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First women's court in India: Malda, West Bengal (24/1/2013) |
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Graduates: Kadambini Ganguly and Chandramukhi Basu, 1883 |
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The first woman Honours Graduate: Kamini Roy, 1886 |
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Head of an Undergraduate Academic Institution: Chandramukhi Basu, 1888 |
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The first woman Director General of Police: Kanchan Chaudhary Bhattacharya |
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Honours Graduate: Kamini Roy (1886) |
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The first woman to receive Nobel Prize: Mother Teresa of Calcutta |
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Woman Railway Minister of India: Mamata Banerjee |
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Woman to become Railway Minister of India twice in her tenure: Mamata Banerjee |
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Woman to become Railway Minister of India in two different Governments (NDA & UPA) :Mamata Banerjee |
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Woman to be the Chairperson of State Bank of India:Arundhati Bhattacharya |
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Court martialled: Anjali Gupta in 2005 |
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Lawyer: Cornelia Sorabjee (1892) also the first female graduate from Bombay University, and the first woman in the world to read law at Oxford. |
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Photojournalist: Homai Vyarawalla (1913) |
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Doctorate of Science: Asima Chatterjee (1944) |
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Chief Justice of a High Court (Himachal Pradesh): Leila Seth, 1991 |
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The first woman Air Vice Marshal: P. Bandopadhyaya |
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Supreme Court judge: Justice M. Fathima Beevi |
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High Court Judge: Anna Chandy |
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Woman President of the United Nations General Assembly: Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, 1953 |
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Physician: Kadambini Ganguly, 1886 |
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Airline Pilot: Durba Banerjee |
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In 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. |
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Nobel Prize winner: Mother Teresa of calcutta in 1979 (Albanian born Indian citizen) |
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The first Indian woman to sit in civil services exam, to join IFS, to be a diplomat, to become the ambassador/High commissioner (She also to sue the Indian government for gender bias): Muthamma Chonira. |
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The first woman to cross English Channel: Aarti Saha |
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Monarch of Delhi Sultanate: Razia Sultan (1205–1240) of Mamluk Sultanate (Delhi) |
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Prime Minister: Indira Gandhi, 1966 |
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Minister in a government: Rajkumari Amrit Kaur in the Ministry of Health |
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Chief Minister of a State: Sucheta Kripalani, Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, 1963–1967 |
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Governor: Sarojini Naidu, Governor of Uttar Pradesh, 1947–1949 |
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Central Minister (in pre-independent India): Vijayalakshmi Pandit, minister of local self-government and public health, 1937 |
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Speaker of the Lok Sabha: Meira Kumar |
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Asha Pande, first Indian woman to be the member of Legion of Honour |
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Anjali Gopalan, first Tamil woman member of the royal French Legion of Honour. |
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Indian National Congress President: Annie Besant |
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President: Pratibha Patil, 2007 |
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IPS Officer Kiran Bedi |
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Asian Games gold medal winner: Kamlijit Sandhu |
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The first Indian woman to climb Mount Everest: Bachendri Pal, 1984 |
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Chess Grandmaster: Koneru Humpy, 2002. She was also the youngest woman in the world to become a grandmaster at 15 years old. |
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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 |
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To reach 4th round (highest as of 2008) of a Grand Slam event: Sania Mirza in the Singles category of the 2005 US Open. |
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Grand Slam junior title: Sania Mirza (partnering with Russian Alisa Kleybanova) in the Doubles category of the 2003 Wimbledon Championships. |
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State Finance Minister: Dr Upinderjit Kaur, in Punjab: October, 2010 |
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Paris Brest Paris Cycling Event: Divya Tate (44): August, 2011 |
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The first Indian woman pilot: Harita Kaur Deol becomes the first Indian woman pilot in the Indian Air Force (IAF), on a solo flight in 1994. |
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To Cross Gobi Desert: Sucheta Kadethankar (33): 2011 |
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First Indian woman to reach the final of an Olympic event Pilavullakandi Thekkeparambil Usha, popularly known as P. T. Usha |
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first woman IAS officer:Anna Rajan George(b1927)kerela qualified in 1950 sub divisional officer in Tamil Nadu 1951 |
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First and youngest Indian female Ultramarathoner (23yrs) to run a 100 Mile Race(Himalayas) Priya Darshini (October, 2007) |
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First Indian Women to win Magasasay Award: Kamladevi Chattopadhyay |
