Who was the first Asian Winner of Nobel Prize ?

🔑 Key Points
→ Sir Rabindranath Tagore is the first Asian Winner of the Nobel Prize.
→ He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913.
→ He is the first non-European and the first lyricist to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
→ Gurudev, Kobiguru, and Biswakabi were some of Tagore's nicknames.
→ Tagore's Nobel Prize was stolen from the Visva-Bharati University's vault on March 25, 2004.
→ He was a leader of the Brahmo Samaj, a new religious organisation in nineteenth-century Bengal that aimed to resurrect the Upanishads' ultimate monistic foundation for Hinduism.
→ He also established an experimental school in Shantiniketan, where he put his Upanishadic educational ideas to the test.
→ Tagore was knighted by the British government in 1915, but he resigned the honour a few years later in protest of British policy in India.
→ Notable works of Rabindranath Tagore are:
→ Gitanjali
→ Ghare-Baire
→ Gora
→ Jana Gana Mana

📝 Additional Information
→ C. V. Raman was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1930.
→ He was the first Asian to receive a Nobel Prize in any branch of science.
→ Mother Teresa received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979.
→ She was honoured with the Ramon Magsaysay in 1962.
→ Rajiv Gandhi was the 6th Prime Minister of India.
→ He was honoured with the Bharat Ratna in 1991.