AFCAT STATIC

FIRST IN INDIA
Science & Technology

First hydroelectric plant Sidrapong (Darjeeling)

First Man in Space Rakesh Sharma
First Nuclear Reactor Apsara (Maharashtra)
First satellite Aryabhatta
First successfully indigenous launch vehicle SLV-3
First genetically modified food product in India Bt. Eggplant Hybrid [Banned]
First to pass the examination of the Indian Medical Service (IMS) Surjo Kumar Chakroborty
First Indian to be appointed as the deputy director-general of
programmes (DDP) of the World Health Organization (WHO) Dr. Soumya Swaminathan

First satellite earth station for domestic communications Secunderabad

First Indian to get Nobel Prize in Physics C.V Raman
Governance
First President of India Dr. Rajendra Prasad
First Vice-President of India Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
First President of Indian National Congress Womesh Chandra Bannerjee
First Prime Minister of India Jawaharlal Nehru
First Chief Election Commissioner of India Sukumar Sen
First Viceroy of India Lord Canning
First Governor-General of India Lord William Bentinck
First Chief Justice of India H.J Kania
First Speaker of Lok Sabha G. V. Mavlankar
First Home Minister of India Sardar Vallabhai Patel
First Chairperson of Lokpal of India Pinaki Chandra Ghose
DEFENCE

First Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw

First Param Vir Chakra Winner Major Somnath Sharma
First female Jawan in the Army Shanti Tigga
First Indian woman to fly fighter aircraft without co-pilot IAF Officer Avani Chaturvedi
First cosmonaut Sqn Ldr Rakesh Sharma

First woman in the Indian Army awarded the coveted Divya Ajith Kumar
‘Sword of Honour’ prize
SPORTS
First Olympics Team Medal Gold in Field Hockey (1928,
Summer Olympics)
First Indian woman wrestler to win an Asian gold medal Navjot Kaur
First Indian woman badminton player to win an Asian Games medal
Saina Nehwal
First Indian woman to win a medal at Asian Games Santhi Soundarajan
First person to win the international bronze medal in skiing Aanchal Thakur
First Woman to Win an Olympic Silver Medal P. V. Sindhu in Badminton

First female to represent India at the Summer Olympics Nora Polley, 1924 Summer
Olympics
First Individual Gold Medal won by Abhinav Bindra, 2008 Summer
Olympics in Beijing
First Woman to Win a Medal in Wrestling Sakshi Malik won Bronze in the
2016 Summer Olympics
ARCHITECTURE

First temple constructed from a single rock Kailasa temple at Ellora

First church in India St. Thomas Church, Palayoor

First mosque in India Cheraman Juma Mosque in

Methala
First dam in India Kallanai Dam

First Indian temple with many interconnected structures Brihadeeswarar Temple,

Tamil Nadu
Miscellaneous
First Indian to win Nobel Prize Rabindranath Tagore
Lord William Bentinck (1833-
First British Governor General of India 1835)
Lord Warren Hasting (1774-
First British Governor General of Bengal 1885)
First British Viceroy of India Lord Canning
First Governor General of free India Lord Mountbatten
First Indian to be Governor General of free India C. Rajgopalachari
The first man who introduced printing press in India James Hicky (Bengal Gazette)
The First Indian to join the I.C.S Satyendra Nath Tagore
First Indian to receive Bharat Ratna award Dr Radhakrishnan
First Indian to cross the English Channel Mihir Sen
The first Speaker of the Lok Sabha Ganesh Vasudeva Mavalankar
First Education Minister Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
First Home Minister of India Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel
First person to receive Magsaysay Award Acharya Vinoba Bhave
First person of Indian origin to receive Nobel Prize in Medicine Hargovind Khurana
First person to receive Stalin Prize Saifuddin Kitchlu
First person to receive Nobel Prize in Economics Amartya Sen
First Indian woman judge in Supreme Court Meera Sahib Fatima Bibi
First person to receive Nobel Prize in Economics Amartya Sen
First Indian woman judge in Supreme Court Meera Sahib Fatima Bibi
First Indian woman Governor of a state in free India Sarojini Naidu
First Indian woman Prime Minister Indira Gandhi
First Indian woman President of United Nations General
Assembly Vijay Laxmi Pandit
First Indian woman Olympic Medal Winner Karnam Malleswari, 2000
First Indian woman to win Gold Medal in Asian Games Kamlijit Sandhu
First Indian woman Lawyer Cornelia Sorabjee
Ashapoorna Devi (For her novel
‘Pratham Pratisruti ‘in 1965)
First woman to receive Jnanpith Award from India
First Indian woman to receive Ashoka Chakra Neerja Bhanot
First woman to cross the English Channel from India Aarti Saha
First Indian woman to receive Nobel Prize Mother Teresa
First Indian woman to receive Bharat Ratna Indira Gandhi
First Indian woman pilot in Indian Air Force Harita Kaur Dayal
 FAMOUS BOOKS & AUTHORS
Famous Books Authors
1. Transcendence: My Spiritual Experiences with Dr A P J Abdul Kalam
Pramukh Swamiji
2. A Manifesto For Change
3. Advantage India: From Challenge to Opportunity
4. Beyond 2020: A Vision for Tomorrow’s India
5. Pathways to Greatness
1. Two Year Eight Months and Twenty Eight Night Salman Rushdie
2. Joseph Anton (Autobiography)
1. My Favourite Nature Stories Ruskin Bond
2. Death under the Deodars
The Red Sari Javier Moro
Freedom From Exile Dalai Lama
Neither a hawk nor a dove Khurshid M Kasuari
Faces and Places Deepak Nayyar
Indian Parliamentary Diplomacy Meira Kumar
Farishta Kapil Isapuari
Super Economies Raghav Bahal
China: Confucius in the Shadow Poonam Surie
My country My Life L.K.Advani
The Sahara Testaments Tade Ipadeola
Narendra Modi: A Political Biography Andy Marino
My Unforgettable Memories Mamata Banerjee
Rationalised Roman for Kashmiri Dr. R L Bhat
Strictly Personal, Manmohan and Gursharan Daman Singh
The Wrong Enemy: America in Afghanistan, 2001- Carlotta Gall
2014

