Kerala PSC Exam Study Materials 2 Kerala PSC Exam Study Materials 2

First in India, Women. First in India, Women.

Delhi's First woman chief secretary: Shailja Chandra.
Delhi’s First Mayor: Aruna Asaf Ali (1958).
Fastest Asian to swim across the English Channel: Anita Sood.
First Asian woman magistrate appointed in United Kingdom: Kantha Talwar.
First Asian woman mayor in United Kingdom: Lata Patel.
First Indian Woman to go in space: Kalpana Chawla.
First Indian woman President of Indian National Congress: Sarojini Naidu (1925).
First Indian woman boxer to win an international event : M.C.Merykom.
First Indian woman producer and director: Fatima Begum, who produced and directed Bulbul-e-Parastan in 1926.
First Indian woman to become Miss Universe: Sushmita Sen (1994).
First Indian woman to become Miss World: Reita Faria (1966).
First Indian woman to climb Mt. Everest: Bachendri Pal.
First Indian woman to reach the final of an Olympic event: P.T.Usha.
First Indian woman to swim across the English Channel: Arati Saha.
First Indian woman to win a medal in an Olympic event: Karnam Malleshwari (bronze medal, Sydney Olympics).
First Miss Universe of the new millennium: Lara Dutta.
First Woman President of India : Pratibha Patil.
First all-women crew to fly an air Force Chetak Helicopter: Flight Cadets Cheryl Dutta and Simran Sodhi of IAF (December, 1995).
First woman Ambassador from India: Vijay Lakshmi Pandit (to USSR from 1947-49).
First woman Central Minister: Rajkumari Amrit Kaur.
First woman Chief Minister of an Indian state: Sucheta Kriplani (Uttar Pradesh from 1963-1967).
First woman Governor of Tamil Nadu: Justice M. Fatima Beevi (1997).
First woman Governor of an Indian state: Sarojini Naidu (Uttar Pradesh from 1947-1948).
First woman IPS Officer of India: Kiran Bedi.
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First in World, India. First in World, India.

At which one place did Mahatma Gandhi first start his Satyagraha in India : Champaran .
'Holding a Bandh' was declared illegal for the first time in India by which High Courts : Kerala High Court .
By which ruler was the practice of military governorship first introduced in India : Greeks .
By whom was Artificial gene synthesis first done in laboratory : Hargovind Khurana .
By whom was Gene first isolated : Hargobind Khurana .
By whom was Swaraj as a national demand first 'made : Dadabhai Naoroji .
By whom was first successful vaccine against virul disease of small pox discovered : Edward Jenner .
By whom was first women's university in India was founded : Dhondo Keshave Karve .
By whom was the Bhakti Movement first organised : Ramananda .
By whom was the calculation of electronegativities first done : Pauling .
By whom was the first Muslim invasion of India lead : Mohammad-bin-Qasim .
By whom was the first attempt to initiate economic planning in India made : By M. Visvesvaraya .
By whom was the first estimate of national income in India made : Dadabhai Naoroji .
By whom was the first republic of the world established in Vaishali : Lichhavi .
By whom was word Adivasi was used for the first time to refer to the tribal people : Thakkar Bappa .
During India's Freedom Struggle, which led to the first 'All India Hartal' : Protest against Rowlatt Act .
During the Mughal period which trader first came to India : English .
During whose reign did the Mongols first invade India : lltutmish .
From when was the Zero Base Budgeting in India first experimented : April, 1987 .
From-which date shall the tenure of every Panchayat be for five years : From the date of its first meeting .
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Famous books and it\'s authors Famous books and it\'s authors

