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 " 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