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| Highest Award | Bharat Ratna |
| Highest Gallantry Award | Param Vir Chakra |
| Longest River in India | The Ganges |
| Longest Tributary river of India | Yamuna |
| Largest Lake | Wular Lake, Kashmir |
| Largest Lake (Saline Water) | Chilka Lake, Orrisa |
| Largest Man-Made Lake | Govind Vallabh Pant Sagar (Rihand Dam) |
| Largest Fresh Water Lake | Kolleru Lake (Andhra Pradesh) |
| Highest Lake | Devtal Lake, Gadhwal (Uttarakhand) |
| Highest Lake | Devatal (Gharhwal) |
| Highest Peak | Karkoram-2 of K-2(8,611 meters) Highest Peak in the world is Mount Everest which is in Nepal |
| Largest Populated City | Mumbai |
| Largest State(Area) | Rajasthan |
| Largest State(Population) | Uttar Pradesh |
| Highest rainfall | Cherrapunhi (426 inches per annum) |
| Highest Watefall | Nohkalikai Falls (335 meters, 1100 ft high) in Shora |
| State wise largest area under forest | Madhya Pradesh |
| Largest Delta | Sunderbans Delta |
| Largest River without Delta | Narmada and Tapti |
| Longest Cantilever Span bridge | Howrah Bridge |
| Longest River Bridge | Mahatma Gandhi Setu, Patna |
| Biggest Cave temple | Ellora |
| Longest Road | Grand Trunk Road |
| Highest Road | Road at Khardungla,(in Leh-Manali Sector) |
| Biggest Mosque | Jama Masjid at Delhi |
| Highest Gateway | Buland Darwaza at Fatehpur Sikri (53.6 meters high) |
| Tallest Statue | Statue of Gomateshwar (17 meters high In Karnataka |
| Largest Public Sector Bank | State Bank of India |
| Longest Canal | Indira Gandhi Canal or Rajasthan Canal (Rajasthan) |
| Largest Dome | Gol Gumbaz at Bijapur |
| Largest Zoo | Zoological Garden at Alipur (Kolkata) |
| Largest Museum | India Museum at Kolkata |
| Longest Dam | Hirakud Dam (Orrisa) |
| Highest Dam | Tehri Dam ( 260 meters , 850 ft ) |
| Highest Tower | Kutab Minar at Delhi (88.4 meters high) |
| Largest Desert | Thar (Rajasthan) |
| Largest District | Kutch district |
| Fastest Train | Shatabadi Express running between New Delhi and Bhopal |
| State with longest coastline | Gujarat |
| State with longest coastline of South India | Andhra Pradesh |
| Longest Electric Railway Line | From Delhi to Kolkata via Patna |
| Longest Railway Route | From Assam to Kanyakumari |
| Longest Railway Platform | Kharagpur (W. Bengal) |
| Highest Railway Station | Ghum (W. Bengal) |
| Longest Platform | Kharagpur (West Bengal) 833 meters in Length. It is also the longest railway station in world |
| Longest Tunnel | Jawahar tunnel (Jammu & Kashmir) |
| Longest Highway | NH-44 (NH-7) which turns from Varanasi to Kanyakumari |
| Smallest State (Population) | Sikkim |
| Smallest State (Area) | Goa |
| Largest State (Area) | Rajasthan |
| Largest State (Population) | Uttar Pradesh |
| Densest Populated State | West Bengal |
| Largest Cave | Amarnath (J&K) |
| Largest Cave Temple | Kailash Temple, Ellora (Maharastra) |
| Largest Animal Fair | Sonepur (Bihar) |
| Largest Auditorium | Sri Shanmukhanand Hall (Mumbai) |
| Biggest Hotel | Oberai-Sheraton (Mumbai) |
| Largest Port | Mumbai |
| Largest Gurudwara | Golden Temple, Amritsar |
| Deepest River Valley | Bhagirathi & Alaknanda |
| Largest Church | Saint Cathedral (Goa) |
| Oldest Church | St. Thomas Church at Palayar, Trichur (Kerala) |
| Longest River | Ganga (2640 km long) |
| Longest Beach | Marina Beach, Chennai |
| Highest Battle Field | Siachin Glacier |
| Highest Airport | Leh (Laddakh) |
| Biggest Stadium | Yuva Bharti (Salt Lake) Stadium, Kolkata |
| Largest River Island | Majuli (Brahmaputra River, Asom) |
| Largest Planetarium | Birla Planetarium (Kolkata) |
| Sambhar lake | Largest inland salt lake |
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| The first President of Indian Republic | Dr. Rajendra Prasad |
| The first Prime Minister of free India | Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru |
| The first Indian to win Nobel Prize | Rabindranath Tagore |
| The first President of Indian National Congress | W.C. Banerjee |
| The first Muslim President of Indian National Congress | Badruddin Tayyabji |
| The first Muslim President of India | Dr. Zakir Hussain |
| The first British Governor General of India | Lord William Bentinck(1833-1835) |
| The first British Governor General of Bengal | Lord Warren Hasting(1774-1885) |
| The first British Viceroy of India | Lord Canning |
| The first Governor General of free India | Lord Mountbatten |
| The first and the last Indian to be Governor General of free India | C. Rajgopalachari |
| The first man who introduced printing press in India | James Hicky |
| The first Indian to join the I.C.S | Satyendra Nath Tagore |
| India’s first man in Space | Rakesh Sharma |
| The first Prime Minister of India who resigned without completing the full term | Morarji Desai |
| The first Indian Commander-in-Chief of India | General Cariappa |
| The first Chief of Army Staff | Gen. Maharaj Rajendra Singhji |
| The first Indian Member of the Viceroy’s executive council | S.P.Sinha |
| The first President of India who died while in office | Dr. Zakhir Hussain |
| The first Muslim President of Indian Republic | Dr. Zakhir Hussain |
| The first Prime Minister of India who did not face the Parliament | Charan Singh |
