Indian and India origin Nobel prize winner

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Year	Laureate		Subject	Rationale
1913		Rabindranath Tagore	Literature	"[Awarded] because of his profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse, by which, with consummate skill, he has made his poetic thought, expressed in his own English words, a part of the literature of the West.
1930		C. V. Raman	Physics	"For his work on the scattering of light and for the discovery of the effect named after him.
1979		Mother Teresa	Peace	"For work undertaken in the struggle to overcome poverty and distress, which also constitutes a threat to peace.
1998		Amartya Sen	Economic studies	"For his contributions to welfare economics.
2014		Kailash Satyarthi	Peace	[Awarded jointly to Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai] "for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education.

Laureates of Indian birth and origin who were erstwhile Indian citizens

The following are Nobel laureates of Indian birth and origin but subsequently acquired foreign citizenship; however, they are still often included in lists of Indian Nobel laureates.

Year	Laureate		Subject	Rationale
1968		Har Gobind Khorana	Physiology or Medicine	"[Awarded along with Robert W. Holley and Marshall W. Nirenberg] for their interpretation of the genetic code and its function in protein synthesis.
1983		Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar	Physics	"For his theoretical studies of the physical processes of importance to the structure and evolution of the stars.
2009		Venkatraman Ramakrishnan	Chemistry	"For studies of the structure and function of the ribosome.