India’s First in Others
- The first Indian to cross English Channel: Mihir Sen
- First practicing barrister of Indian origin: Monomohun Ghose
- First Indian as well as an Asian to be called to the bar in England: Gnanendramohan Tagore
- First post office opened in India: Kolkata (1727)
- First telegraph message: on 5 November 1850, between Calcutta (now Kolkata) and Diamond Harbour, a distance of about 50 km.
- Wax statue of a living Indian: Mahatma Gandhi at Madame Tussaud’s in 1939
- Miss India to participate in Miss Universe: Indrani Rahman in the Miss Universe 1952 Pageant at Long Beach, California
- India’s first woman Merchant Navy Officer: Sonali Banerjee
- First woman teacher: Savitribai Phule
- First woman doctor: Anandi Gopal Joshi
- First Indian World No. 1 women’s tennis sportsperson (doubles): Sania Mirza
- First Indian No. 1 women’s badminton player: Saina Nehwal
- The first record holder in the field of development of eco-innovation: Shripad Vaidya 13 June 2010; Vaidya is the first Nagpurian to get two Limca records within a year, as the first record holder in the field of development of eco-innovation.
- World’s first hand written needle book: Madhushala
- Writer of world’s first hand written needle book (Madhushala): Piyush Goel
- First disabled friendly bank ATM: Union Bank of India