First Person in India - Female

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41. First Indian Woman to win Gold in Asian Games - Kamaljeet Sandhu (won gold medal at  1970 Bangkok Asian Games in 400 m race). 

42. First Indian Booker Prize winner - Arundhati Roy [22] for her novel “ The God of Small  Things ” in 1997. 

43. First Indian Woman to go to space - Kalpana Chawla (Space Shuttle Columbia). 

44. First winner of Dadasaheb Phalke Award – Devika Rani in 1969 (Dadasaheb Phalke  directed the first Indian film ‘Raja Harishchandra’). 

45. First female Jawan in the Army - Shanti Tigga .

46. First Woman Chief Minister to die in Office - Jayalalithaa  (AIADMK party) (first male was ‘Gopinath Bordoloi’ he was CM of Assam, Guwahati Airport is named after him). 

47. First Woman Indian Prime Minister to die in Office - Indira Gandhi . 

48. Anandi Gopal Joshi [23] is referred to as the first lady doctor of India . 

49. First women's court in India - Malda, West Bengal . 

50. First Women Graduates - Kadambini Ganguly and Chandramukhi Basu ,  1883. 

 

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