LIST OF BHARAT RATNA AWARDEES
Do you know the Anmol Ratans of Bharat ?
Bharat Ratna ,is the country’s highest civilian award instituted on 2 January 1954, is given in recognition of exceptional service, performance of the highest order in any field of human endeavor. Any person without distinction of race, occupation, position or sex is eligible for this award. The recommendations for Bharat Ratna are made by the Prime Minister to the President. The number of annual awards is restricted to a maximum of three in a year. This category hence becomes very important for all exams where GK section is present.Therefore, we are providing a list of all the Bharat Ratna Awardees till date, so that you can refer this for a quick revision soon!
| 1) C. Rajagopalachari (1954) |
| 2) Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1954) |
| 3) C.V. Raman (1954) |
| 4) Bhagwan Das (1955) |
| 5) MokshagundamVisvesvaraya (1955) |
| 6) Jawaharlal Nehru (1955) |
| 7) Govind Ballabh Pant (1957) |
| 8) Dhondo Keshav Karve (1958) |
| 9) Bidhan Chandra Roy (1961) |
| 10) Purushottam Das Tandon (1961) |
| 11) Rajendra Prasad (1962) |
| 12) Zakir Hussain (1963) |
| 13) Pandurang Vaman Kane (1963) |
| 14) Lal Bahadur Shastri (1966) |
| 15) Indira Gandhi (1971) |
| 16) V.V. Giri (1975) |
| 17) K Kamaraj (1976) |
| 18) Mother Teresa (1980) |
| 19) Acharya Vinoba Bhave (1983) |
| 20) Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan (1987) |
| 21) M.G. Ramachandran (1988) |
| 22) B.R. Ambedkar (1990) |
| 23) Nelson Mandela (1990) |
| 24) Rajiv Gandhi (1991) |
| 25) Vallabhbhai Patel (1991) |
| 26) Morarji Desai (1991) |
| 27) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad (1992) |
| 28) JRD Tata (1992) |
| 29) Satyajit Ray (1992) |
| 30) Gulzarilal Nanda (1997) |
| 31) Aruna Asaf Ali (1997) |
| 32) APJ Abdul Kalam (1997) |
| 33) M.S. Subbulakshmi (1998) |
| 34) Chidambaram Subramaniam (1998) |
| 35) Jayaprakash Narayan (1999) |
| 36) Amartya Sen (1999) |
| 37) Gopinath Bordoloi (1999) |
| 38) Pandit Ravi Shankar (1999) |
| 39) Lata Mangeshkar 2001) |
| 40) Ustad Bismillah Khan (2001) |
| 41) Bhimsen Joshi (2009) |
| 42) C.N.R Rao (2014) |
| 43) Sachin Tendulkar (2014) |
| 44) Atal Bihari Vajpayee (2015) |
| 45) Madan Mohan Malviya (2015) |
| 46) Pranab Mukherjee(2019) He is an Indian politician who served as the 13th President of India from 2012 until 2017. |
| 47) Bhupen Hazarika(2019) He was an Indian playback singer, lyricist, musician, poet and film-maker from Assam, widely known as Sudhakantha. |
| 48) Nanaji Deshmukh (2019) He was a social activist from India. He worked in the fields of education, health, and rural self-reliance. He was a leader of the Bharatiya Jana Sang |
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