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Important Sites in India

Sno	Place	City/State
1	Ajanta	Aurangabad
2	Akbar's Tomb	Sikandara
3	Ambernath Cave	Kashmir
4	Amber Palace	Jaipur
5	Anand Bhavan	Allahabad
6	Bhakra Dam	Punjab
7	Birla Planetarium	Kolkata
8	Black Pagoda	Konark (Orissa)
9	Bodhisattva	Ajanta Caves
10	Brihadeeswara Temple	Tanjore
11	Brindavan Gardens	Mysore (Karnataka)
12	Buland Darwaza	Fatepur Sikri
13	Charminar	Hyderabad
14	Chenna Kesava Temple	Belur
15	Chilka Lame	Near Bhubaneswar
16	Dal Lake	Srinagar
17	Dilwara Temples	Mt. Abu
18	Elephanta Caves	Mumbai
19	Golden Temple	Amirtsar
20	Gol Gumbaz	Bijapur
21	Hanging Gardens	Mumbai
22	Hawa Mahal (Palace of Winds)	Jaipur
23	Howrah Bridge	Kolkata
24	Island Palace	Udaipur
25	Itmad-ud-Daulah's Tomb	Agra
26	Jagannath Temple	Puri
27	Jama Masjid	Delhi
28	Jantar Mantar	Delhi
29	Jog (Geresoppa) Falls	Mysore
30	Kailasanath Temples	Ellora
31	Kanyakumari Temples	Cape Comorin
32	Khajuraho	Bhopal
33	Konark	Puri
34	Lal Bagh Gardens	Bangalore
35	Mahakaleeswar Temple	Ujjain
36	Mahesuramurthi (Trimurti)	Elephanta Caves
37	Malabar Hills	Mumbai
38	Manmandir Palace	Gwalior Fort
39	Marble Rocks	Jabalpur
40	Marina Beach	Chennai
41	Meenakshi Temple	Madurai
42	Padmanabha Temple	Trivandrum
43	Panch Mahal	Fatepur Sikri
44	Tower of Fame	Chittorgarh

First in India Men

Field	Person
First Indian to swim across the English Channel	Mihir Sen
First to Climb Mount Everest	Tenzing Norgay
First to climb Mount Everest without Oxygen	Phy Dorjee
First Indian to join I.C.S. (I.C.S. now IAS)	Satyendra Nath Tagore
First Indian to get Nobel Prize	Rabindra Nath Tagore
First Indian in Space (first Indian cosmonaut)	Sqn. Ldr. Rakesh Sharma
First British Governor General	Warren Hastings
First Governor General of Free India	Lord Mountbatten
First and the last Governor General of free India	C. Rajagopalachari
First President of India	Dr. Rajendra Prasad
First Vice-President of India	Dr. S. Radhakrishnan
First Muslim President of India	Dr. Zakir Hussain
First Sikh President of India	Giani Zail Singh
First Prime Minister	Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru
First Speaker of Lok Sabha	G.V. Mavlankar
First Chief Justice of India	Justice H.L. Kania
First President of Indian National Congress	W.C. Bannerjee
First Indian to become member of Viceroy's Executive Council	Lord S.P. Sinha
First Indian to become President of International Court of Justice	Dr. Nagendra Singh
First Emperor of Moghul Dynasty	Babar
First Field Marshal	S.H.F.J. Manekshaw
First Indian Commander-in-Chief of India	Gen. K.M. Cariappa
First Chief of the Army Staff (Indian)	Sinhji
First Chief of the Naval Staff (Indian)	Vice Admiral R.D. Katari
First Chief of the Air Force Staff (India)	Subroto Mukherjee
First Indian in British Parliament	Dada Bhai Nauroji
First Indian recipient of Victoria Cross (highest award before independence)	Khudada Khan
First Indian to circumnavigate the globe	Lt. Col K.S. Rao
First Indian to reach the South Pole	Col J.K. Bajaj (1989)
First Indian to make a solo air flight	JRD Tata
First Indian to visit England	Raja Rammohan Roy (1832)
First Indian Member of House of Lords (British)	Lord S.P. Sinha
First Bar-at-Law	J.M. Tagore
First Chairman of Rajya Sabha	Dr. S. Radhakrishnan (1952 - 62)
First Indian Test Cricketer	K.S. Ranjitsingh
First Air Marshall	Arjan Singh
First Judge to face impeachment in the Lock Sabha	Justice V.Ramaswami (1993)
Fastest Shorthand writer	Dr. G.D. Bhist (250 wpm)

