First Indian Awards and Honours

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

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

28. Who was the first Indian to receive the Booker Prize?
a) Salman Rushdie
b) Arundhati Roy
c) Kiran Desai
d) Aravind Adiga

29. Who was the first Indian woman to receive the Booker Prize?
a) Kiran Desai
b) Arundhati Roy
c) Anita Desai
d) Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

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