Lal Bahadur Shastri: Lessons in Leadership Pavan Choudary

Walking With Giants G. Ramachandran
Crusader or Conspirator? Coalgate and other Truths PC Parakh
Sanjaya Baru
The Accidental Prime Minister: the making and
unmaking of Manmohan Singh
Master Yashvardhan Shukla - At
God of Antarctica the age of 13
My Years with Rajiv and Sonia R.D.Pradhan
Khushwantnama -The Lessons of My Life Khushwant singh

Syntheism – Creating God in The Internet Age Alexander Bard

One Life is Not Enough Natwar singh
The Lives of Others Neel Mukherjee
My Music My Life Pt. Ravi Shankar
I am Malala Malala Yousufzai and Christina Lamb
A Man and A Motorcycle, How Hamid Karzai Came to Bette Dam
Power
True Colours Adam Gilchrist
Assassination of Rajiv Gandhi: An Inside Job? Faraz Ahmad
1. The Ministry of Utmost Happiness Arundhati Roy
2. The God of Small Things
1. Lowland Jhumpa Lahiri
2. Unaccustomed Earth
3. Interpreter of Maladies
And then One Day: A Memoir (Autobiography) Nasiruddin Shah
Truth Always Prevails Sadruddin Hashwani
Playing It My Way Sachin Tendulkar and Boria Mazumder
Final Test: Exit Sachin Tendulkar Dilip D’Souza
Unbreakable (Autobiography) Mary Kom
Enoch, I am a British Indian Sarinder Joshua
 Duroch ModiNomics Sameer Kochar
Public Issues Before Parliament Vijay Darda
Water, Peace, and War – Confronting the Global Water Brahma Chellaney Ambedkar
Crisis
Awakening India’s Social Conscience Dr. Narendra Jadhav
Munger through the Ages Late DP Yadav
Akbar – The Aesthete Dr. Indu Anand
Runs in Ruins Sunil Gavaskar
India at Risk Jaswant Singh
The Narrow Road to the Deep North (Man Booker) Richard Flanagan (Australian)
Untold Story of the Indian Public Sector Dr. UD Choubey
Worthy Fights: A Memoir of Leadership in War and Peace Leon Panetta and Jim Newton
Not Just an Accountant Vinod Rai - Former CAG
Grandmaster Repertoire - 1.e4 vs The French, Caro-Kann, Parimarjan Negi
and Philidor
A Bend in the river V.S. Naipaul
Dark Star: The Loneliness of Being Rajesh Khanna Gautam Chintamani
1. Making India Awesome Chetan Bhagat
2. Half girlfriend
1. Ain-i-Akbari
2. Akbar-Nama Abul Fazal
Time Machine H.G. Wells
The Lady of the Last Minstrel Sir Walter Scott
A passage to India E.M. Forster
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle
The Moon and Sixpence Somerset Maughan
1. Raghuvamsa

2. Avigyan Sakuntalam
3. Shakuntala Kalidas
Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy
Discovery of India Jawaharlal Nehru
John Bunyan
Pilgrim’s Progress: From This World to That Which Is to
Come
My Experiments with Truth Mahatma Gandhi
1. The Merchant of Venice
2. Antony and Cleopatra
Shakespeare
1. A Tale of Two Cities
2. David Copperfield
Charles Dickens
1. Geetanjali
2. Chitra Rabindra Nath Tagore