The correct answer is D. None of the above.
The Bharat Ratna is India’s highest civilian award. It was instituted in 1954 and is awarded by the President of India to citizens of India in recognition of exceptional service to the nation.
The first recipient of the Bharat Ratna was C.V. Raman, an Indian physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1930.
Nelson Mandela was a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, political leader, and philanthropist who served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. He was the country’s first black head of state and the first elected in a fully representative democratic election. His government focused on dismantling the legacy of apartheid by tackling institutionalised racism and fostering racial reconciliation. Ideologically an African nationalist and socialist, he served as President of the African National Congress (ANC) party from 1991 to 1997.
Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan was an Indian independence activist who is popularly known as the Frontier Gandhi. He was the founder of the Khudai Khidmatgar movement, which was a nonviolent resistance movement against British rule in India. He was also a close associate of Mahatma Gandhi.
None of these three people were foreigners.