First women IAS officer in Independent India: Isha Basant Joshi

                                                                     


Isha Basant Joshi  is an Indian author. She published books under the name of Esha Joshi. She was the first woman to be accepted as an officer in the Indian Administrative Service. She was also the first "Indian" to be accepted into the "Bastion of the British" school of La Martiniere Girls High School in Lucknow, India.