First in India Women

Field	Person
First Prime Minister	Mrs. Indira Gandhi
First Chief Minister of State	Mrs. Sucheta Kripalani
First Minister	Mrs. Vijayalakshmi Pandit
First Central Minister	Rajkumari Amrit Kaur
First Speaker of Lok Sabha	Mrs. Shanno Devi
First Governor of a State	Mrs. Sarojini Naidu
First President of Indian National Congress	Dr. Annie Besant
First Indian President of Indian National Congress	Mrs.. Sarojini Naidu
First President of UN General Assembly	Mrs. Vijayalakshmi Pandit
First Muslim to sit on the throne of Delhi	Razia Sultan
First to swim across the English Channel	Mrs. Arti Shah
First to climb Mount Everest	Bachhendri Pal
First to circumnavigate (sail round the world)	Ujwala Rai
First IAS Officer	Anna George Malhotra
First IPS Officer	Kiran Bedi
First Advocate	Cornelia Sorabji
First Judge of a High Court	Anna Chandi
First Judge of Supreme Court	Ms M. Fathima Beevi
First Chief Justice of a High Court	Ms. Leila Seth
First Doctor	Kadambini Ganguli
First editor of English newspaper	Dina Vakil
First Chief Engineer	Mrs. P.K. Thresia
First to receive a Sena Medal	Constable Bimla Devi (88 BN of CRPF) - 1990
Youngest to Climb Mount Everest	Dicky Doima (19) from Manali - 1993
First to climb Mount Everest two times	Santosh Yadav (ITBF Officer) - 1993
First Magistrate	Mrs. Omana Kunjamma
First to win Nobel Prize	Mother Theresa
First to be crowned Miss India	Reita Fariq
First to be crowned Miss Universe	Sushmita Sen
First to be crowned Miss World	Reita Faria
First DGP	Kanchan Chowdhry Bhattacharya

List of Awardees

SNo	Year	Name and Language
1	1965	Mahakavi Shankar Kurup (Odakkuzhal)
2	1966	Tara Shankar Bandopadyaya (Ganadevata)
3	1967	Uma Shankar Joshi & Dr.K.V.Puttappa (Nishith & Ramayana Darsanam)
4	1968	Sumithranandan Pant (Chidambara)
5	1969	Firaq Ghorakhpuri (Gul-e-Nagma)
6	1970	Dr.V.Satyanarayana (Ramayana Kalpavrikshamu)
7	1971	Bishnu Dey (Smithi Satha Bhavisyathi)
8	1972	Ramadhari Singh Dinakar (Urvasi)
9	1973	Gopinath Mohanty (Madi Matal)
10	1974	V.S.Khandekar (Yayathi)
11	1975	P.V.Akilandam (Chitrappavai)
12	1976	Ashapurna Devi (Prathama Pratti Shruti)
13	1977	Dr.K.Shivarama Karanth (Mukhajia Kanakasugala)
14	1978	S.H.Vatsyayan (Kitni Navon Men Kitni Bar)
15	1979	B.K.Bhattacharya (Mrityunjaya)
16	1980	S.K.Pottakkat (Oru Desattinte Katha)
17	1981	Amritan Pritam (Kagaz Te Kanwas)
18	1982	Mahadevi Verma (Yama)
19	1983	Dr.Masti Venkatesh Iyengar (Chikaveera Rajendra)
20	1984	Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai (Kayar)
21	1985	Pannalal Patel (Manvini Bhavai)
22	1986	Satchidanand Routray (Kavita)
23	1987	V.V.Shirwadkar (Marathi)
24	1988	C.Narayana Reddy (Telugu Poetry)
25	1989	M.S.Qurratul-ain-Haider (Aag Ki Daria)
26	1990	Prof.Vinayak Krishna Gokak (Kannada)
27	1991	Subash Mukhopadyay (Bengali)
28	1992	Naresh Mehta (Hindi)
29	1993	Dr.Sitakant Mohapatra (Oriya)
30	1994	Prof.U.R.Anantha Murthy (Kannada)
31	1995	Mr.M.T.Vasudevan Nair (Malayalam)
32	1996	Mrs.Mahasveta Devi (Bengali)
33	1997	Ali Sardar Zabri (Urdu)
34	1998	Girish Karnad (Kannada)
35	1999	Nirmal Varma (Hindi), Guru Dayal Singh (Punjabi)
36	2000	Dr.Indira Goswami (Assamese)
37	2001	Rajendra Keshavlal Shah (Gujarathi)
38	2002	Jayakanthan (Tamil)

