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BHARAT RATNA :

Introduction:

 The Bharat Ratna is the highest civilian award of the Republic of India.
 Instituted in 1954, the award is conferred "in recognition of exceptional
service/performance of the highest order", in the arts, literature, science, and public
services, any field of human endeavor.
 The recommendations for the Bharat Ratna are made by the Prime Minister to the
President, with a maximum of three nominees being awarded per year.
 Recipients receive a Sanad (certificate) signed by the President and a peepal-leaf–
shaped medallion; there is no monetary grant associated with the award.
 The first recipients of the Bharat Ratna were politician C. Rajagopalachari,
philosopher Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, and scientist C. V. Raman, who were
honoured in 1954.
 Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan (Pakistan) and Nelson Mandela (South Africa) are the
only two non-indian citizens to have received the Bharat Ratna Award. Mother
Teresa born in Skopje (now the capital of the Republic of Macedonia) and she got
Indian Citizenship.
 On 24 December 2014, the Indian government announced the award to
independence activist Madan Mohan Malaviya (posthumously) and former Prime
Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee for the year 2015. (After that no one has been
awarded Bharat Ratna)

Bharat Ratna Awardees

Awar- State /
Name Birth / death Notes
ded Country

Independence
Chakravarti Tamil
1. 1878–1972 1954 activist, last
Rajgopalachari Nadu
Governor-General

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Awar- State /
Name Birth / death Notes
ded Country

Tamil
2. C. V. Raman 1888–1970 1954 Physicist
Nadu

Sarvepalli Philosopher, second Andhra

3. 1888–1975 1954
Radhakrishnan President Pradesh

Independence
4. Bhagwan Das 1869–1958 1955 Uttar Pradesh
activist, author

Mokshagundam Civil engineer,

5. 1861–1962 1955 Karnataka
Visvesvarayya Diwan of Mysore

Independence
6. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889–1964 1955 activist, author, first Uttar Pradesh
Prime Minister

Independence
activist, Chief
Govind Ballabh
7. 1887–1961 1957 Minister of Uttar Uttar Pradesh
Pant
Pradesh, Home
Minister

Dhondo Keshav Educator, social

8. 1858–1962 1958 Maharashtra
Karve reformer

Physician, Chief
Bidhan Chandra
9. 1882–1962 1961 Minister of West West Bengal
Roy
Bengal

Purushottam Das Independence

10. 1882–1962 1961 Uttar Pradesh
Tandon activist, educator

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Awar- State /
Name Birth / death Notes
ded Country

Independence
11. Rajendra Prasad 1884-1963 1962 activist, jurist, first Bihar
President

Scholar, third Andhra

12. Zakir Hussain 1897–1969 1963
President Pradesh

Pandurang Vaman Indologist and

13. 1880–1972 1963 Maharashtra
Kane Sanskrit scholar

Posthumous,
independence
14. Lal Bahadur Shastri 1904–1966 1966 Uttar Pradesh
activist, second
Prime Minister

Third Prime
15. Indira Gandhi 1917–1984 1971 Uttar Pradesh
Minister

Trade unionist and

16. V. V. Giri 1894–1980 1975 orissa
fourth President

Posthumous,
independence
Tamil
17. K. Kamaraj 1903–1975 1976 activist, Chief
Nadu
Minister of Tamil
Nadu State

Catholic nun,
Agnes Gonxha
founder of the West Bengal /
18. Bojaxhiu (Mother 1910–1997 1980
Missionaries of Albania
Teresa of Calcutta)
Charity

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Awar- State /
Name Birth / death Notes
ded Country

Posthumous, social
reformer,
19. Vinoba Bhave 1895–1982 1983 Maharashtra
independence
activist

First non-citizen,
Khan Abdul Ghaffar
20. 1890–1988 1987 independence Pakistan
Khan
activist

Posthumous, film
M. G. actor, Chief Tamil
21. 1917–1987 1988
Ramachandran Minister of Tamil Nadu
Nadu

Posthumous, chief
architect of the
Indian Constitution, Madhya
22. B. R. Ambedkar 1891–1956 1990
politician, Pradesh
economist, and
scholar

Second non-citizen
and first non-Indian
23. Nelson Mandela b. 1918 1990 recipient, Leader of south Africa
the Anti-Apartheid
movement

Posthumous, Sixth
24. Rajiv Gandhi 1944–1991 1991 New Delhi
Prime Minister

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Awar- State /
Name Birth / death Notes
ded Country

Posthumous,
independence
25. Vallabhbhai Patel 1875–1950 1991 Maharashtra
activist, first Home
Minister

Independence
26. Morarji Desai 1896–1995 1991 activist, fourth New Delhi
Prime Minister

Posthumous,
independence
27. Abul Kalam Azad 1888–1958 1992 activist, first Saudi Arabia
Minister of
Education

Industrialist and
28. J. R. D. Tata 1904–1993 1992 France
philanthropist

29. Satyajit Ray 1922–1992 1992 Bengali filmmaker west Bengal

Aeronautical
A. P. J. Abdul Tamil
30. b. 1931 1997 Engineer,11th
Kalam Nadu
President of India

Independence
31. Gulzarilal Nanda 1898–1998 1997 activist, interim New Delhi
Prime Minister

Posthumous,
32. Aruna Asaf Ali 1908–1996 1997 independence Punjab
activist

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Awar- State /
Name Birth / death Notes
ded Country

Carnatic classical Tamil

33. M. S. Subbulakshmi 1916–2004 1998
singer Nadu

Independence
Chidambaram Tamil
34. 1910–2000 1998 activist, Minister of
Subramaniam Nadu
Agriculture

Posthumous,
Jayaprakash independence
35. 1902–1979 1999 Bihar
Narayan activist and
politician

36. Pandit Ravi Shankar 1920-2012 1999 Sitar player Uttar Pradesh

Economist, Nobel
37. Amartya Sen b. 1933 1999 West Bengal
Laureate

Posthumous,
independence
38. Gopinath Bordoloi 1890–1950 1999 Assam
activist, Chief
Minister of Assam

Madhya
39. Lata Mangeshkar b. 1929 2001 Playback singer
Pradesh

Ustad Bismillah Hindustani classical

40. 1916–2006 2001 Uttar Pradesh
Khan shehnai player

Pandit Bhimsen Hindustani classical

41. 1922–2011 2008 Karnataka
Joshi singer

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Awar- State /
Name Birth / death Notes
ded Country

Chemist &
42. C.N.R.Rao 1934- 2014 Karnataka
Professor

43. Sachin Tendulkar 1973- 2014 Cricket player Maharashtra

Scholar &
Madan Mohan
44. 1861-1946 2015 Educational Uttar Pradesh
Malviya
Reformer

Former Prime
Atal Bihari Minister, Madhya
45. 1924-2018 2015
Vajpayee Parliamentarian for Pradesh
over 4 decades

Foreign Recipients

Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan 1987

Nelson Mandela 1990

Posthumously Awarded

Lal Bahadur Shastri 1966

K. Kamaraj 1976

Vinoba Bhave 1983

M. G. Ramachandran 1988

B. R. Ambedkar 1990

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Rajiv Gandhi 1991

Vallabhbhai Patel 1991

Abul Kalam Azad 1992

Aruna Asaf Ali 1997

Jayaprakash Narayan 1999

Gopinath Bordoloi 1999

Madan Mohan Malviya 2015

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