Recipients of Bharat Ratna
Indian Arts And Culture
Name ----- Awarded in
Chakravarti Rajagopalachari (1878-1972) --- 1954
Dr.Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1888-1975) --- 1954
Dr.Chandrasekhar Venkat Raman (1888-1970) --- 1954
Dr.Bhagwan Das (1869-1958) --- 1955
Dr.Mokshagundam Visvesvarayya (1861-1962) --- 1955
Jawaharlal Nehru (1889-1964) --- 1955
Govind Ballabh Pant (1887-1961) --- 1957
Dr.Dhondo Keshava Karve (1858-1962) --- 1958
Dr.Bidhan Chandra Roy (1882-1962) --- 1961
Purushottam Das Tandon (1882-1962) --- 1961
Dr.Rajendra Prasad (1884-1963) --- 1962
Dr.Zakir Hussain (1897-1969) --- 1963
Dr.Pandurang Vaman Kane (1880 - 1972) --- 1963
Lal Bahadur Shastri (Posthumous)(1904-1966) --- 1966
Indira Gandhi (1917-1984) --- 1971
Varahagiri Venkata Giri (1884 - 1980) --- 1975
Kumaraswami Kamraj (Posthumous) (1903-1975) --- 1976
Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu (Mother Teresa) (1910-1997) --- 1980
Acharya Vinoba Bhave (Posthumous) (1895-1982) --- 1983
Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan (1890-1988) --- 1987
Marudu Gopalan Ramachandran (Posthumous) (1917-1987) --- 1988
Dr Bhim Rao Ramji Ambedkar (Posthumous) (1891-1956) --- 1990
Dr Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (b- 1918) --- 1990
Rajiv Gandhi (Posthumous) (1944-1991) --- 1991
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel (Posthumous) (1875-1950) --- 1991
Morarji Ranchhodji Desai (1896-1995) --- 1991
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad (Posthumous) (1888-1958) ---1992
Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhai Tata (1904-1993) --- 1992
Satyajit Ray (1922-1992) --- 1992
Aruna Asaf Ali (Posthumous) (1909-1996) --- 1997
Gulzari Lal Nanda (Posthumous) (1898-1997) --- 1997
Dr Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam (b-1931) --- 1997
Madurai Shanmukhavadivu Subbulakshmi (1916-2004) --- 1998
Chidambaram Subramaniam (1910-2000) ---1998
Loknayak Jayaprakash Narayan (Posthumous) (1902-1979) --- 1999
Professor Amartya Sen (b-1933) --- 1999
Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi (Posthumous) (1890-1950) --- 1999
Pandit Ravi Shankar (b-1920) --- 1999
Sushri Lata Dinanath Mangeshkar (b-1929) --- 2001
Ustad Bismillah Khan (b-1916) --- 2001
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