1. Woman President: Pratibha Patil (2007–2012)
2. Woman Prime Minister: Indira Gandhi, 1966
3. Woman Governor: Sarojini Naidu (Governor of Uttar Pradesh, 1947–49)
4. Woman Railway Minister of India: Mamata Banerjee
5. Woman Minister in India: Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
6. Woman Chief Minister: Sucheta Kriplani of Uttar Pradesh
7. Woman Finance Minister of State: Dr Upinderjit Kaur in Punjab
8. Woman Home Minister of a state: Sabitha Indra Reddy, Andhra Pradesh
9. Woman Cabinet Minister in India: Rajkumari Amrit Kaur
10. Woman President of Indian National Congress: Annie Besant
11. Woman IAS officer: Isha Basant Joshi
12. Woman IPS Officer: Kiran Bedi
13. Women graduates: Kadambini Ganguly and Chandramukhi Basu, 1883
14. Woman honours graduate: Kamini Roy, 1886
15. Woman Head of an undergraduate academic institution: Chandramukhi Basu, 1888
16. Woman pilot a locomotive engine (train driver): Surekha Yadav
17. Woman Chairperson of State Bank of India: Arundhati Bhattacharya
18. Woman Bharat Ratnat award winner: Indira Gandhi in 1971
19. Woman Court martialled: Anjali Gupta in 2005
20. Woman Lawyer: Cornelia Sorabjee (1892), also the first female graduate from Bombay University, and the first woman in the world to read law at Oxford
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