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Tuesday 12 January 2010

Bharat Ratnas

1.     C. Rajagopalachari    1954    Last Governor-General, independence activist




2.     C. V. Raman    1954        Nobel-prize winning Physicist
 

3.     Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan    1954    Second President, First Vice President, Philosopher
 

4.     Bhagwan Das    1955    Literature, independence activist
 


5.     Mokshagundam Visvesvarayya    1955    Civil Engineer, Dam Architect, Diwan of Princely state of Mysore
 



6.     Jawaharlal Nehru    1955    First Prime Minister, independence activist, Author
 

7.     Govind Ballabh Pant    1957    independence activist, Home Minister
 

8.     Dhondo Keshav Karve    1958    Educationist, Social Reformer, Awarded in his birth centenary year
 

9.     Bidhan Chandra Roy    1961    Physician, Politician, Former Chief Minister of West Bengal
 

10.     Purushottam Das Tandon    1961    independence activist, Educationist
 

11.     Rajendra Prasad        1962     First President, independence activist, Jurist
 

12.     Zakir Hussain        1963     Former President, Scholar
 

13.     Pandurang Vaman Kane    1963     Indologist and Sanskrit scholar
 

14.     Lal Bahadur Shastri    1966     Posthumous, Second Prime Minister, independence activist
 

15.     Indira Gandhi        1971     Former Prime Minister
 

16.     V. V. Giri        1975     Former President, Trade Unionist
 

17.     K. Kamaraj        1976     Posthumous, independence activist, Chief Minister-Tamil Nadu
 

18.     Mother Teresa        1980     Nobel Laureate (Peace, 1979)
 

19.     Vinoba Bhave        1983     Posthumous, Social Reformer, independence activist
 

20.     Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan    1987     First non-citizen, independence activist
 

21.     M. G. Ramachandran    1988     Posthumous, Chief Minister-Tamil Nadu, Actor

 


22.     B. R. Ambedkar        1990     Posthumous, Architect-Indian Constitution,Social Reformer,

Economist and Scholar
 

23.     Nelson Mandela        1990     Second non-citizen and first non-Indian, Leader of Anti-Apartheid movement
 

24.     Rajiv Gandhi        1991     Posthumous, Former Prime Minister
 

25.     Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel    1991     Posthumous, independence activist, First Home Minister of India
 


26.     Morarji Desai        1991     Former Prime Minister, independence activist
 

27.     Abul Kalam Azad        1992     Posthumous, independence activist, First Education Minister of India
 

28.     J. R. D. Tata        1992     Industrialist and philanthropist
 

29.     Satyajit Ray        1992     Film director
 

30.     A. P. J. Abdul Kalam    1997     Former President, scientist
 

31.     Gulzarilal Nanda    1997     independence activist, former Prime Minister
 

32.     Aruna Asaf Ali        1997     Posthumous, independence activist
 

33.     M. S. Subbulakshmi    1998     Carnatic music vocalist
 

34.     Chidambaram Subramaniam 1998     independence activist, Minister of Agriculture
 

35.     Jayaprakash Narayan    1999     Posthumous, independence activist, Social Reformer
 

36.     Ravi Shankar        1999     Sitar player
 

37.     Amartya Sen        1999     Nobel-prize winning Economist
 

38.     Gopinath Bordoloi    1999     Posthumous, independence activist, Chief Minister Assam
 

39.     Lata Mangeshkar        2001     Singer
 

40.     Bismillah Khan        2001     Classical musician, shehnai maestro
 

41.     Bhimsen Joshi        2008     Hindustani Classical vocalist

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