Who was the first Indian to win the Nobel Prize?

Question

Question

This question was previously asked in

Odisha Police SI 30 October 2022 Paper II Official Paper

Answer 1

The correct answer is Rabindranath Tagore.

Key Points:

Rabindranath Tagore was a Bengali polymath who worked as a poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer and painter.
He became the first non-European and the first lyricist to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913.
- He won it for the English translation of his collection of poems, Gitanjali.
He was awarded a knighthood in 1915, but he renounced it after the 1919 Jallianwala Bagh massacre.

Additional Information:

Abul Kalam Azad was an Indian independence activist, Islamic theologian, writer, and senior leader of the Indian National Congress.
- Following India's independence, he became the First Minister of Education in the Indian government.
Morarji Desai was an Indian independence activist and politician.
- He served as the 4th Prime Minister of India between 1977 and 1979 leading the government formed by the Janata Party.
Zakir Husain was an Indian economist and politician.
- He served as the third president of India, between 1967 and 1969.
- He was the second vice president of India from 1962 to 1967.
- He was also the co-founder of Jamia Milia Islamia.