Multiple choice

Who was the first Indian to win the Nobel Prize?

  1. C. V. Raman

  2. Rabindranath Tagore

  3. Homi Jehangir Bhabha

  4. Amartya Sen
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Explanation

Rabindranath Tagore was the first Indian to win the Nobel Prize in 1913 for Literature, specifically for Gitanjali. C.V. Raman won later in 1930 for Physics, Amartya Sen in 1998 for Economics, and Homi Bhabha never received a Nobel Prize. Tagore remains Asia's first Nobel laureate.

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