List of Fellows
1968
• S. Radhakrishnan (1898–1975), philosopher
1969
• C. Rajagopalachari (1879–1972), Tamil writer and translator
• Tarashankar Bandyopadhyaya (1898–1971), Bengali novelist
• Sumitranandan Pant (1900–1977), Hindi poet
• D. R. Bendre (1896–1981), Kannada poet.
1970
• Viswanadha Satyanarayana (1895–1976), Telugu poet
• Raghupati Sahay Firaq Gorakhpuri (1896–1982), Urdu poet
• Vaikom Muhammad Basheer (1910–1994), Malayalam novelist and short-story writer
• Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar (1898–1976), Marathi novelist
1971
• Gopinath Kaviraj (1877–1976), Sanskrit scholar and philosopher
• Dattatreya Balkrushna (Kaka) Kalelkar (1885–1981), Gujarati poet, travelogue writer, and essayist
• Gurbaksh Singh Preetlari (1895–1977), Punjabi novelist and short story writer
• Kalindi Charan Panigrahi (1901–1991), Oriya poet, novelist, story writer, dramatist and essayist
1973
• M. U. Malkani (1896–1980), Sindhi writer
• Nilamani Phukan (1879–1978)
• Vasudev Vishnu Mirashi (1893–1985), Sanskrit scholar
• V. R. Trivedi (1899–1991)
• Sukumar Sen (1900–1992), Bengali linguist
• Masti Venkatesa Iyengar (1891–1986), Kannada writer
1975
• T. P. Meenakshisundaran (1899–1980), Dravidian linguist
1979
• Atmaram Ravaji Deshpande (1901–1982), Marathi poet
• Jainendra Kumar (1905–1988), Hindi novelist
• K. V. Puttappa Kuvempu (1904–1994), Kannada writer and poet
• V. Raghavan (1908–1979), Sanskrit scholar
• Mahadevi Verma (1907–1987), Hindi poet
1985
• K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar (1908–1999)
• Umashankar Joshi (1911–1988)
• K. Shivarama Karanth (1902–1997), Kannada writer
1989
• Laxmanshastri Joshi (1901–1994), Sanskrit and Marathi scholar
• Annada Shankar Ray(1904–2002), Bengali poet and essayist
• Mulk Raj Anand (1905–2004), English novelist
• Vinayak Krishna Gokak (1909–1992), Kannada writer and scholar
• Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai (1912–1999), Malayalam novelist and short story writer
• Amritlal Nagar (1916–1990), Hindi writer
1994
• Ashapurna Devi (1909–1995), Bengali novelist and poet
• R. K. Narayan (1906–2001), English novelist
• P. T. Narasimhachar (1905–1998), Kannada poet
• N. Balamani Amma (1909–2004), Malayalam poet
• Vishnu Bhikaji Kolte (1908–1998), Marathi scholar
• Qurratulain Hyder (1927), Urdu novelist and short story writer
• Kanhu Charan Mohanty (1906–1994), Oriya novelist
• Harbhajan Singh (1919–2002), Punjabi poet
• Nagarjun (1911–1998), Hindi and Maithili poet
1996
• Sachidananda Raut-Roy (1916–2004), Oriya short story writer and poet
• Krishna Sobti (1925), Hindi writer
• Vidya Niwas Mishra (1926–2005), Hindi and Sanskrit scholar
• Vinda Karandikar (1918), Marathi poet
• Subhas Mukhopadhyay (1919–2003), Bengali poet
• D. Jayakanthan (1934), Tamil writer, essayist, and critic
• Raja Rao (1908), English novelist
1999
• Ram Vilas Sharma (1912–2000)
• Rajendra Shah (1913)
• Gunturu Seshendra Sharma (1927)
• Syed Abdul Malik (1919–2000)
• N. Khelchandra Singh (1920), Manipuri expert on Archaic Meeteilon written in Meetei Script
• K. S. Narasimhaswamy (1915–2003), Kannada poet
2000
• Ramchandra Narayan Dandekar (1909–2001), Indologist
• Rahman Rahi (1925)
2001
• Ramnath Shastri (1914)
2002
• Bhisham Sahni (1915–2003), Hindi fiction writer
• Kaifi Azmi (1925–2002), Urdu poet
• Nilamani Phookan (1933), Assamese poet
• Govind Chandra Pandey (1923)
2004
• U. R. Anantha Murthy (1932)
• Amrita Pritam (1919–2005)
• Sankha Ghosh (1932)
• Vijaydan Detha (1926)
• Bh. Krishnamurthi (1928)
2005
• Nirmal Verma (1929–2005), Hindi writer and novelist
• Kovilan (Vattamparampil Velappan Ayyappan) (1923), Malayalam novelist
2006
• Vishnu Prabhakar (1912), Hindi writer
• Manoj Das (1934), Oriya writer
2007
• Anita Desai, English novelist
• Ravindra Kelekar, Konkani writer
• Kartar Singh Duggal, Punjabi writer
List of Honorary Fellows
1974
• Leopold Sedar Senghor (1906–2002), Senegalese poet, and cultural theorist
1996
• Edward C. Dimock, Jr. (1929–2001), Bengali scholar
• Daniel H. H. Ingalls (1916), Sanskrit scholar
• Kamil V. Zvelebil (1927), scholar of Dravidian linguistics
• Ji Xianlin (1911), Sanskrit scholar and translator
2002
• Vassilis Vitsaxis (1920)
• E. P. Chelyshev (1921)
2007
• R. E. Asher
