Multiple choice general knowledge

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 win a Nobel Prize in 1913 for Literature, specifically for his collection of poems 'Gitanjali.' While CV Raman (1930, Physics) and Chandrasekhar (1983, Physics) were later Nobel laureates, Tagore preceded them by decades. Nowroji (Dadabhai Naoroji) was a prominent leader but not a Nobel laureate.

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