Governance - Men
President of the Indian National Congress: Womesh Chandra Bannerjee, 1885
President of the Indian National Congress of independent India: Acharya Kripalani, till November 1947
President: Rajendra Prasad (1950–1962)
Chief Election Commissioner : Sukumar Sen
Industries and Supplies Minister: Shyama Prasad Mukherjee
Person to resign from the Central Cabinet: Shyama Prasad Mukherjee
Vice-President: Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Prime Minister: Jawaharlal Nehru (1947–64). 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
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
Non Congress Prime Minister to serve a full term: Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Prime Minister from South India: P. V. Narasimha Rao, 1991, H.D.Deve Gowda
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 (2004–2014)
First Muslim President: Zakir Hussain (1967–1969)
First Sikh President: Giani Zail Singh
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[15]
First Indian President to die in Office: 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 Prime Minister to be born after India's independence: Narendra Modi , 17 September 1950(birth)