|
Year |
Recipient |
Field |
|
2015 |
L. K. Advani |
Public Affairs |
|
2015 |
Amitabh Bachchan |
Art |
|
2015 |
Parkash Singh Badal |
Public Affairs |
|
2015 |
Veerendra Heggade |
Social Work |
|
2015 |
Dilip Kumar |
Art |
|
2015 |
Rambhadracharya |
Other |
|
2015 |
M.R. Srinivasan |
Science & Engineering |
|
2015 |
Kottayan Katankot Venugopal |
Public Affairs |
|
2015 |
Aga Khan IV |
Trade and Industry |
|
2014 |
Raghunath Anant Mashelkar |
Science & Engineering |
|
2014 |
B. K. S. Iyengar |
Yoga |
|
2013 |
Yash Pal |
Science & Engineering |
|
2013 |
Roddam Narasimha |
Science & Engineering |
|
2013 |
Raghunath Mohapatra |
Arts |
|
2013 |
Syed Haider Raza |
Arts |
|
2012 |
K. G. Subramanyan |
Arts |
|
2012 |
Mario Miranda |
Arts |
|
2012 |
Bhupen Hazarika |
Arts |
|
2012 |
Kantilal Hastimal Sancheti |
Medicine |
|
2012 |
T. V. Rajeswar |
Civil Service |
|
2011 |
Akkineni Nageshwara Rao |
Arts |
|
2011 |
Kapila Vatsyayan |
Arts |
|
2011 |
Homai Vyarawalla |
Arts |
|
2011 |
Parasaran Kesava Iyenger |
Public Affairs |
|
2011 |
AR Kidwai |
Public Affairs |
|
2011 |
Vijay Kelkar |
Public Affairs |
|
2011 |
Montek Singh Ahluwalia |
Public Affairs |
|
2011 |
Palle Rama Rao |
Science |
|
2011 |
Amjad Ali Khan |
Arts |
|
2011 |
Azim Premji |
Trade& Industry |
|
2011 |
Brajesh Mishra |
Civil Service |
|
2011 |
Ottaplakkal Neelakandan Velu Kurup |
Literature |
|
2011 |
Sitakant Mahapatra |
Literature |
|
2011 |
Lakshmi Chand Jain |
Public Affairs |
|
2010 |
Ebrahim Alkazi |
Arts |
|
2010 |
Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman |
Arts |
|
2010 |
Zohra Sehgal |
Arts |
|
2010 |
Y. Venugopal Reddy |
Lawand Public affairs |
|
2010 |
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan |
Science & Engineering |
|
2010 |
Prathap C. Reddy |
Trade& Industry |
|
2009 |
Chandrika Prasad Srivastava |
Civil Service |
|
2009 |
Sunderlal Bahuguna |
Environmental Conservation |
|
2009 |
D. P. Chattopadhyaya |
Literature & Education |
|
2009 |
Jasbir Singh Bajaj |
Medicine |
|
2009 |
Purshotam Lal |
Medicine |
|
2009 |
Govind Narain |
Public Affairs |
|
2009 |
Anil Kakodkar |
Science & Engineering |
|
2009 |
Dr. G. Madhavan Nair |
Science & Engineering |
|
2009 |
Sister Nirmala |
Social Work |
|
2009 |
A. S. Ganguly |
Trade& Industry |
|
2008 |
N. R. Narayana Murthy |
Information Technology |
|
2008 |
E. Sreedharan |
Civil Service |
|
2008 |
Lakshmi Niwas Mittal |
Trade& Industry |
|
2008 |
Adarsh Sein Anand |
Public Affairs |
|
2008 |
P. N. Dhar |
Civil Service |
|
2008 |
P. R. S. Oberoi |
Trade& Industry |
|
2008 |
Asha Bhosle |
Arts |
|
2008 |
Edmund Hillary |
Mountaineering |
|
2008 |
Ratan Tata |
Trade& Industry |
|
2008 |
Pranab Mukherjee |
Public affairs |
|
