First in India - Women
First women's court in India: Malda, West Bengal
Graduates: Kadambini Ganguly and Chandramukhi Basu, 1883
The first woman Honours Graduate: Kamini Roy, 1886
The first woman Honours Graduate: Kamini Roy, 1886
Head of an Undergraduate Academic Institution: Chandramukhi Basu, 1888
Honours Graduate: Kamini Roy (1886)
Pilot a locomotive engine (train driver) : Surekha Yadav
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)
Doctorate of Science: Asima Chatterjee (1944)
Chief Justice of a High Court (Himachal Pradesh): Leila Seth, 1991
Air Vice Marshal: Padmavathy Bandopadhyay
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
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)
To cross English Channel: Aarti Saha
Monarch of Delhi Sultanate: Razia Sultana (1205–1240) of Mamluk Sultanate (Delhi)
Minister in a government: Rajkumari Amrit Kaur in the Ministry of Health
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.
Asian Games gold medal winner: Kamlijit Sandhu
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.
Paris Brest Paris Cycling Event: Divya Tate (44): August 2011
Pilot: Harita Kaur Deol .
To Cross Gobi Desert: Sucheta Kadethankar (33): 2011
Reach the final of an Olympic event : P. T. Usha
IAS officer:Isha Basant Joshi
Magasasay Award: Kamladevi Chattopadhyay
Bus driver at Delhi Transport Corporation: Sarita
Honours Graduate: Kamini Roy (1886)
Pilot a locomotive engine (train driver) : Surekha Yadav
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)
Doctorate of Science: Asima Chatterjee (1944)
Chief Justice of a High Court (Himachal Pradesh): Leila Seth, 1991
Air Vice Marshal: Padmavathy Bandopadhyay
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
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)
To cross English Channel: Aarti Saha
Monarch of Delhi Sultanate: Razia Sultana (1205–1240) of Mamluk Sultanate (Delhi)
Minister in a government: Rajkumari Amrit Kaur in the Ministry of Health
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.
Asian Games gold medal winner: Kamlijit Sandhu
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.
Paris Brest Paris Cycling Event: Divya Tate (44): August 2011
Pilot: Harita Kaur Deol .
To Cross Gobi Desert: Sucheta Kadethankar (33): 2011
Reach the final of an Olympic event : P. T. Usha
IAS officer:Isha Basant Joshi
Magasasay Award: Kamladevi Chattopadhyay
Bus driver at Delhi Transport Corporation: Sarita