The first Indian to win Nobel Prize was

(A) C.V. Raman
(B) Rabindranath Tagore
(C) Hargovind Khurana
(D) Amartya Sen

Correct Answer : Rabindranath Tagore
Question Asked : Uttarakhand UDA/LDA (Pre) 2007
Rabindranath Tagore won Nobel Prize for Literature for “Gitanjali” in 1913. He was the first Indian to receive Noble Prize. Amartya Sen was a migrant Indian who got Nobel Prize in Economics in 1998. Chandra Sekhar was an eminent astronomer. He received Noble Prize in Physics in 1983 for special achievements in Physics. Vinoo Mankad was famous Cricket Player.
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