BHARAT RATNA
● Bharat Ratna is India’s highest Civilian Award. It was first awarded in 1954. The actual award is designed in the shape of a Peepal leaf with Bharat Ratna inscribed in the Devanagri script in the Sun Figure.
● The reverse side of the decoration Satyamev Jayate has been written in Hindi with an inscription of the state emblem. The emblem, the Sun, and the rim are platinum. The inscriptions are in burnished bronze. Note The Padma Awards were suspended between 1977 and 1980 as well as between 1992 and 1998. 2019 Pranab Mukherjee, Bhupen Hazarika, Nanaji Deshmukh
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2015 Madan Mohan Malaviya
2014 Sachin Tendulkar, CNR Rao
2008 Pandit Bhimsen Joshi
2001 Ustad Bismillah Khan
2001 Lata Dinanath Mangeshkar
1999 Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi
1999 Professor Amartya Sen
1999 Loknayak Jayprakash Narayan
1999 Pandit Ravi Shankar
1998 Madurai Shanmukhavadivu
Subbulakshm
1998 Chidambaram Subramaniam
1997 Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam
1997 Aruna Asaf Ali
1997 Gulzari Lal Nanda
1992 Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
1992 Satyajit Ray
1992 Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhai Tata
1991 Rajiv Gandhi
1991 Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
1991 Morarji Ranchhodji Desai
1990 Dr. Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela
1990 Dr Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar
1988 Marudur Gopalan Ramachandran
1987 Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
1983 Acharya Vinoba Bhave
1980 Mother Teresa
1976 Kumaraswamy Kamraj
1975 Varahagiri Venkata Giri
1971 Indira Gandhi
1966 Lal Bahadur Shastri
1963 Dr. Zakir Hussain
1963 Dr Pandurang Vaman Kane
1962 Dr. Rajendra Prasad
1961 Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy
1961 Shri Purushottam Das Tandon
1958 Dr Dhonde Keshav Karve
1957 Pt Govind Ballabh Pant
1955 Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru
1955 Dr Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya
1955 Dr. Bhagwan Das
1954 Dr Chandrashekhar Venkata Raman
1954 Dr. Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan
1954 Chakravarti Rajagopalachari
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