First Women in India
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First woman Central Minister
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RajkumariAmritKaur
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First woman chief justice of a High Court
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Leila Seth (CJ
of Himachal Pradesh, 1991)
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First woman Chief Minister of an Indian
state
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SuchetaKriplani
(Uttar Pradesh from 1963-1967)
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First woman film star to be a member of
RajyaSabha
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NargisDutt
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First woman Governor of an Indian state
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Sarojini Naidu
(Uttar Pradesh from 1947-1948)
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First woman Governor of Tamil Nadu
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Justice M.
Fatima Beevi (1997)
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First woman IPS Officer of India
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KiranBedi
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First woman Judge of the Supreme Court
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Justice M.
Fatima Beevi (1989)
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First woman judicial officer
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Anna Chandy,
who was appointed munsif in the Travancore state in 1937.
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First woman Minister of an Indian state
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Vijay Lakshmi
Pandit (Uttar Pradesh)
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First woman officer of the Indian Air Force
(IAF) to be promoted to the rank of air commodore
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55-year old
Padma Bandhopadhyay who was commissioned to the IAF in 1968.
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First woman President of Indian National
Congress
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Annie Besant
(1917)
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First woman President of UN General Assembly
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Vijay Lakshmi
Pandit (1953-54)
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First woman Prime Minister of India
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Late Indira
Gandhi (1966-1977 and 1980-1984).
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First woman Speaker of an Indian state
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Shano Devi
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First woman Speaker of Andhra Pradesh
Legislative Assembly
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KavaliPrathibhaBharati
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First woman winner of the Bharat Ratna
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Indira Gandhi
(1971)
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Grandma Madonna from India
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AshaBhonsle
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India's first commercial pilot
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Durba Banerjee
(1966, Indian Airlines)
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India's first Test-Tube Baby
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Kruti Parekh
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India's first woman railway driver
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SurekhaYadao
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India's first woman tabla maestro
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Dr AbanMistry
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India's officially recognized billionth
citizen
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Astha (She was
born on May 11,2000 at New Delhi).
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World's first woman Airbus pilot
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Durba Banerjee
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Youngest Indian to swim across the English
Channel
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AratiPradhan
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