First Award/Prize Winner of India

 
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1. First women from India to win a Nobel prize Mother Teresa, peace prize in 1979
2. First woman to receive Bharat Ratna Indira Gandhi in 1971
3. First recipient of Jnanpith award G Sankara Kurup, for Odakkuzhal (Flute) in Malayalam
4. First woman to win the Jnanpith award Asha Purna Devi 1976 for her work Pratham Pratisruti in Bengali
5. First Indians to win Bharat Ratna Dr. S. Radhakrishnan, C. Rajagopalachari, Dr. C. V. Raman in 1954
6. First Indian to win Nobel Prize in Literature Rabindranath Tagore
7. First Indian to win two Oscar Awards is A. R. Rahman
8. First Indian to win an Oscar in the technical category is Resul Pookutty
9. First Indian to win booker Prize Arundhati roy in 1997 for 'The God of Small Things'
10. First Indian woman to win a Pulizer Prize Jhumpa Lahiri in 2000
11. First Indian to win Dadasaheb Phalke Award Devika Rani in 1970
12. First Indian Oscar winner Bhanu Athaiya, for best costume design for the film 'Gandhi' in 1982
13. First Indian Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Language Film Mother India, 1957
14. First Indian Olympic team medal gold for Hockey, at Amsterdam beating the Netherlands in 1928
15. Winner of first Indian Olympic Individual medal K. D. Jadhav, Bronze in wrestling at Helsinki in 1952

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