Bharat Ratna Awardees

Pandit Bhimsen Gururaj Joshi


Arts : 2008 : Karnataka

Kumari Lata Dinanath Mangeshkar

Arts : 2001 : Maharashtra

Late. Ustad Bismillah Khan

Arts : 2001 : Uttar Pradesh

Prof. Amartya Sen

Literature & Education : 1999 : United Kingdom

Lokpriya Gopinath (posth.) Bordoloi

Public Affairs : 1999 : Assam

Loknayak Jayprakash (Posth.) Narayan

Public Affairs : 1999 : Bihar

Pandit Ravi Shankar

Arts : 1999 : United States

Shri Chidambaram Subramaniam

Public Affairs : 1998 : Tamil Nadu

Smt. M.S. Subbulakshmi

Arts : 1998 : Tamil Nadu

Shri (Dr.) A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

Science & Engineering. : 1997 : Delhi
 
Smt. Aruna Asaf (Posth.) Ali


Public Affairs : 1997 : Delhi

Shri Gulzari Lal (Shri) Nanda

Public Affairs : 1997 : Gujarat

Shri Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhai Tata

Trade & Industry : 1992 : Maharashtra

Shri Maulana Abul Kalam Azad

Public Affairs : 1992 : West Bengal

Shri Satyajit Ray

Arts : 1992 : West Bengal

Shri Morarji Ranchhodji Desai

Public Affairs : 1991 : Gujarat

Shri Rajiv Gandhi

Public Affairs : 1991 : Delhi

Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel

Public Affairs : 1991 : Gujarat

Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedakr

Public Affairs : 1990 : Maharashtra

Dr. Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela

Public Affairs : 1990 : South Africa
 
Shri Marudur Gopalan Ramachandran


Public Affairs : 1988 : Tamil Nadu

Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan

Social Work : 1987 : Pakistan

Shri Acharya Vinoba Bhave

Social Work : 1983 : Maharashtra

Mother Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu Teresa

Social Work : 1980 : West Bengal

Shri Kumaraswamy Kamraj

Public Affairs : 1976 : Tamil Nadu

Shri V.V. Giri

Public Affairs : 1975 : Orissa

Smt. Indira Gandhi

Public Affairs : 1971 : Uttar Pradesh

Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri

Public Affairs : 1966 : Uttar Pradesh

Dr. Pandurang Vaman Kane

Social Work : 1963 : Maharashtra

Dr. Zakir Hussain

Public Affairs : 1963 : Andhra Pradesh
 
Dr. Rajendra Prasad


Public Affairs : 1962 : Bihar

Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy

Public Affairs : 1961 : West Bengal

Shri Purushottam Das Tandon

Public Affairs : 1961 : Uttar Pradesh

Dr. Dhondo Keshav Karve

Social Work : 1958 : Maharashtra

Pt. Govind Ballabh Pant

Public Affairs : 1957 : Uttar Pradesh

Dr. Bhagwan Das

Literature & Education : 1955 : Uttar Pradesh

Shri Jawaharlal Nehru

Public Affairs : 1955 : Uttar Pradesh

Dr. M. Vishweshwariah

Civil Service : 1955 : Karnataka

Shri Chakravarti Rajagopalachari

Public Affairs : 1954 : Tamil Nadu

Dr. Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman

Science & Engineering. : 1954 : Tamil Nadu
 
Dr. Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan


Public Affairs : 1954 : Tamil Nadu