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The first Indian to win the Booker Prize was ________.

  1. Salman Rushdie
  2. Arundhati Roy
  3. V.S. Naipaul
  4. Kiran Desai

Answer: Arundhati Roy

Arundhati Roy won the Booker Prize in 1997 for her novel 'The God of Small Things'. (Note: V.S. Naipaul won it earlier in 1971, but he was a British citizen of Indian descent; Roy was the first Indian citizen).

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