Specific GK

• Lord Clive was the First Governor of Bengal


  1757-60
• Warren Hastings was the Last Governor of Bengal


  1772-74
• Warren Hastings was the First Governor General of Bengal


  1774-85
• Lord William Bentinck was the First Governor General of India


  1833-35
• Lord Canning was the Last Governor General and First Viceroy of India


  1856-62
• W C Banerjee was the First President of Indian National Congress
• C. Rajagopalachari was the First Indian Governor General of Independent India


  21.06.1948-25.01.1950
• Surendra Nath Banerjee was the First Indian to pass ICS
• Satyendra Nath Tagore was the First Indian ICS Officer
• Lord Louis Mountbatten was the First Governor General of India (after independence)


  15 Aug 1947-29 June 1948
• Sqn. Ldr. Rakesh Sharma was the First Indian Cosmonaut (to go into space)
• Dr. Sachchidanand Sinha was the First temporary President of the Constituent Assembly
• General K.M. Cariappa was the First Commander-in-Chief of Free India
• Rabindra Nath Tagore was the First Indian Nobel Laureate
• Dr. Nagendra Singh was the First Indian Judge of the International Court of Justice
• Dr. S. Radhakrishnan was the First Indian to get Bharat Ratna Award
• General S.F.J. Manekshaw was the First Field Marshal
• Dr. Rajendra Prasad was the President of Constituent Assembly
• Mihir Sen was the First Indian to swim across the English Channel
• G. Shankar Kurup was the First Indian to get Jnanpeeth Award
• Dr. Rajendra Prasad was the First President of Independent India
• Baidyanath Nath was the First Indian to win Palk-Strait Ocean Swimming Contest
• G.V. Mavlankar was the First Speaker of Lok Sabha (1952-57)
• James Hicky was the First person to make printing press popular in India
• Maulana Abul Kalam Azad was the First Education Minister of Independent India
• Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru was the First Prime Minister of Independent India
• Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel was the First Home Minister of Independent India
• Dr. S. Radhakrishnan was the First Vice-President of Independent India
• Air Marshal Sir Thomas Elmhirst was the First Chief of Air Staff
• Air Marshal Subroto Mukherjee was the First Indian Air Chief of India
• General Maharaja Sri Rajendra Singh Ji Jadeja was the First Chief of Army Staff
• Vice-Admiral R.D. Katari was the First Chief of Naval Staff of India
• Apsara (1956) was the First large-scale Atomic Reactor of India
• Major Somnath Sharma was the First Person to get Paramvir Chakra
• I.N.S. Chakra was the First Nuclear Submarine of India
• C.V. Raman was the First Indian Scientist to get Nobel Prize
• I.N.S. Kalvari was the First Indian Submarine
• Dr. Hargobind Khorana was the First Scientist of Indian Origin to get Nobel in the field of Medical Sciences
• I.N.S. Vikrant was the First Aircraft Carrier Indian Ship
• Fa-hien was the First Chinese pilgrim to visit India