<P> On 1 December 1999, the Norwegian Nobel Committee confirmed that Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was nominated for the Peace Prize thrice (in 1937--39, 1947 and a few days before he was assassinated in January 1948). In 2006, Geir Lundestad, Secretary of Norwegian Nobel Committee said, "The greatest omission in our 106 year history is undoubtedly that Mahatma Gandhi never received the Nobel Peace prize . Gandhi could do without the Nobel Peace prize . Whether Nobel committee can do without Gandhi is the question". </P> <P> The following are the Nobel laureates who were Indian citizens at the time they were awarded the Nobel Prize . </P> <Table> <Tr> <Th> Year </Th> <Th_colspan="2"> Laureate </Th> <Th> Subject </Th> <Th> Rationale </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 1913 </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> Rabindranath Tagore </Td> <Td> Literature </Td> <Td> 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 ." </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 1930 </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> C.V. Raman </Td> <Td> Physics </Td> <Td> "For his work on the scattering of light and for the discovery of the effect named after him ." </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 1979 </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> Mother Teresa (born in Skopje, Ottoman Empire) </Td> <Td> Peace </Td> <Td> "For work undertaken in the struggle to overcome poverty and distress, which also constitutes a threat to peace ." </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 1998 </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> Amartya Sen </Td> <Td> Economic studies </Td> <Td> "For his contributions to welfare economics ." </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 2014 </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> Kailash Satyarthi </Td> <Td> Peace </Td> <Td> 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 ." </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Th> Year </Th> <Th_colspan="2"> Laureate </Th> <Th> Subject </Th> <Th> Rationale </Th> </Tr>

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