THE FIRSTS AND LASTS - 1

• First British Governor General of the new Dominion of India - Lord Mountbatten
• First and the Last Indian Governor General of Free India - C.Rajagopalachari
• Last Governor-General of India who also became the first Viceroy of India - Lord Canning
• Last Viceroy of India - Lord Mountbatten
• First British Governor-General in India - Warren Hastings
• First Commander-in-Chief of free India - General Cariappa
• Tenth and the last Guru of the Sikhs - Guru Gobind Singh
• First Chinese pilgrim to visit India - Fa-Hein
• First European to visit China - Marco Polo
• First European invader on Indian soil - Alexander the Great
• First U.S.A. President to visit India - D. Eisenhover
• First Russian Prime Minister to visit India - V.I.Bulganin
• First British Prime Minister to visit India - Harold Macmillan
• First President of the USA - George Washington
• First President of the Chinese Republic - Sun Yat-Sen
• First Prime Minister of Great Britain - Robert Walpole
• First Women Prime Minister of a country in the World - Mrs. S. Bandaranaike (Sri Lanka)
• First India’s Spaceman - Sqn. Ldr. Rakesh Sharma
• First Indian to scale Mount Everest - Phu Dorjee
• First President of Indian Republic - Dr. Rajendra Prasad
• First Woman Prime Minister of India - Mrs. Indira Gandhi
• First Indian to win Nobel Prize - Dr. Rabindranath Tagore
• First President of Indian National Congress - W.C.Bonerjee