| The first Field Marshal of India | S.H.F. Manekshaw |
| The first Indian to get Nobel Prize in Physics | C.V.Raman |
| The first Indian to receive Bharat Ratna award | Dr. Radhakrishnan |
| The first Indian to cross English Channel | Mihir Sen |
| The first Person to receive Jnanpith award | Sri Shankar Kurup |
| The firs Speaker of the Lok Sabha | Ganesh Vasudeva Mavalankar |
| The first Vice-President of India | Dr. Radhakrishnan |
| The first Education Minister | Abdul Kalam Azad |
| The first Home minister of India | Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel |
| The first Indian Air Chief Marshal | S. Mukherjee |
| The first Indian Naval Chief | Vice Admiral R.D. Katari |
| The first Judge of International Court of Justice | Dr. Nagendra Singh |
| The first person to reach Mt. Everest without oxygen | Sherpa Anga Dorjee |
| The first person to get Param Vir Chakra | Major Somnath Sharma |
| The first Chief Election Commissioner | Sukumar Sen |
| The first person to receive Magsaysay Award | Acharya Vinoba Bhave |
| The first person of Indian origin to receive Nobel Prize in Medicine | Hargovind Khurana |
| The first Chinese traveller to visit India | Fahein |
| The first person to receive Stalin Prize | Saifuddin Kitchlu |
| The first person to resign from the Central Cabinet | Shyama Prasad Mukherjee |
| The first person to receive Nobel Prize in Economics | Amartya Sen |
| The first Chief Justice of Supreme Court | Justice Hirala J. Kania |
| The first Indian Pilot | J.R.D. Tata (1929) |
| The first lady to become Miss World | Rita Faria |
| The first woman judge in Supreme Court | Mrs. Meera Sahib Fatima Bibi |
| The first woman Ambassador | Miss C.B. Muthamma |
| The first woman Governor of a state in free India | Mrs Sarojini Naidu |
| The first woman Speaker of a State Assembly | Shanno Devi |
| The first woman Prime Minister | Mrs Indira Gandhi |
| The first woman Minister in a Government | Rajkumari Amrit Kaur |
| The first woman to climb Mount Everest | Bachhendri Pal |
| The first woman to climb Mount Everest twice | Santosh Yadav |
| The first woman President of Indian National Congress | Mrs Annie Besant |
| The first woman pilot in Indian Air Force | Harita Kaur Dayal |
| The first woman Graduates | Kadambini Ganguly and Chandramukhi Basu, 1883 |
| The first woman Airline Pilot | Durba Banerjee |
| The first woman Honours Graduate | Kamini Roy, 1886 |
| The first woman Olympic medal Winner | Karnam Malleswari, 2000 |
| The first woman Asian Games Gold Medal Winner | Kamlijit Sandhu |
| The first woman Lawyer | Cornelia Sorabjee |
| The first woman President of United Nations General Assembly | Mrs Vijaya Laxmi Pandit |
| The first woman Chief Minister of an Indian State | Mrs Sucheta Kripalani |
| The first woman Chairman of Union Public Service Commission | Roze Millian Bethew |
| The first woman Director General of Police | Kanchan Chaudhary Bhattacharya |
| The first woman Judge | Anna Chandy (She became judge in a district court in 1937) |
| The first woman Cheif Justice of High Court | Mrs Leela Seth (Himachal Pradesh High Court) |
| The first woman Judge in Supreme Court of India | Kumari Justice M. Fathima Beevi |
| The first woman Lieutenant General | Puneeta Arora |
| The first woman Air Vice Marshal | P. Bandopadhyaya |
| The first woman chairperson of Indian Airlines | Sushma Chawla |
| The first woman IPS officer | Mrs. Kiran Bedi |
| The first and last Muslim woman ruler of India | Razia Sultan |
| The first woman to receive Ashoka Chakra | Nirja Bhanot |
| The first woman to receive Jnanpith Award | Ashapurna Devi |
| The first woman to cross English Channel | Aarti Saha |
| The first woman to receive Nobel Prize | Mother Teresa |
| The first woman to receive Bharat Ratna | Mrs Indira Gandhi |
| The first woman to receive Jnanpith Award | Ashpurna Devi |
angauge
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Origins
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Speakers*
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Which region is it common in
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Assamese/Axomiya
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Indo-Aryan, Eastern
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13
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Assam
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Bengali
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Indo-Aryan, Eastern
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83
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West Bengal, Assam,
Jharkhand, Tripura (list)
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Bodo
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Tibeto-Burman
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1.2
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Assam
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Dogri
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Indo-Aryan, Northern
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0.1
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Jammu and Kashmir
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Gujarati