2008 |
Sachin Tendulkar |
Sports |
|
2007 |
Raja Jesudoss Chelliah |
Public Affairs |
|
2007 |
Venkataraman Krishnamurthy |
Civil Service |
|
2007 |
Balu Sankaran |
Medicine |
|
2007 |
Fali Sam Nariman |
Lawand Public Affairs |
|
2007 |
Prafullachandra Natwarlal Bhagwati |
Lawand Public Affairs |
|
2007 |
Khushwant Singh |
Literature & Education |
|
2007 |
Raja Rao |
Literature & Education |
|
2007 |
N.N. Vohra |
Civil Service |
|
2007 |
Naresh Chandra |
Civil Service |
|
2007 |
Ennackal Chandy George Sudarshan |
Science & Engineering |
|
2007 |
Viswanathan Anand |
Sports |
|
2007 |
Rajendra K. Pachauri |
Environmentalism |
|
2006 |
Norman E. Borlaug |
Science & Engineering |
|
2006 |
V. N. Khare |
Lawand Public Affairs |
|
2006 |
Mahasveta Devi |
Literature & Education |
|
2006 |
Nirmala Deshpande |
Social Work |
|
2006 |
Obaid Siddiqui |
Science & Engineering |
|
2006 |
Prakash Narain Tandon |
Medicine |
|
2006 |
Adoor Gopalakrishnan |
Arts |
|
2006 |
C. R. Krishnaswamy Rao |
Civil Service |
|
2006 |
Charles Correa |
Science & Engineering |
|
2005 |
B. K. Goyal |
Medicine |
|
2005 |
Karan Singh |
Public Affairs |
|
2005 |
Mohan Dharia |
Social Work |
|
2005 |
Ram Narayan |
Arts |
|
2005 |
Marthanda Varma Sankaran Valiathan |
Medicine |
|
2005 |
Jyotindra Nath Dixit |
Civil Service |
|
2005 |
Milon Kumar Banerji |
Lawand Public Affairs |
|
2005 |
R. K. Laxman |
Arts |
|
2004 |
Manepalli Narayana Rao Venkatachaliah |
Lawand Public Affairs |
|
2004 |
Amrita Pritam |
Literature & Education |
|
2004 |
Jayant Vishnu Narlikar |
Science & Engineering |
|
2003 |
Bal Ram Nanda |
Literature & Education |
|
2003 |
Kazi Lhendup Dorji Kangsarpa |
Public Affairs |
|
2003 |
Sonal Mansingh |
Arts |
|
2003 |
Bhrihaspati Dev Triguna |
Medicine |
|
2002 |
Chakravthi Rangarajan |
Literature & Education |
|
2002 |
Gangubai Hangal |
Arts |
|
2002 |
Kishan Maharaj |
Arts |
|
2002 |
Soli Jehangir Sorabjee |
Law |
|
2002 |
Kishori Amonkar |
Arts |
|
2001 |
Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao |
Science & Engineering |
|
2001 |
Chakravarthi Vijayaraghava Narasimhan |
Civil Service |
|
2001 |
Shivkumar Sharma |
Arts |
|
2001 |
Man Mohan Sharma |
Science & Engineering |
|
2001 |
Amjad Ali Khan |
Arts |
|
2001 |
Benjamin Arthur Gilman |
Public Affairs |
|
2001 |
Hosei Norota |
Public Affairs |
|
2001 |
Hrishikesh Mukherjee |
Arts |
|
2001 |
John Kenneth Galbraith |
Literature & Education |
|
2001 |
Kotha Satchidanda Murthy |
Literature & Education |
|
2001 |
Zubin Mehta |
Arts |
|
2000 |
Krishen Behari Lall |
Civil Service |
|
2000 |
Krishnaswamy Kasturirangan |
Science & Engineering |
|
2000 |
Manohar Singh Gill |
Civil Service |
|
2000 |
Kelucharan Mohapatra |
Arts |
|
