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FIRST WOMEN OF INDIA: INDIA"S FIRST CITIZEN IS A WOMAN OF INDIA: 12th President of india Smt. Pratibha Devisingh Patil, President of India " 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
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
First Indian woman speaker of the Lok Sabha Meira Kumar
First Indian woman to attain second highest rank of the Indian Armed Forces (i.e. Lieutant General ) and and the first Vice Admiral of the India Navy. Punita Arora
First Indian woman judge to the Supreme Court of India Justice M. Fathima Beevi
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.
First india woman to scale Mt. Kilimanjaro Rekha Singh (2015)



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