Padma Vibhushan 402412 223476152 2008-07-04T06:35:33Z 65.13.159.110 /* List of Awardees */ {{Infobox Indian Awards | awardname = Padma Vibhushan | image = | type = Civilian | category = General | instituted = [[1954]] | firstawarded = [[1954]] | lastawarded = [[2008]] | total = 235 | awardedby = [[Government of India|Govt. of India]] | cashaward = | description = | previousnames = Padma Vibushan, ''Pahela Varg'' | obverse = | reverse = | ribbon = Medium Pink | firstawardees = [[Satyendra Nath Bose]] & others ([[1954]]) | lastawardees = [[Justice (Dr) A.S. Anand]] & others ([[2008]]) | precededby = [[Bharat Ratna]] | followedby = [[Padma Bhushan]] }} The '''Padma Vibhushan''' is [[India]]'s second highest civilian honour. It consists of a medal and a citation and is awarded by the [[President of India]]. It was established on [[January 2]], [[1954]]. It comes after the [[Bharat Ratna]] and before the [[Padma Bhushan]]. It is awarded to recognize exceptional and distinguished service to the nation in any field, including government service. ==History== The award was established by Presidential decree on [[2 January]] [[1954]]. Padma Vibhushan was originally established as the ''Pahela Varg'' (First Class) of a three-class "Padma Vibhushan" awards. However the structure was changed in [[1955]] and there is no record of the award being presented to any of the recipients in the original structure. The award was suspended between 1977 and 1980. No award was made between 1992 and 1998 as well. ==Medallion details== ===First medallion (1954-1955)=== The initial medal was a circular gold medal, 1-3/8 inches in diameter, with an embossed lotus flower in the center with the legend "Padma Vibhusman" above and a floral wreath below. The reverse side had the Indian state emblem with the legend ''Desh Seva'' (National Service) above and a lotus wreath below. No record exists if this design was used to present a medal to any of the awardees. ===Second medallion (1955-1957)=== In [[1955]], the badge design was altered to be a "mainly circular" 1-3/16 inch toned bronze badge with geometrical patterns. The center had a lotus flower with four major petals embossed in white gold. Above and below this flower, the name of the decoration Padma Vibhushan was embossed in silver-gilt. ===Current medallion (1957-current)=== In [[1957]], the badge design was retained but the material changed from toned bronze to burnished bronze. ==List of Awardees== {| class="wikitable sortable" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="4" border="0" width="100%" ! Year!! Name!! Field!! State!! Country |- |- |[[1954]]||[[Satyendra Nath Bose |Dr. Satyendra Nath Bose]]||[[Literature|Literature & Education]]||[[West Bengal]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1954]]||[[Zakir Hussain|Dr. Zakir Hussain]]||[[Public Affairs]]||[[Andhra Pradesh]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1954]]||[[Balasaheb Gangadhar Kher|Shri Balasaheb Gangadhar Kher]]||[[Public Affairs]]||[[Maharashtra]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1954]]||[[Jigme Dorji Wangchuk|Shri Jigme Dorji Wangchuk]]||[[Public Affairs]]||[[Bihar]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1954]]||[[Nand Lal Bose|Nand Lal Bose]]||[[Arts]]||[[West Bengal]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1954]]||[[V.K. Krishna Menon|Shri V.K. Krishna Menon]]||[[Public Affairs]]||[[Kerala]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1955]]||[[ Dhondo Keshav Karve|Dr. Dhondo Keshav Karve]]||[[Literature|Literature & Education]]||[[Maharashtra]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1955]]||[[ J. R. D. Tata|J.R.D. Tata]]||[[Trade & Industry]]||[[Maharashtra]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1956]]||[[Chandulal Madhavlal Trivedi]]||[[Public Affairs]]||[[Madhya Pradesh]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1956]]||[[ Fazal Ali|Fazal Ali]]||[[Public