2000 |
Hari Prasad Chaurasia |
Arts |
|
2000 |
Jasraj |
Arts |
|
2000 |
Jagdish Natwarlal Bhagwati |
Literature & Education |
|
2000 |
Kakkadan Nandanath Raj |
Literature & Education |
|
2000 |
Bhairab Dutt Pande |
Civil Service |
|
2000 |
Maidavolu Narasimham |
Trade& Industry |
|
2000 |
R. K. Narayan |
Literature & Education |
|
2000 |
Sikander Bakht |
Public Affairs |
|
2000 |
Tarlok Singh |
Civil Service |
|
1999 |
Rajagopala Chidambaram |
Science & Engineering |
|
1999 |
Sarvepalli Gopal |
Literature & Education |
|
1999 |
Verghese Kurien |
Science & Engineering |
|
1999 |
Hans Raj Khanna |
Public Affairs |
|
1999 |
V. R. Krishna Iyer |
Lawand Public Affairs |
|
1999 |
Lata Mangeshkar |
Arts |
|
1999 |
Bhimsen Joshi |
Arts |
|
1999 |
Braj Kumar Nehru |
Civil Service |
|
1999 |
Dharma Vira |
Civil Service |
|
1999 |
Lallan Prasad Singh |
Civil Service |
|
1999 |
Nana Deshmukh |
Social Work |
|
1999 |
Pandurang Shastri Athavale |
Social Work |
|
1999 |
Satish Gujral |
Arts |
|
1999 |
D. K. Pattammal |
Arts |
|
1998 |
Lakshmi Sahgal |
Public Affairs |
|
1998 |
Usha Mehta |
Social Work |
|
1998 |
Nani Ardeshir Palkhivala |
Lawand Public Affairs |
|
1998 |
Walter Sisulu |
Public Affairs |
|
1992 |
Mallikarjun Mansur |
Arts |
|
1992 |
V. Shantaram |
Arts |
|
1992 |
Sivaramakrishna Iyer Padmavati |
Medicine |
|
1992 |
Lakshmanshastri Joshi |
Literature & Education |
|
1992 |
Atal Bihari Vajpayee |
Public Affairs |
|
1992 |
Govinddas Shroff |
Literature & Education |
|
1992 |
Kaloji Narayana Rao |
Arts |
|
1992 |
Ravi Narayan Reddy |
Public Affairs |
|
1992 |
Sardar Swaran Singh |
Public Affairs |
|
1992 |
Aruna Asaf Ali |
Public Affairs |
|
1991 |
Indraprasad Gordhanbhai Patel |
Science & Engineering |
|
1991 |
M. Balamuralikrishna |
Arts |
|
1991 |
Hiren Mukerjee |
Public Affairs |
|
1991 |
N. G. Ranga |
Public Affairs |
|
1991 |
Rajaram Shastri |
Literature & Education |
|
1991 |
Gulzari Lal Nanda |
Public Affairs |
|
1991 |
Khusro Faramurz Rustamji |
Civil Service |
|
1991 |
M.F. Husain |
Arts |
|
1990 |
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam |
Science & Engineering |
|
1990 |
Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer |
Arts |
|
1990 |
Vallmpadugai Srinivasa Raghavan Arunachalam |
Science & Engineering |
|
1990 |
Bhabatosh Dutta |
Literature & Education |
|
1990 |
Kumar Gandharva |
Arts |
|
1990 |
Triloki Nath Chaturvedi |
Civil Service |
|
1989 |
M. S. Swaminathan |
Science & Engineering |
|
1989 |
Umashankar Dikshit |
Public Affairs |
|
1989 |
Ali Akbar Khan |
Arts |
|
1988 |
Kuppalli Venkatappa Puttappa |
Literature & Education |
|
1988 |
Mirza Hameedullah Beg |
Lawand Public Affairs |
|
1988 |
Mahadevi Verma |
Literature & Education |
