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SSC CPO 2020 PYQ — Question 96

SSC CPO - 23 Nov 2020 - Shift 1 • General Awareness • Q96

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Who is the first Indian to have won the Pulitzer Prize?

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Correct answer: A

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The correct answer is option 1 i.e. Gobind Behari Lal.

  • A member of the Ghadar Party in America, Indian-American journalist Gobind Behari Lal, was the first from India to win the Pulitzer Prize for journalism in 1937.
  • The Pulitzer Prize was established in 1917 by provisions in the will of Joseph Pulitzer, a passionate crusader against the dishonest government administered by Columbia University in the United States.