Affairs]]||[[Bihar]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1956]]||[[Jankibai Bajaj]]||[[Social Work]]||[[Madhya Pradesh]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1957]]||[[Ghanshyam Das Birla]]||[[Trade & Industry]]||[[Rajasthan]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1957]]||[[Motilal Chimanlal Setalvad]]||[[Public Affairs]]||[[Maharashtra]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1957]]||[[Shriprakash]]||[[Public Affairs]]||[[Andhra Pradesh]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1959]]||[[ John Mathai|John Matthai]]||[[Literature|Literature & Education]]||[[Kerala]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1959]]||[[ Radhabinod Pal]]||[[Public Affairs]]||[[West Bengal]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1959]]||[[ Gaganvihari Lallubhai Mehta|Gaganvihari Lallubhai Mehta]]||[[Social Work]]||[[Maharashtra]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1960]]||[[Naryana Raghvan Pillai]]||[[Public Affairs]]||[[Tamil Nadu]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1962]]|| [[V. R. Krishna Iyer|H. Varda Raja Iyengar]]||[[Civil Service]]||[[Tamil Nadu]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1962]]||[[Padmaja Naidu|Padmaja Naidu]]||[[Public Affairs]]||[[Andhra Pradesh]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1962]]|| [[Vijayalakshmi Pandit|Vijayalakshmi Pandit]]||[[Civil Service]]||[[Uttar Pradesh]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1963]]|| [[A. Lakshmanaswami Mudaliar|Dr. Arcot Lakshman Swami Mudaliar]]||[[Medicine]]||[[Tamil Nadu]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1963]]|| [[Suniti Kumar Chatterji|Dr. Suniti Kumar Chatterji]]||[[Literature|Literature & Education]]||[[West Bengal]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1963]]|| [[Hari Vinayak Pataskar|Hari Vinayak Pataskar]]||[[Public Affairs]]||[[Maharashtra]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1964]]|| [[Gopinath Kaviraj|Pt. Gopinath Kaviraj]]||[[Literature|Literature & Education]]||[[Uttar Pradesh]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1964]]|| [[Acharya Kalelkar|Acharya Kalelkar]]||[[Literature|Literature & Education]]||[[Maharashtra]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1965]]||[[Arjan Singh]]||[[Civil Service]]||[[Delhi]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1965]]||[[ Joyanto Nath Chaudhuri]]||[[Civil Service]]||[[West Bengal]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1965]]||[[Mehdi Nawaz Jung]]||[[Public Affairs]]||[[Andhra Pradesh]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1966]]||[[Valerian Cardinal Gracias]]||[[Social Work]]||[[Maharashtra]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1967]]||[[Bhola Nath Jha]]||[[Civil Service]]||[[Uttar Pradesh]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1967]]||[[Chandra Kisan Daphtary]]||[[Public Affairs]]||[[Maharashtra]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1967]]||[[Hafix Mohammed Ibrahim]]||[[Civil Service]]||[[Andhra Pradesh]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1967]]||[[Pattadakal Venkanna R Rao]]||[[Civil Service]]||[[Andhra Pradesh]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1968]]||[[Mahadev Srihari Ane|Mahadev Srihari Ane]]||[[Public Affairs]]||[[Madhya Pradesh]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1968]]||[[ Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar|Dr. Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar]]||[[Science|Science & Engineering]]||[[Illinois]]||[[United States ]] |- |[[1968]]||[[ Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis|Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis]]||[[Statistics|Statistical Science]]||[[Delhi]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1968]]||[[ K. Vaidyanatha Kalyana Sundaram |K. Vaidyanatha Kalyana Sundaram]]||[[Public Affairs]]||[[Delhi]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1968]]||[[ Kripal Singh|Kripal Singh]]||[[Civil Service]]||[[Delhi]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1969]]||[[Hargobind Khorana]]||[[Science|Science & Engineering]]||[[Massachusetts]]||[[United States ]] |- |[[1969]]||[[ Mohan Sinha Mehta]]||[[Civil Service]]||[[Rajasthan]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1969]]||[[Dattatraya Shridhar Joshi]]||[[Civil Service]]||[[Maharashtra]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1969]]||[[Ghananand Pande]]||[[Civil Service]]||[[Uttar Pradesh]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1969]]||[[Rajeshwar Dayal]]||[[Civil Service]]||[[Delhi]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1970]]||[[Binay Ranjan Sen]]||[[Civil Service]]||[[West Bengal]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1970]]||[[Dr Tara Chand]]||[[Literature|Literature & Education]]||[[Uttar Pradesh]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1970]]||[[Paramasiva Prabhakar Kumaramangalam]]||[[Civil Service]]||[[Tamil Nadu]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1970]]||[[ Grp.Capt. Suranjan Das]]||[[Civil Service]]||[[West Bengal]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1970]]||[[ Lt. General Harbaksh Singh]]||[[Civil Service]]||[[Punjab (India)| Punjab]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1970]]||[[ A. Rameswami Mudaliar]]||[[Civil Service]]||[[Andhra Pradesh]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1970]]||[[Anthony Lancelot Dias]]||[[Public Affairs]]||[[Maharashtra]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1971]]||[[ Dr. Vithal Nagesh Shirodkar]]||[[Medicine]]||[[Goa]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1971]]||[[Balaram Sivaraman]]||[[Civil Service]]||[[Tamil Nadu]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1971]]||[[ Bimal Prasad Chaliha]]||[[Civil Service]]||[[Assam]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1971]]||[[Uday Shankar]]||[[Arts]]||[[Maharashtra]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1971]]||[[Sumati Morarjee]]||[[Civil Service]]||[[Maharashtra]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1971]]||[[ Ustad Allauddin Khan]]||[[Arts]]||[[West Bengal]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1972]]||[[ S. M. Nanda]]||[[Civil Service]]||[[Delhi]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1972]]||[[ Pratap Chandra Lal]]||[[Civil Service]]||[[Punjab (India)| Punjab]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1972]]||[[Aditya Nath Jha]]||[[Public Affairs]]||[[Uttar Pradesh]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1972]]||[[ Jivraj N. Mehta]]||[[Public Affairs]]||[[Maharashtra]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1972]]||[[ P. 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Kasturi Ranga Varadarja Rao]]||[[Civil Service]]||[[Karnataka]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1974]]||[[Benode Behari Mukherjee]]||[[Arts]]||[[West Bengal]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1974]]||[[Harish Chandra Sarin]]||[[Civil Service]]||[[Delhi]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1974]]||[[Niren De]]||[[Public Affairs]]||[[West Bengal]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1975]]||[[Basanti Dulal Nag Chaudhuri]]||[[Literature|Literature & Education]]||[[West Bengal]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1975]]||[[Chintaman Dwarkanath Deshmukh]]||[[Public Affairs]]||[[ Maharashtra]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1975]]||[[Durgabai Deshmukh]]||[[Social Work]]||[[Maharashtra]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1975]]||[[ Premlila Vithaldas Thackersey]]||[[Literature|Literature & Education]]||[[Maharashtra]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1975]]||[[Raja Ramanna]]||[[Science|Science & Engineering]]||[[Karnataka]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1975]]||[[Homi