Nick Names of Important Indian Places

SNo	Nick name	Place
1	Golden City	Amritsar
2	Manchester of India	Ahmedabad
3	City of Seven islands	Mumbai
4	Queen of Arabian Sea	Cochin
5	Space City	Bangalore
6	Garden City of India	Bangalore
7	Silicon Valley of India	Bangalore
8	Electronic city of India	Bangalore
9	Pink city	Jaipur
10	Gateway of India	Mumbai
11	Twin city	Hyderabad - Sikandarabad
12	City of festivals	Madurai
13	Deccan Queen	Pune
14	City of Buildings	Kolkata
15	Dakshin Ganga	Godavari
16	Old Ganga	Godavari
17	Egg bowls of Asia	Andhra Pradesh
18	Soya region	Madhya Pradesh
19	Manchester of the South	Coimbatore
20	City of Nawabs	Lucknow
21	Venice of the east	Cochin
22	Sorrow of Bengal	Damodar river
23	Sorrow of Bihar	Kosi river
24	Blue Mountains	Nilgiri
25	Queen of the Mountains	Mussoorie (Uttaranchal)
26	Sacred river	Ganga
27	Hollywood of India	Mumbai
28	City of Castles	Kolkata
29	State of five rivers	Punjab
30	City of weavers	Panipat
31	City of lakes	Srinagar
32	Steel city of India	Jamshedpur (Called Tatanagar)
33	City of temples	Varanasi
34	Manchester of the north	Kanpur
35	City of Rallies	New Delhi
36	Heaven of India	Jammu & Kashmir
37	Boston of India	Ahmedabad
38	Garden of spices of India	Kerala
39	Switzerland of India	Kashmir
40	Abode of the God	Prayag (Allahabad)
41	Pittsburg of India	Jamshedpur

Persons & Places

Bardoli	Sardar Patel
Belur	Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
Brindaban (U.P.)	Lord Krishna
Chittor, Haldighat	Rana Pratap
Corsica, Elba, Wateriloo	Napoleon
Fathepur Sikri	Akbar the Great
Jerusalem	Jesus Christ
Kapilavastu, Lumbini	Buddha
Kanchipuram	C.N.Annadurai
Macedonia	Alexander, the Great
Maniyachi	Vanchinathan
Mecca	Mohammed the Prophet
Paunar	Acharya Vinoba Bhave
Pondicherry	Aurobindo Ghosh
Porbandar, Rajghat, Sabarmathi	Mahatma Gandhi
Srirangapattinam	Tipu Sultan
Sriperumpudur	Rajiv Gandhi
Shakti Sthal	Indira Gandhi
Shanti Van	Jawaharlal Nehru
Trafalgar	Nelson
Tuticorin	V.O.Chidambaram Pillai
Ujjain	Mahavira
Vedaranyam	C.Rajagopalachari
Vijay Ghat	Lal Bahadur Shastri

