PART1:
First In India
- President of the Indian National Congress: Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee, 1885
- President of the Indian National Congress of independent India: Acharya Kripalani, till Nov 1947
- President: Rajendra Prasad (1950–1962)
- First Woman President: Pratibha Patil (2007–2012)
- First Bengali President: Pranab Mukherjee (Incumbent)
- First President of India from West Bengal: Pranab Mukherjee (Incumbent)
- The first Chief Election Commissioner: Sukumar Sen
- Industries and Supplies Minister: Shyama Prasad Mukherjee
- The first person to resign from the Central Cabinet: Shyama Prasad Mukherjee
- Vice-President: Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
- Prime Minister: Jawaharlal Nehru (1947–1964). India held its first constitutional elections in 1952 after which he was re-elected.
- Deputy Prime Minister: Vallabhbhai Patel (1947–1950)
- Law Minister of India: B. R. Ambedkar
- The leader of Opposition: A. K. Gopalan
- Prime Minister to be voted out of office: Indira Gandhi (1977), when the Indian National Congress lost to the Janata Party
- Non-Congress government: Janata Party, with Morarji Desai as the Prime Minister (1977–1980)
- Non-Congress State government with Majority by a single party: E. M. S. Namboodiripad of CPI, Kerala 1957
- Prime Minister to lead a minority government for a full term (five years): P. V. Narasimha Rao, 21 June 1991 – 16 May 1996
- Person outside the Nehru-Gandhi family to serve as Prime Minister for a full term (five years): P. V. Narasimha Rao, 21 June 1991 – 16 May 1996
- Prime Minister from South India: P. V. Narasimha Rao, 1991
- Women Railway Minister of India: Mamata Banerjee
- The first Viceroy of India: Lord Canning, 1858
- Governor-General of India: Warren Hastings, 1773
- Governor-General of Independent India: Lord Mountbatten, 1947
- Indian Governor-General of Indian Union: C Rajagopalachari, 1948
- Chief Justice of India: H. J. Kania (1947–1951)
- First Sikh Prime Minister: Manmohan Singh (2004–present)
- First Muslim President: Zakir Hussain (1967–1969)
- First Sikh President: Giani Zail Singh
- First Chief Minister of West Bengal: Dr. Prafulla Chandra Ghosh
- Indian ICS Officer: Satyendranath Tagore, 1863
- Speaker of Lok Sabha: G.V. Mavlankar (1952–1956)
- Finance Minister of Independent India: R.K. Shanmukhan Chetty (1947–1949), for others see First Indian Cabinet
- Presentation of First Budget after India's Independence: R. K. Shanmukhan Chetty on 26 November 1947
- First Home Minister of India: Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel
- First Indian President to die in Office: Dr. Zakir Hussain, 3 May 1969
- First Chief Minister to die in Office: C.N.Annadurai, Tamil Nadu
- First Indian Prime Minister to resign from office: Morarji Desai, 1979
- First Woman Cabinet Minister in India: Rajkumari Amrit Kaur
- First Woman Minister in India: Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
- First Woman Chief Minister: Sucheta Kriplani
- First Woman Chief Minister of West Bengal: Mamata Banerjee(2011-present)
- First Female Home Minister: Sabitha Indra Reddy in Andhra Pradesh Govt.
- First Woman Speaker of the Lok Sabha: Meira Kumar
- First Woman Finance Minister of State Government in India: Dr. Upinderjit Kaur,in Punjab Govt.
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