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Indian Women's Firsts and Achievements
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First to win Nobel Prize
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Mother Theresa
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Mother Teresa (Saint Teresa of Calcutta) was the first Indian woman to win the Nobel Prize, receiving the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 for her humanitarian work with the poor in Kolkata. The other options listed are historical or contemporary figures but not Nobel Prize recipients. This question specifically refers to being the first Nobel laureate from India.