Recipients of Bharat Ratna

Name	Awarded in
Dr.Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1888 - 1975)	1954
Chakravarthi Rajagopalachari (1878 - 1972)	1954
Dr.Chandrasekhar Venkatraman (1888 - 1970)	1954
Dr.Bhagwan Das (1869 - 1958)	1955
Dr.Mokshagundam Viswesvaraya (1861 - 1962)	1955
Jawaharlal Nehru (1889 - 1964)	1955
Govind Vallabh Pant (1887 - 1961)	1957
Dr.Dhondo Keshav Karve (1858 - 1962)	1958
Dr.Bidhan Chandra Roy (1882 - 1962)	1961
Purushotham Das Tandon (1882 - 1962)	1961
Dr.Rajendra Prasad (1884 - 1963)	1962
Dr.Zakir Hussian (1897 - 1969)	1963
Dr.Pandurang Vamman Kane (1880 - 1972)	1963
Dr.Lal Bahadur Shastri (Posthumous) (1904 - 1966)	1966
Indira Gandhi (1917 - 1984)	1971
Varaha Giri Venkata Giri (1884 - 1980)	1975
Kumaraswami Kamaraj (Posthumous) (1903 - 1975)	1976
Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu (Mother Teresa) (1910-1997)	1980
Acharya Vinoba Bhave (Posthumous) (1895-1982)	1983
Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan (1890 - 1988)	1987
M.G.Ramachandra (Posthumous) (1917 - 1987)	1988
Dr.B.R.Ambedkar (Posthumous) (1891 - 1956)	1990
Dr.Nelson Mandela (1918)	1990
Morarji Desai (1896 - 1995)	1991
Rajiv Gandhi (Posthumous) (1944 - 1991)	1991
Sardar Vallab Bhai Patel (Posthumous) (1875 - 1950)	1991
J.R.D. Tata (1904 - 1993)	1992
Satyajit Ray (1922 - 1992)	1992
Moulana Abul Kalam Azad (Posthumous) (1888 - 1958)	1992
Aruna Asaf All (Posthumus) (1909 - 1996)	1997
Gulzarilal Nanda (Posthumous) (1898 - 1997)	1997
A.P.J. Abdul Kalam (1931)	1997
M.S.Subbulakshmi (1916 - 2004)	1998
C.Subramaniam (1910 - 2000)	1998
Jayaprakash Narayan (Posthumous) (1902 - 1979)	1999
Dr.Amartiya Sen (1933)	1999
Pandit Ravi Shankar (1920)	1999
Gopinath Bordoloi (Posthumous) (1890 - 1950)	1999
Latha Mangeshkar	2001
Bismilla Khan	2001

Representation of States and Union Territories

SNo	State / UTs	Lok Sabha	Rajya Sabha
1	Andhra Pradesh	42	18
2	Arunachal Pradesh	2	1
3	Assam	14	7
4	Bihar	40	16
5	Jharkhand	14	6
6	Goa	2	1
7	Gujarat	26	11
8	Haryana	10	5
9	Himachal Pradesh	4	3
10	Jammu & Kashmir	6	4
11	Karnataka	28	12
12	Kerala	20	9
13	Madhya Pradesh	29	11
14	Chattisgarh	11	5
15	Maharashtra	48	19
16	Manipur	2	1
17	Meghalaya	2	1
18	Mizoram	1	1
19	Nagaland	1	1
20	Orissa	21	10
21	Punjab	13	7
22	Rajasthan	25	10
23	Sikkim	1	1
24	Tamil Nadu	39	18
25	Tripura	2	1
26	Uttar Pradesh	80	31
27	Uttaranchal	5	3
28	West Bengal	42	16
29	Andaman & Nicobar	1	-
30	Chandigarh	1	-
31	Dadra & Nagar Haveli	1	-
32	Daman & Diu	1	-
33	Delhi	7	3
34	Lakshadweep	1	-
35	Pondicherry	1	1

The Recipients of Nehru Award

SNo	Name	Year
1	U.Thant (former Secretary General of the UNO)	1965
2	Dr.Martin Luther King (Posthumous)	1966
3	Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan (Frontier Gandhi)	1967
4	Yehudi Menuhin (Violinist)	1968
5	Mother Teresa (Nun)	1969
6	Kenneth Kaunda (President of Zambia)	1970
7	Marshal Tito (Ex-President of Yugoslavia)	1971
8	Andre Malraux	1972
9	Julius Nyrere (Ex-President of Tanzania)	1973
10	Paul Prebisch	1974
11	Jonal Salk	1975
12	Giuseppe Tucci	1976
13	Tulsi Mehrji Shrestha	1977
14	Nichidatsu Fuji	1978
15	Nelson R.Mandela	1979
16	Mrs.Barbara Ward	1980
17	Gunnar Myrdal and Alva Myrdal	1981
18	Dr.Leopold Sedar Senghor	1982
19	Dr.Bruno Kreisky	1983
20	Mrs.Indira Gandhi (Posthumous)	1985
21	Olaf Palme (Ex.Prime Minister of Sweden)	1986
22	Perez de Cuellar (former Secretary General of the UNO)	1987
23	Yasser Arafat (PLO Leader)	1988
24	Robert Mugabe (President of Zimbabwe)	1989
25	Helmut Kohi (Chancellor of Germany)	1990
26	Aruna Asaf All (Social Worker, India)	1991
27	Maurice F.Strong (Canada)	1992
28	Ms.Daw Aung San Suu Kyi (Myanmar)	1993
29	Dr.Mahathir-bin-Mohammed (P.M.,Malaysia)	1994
30	Mr.Md.Hosini Mubarak (Egypt)	1995
31	Gok Chong Tong (P.M., Singapore)	2001

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