Nusserwanji Sethna]]||[[Civil Service]]||[[Maharashtra]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1975]]||[[M.S. Subbulakshmi]]||[[Arts]]||[[Tamil Nadu]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1975]]||[[ Mary Clubwala Jadhav]]||[[Social Work]]||[[Tamil Nadu]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1976]]||[[ Col. Bashir Hussain Zaidi]]||[[Literature|Literature & Education]]||[[Delhi]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1976]]||[[ Dr. Kalpathi Ramakrishna Ramanathan]]||[[Science|Science & Engineering]]||[[Kerala]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1976]]||[[Kalu Lal Shrimali]]||[[Literature|Literature & Education]]||[[Uttar Pradesh]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1976]]||[[ Giani Gurmukh Singh Mussafir]]||[[Literature|Literature & Education]]||[[Punjab (India)| Punjab]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1976]]||[[Keshava Shankar Pillai]]||[[Arts]]||[[Delhi]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1976]]||[[Salim Moizuddin Ali Abdul]]||[[Science|Science & Engineering]]||[[Uttar Pradesh]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1976]]||[[Satyajit Ray|Satyajit Ray]]||[[Arts]]||[[West Bengal]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1977]]||[[Om Prakash Mehra]]||[[Civil Service]]||[[Punjab (India)| Punjab]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1977]]||[[ Ajudhia Nath Khosla]]||[[Civil Service]]||[[Delhi]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1977]]||[[ Ajoy Kumar Mukherjee]]||[[Public Affairs]]||[[West Bengal]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1977]]||[[ Ali Yavar Jung]]||[[Public Affairs]]||[[Andhra Pradesh]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1977]]||[[Chandreshwar Prasad Narayan Singh]]||[[Literature|Literature & Education]]||[[Delhi]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1977]]||[[T. Balasaraswati]]||[[Arts]]||[[Tamil Nadu]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1980]]||[[Rai Krishnadasa]]||[[Civil Service]]||[[Uttar Pradesh]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1980]]||[[ Ustad Bismillah Khan]]||[[Arts]]||[[Uttar Pradesh]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1981]]||[[ Satish Dhawan]]||[[Science|Science & Engineering]]||[[Karnataka]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1981]]||[[Ravi Shankar]]||[[Arts]]||[[Uttar Pradesh]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1982]]||[[Mira Behn]]||[[Social Work]]|| ||[[United Kingdom ]] |- |[[1985]]|| [[C. N. R. Rao]]||[[Science|Science & Engineering]]||[[Tamil Nadu]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1985]]||[[Mambillikalathil Kumar Menon]]||[[Civil Service]]||[[Kerala]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1986]]||[[ Autar Singh Paintal]]||[[Medicine]]||[[Delhi]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1986]]||[[ Birju Maharaj]]||[[Arts]]||[[Delhi]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1986]]||[[ Baba Amte|Shri M. Devidas Alias Baba Amte]]||[[Social Work]]||[[Maharashtra]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1987]]||[[ Dr. Benjamin Peary Pal]]||[[Science|Science & Engineering]]||[[Punjab (India)| Punjab]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1987]]||[[ Dr. Manmohan Singh]]||[[Civil Service]]||[[Delhi]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1987]]||[[ Arun Shridhar Vaidya]]||[[Civil Service]]||[[Maharashtra]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1987]]||[[Kamladevi Chattopadhyay]]||[[Social Work]]||[[Karnataka]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1988]]||[[Kuppalli Venkatappa Puttappa]]||[[Literature|Literature & Education]]||[[Karnataka]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1988]]||[[Mirza Hameedullah Beg]]||[[Public Affairs]]||[[Delhi]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1988]]||[[Pandurang Shastri Athavale]]||[[Social and religion]]||[[Maharashtra]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1989]]||[[M. S. Swaminathan]]||[[Science|Science & Engineering]]||[[Delhi]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1989]]||[[Umashankar Dikshit]]||[[Public Affairs]]||[[Uttar Pradesh]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1989]]||[[Ustad Ali Akbar Khan]]||[[Arts]]||[[West Bengal]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1990]]||[[ Dr. Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam]]||[[Science|Science & Engineering]]||[[Delhi]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1990]]||[[Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer]]||[[Arts]]||[[Tamil Nadu]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1990]]||[[Vallmpadugai Srinivasa Raghavan Arunachalam]]||[[Literature|Literature & Education]]||[[Delhi]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1990]]||[[Bhabatosh Dutta]]||[[Literature|Literature & Education]]||[[West Bengal]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1990]]||[[ Shivaputra Siddharamaiyya Komkali Alias Kumar Gandharv]]||[[Arts]]||[[Madhya Pradesh]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1990]]||[[Triloki Nath Chaturvedi]]||[[Civil Service]]||[[Karnataka]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1991]]||[[Indraprasad Gordhanbhai Patel]]||[[Science|Science & Engineering]]||[[Gujarat]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1991]]||[[Mangalampalli Balamurali Krishna]]||[[Arts]]||[[Tamil Nadu]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1991]]||[[Hirendra Nath Mukherjee]]||[[Public Affairs]]||[[West Bengal]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1991]]||[[N. G. Ranga]]||[[Public Affairs]]||[[Andhra Pradesh]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1991]]||[[ Rajaram Shastri]]||[[Literature|Literature & Education]]||[[Uttar Pradesh]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1991]]||[[Gulzari Lal Nanda]]||[[Public Affairs]]||[[Gujarat]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1991]]||[[Khusro Faramurz Rustamji]]||[[Civil Service]]||[[Maharashtra]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1991]]||[[M.F. Husain]]||[[Arts]]||[[Maharashtra]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1992]]||[[ Mallikarjun Mansur|Dr. Mallikarjun Bheemarayappa Mansur]]||[[Arts]]||[[Karnataka]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1992]]||[[ V. Shantaram|Dr. Shantaram Rajaram Vankudre Alias Dr.V.Shantaram]]||[[Arts]]||[[Maharashtra]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1992]]||[[ Sivaramakrishna Iyer Padmavati|Dr. Sivaramakrishna Iyer Padmavati]]||[[Medicine]]||[[Delhi]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1992]]||[[ Lakshmanshastri Joshi|Pandit Lakshmanshastri Joshi]]||[[Literature|Literature & Education]]||[[Maharashtra]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1992]]||[[ Atal Bihari Vajpayee|Atal Bihari Vajpayee]]||[[Public Affairs]]||[[Delhi]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1992]]||[[ Govinddas Shroff|Govinddas Shroff]]||[[Literature|Literature & Education]]||[[Maharashtra]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1992]]||[[ Kaloji Narayana Rao|Kaloji Narayana Rao]]||[[Arts]]||[[Andhra Pradesh]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1992]]||[[ Ravi Narayan Reddy|Ravi Narayan Reddy]]||[[Public Affairs]]||[[Andhra Pradesh]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1992]]||[[ Swaran Singh|Sardar Swaran Singh]]||[[Public Affairs]]||[[Punjab (India)| Punjab]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1992]]||[[ Aruna Asaf Ali| Aruna Asaf Ali]]||[[Public Affairs]]||[[Delhi]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1998]]||[[Lakshmi Sahgal]]||[[Public Affairs]]||[[Uttar Pradesh]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1998]]||[[Usha Mehta]]||[[Social