The first woman President of Indian National Congress was:
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Indira Gandhi
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Sarojini Mahishi
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Annie Besant
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To answer this question, the user needs to have knowledge about the history of the Indian National Congress and its significant leaders.
Option A: Indira Gandhi was the first and only female Prime Minister of India. She was not the first female President of the Indian National Congress.
Option B: Sarojini Mahishi was not the first female President of the Indian National Congress. She was an Indian politician and social worker who served as the Minister of Social Welfare in Karnataka, India.
Option C: Annie Besant was the first female President of the Indian National Congress. She was a British socialist, theosophist, women's rights activist, writer, orator, and supporter of Irish and Indian self-rule.
Option D: Vijayalakshmi Pandit was not the first female President of the Indian National Congress. She was an Indian diplomat and politician who served as the first female President of the United Nations General Assembly.
Therefore, the correct answer is:
The Answer is: C. Annie Besant
Annie Besant became the first woman President of the Indian National Congress in 1917, at the Calcutta session — a landmark moment reflecting her prominent role in the Indian nationalist and Theosophical movements, despite being British-born. Indira Gandhi was a Prime Minister of India, not an INC President in this 'first woman' historical sense (she did serve as INC president later, but not first). Sarojini Naidu (a similar name is used as a distractor: 'Sarojini Mahishi') actually became the first Indian-born woman President in 1925, following Besant. Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit never held this specific INC presidency title as 'first woman.'