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First Indian to get Nobel Prize

  1. Subroto Mukherjee

  2. Rabindra Nath Tagore

  3. Giani Zail Singh

  4. Dr. Nagendra Singh
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Explanation

Rabindranath Tagore was the first Indian (and first Asian) to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913 for his collection of poems Gitanjali. This brought international recognition to Indian literature. C.V. Raman was the first Indian science Nobel laureate much later.

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