Zulfi, My Friend - Piloo Mody.
Zhivago, Dr. - Boris Pasternak.
Yashodhara - Maithili Sharan Gupta.
Yama - Mahadevi Verma.
Wings Of Fire - Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam.
Wealth Of Nations - Adam Smith.
We Indians - Khushwant Singh.
War And Peace - Tolstoy.
Waiting For God - Thomas Becket.
Voskresenia - Leo Tolstoy.
Vinay Patrika - Tulsidas.
Village, The - Mulk Raj Anand.
Victim, The - Saul Bellow.
Vanity Fair - Thackeray.
Uttara Ram Charita - Bhav Bhuti.
Utopia - Tomas Moor.
Urvashi - Ram Dhari Singh Dinkar.
Untold Story - B.M. Kaul.
Unto The Last - John Ruskin.
Universe Around Us - James Jeans.
Unhappy India - Lajpat Rai.
Uncle Tom’S Cabin - Mrs. Haraiet Stowe.
Treasure Island - R.L. Stevenson.
Trail Of Jesus - John Masefield.
Tom Jones - Henry Fielding.
Three Musketeers - Alexander Dumas.
The Otherness Of Self - Feroz Varun Gandhi.
The Legacy Of Nehru - K. Natwar Singh.
The Inheritance Of Loss - Anita Desai.
The God Of Small Things - Arundhati Roy .
The Emperor’S New Suit - Hans Chrishtian Anderson.
The Elephant Paradigm - Gurcharan Das.
The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood.
The Affluent Society - J.K. Galbraith.
Testament Of Beauty - Robert Bridges.
Sursagar - Surdas.
Social Contract - Rousseau .
Shakuntalam - Kalidas.
Shahnama - Firdausi.
Satyarth Prakash - Swami Dayanand.
Satanic Verses - Salman Rushdie.
Sakharam Binder - Vijay Tendulkar.
Saket - Maithili Sharan Gupta.
Rugby Chapel - Mathew Arnold.
Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe.
Robaiyat - Omar Khayyam.
Ratnavali - Harshavardhan.
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Major Indian Authors and Languages Major Indian Authors and Languages

Urdu : Ali Sardar Jafri, Asadullah Khan 'Ghalib', Mohammed Iqbal, Mir Taqi Mir, Raghupati Sahai 'Firaq Gorakhpuri', Kanwar Mohinder Singh Bedi, Faiz Ahmed 'Faiz', Krishan Chander, Rajinder Singh Bedi, Upendra Nath Ashq, Qurrtulain Haider.
Telugu : Ajanta, Lakshrni Narasimhan, Triputi, V. Satyanarayana. .
Tamil : P. V. Akilan, Subramania Bharati, Ramalingam, D. Jayakanthan. .
Sindhi : Ishwar Anchal, Hari Motwani, Mohan Kalpana. .
Sanskrit : Maharishi Valmiki, Maharishi Ved Vyas, Harsha, Ashvaghosh, Shudrak, Bhasa, Bharvi, Jaidev, Bhartrihari, Kalidas, Dandi, Banabhatta, Bhavabhuti, Shyam Dev Prashar, Kamlesh Dutta Tripathi, Ram Karan Sharma. .
Punjabi : Bhai Veer Singh, Dhani Ram Chatrik, Amrita Pritam, Jaswant Singh Kanwal, Nanak Singh, Balwant Gargi, Waris Shah, Bulle Shah, Sheikh Farid. .
Odia : Gopabandhu Das, Gopi Nath Mohanty, Pandit Dukhisyama Pattanayak, Radha Nath Ray, Satchidanand Routray, Sitakant Mohapatra, Chandrasekhar Rath. .
Marathi : Hari Narayan Apte, P. L. Deshpande, Tikaram Mahay, Vijay Tendulkar, Tukaram, V. S. Khandekar, Keshavsut. .
Manipuri : A. S. Singli,  B. Singh. .
Malayalam : C. V. Raman Pillai, M. T. Vasudevan Nair, S. K Pottekkatt, G. Sankara Kurup, Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai, O. Chandu Menon, Vallathol, Kumaran Asan, Narayana Menon, Moharruned Bashir. .
Konkani : Dilip Borakar, Pundalik N. Naik, Dona Barreto, R.V. Pandit. .
Kashmiri : Farooq Nazki, Moh. Zaman Azurdah, Mahjur Ali Moharrunad Lone, Amin KanUl. .
Kannada : K V. Puttappa, B. M. Karanth, Pampan, Ranna, Ramchandra Bendre, K S. Karanth, Purandar Das, Masti Venkatesh Iyenger, Girish Karnad, U. R. Anantha Murthy. .
Hindi : Tulsidas, Surdas, Bihari, Kabir, Sumitranandan Pant, Jai Shankar Prasad, Maithlisharan Gupt, Gurudatt, Munshi Prem Chand, Upendra Nath Ashq, Suryakant Tripathi 'Nira... Read full study notes
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