings (1773)
• Governor General of Independent India: Lord Mountbatten (1947)
• Indian Governor General of Indian Union: C Rajagopalachari (1948)
• First Sikh Prime Minister of India: Manmohan Singh (2004-2014)
• First Muslim President: Zakir Hussain: (1967-1969)
• Indian ICS Officer: Satyendranath Tagore (1863)
• First speaker of Loksabha: G V Malvankar (1952-1956)
• Presentation of First Budget after India's Independence: R K Shanmukhan Chetty (26 Nov 1947)
• First Home Minister of India: Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
• First Indian President to die in office: Zakir Hussain (3 May 1969)
• First Chief Minister to die in office: C N Annadurai, Tamilnadu
• First Prime Mister to resign from office: Morarji Desai (1979)
• First women Cabinet Minister of India: Rajkumari Amrit Kaur
• First women Minister of India: Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
• First women Chief Minister: Sucheta Krplani
• First women Governor of a State: Sarojini Naidu (UP, 1947-1949)
• First women speaker of the Lok Sabha: Meira Kumar