AWARDS

Awards

Bharat Ratna

 

The following are the recipients of Bharat Ratna so far.

 

C. Rajagopalachari	1954
S. Radhakrishnan	1954
C. V. Raman	1954
Jawaharlal Nehru	1955
Bhagwan Das	1955
M. Visweswarayya	1955
Govind Ballabh Pant	1957
D.K. Karve	1958
B.C. Roy	1961
P.D. Tandon	1961
Rajendra Prasad	1962
Zakir Hussain	1963
P.V. Kane	1963
Lal Bahadur Shastri (posthumous)	1966
Indira Gandhi	1971
V.V. Giri	1975
K. Kamaraj (posthumous)	1976
Mother Teresa	1980
Vinoba Bhave	1983
Khan Abdul Ghafar Khan	1987
M.G. Ramachandran (posthumous)	1988
Dr. B. R. Ambedkar (posthumous)	1990
Dr. Nelson Mendela	1990
Rajiv Gandhi (posthumous)	1991
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel (posthumous)	1991
Morarjee Desai	1991
J.R.D. Tata, Satyajit Ray (posthumous), Maulana Abul Kalam Azad	1992
Aruna Asaf Ali (posthumous) Gulzarilal Nanda	1997
A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, M.S. Subbalakshmi, C. Subramaniam	1998
Jaiprakash Narayan (posthumous), Amrartya Sen, Ravi Shankar, Gopinath Bordoloi..(posthumous)	1999
Ustad Bismillah Khan and Lata Mangeshkar	2001
Pandit Bhimsen Joshi	2008

 

 

Magsaysay Awardees from India

 

Year	Name of Company	Category
1958	Vinobha Bhave	CL
1959	Chintaman Deshmukh	GS
1962	Mother Teresa	PIU
1963	Verghese Kurien	CL
1965	Jayaprakash Narayan	PS
1967	Satyajit Ray	JLCCA
1971	M.S. Subbulakshmi	PS
1977	Ela Ramesh Bhatt	CL
1982	Arun Shourie	JLCCA
1985	Murlidhar Amte	PS
1992	Ravi Shankar	JLCCA
1994	Kiran Bedi	GS
1996	T.N. Seshan	GS
2000	Aruna Roy	CL
2001	Rajendra Singh	CL
2002	Sandeep Pandey	EL
2003	Shantha Sinha	CL
2006	Arvind Kejriwal	EL
2010	Nileema Mishra & Harish Hande	PS

Note :

GS -                 Government Service

PS -                 Public Service

CL -                 Community Leadership        

JLCCA-          Journalism, literature, and the Creative Communication arts

PIU -               Peace and International Understanding

EL -                 Emergent Leadership

 

Jnanpith Awards

 

Year	Winner	Language
1965	G. Sankara Kurup	Malayalam
1968	Sumitranand Pant	Hindi
1969	Firaq Gorakhpuri	Urdu
1972	Dr. Ramdhari Singh Kinkar	Hindi
1978	S.H. Vatsyayan	Hindi
1982	Mahadevi Verma	Hindi
2009	Amar Kant and Shrilal Shukla	Hindi
2010	Chandrasekhar Kambar	Kannada
2011
2012

The first Jnanpith award was given to G. Sankara Kurup in 1965 for his collection of poems Odakuzhal in Malayalam. The Award was instituted to honour creative literary writing by any Indian in any language in the Constitution.

 

Booker Prizes

 

1969	P.H. Newby	Something to Answer for
1971	V.S. Naipaul	In a Free State
1975	Ruth Prawer Jhabwala	Heat And Dust
1981	Salmal Rushdie	Midnight's Children
1997	Arundhathi Roy	The God of Small Things
2008	Aravind Adiga	The White Tiger
2009	Hilary Mentel	Wolf Hall
2010	Howard Jacobson	The Finkler Question

 

Phalke Award Winner

 

Name	Year
Smt. Devika Rani Roerich	1969
Smt. Sulochana (Ruby Mayers)	1973
Shri. Satyajit Ray	1984
Shri Raj Kapoor	1987
Smt. Lata Mangeshkar	1989
Shri. Dilipkumar	1994
Shri D. Rama Naidu	2009
Shri. K. Kalachander	2010