Friday, January 22, 2010

Dose (First Indian Woman-Part 1)

Field
Name
Year
(Muslim) Ruler of India
Razia Sultana
(1236-1240)
Advocate
Cornelia Sorabji
(1894)
Ambassador
Vijayalakshmi Pandit
(U.S.S.R., 1947-1949)
At Antarctica
Meher Moos
(1976)
Central Minister
Rajkumari Amrit Kaur (Health)
---
Chief Justice (High Court)
Leila Seth (Himachal Pradesh)
1991
Chief Minister
Sucheta Kriplani(Uttar Pradesh)
(1963-1967)
Foreign Minister
Lakshmi N. Menon
(1957-1966)
Secretary General of Rajya Sabha
V.S.Rama Devi
(1993)
Governor
Sarojini Naidu
(Uttar Pradesh, 1963-1967)
IAS Officer
Anna Rajam George
(1950)
Woman IPS Officer
Kiran Bedi
(1974)
Jet Commander
Saudamini Deshmukh
----
Jnanpith Award Winner
Ashapurna Devi, Prathama Pratishruti
(1976)
Judge of Supreme Court
Meera Sahib Fatima Beevi
(1989)
Minister of State
Vijayalakshmi Pandit(Uttar Pradesh)
1937
Missionary
Sanghamitra, daughter of King Ashoka
(Sri Lanka, 3rd C.BC)
Pilot (Commercial)
Prem Mathur, (Deccan Airways)
1951
Pilot (Indian Airlines)
Durga Banerjee
(1966-1988)
President of Indian National Congress
Annie Besant
(1917)
President of UN General Assembly
Vijayalakshmi Pandit
(1953)
Prime Minister
Indira Gandhi
(1966-1977, 1980-1984)
Sahitya Akademi Award Winner
Amrita Pritam, Sunehre
(1956)
climb Mount Everest
Bachendri Pal
(1984)
Perform a solo Flight
Harita Kaur Deol
(1944)
Swim across English Channel
Arati Saha
(1959)
Swim across the Strait of Gibraltar
[First woman in the world and enter
in guiness book of records for the same. ]
Arti Pradhan
29th August, 1988
Win an Asian Gold
Kamaljit Sandhu
(1970)
Go in Space
Dr. Kalpana Chawla
(November 1997)