Great Women Achievers Of India

Here is the list of  some of the most powerful Indian  women of our country, India. These Indian women are the physical manifest of power, dedictation towards work, will, grace and have shown extra ordinary brilliance in their resective fields.
With every ladder, these powerful Indian women take, be it business, sports, politics, arts, hospitality, entertainment, literature, name any, they keep raising the bar and breaking untouched barriers.
They are the powerful Indian women who have made India shine on a global platform.

• 1879 : John Elliot Drinkwater Bethune established the Bethune School in 1849 in Mirzapur, Kolkata, which developed   into theBethune College in 1879, thus becoming the first women's college in India.
• 1883 : Chandramukhi Basu and Kadambini Ganguly became the first Indian female graduates of India and the British Empire.
• 1886 : Kadambini Ganguly and Anandi Gopal Joshi became the first Indian women to be trained in Western medicine.
• 1905 : Suzanne RD Tata becomes the first Indian woman to drive a car.
• 1916 : The first women's university, SNDT Women's University, Mumbai, Maharastra was founded on June 2, 1916 by the Social Reformer Dhondo Keshav Karve with just five students.
• 1917 : Annie Besant became the first female president of the Indian National Congress.
• 1919 : Pandita Ramabai became the first Indian woman to be awarded the Kaiser-i-Hind by the British Raj for her distinguished social service.
• 1925 : Sarojini Naidu became the first Indian born female president of the Indian National Congress.
• 1927 : The All India Women's Conference was founded.
• 1944 : Asima Chatterjee became the first Indian woman to be conferred the Doctorate of Science by an Indian university
• 1947 : On August 15, 1947, following independence, Sarojini Naidu became the governor of the United Provinces, and in the process became India's first woman governor.
• 1951 : Prem Mathur becomes the first Indian women commercial pilot of the Deccan Airways.
• 1953 : Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit became the first woman (and first Indian) president of the United Nations General Assembly .
• 1959 : Anna Chandy becomes the first Indian woman judge of a High Court (Kerala High Court).
• 1963 :Sucheta Kriplani became the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, the first woman to hold that position in any Indian state.
• 1966 :Captain Durga Banerjee becomes the first Indian woman pilot of the state airline, Indian Airlines.
• 1966 : Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay wins Ramon Magsaysay award for community leadership.
• 1966 : Indira Gandhi becomes the first woman Prime Minister of India .
• 1970 : Kamaljit Sandhu becomes the first Indian woman to win a Gold in the Asian Games.
• 1972 : Kiran Bedi becomes the first female recruit to join the Indian Police Service.
• 1979 : Mother Teresa wins the Nobel Peace Prize, becoming the first Indian female citizen to do so.
• 1984 : On May 23, Bachendri Pal became the first Indian woman to climb Mount Everest.
• 1989: Justice M. Fathima Beevi becomes the first woman judge of the Supreme Court of India.
• 1997: Kalpana Chawla becomes the first India-born woman to go into space.
• 1992: Priya Jhingan becomes the first lady cadet to join the Indian Army (later commissioned on March 6, 1993).
• 1994 : Harita Kaur Deol becomes the first Indian woman pilot in the Indian Air Force (IAF), on a solo flight.
• 2000 : Karnam Malleswari became the first Indian woman to win an Olympic medal (bronze medal in the 2000 Summer Olympics at Sydney).
• 2002 : Lakshmi Sahgal became the first Indian woman to run for the post of President of India.
• 2004 : Punita Arora became the first woman in the Indian Army to don the highest rank of Lieutenant General.
• 2007 : Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak became the first Indian woman to be appointed as University Professor at an Ivy Leagueuniversity (Columbia University).
• 2007 : Pratibha Patil becomes the first woman President of India.
• 2008 : Renu Khator became the first India born woman to lead a major American university, the University of Houston.
• 2009 : Meira Kumar became the first woman Speaker of Lok Sabha, the lower house in Indian Parliament
• AgathaSangma: youngest  MP, Union minister of state for rural development.