India’s First Women In Governance
- Indian National Congress President: Annie Besant
- President of India: Pratibha Patil, 2007
- Prime Minister of India: Indira Gandhi, 1966
- Speaker of the Lok Sabha: Meira Kumar
- Deputy Chairman of the Rajya Sabha: Margaret Alva
- Secretary-General of the Rajya Sabha: V.S. Ramadevi
- Secretary-General of the Lok Sabha: Snehalata Shrivastava
- IPS Officer Kiran Bedi
- Cabinet Minister in India: Rajkumari Amrit Kaur
- Minister in India: Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
- Chief Minister: Sucheta Kriplani Uttar Pradesh
- Governor: Sarojini Naidu (Governor of Uttar Pradesh, 1947–49)
- Home Minister of a state: Sabitha Indra Reddy, Andhra Pradesh
- Finance Minister of State Government in India: Dr Upinderjit Kaur, in Punjab Govt.
- Director General of Police: Kanchan Chaudhary Bhattacharya
- Railway Minister of India: Mamata Banerjee
- Chief Minister to die in Office: J. Jayalalithaa
- Fully blind IFS officer: Beno Zephine N L
- To join IFS, to be a diplomat, to become the ambassador/High commissioner (also sued the Indian government for gender bias): C. B. Muthamma.
- IPS officer, Assam: Yamin Hazarika
- IPS officer, Sikkim: Aparajita Rai
- IPS officer, Maharashtra: Meera Borvankar
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