|
1987 |
Benjamin Peary Pal |
Science & Engineering |
|
1987 |
Manmohan Singh |
Civil Service |
|
1987 |
Arun Shridhar Vaidya |
Military Service |
|
1987 |
Kamladevi Chattopadhyay |
Social Work |
|
1986 |
Autar Singh Paintal |
Medicine |
|
1986 |
Birju Maharaj |
Arts |
|
1986 |
Baba Amte |
Social Work |
|
1985 |
C. N. R. Rao |
Science & Engineering |
|
1985 |
Mambillikalathil Govind Kumar Menon |
Civil Service |
|
1982 |
Mira Behn |
Social Work |
|
1981 |
Satish Dhawan |
Science & Engineering |
|
1981 |
Ravi Shankar |
Arts |
|
1980 |
Rai Krishnadasa |
Civil Service |
|
1980 |
Bismillah Khan |
Arts |
|
1977 |
Om Prakash Mehra |
Military Service |
|
1977 |
Ajudhia Nath Khosla |
Civil Service |
|
1977 |
Ajoy Kumar Mukherjee |
Public Affairs |
|
1977 |
Ali Yavar Jung |
Public Affairs |
|
1977 |
Chandeshwar Prasad Narayan Singh |
Literature & Education |
|
1977 |
T. Balasaraswati |
Arts |
|
1976 |
Kalpathi Ramakrishna Ramanathan |
Science & Engineering |
|
1976 |
Kalu Lal Shrimali |
Literature & Education |
|
1976 |
Giani Gurmukh Singh Mussafir |
Literature & Education |
|
1976 |
Keshava Shankar Pillai |
Arts |
|
1976 |
Salim Moizuddin Ali Abdul |
Science & Engineering |
|
1976 |
Satyajit Ray |
Arts |
|
1976 |
Bashir Hussain Zaidi |
Literature & Education |
|
1975 |
Mary Clubwala Jadhav |
Social Work |
|
1975 |
M.S. Subbulakshmi |
Arts |
|
1975 |
Homi Nusserwanji Sethna |
Civil Service |
|
1975 |
Raja Ramanna |
Science & Engineering |
|
1975 |
Premlila Vithaldas Thackersey |
Literature & Education |
|
1975 |
Chintaman Dwarkanath Deshmukh |
Public Affairs |
|
1975 |
Durgabai Deshmukh |
Social Work |
|
1975 |
Basanti Dulal Nag Chaudhuri |
Literature & Education |
|
1974 |
Niren De |
Lawand Public Affairs |
|
1974 |
Harish Chandra Sarin |
Civil Service |
|
1974 |
Benode Behari Mukherjee |
Arts |
|
1974 |
V. Kasturi Ranga Varadarja Rao |
Civil Service |
|
1973 |
Nellie Sengupta |
Social Work |
|
1973 |
Basanti Devi |
Civil Service |
|
1973 |
U. N. Dhebar |
Social Work |
|
1973 |
Daulat Singh Kothari |
Science & Engineering |
|
1973 |
Nagendra Singh |
Public Affairs |
|
1973 |
T. Swaminathan |
Civil Service |
|
1972 |
Ghulam Mohammed Sadiq |
Public Affairs |
|
1972 |
Hormasji Maneckji Seervai |
Law and Public affairs |
|
1972 |
Sam Manekshaw |
Military Service |
|
1972 |
S. M. Nanda |
Military Service |
|
1972 |
Pratap Chandra Lal |
Military Service |
|
1972 |
Vikram Ambalal Sarabhai |
Science & Engineering |
|
1972 |
Aditya Nath Jha |
Public Affairs |
|
1972 |
Jivraj Narayan Mehta |
Public Affairs |
|
1972 |
P. Balacharya Gajendragadkar |
Public Affairs |
|
1971 |
A. Rameswami Mudaliar |
Civil Service |
|
1971 |
Vithal Nagesh Shirodkar |
Medicine |
|
1971 |
