" भारतरत्न " - देशातील सर्वोच सन्मान
Bharat
Ratna Recipients
List of Bharat Ratna Recipients
|
S.No
|
Name
|
Year
Awarded
|
Contributions
|
|
1
|
Chakravarti
Rajagopalachari
|
1954
|
Freedom Fighter,
Last Governor-General of India
|
|
2
|
C. V. Raman
|
1954
|
Physicist, Nobel
Laureate
|
|
3
|
Sarvepalli
Radhakrishnan
|
1954
|
Philosopher, second
President of India
|
|
4
|
Bhagwan Das
|
1955
|
Freedom fighter,
author
|
|
5
|
Mokshagundam
Visvesvarayya
|
1955
|
Civil engineer,
Diwan of Mysore
|
|
6
|
Jawaharlal Nehru
|
1955
|
Freedom fighter,
author, first Prime Minister of India
|
|
7
|
Govind Ballabh Pant
|
1957
|
Freedom fighter,
Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Home Minister
|
|
8
|
Dhondo Keshav Karve
|
1958
|
Educator, social
reformer
|
|
9
|
Bidhan Chandra Roy
|
1961
|
Physician, Chief
Minister of West Bengal
|
|
10
|
Purushottam Das
Tandon
|
1961
|
Freedom fighter,
educator
|
|
11
|
Rajendra Prasad
|
1962
|
Freedom fighter,
jurist, first President of India
|
|
12
|
Zakir Hussain
|
1963
|
Scholar, third
President of India
|
|
13
|
Pandurang Vaman
Kane
|
1963
|
Indologist and
Sanskrit scholar
|
|
14
|
Lal Bahadur Shastri
|
1966
|
Posthumous, Freedom
fighter, second Prime Minister of India
|
|
15
|
Indira Gandhi
|
1971
|
Fourth Prime
Minister of India
|
|
16
|
V. V. Giri
|
1975
|
Trade unionist and
fourth President of India
|
|
17
|
K. Kamaraj
|
1976
|
Posthumous, Freedom
fighter, Chief Minister of Madras State
|
|
18
|
Mother Teresa
|
1980
|
Catholic nun,
founder of the Missionaries of Charity
|
|
19
|
Vinoba Bhave
|
1983
|
Posthumous, social
reformer, Freedom fighter
|
|
20
|
Khan Abdul Ghaffar
Khan
|
1987
|
First non-citizen
to receive the Bharat Ratna, Freedom fighter
|
|
21
|
M. G. Ramachandran
|
1988
|
Posthumous, film actor,
Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu
|
|
22
|
B. R. Ambedkar
|
1990
|
Posthumous, chief
architect of the Indian Constitution, politician, economist, and scholar
|
|
23
|
Nelson Mandela
|
1990
|
Second non-citizen
and first non-Indian recipient, Leader of the Anti-Apartheid movement
|
|
24
|
Rajiv Gandhi
|
1991
|
Posthumous, Seventh
Prime Minister
|
|
25
|
Vallabhbhai Patel
|
1991
|
Posthumous, Freedom
fighter, first Home Minister
|
|
26
|
Morarji Desai
|
1991
|
Freedom fighter,
fifth Prime Minister
|
|
27
|
Abul Kalam Azad
|
1992
|
Posthumous, Freedom
fighter, first Minister of Education
|
|
28
|
J. R. D. Tata
|
1992
|
Industrialist and
philanthropist
|
|
29
|
Satyajit Ray
|
1992
|
Bengali filmmaker
|
|
30
|
A. P. J. Abdul
Kalam
|
1997
|
Aeronautical
Engineer,11th President of India
|
|
31
|
Gulzarilal Nanda
|
1997
|
Freedom fighter,
interim Prime Minister
|
|
32
|
Aruna Asaf Ali
|
1997
|
Posthumous, Freedom
fighter
|
|
33
|
M. S. Subbulakshmi
|
1998
|
Classical Carnatic
singer
|
|
34
|
Chidambaram
Subramaniam
|
1998
|
Freedom fighter,
Minister of Agriculture
|
|
35
|
Jayaprakash Narayan
|
1999
|
Posthumous, Freedom
fighter and politician
|
|
36
|
Ravi Shankar
|
1999
|
Sitar player
|
|
37
|
Amartya Sen
|
1999
|
Economist
|
|
38
|
Gopinath Bordoloi
|
1999
|
Posthumous, Freedom
fighter, Chief Minister of Assam
|
|
39
|
Lata Mangeshkar
|
2001
|
Playback singer
|
|
40
|
Bismillah Khan
|
2001
|
Hindustani
classical shehnai player
|
|
41
|
Bhimsen Joshi
|
2008
|
Hindustani
classical singer
|