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Indo-Aryan, Western
|
46
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Gujarat, Maharashtra,
Tamil Nadu (list)
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Hindi
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Indo-Aryan, various
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422
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the "Hindi belt", North India
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Kannada
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Dravidian, Southern
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38
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Karnataka, Maharashtra,
Tamil Nadu, Goa (list)
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Kashmiri
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Dardic
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5.5
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Jammu and Kashmir
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Konkani
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Indo-Aryan, Southern
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2.5
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Konkan (Goa, Karnataka,
Maharashtra, Kerala)
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Maithili
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Indo-Aryan, Eastern
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12
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Bihar
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Malayalam
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Dravidian, Southern
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33
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Kerala, Lakshadweep,
Mahé, Puducherry
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Manipuri (also Meitei or Meithei)
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Tibeto-Burman
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1.5
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Manipur
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Marathi
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Indo-Aryan, Southern
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72
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Maharashtra, Karnataka,
Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat,
Andhra Pradesh, Goa (list)
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Nepali
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Indo-Aryan, Northern
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2.5
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Sikkim, West Bengal, Assam
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Oriya
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Indo-Aryan, Eastern
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33
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Orissa
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Punjabi
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Indo-Aryan
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29
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Punjab, Chandigarh, Delhi, Haryana
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Sanskrit
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Indo-Aryan
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0.05
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Mattur
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Santali
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Austro-Asiatic, Munda
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6.5
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Santal tribals of the Chota Nagpur Plateau
(comprising the states of Bihar,
Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Orissa)
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Sindhi
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Indo-Aryan, Northwestern
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2.5
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Gujarat, Maharashtra, Rajasthan,
Madhya Pradesh (list)
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Tamil
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Dravidian, Southern
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61
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Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Puducherry,
Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, Maharashtra (list)
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Telugu
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Dravidian, South-Central
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74
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Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu,
Maharashtra, Orissa (list)
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Urdu
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Indo-Aryan, Central
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52
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Jammu and Kashmir, Andhra Pradesh,
Delhi, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand (list)
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