Balaram Sivaraman |
Civil Service |
|
1971 |
Bimala Prasad Chaliha |
Civil Service |
|
1971 |
Uday Shankar |
Arts |
|
1971 |
Sumati Morarjee |
Civil Service |
|
1971 |
Allauddin Khan |
Arts |
|
1970 |
Anthony Lancelot Dias |
Public Affairs |
|
1970 |
Harbaksh Singh |
Military Service |
|
1970 |
Suranjan Das |
Civil Service |
|
1970 |
Paramasiva Prabhakar Kumaramangalam |
Civil Service |
|
1970 |
Binay Ranjan Sen |
Civil Service |
|
1970 |
Tara Chand |
Literature & Education |
|
1969 |
Rajeshwar Dayal |
Civil Service |
|
1969 |
Ghananand Pande |
Civil Service |
|
1969 |
Dattatraya Shridhar Joshi |
Civil Service |
|
1969 |
Hargobind Khorana |
Science & Engineering |
|
1969 |
Mohan Sinha Mehta |
Civil Service |
|
1968 |
Madhav Shrihari Aney |
Public Affairs |
|
1968 |
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar |
Science & Engineering |
|
1968 |
Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis |
Statistical Science |
|
1968 |
K. Vaidyanatha Kalyana Sundaram |
Public Affairs |
|
1968 |
Kripal Singh |
Civil Service |
|
1967 |
Bhola Nath Jha |
Civil Service |
|
1967 |
Chandra Kisan Daphtary |
Public Affairs |
|
1967 |
Hafix Mohammed Ibrahim |
Civil Service |
|
1967 |
Pattadakal Venkanna R Rao |
Civil Service |
|
1966 |
Valerian Gracias |
Social Work |
|
1965 |
Arjan Singh |
Military Service |
|
1965 |
Joyanto Nath Chaudhuri |
Military Service |
|
1965 |
Mehdi Nawaz Jung |
Public Affairs |
|
1964 |
Gopinath Kaviraj |
Literature & Education |
|
1964 |
Acharya Kalelkar |
Literature & Education |
|
1963 |
A. Lakshmanaswami Mudaliar |
Medicine |
|
1963 |
Suniti Kumar Chatterji |
Literature & Education |
|
1963 |
Hari Vinayak Pataskar |
Public Affairs |
|
1962 |
H. Varda Raja Iyengar |
Civil Service |
|
1962 |
Padmaja Naidu |
Public Affairs |
|
1962 |
Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit |
Civil Service |
|
1960 |
Naryana Raghvan Pillai |
Public Affairs |
|
1959 |
John Matthai |
Literature & Education |
|
1959 |
Radhabinod Pal |
Public Affairs |
|
1959 |
Gaganvihari Lallubhai Mehta |
Social Work |
|
1957 |
Ghanshyam Das Birla |
Trade& Industry |
|
1957 |
Motilal Chimanlal Setalvad |
Lawand Public affairs |
|
1957 |
Shriprakash |
Public Affairs |
|
1956 |
Chandulal Madhavlal Trivedi |
Public Affairs |
|
1956 |
Fazal Ali |
Public Affairs |
|
1956 |
Jankibai Bajaj |
Social Work |
|
1955 |
Dhondo Keshav Karve |
Literature & Education |
|
1955 |
J. R. D. Tata |
Trade& Industry |
|
1954 |
Satyendra Nath Bose |
Science & Engineering |
|
1954 |
Zakir Hussain |
Public Affairs |
|
1954 |
Balasaheb Gangadhar Kher |
Public Affairs |
|
1954 |
Jigme Dorji Wangchuk |
Public Affairs |
|
1954 |
Nand Lal Bose |
Arts |
|
1954 |
V. K. Krishna Menon |
Public Affairs |