Multiple choice general knowledge history

Who was the first person in India to win a Nobel Prize?

  1. Nowroji

  2. CV Raman

  3. Rabindranath Tagore

  4. Chandrashekar
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Explanation

Rabindranath Tagore was the first Indian to receive a Nobel Prize in 1913 for Literature, primarily for his collection of poems 'Gitanjali.' CV Raman won later in 1930 for Physics. Tagore's recognition was historic as the first non-European and first Asian Nobel laureate.

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