First Indian Awards and Honours

46. Who was the first Indian to receive the Padma Shri?
a) Satyajit Ray
b) Homi Bhabha
c) Ravi Shankar
d) Zakir Hussain

47. Who was the first Indian woman to receive the Padma Shri?
a) Begum Akhtar
b) Lata Mangeshkar
c) Rukmini Devi Arundale
d) Vijayalakshmi Pandit

48. Who was the first Indian to receive the Sahitya Akademi Award?
a) Sumitranandan Pant
b) G. Sankara Kurup
c) Tarashankar Bandopadhyay
d) K. Shivaram Karanth

49. Who was the first Indian woman to receive the Sahitya Akademi Award?
a) Mahadevi Varma
b) Amrita Pritam
c) Ashapurna Devi
d) Qurratulain Hyder

50. Who was the first Indian to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature?
a) Rabindranath Tagore
b) C. V. Raman
c) Amartya Sen
d) V. S. Naipaul