Question

The first Indian Governor General of independent India was named _____.
1. C. Rajagopalachari
2. Annie Besant
3. M.N. Prasad
4. C.V. Raman

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 1 : C. Rajagopalachari

The correct answer is C. Rajagopalachari.

• The first Indian Governor-General of independent India was named C. Rajagopalachari.
  • Chakravarti Rajagopalachari, popularly known as Rajaji, was independent India's first Indian Governor-General.
  • He was also the last one.
  • Chakravarti Rajagopalachari, informally called Rajaji or C.R., was an Indian politician, independence activist, lawyer, writer, historian, and statesman.
  • Rajagopalachari was the last Governor-General of India, as India soon became a Republic in 1950.
• Hence, the correct option is 1.

• Annie Besant :
  • Annie Besant was a British socialist, theosophist, women's rights activist, writer, orator, educationist, and philanthropist.
  • Regarded as a champion of human freedom.
  •  she was an ardent supporter of both Irish and Indian self-rule.
  • She was a prolific author with over three hundred books and pamphlets to her credit.
• C. V. Raman :
  • Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman was an Indian physicist known mainly for his work in the field of light scattering.
  • With his student K. S. Krishnan, he discovered that when light traverses a transparent material, some of the deflected light changes wavelength and amplitude.
  • The Nobel Prize in Physics 1930 was awarded to Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman "for his work on the scattering of light and for the discovery of the effect named after him."