List of firsts in India

Governance

1.     President of the Indian National Congress : Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee, 1885
2.     President of the Indian National Congress of independent India : Acharya Kripalani, till Nov 1947
3.     President : Rajendra Prasad (1950–1962)
4.     First Woman President: Pratibha Patil (2007–2012)
5.     First Bengali President :Pranab Mukherjee (Incumbent)
6.     First President of India from West Bengal :Pranab Mukherjee (Incumbent)
7.     The first Chief Election Commissioner : Sukumar Sen
8.     Industries and Supplies Minister: Shyama Prasad Mukherjee
9.     The first person to resign from the Central Cabinet : Shyama Prasad Mukherjee
10.     Vice-President : Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
11.     Prime Minister : Jawaharlal Nehru (1947–1964). India held its first constitutional elections in 1952 after which he was re-elected.
12.     Deputy Prime Minister : Vallabhbhai Patel (1947–1950)
13.     Law Minister of India : B. R. Ambedkar
14.     Leader of Opposition : A. K. Gopalan
15.     Prime Minister to be voted out of office : Indira Gandhi (1977), when the Indian National Congress lost to the Janata Party
16.     Non-Congress government : Janata Party, with Morarji Desai as the Prime Minister (1977–1980)
17.     Non-Congress State government with Majority by a single party : E. M. S. Namboodiripad of CPI, Kerala 1957
18.     Prime Minister to lead a minority government for a full term (five years) : P. V. Narasimha Rao, 21 June 1991 – 16 May 1996
19.     Person outside the Nehru-Gandhi family to serve as Prime Minister for a full term (five years) : P. V. Narasimha Rao, 21 June 1991 – 16 May 1996
20.     Prime Minister from South India : P. V. Narasimha Rao, 1991
21.     Women Railway Minister of India : Mamata Banerjee 
22.     The first Viceroy of India : Lord Canning, 1858
23.     Governor-General of India : Warren Hastings, 1773
24.     Governor-General of Independent India : Lord Mountbatten, 1947
25.     Indian Governor-General of Indian Union : C Rajagopalachari, 1948
26.     Chief Justice of India : H. J. Kania (1947–1951)
27.     First Sikh Prime Minister : Manmohan Singh (2004–present)
28.     First Muslim President : Zakir Hussain (1967–1969)
29.     First Sikh President : Giani Zail Singh
30.     First Chief Minister of West Bengal :Dr. Prafulla Chandra Ghosh
31.     Indian ICS Officer : Satyendranath Tagore, 1863
32.     Speaker of Lok Sabha : G.V. Mavlankar (1952–1956)
33.     Finance Minister of Independent India : R.K. Shanmukhan Chetty (1947–1949), for others see First Indian Cabinet
34.     Presentation of First Budget after India's Independence : R. K. Shanmukhan Chetty on 26 November 1947
35.     First Home Minister of India : Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel
36.     First Indian President to die in Office: Dr Zakir Hussain, 3 May 1969
37.     First Chief Minister to die in Office : C.N.Annadurai, Tamil Nadu
38.     First Indian Prime Minister to resign from office : Morarji Desai, 1979
39.     First Woman Cabinet Minister in India : Rajkumari Amrit Kaur
40.     First Woman Minister in India : Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
41.     First Woman Chief Minister : Sucheta Kriplani
42.     First Woman Chief Minister of West Bengal : Mamata Banerjee(2011-present)
43.     First Female Home Minister : Sabitha Indra Reddy in Andhra Pradesh Govt..
44.     First Woman Speaker of the Lok Sabha : Meira Kumar
45.     First Woman Finance Minister of State Government in India : Dr Upinderjit Kaur, in Punjab Govt. - See more at: http://educado4u.blogspot.in/2012/12/gk-list-of-firsts-in-india-3.html#sthash.NkL36Del.dpuf