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The first Indian Economist who won the Nobel Prize was _________.

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Raja Chelliah
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Rangarajan
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Amartya Sen
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K N Raj
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The correct option is B Amartya Sen
Amartya Sen was born in Bengal in 1933 (citizen of India). He received his doctorate from the University of Cambridge, U.K. in 1959 and has been a professor in India, the U.K, and the U.S. The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1998 was awarded to Amartya Sen for his several key contributions to the research on fundamental problems in welfare economics.

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