FIRST WOMEN OF INDIA:

INDIA"S FIRST CITIZEN TODAY IS A WOMAN OF INDIA:
Smt. Pratibha Devisingh Patil, President of India
http://www.presidentofindia.nic.in/

" I am deeply committed to the cause of education and would like to see every person, man and woman, boy and girl, be touched by the light of modern education. Empowerment of women is particularly important to me as I believe this leads to the empowerment of the nation".

FIRST WOMEN SPEAKER of the lok Sabha
Meira Kumar

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meira_Kumar
 

  

EARLY INDIAN WOMEN PIONEERS: PHOTOGRAPHERS

India's First woman Press photographer.
Homai Vyarawalla

Mira Chaudhuri (1905-1994)

Debalina Mazumadar (1919)

Indira Dey (1912-1992),

Manobina Roy (1919-2001)

Rajendra Kunverba (1920-2000).

First Indian girl educated at La Martiniere girls high school
Isha Mukand Joshi   then went on to study at Isabella Thoburn College and Lucknow University where she obtained an MA.

  
First woman Judge of High Court
 Anna Chandy (1959)		  
First Indian women commercial pilot of the Deccan Airways
Prem Mathur (1951)

 First Indian woman pilot of the state airline, Indian Airlines
 Captain Durga Banerjee  (1966)		  
First Indian woman to win the Ramon Magsaysay award for community leadership
Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay (1966)		  
First Indian woman to win a Gold in the Asian Games
 Kamaljit Sandhu (1970)		  
First woman recruit to join the Indian Police Service
 Kiran Bedi (1972)		  
First woman judge of the Supreme Court of India
 Justice M.Fathima Beevi (1989)		  
First woman cadet to join the Indian Army
 Priya Jhingan (1992)		  
First woman in the Indian Army to don the highest rank of Lt General
Punita Arora (2004)		  
First Indian woman (from Ludhiana Punjab)engine driver of trains with the New South Wales Rail Corporation, Australia
 Manndhir Rajput (2005)		  
First Indian business woman to reach 1 billion dollar net-worth: Biocon
 Kiran Mazumdar Shaw  (2006)		  
First Indian woman to drive a car
Suzanne RD Tata (1905)		  
First woman Prime Minister of India
Indira Gandhi (1966) 		 
First Indian woman to perform a solo flight
Harita Kaur Deol (1944)		  
First Indian woman to go into Space
Kalpana Chawla (late) (1997)		  
First Indian woman CMD of Public Sector Bank
Ranjana Kumar		  
First Indian woman to win a Grammy Award 2010
Tanvi Shah		  
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The First women's university, SNDT Women's University, was founded on June 2, 1916 by the social reformer Dhondo Keshav Karve with just five students.