FIRST AMONG INDIAN WOMAN

• Woman Chief Justice of High Court—Leila Seth, Himachal Pradesh, 1991

• Woman Director General of Police—Kanchan C Bhattacharya

• Woman Doctorate of Science—Asima Chatterjee (1944)

• Woman Governor—Sarojini Naidu

• Woman Graduates—Kadambini Ganguly and Chandramukhi Basu, 1883

• Woman Grandmaster—Koneru Humpy

• Woman Honours Graduate—Kamini Roy

• Woman IAS Officer—Anna Ranjan George, 1950

• Woman IPS—Kiran Bedi

• Woman Sahitya Akademi Award Winner—Amrita Pritam, 1956

• Woman Speaker of Lok Sabha—Smt. Meira Kumar, 2009

• Woman Supreme Court judge—Kumari Fathima Beevi

• Woman Teacher—Savitribai Phule

• Woman to climb Mt everest—Bachendri Pal

• Woman to receiWoman Air Pilot—Durba Banerjee

• Woman Awarded with ‘Bharat Ratna’— Indira Gandhi

• Woman awarded with Bhartiya-Gyan-Peeth Purskar—Ashapurna Devi, 1976

• Wove Nobel Prize— Mother Teresa

• Woman to swim across the English Channel—Arati Saha, 1959