Work]]||[[Maharashtra]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1998]]||[[ Nani Ardeshir Palkhivala]]||[[Public Affairs]]||[[Maharashtra]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1998]]||[[Walter Sisulu]]||[[Public Affairs]]|| ||[[South Africa ]] |- |[[1999]]||[[Rajagopala Chidambaram]]||[[Science|Science & Engineering]]||[[Tamil Nadu]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1999]]||[[Sarvepalli Gopal]]||[[Literature|Literature & Education]]||[[Tamil Nadu]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1999]]||[[Verghese Kurien]]||[[Science|Science & Engineering]]||[[Gujarat]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1999]]|| [[ Hans Raj Khanna|Justice Hans Raj Khanna]] ||[[Public Affairs]]||[[Delhi]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1999]]||[[ V.R. Krishna Iyer|Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer]]||[[Public Affairs]]||[[Kerala]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1999]]||[[ Lata Mangeshkar|Kumari Lata Mangeshkar]]||[[Arts]]||[[Maharashtra]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1999]]||[[ Bhimsen Joshi|Pandit Bhimsen Joshi]]||[[Arts]]||[[Maharashtra]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1999]]||[[ Braj Kumar Nehru|Shri Braj Kumar Nehru]]||[[Civil Service]]||[[Himachal Pradesh]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1999]]||[[Dharma Vira]]||[[Civil Service]]||[[Delhi]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1999]]||[[ Lallan Prasad Singh|Shri Lallan Prasad Singh]]||[[Civil Service]]||[[Delhi]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1999]]||[[ Nanaji Deshmukh|Nana Deshmukh]]||[[Social Work]]||[[Delhi]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1999]]||[[ Pandurang Shastri Athavale|Shri Pandurang shastri Athavale]]||[[Social Work]]||[[Maharashtra]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1999]]||[[Satish Gujral]]||[[Arts]]||[[Delhi]]||[[India ]] |- |[[1999]]||[[ Damal Krishnaswamy Pattammal|Damal Krishnaswamy Pattammal]]||[[Arts]]||[[Tamil Nadu]]||[[India ]] |- |[[2000]]||[[Krishen Behari Lall]]||[[Civil Service]]||[[Delhi]]||[[India ]] |- |[[2000]]||[[Krishnaswamy Kasturirangan]]||[[Science|Science & Engineering]]||[[Karnataka]]||[[India ]] |- |[[2000]]||[[Manohar Singh Gill]]||[[Civil Service]]||[[Delhi]]||[[India ]] |- |[[2000]]||[[Kelucharan Mohapatra]]||[[Arts]]||[[Orissa]]||[[India ]] |- |[[2000]]||[[ Hari Prasad Chaurasia]]||[[Arts]]||[[Maharashtra]]||[[India ]] |- |[[2000]]||[[ Pandit Jasraj]]||[[Arts]]||[[Maharashtra]]||[[India ]] |- |[[2000]]||[[ Jagdish Natwarlal Bhagwati]]||[[Literature|Literature & Education]]||[[Gujarat ]]||[[India ]] |- |[[2000]]||[[Kakkadan Nandanath Raj]]||[[Literature|Literature & Education]]||[[Kerala]]||[[India ]] |- |[[2000]]||[[Bhairab Dutt Pande]]||[[Civil Service]]||[[Uttarakhand]]||[[India ]] |- |[[2000]]||[[ Maidavolu Narasmiham]]||[[Trade & Industry]]||[[Andhra Pradesh]]||[[India ]] |- |[[2000]]||[[Rasipuram Krishnaswami Narayan]]||[[Literature|Literature & Education]]||[[Tamil Nadu]]||[[India ]] |- |[[2000]]||[[Sikander Bakht]]||[[Public Affairs]]||[[Delhi]]||[[India ]] |- |[[2000]]||[[Tarlok Singh]]||[[Civil Service]]||[[Delhi]]||[[India ]] |- |[[2001]]||[[ Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao|Dr. Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao]]||[[Science|Science & Engineering]]|| ||[[United States ]] |- |[[2001]]||[[ Chakravarthi Vijayaraghava Narasimhan|Dr. Chakravarthi Vijayaraghava Narasimhan]]||[[Civil Service]]||[[Tamil Nadu]]||[[India ]] |- |[[2001]]||[[ Shiv Kumar Sharma|Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma]]||[[Arts]]||[[Maharashtra]]||[[India ]] |- |[[2001]]||[[ Man Mohan Sharma|Prof. Man Mohan Sharma]]||[[Science|Science & Engineering]]||[[Maharashtra]]||[[India ]] |- |[[2001]]||[[ Amjad Ali Khan]]||[[Arts]]||[[Delhi]]||[[India ]] |- |[[2001]]||[[ Benjamin Arthur Gilman]]||[[Public Affairs]]|| ||[[United States ]] |- |[[2001]]||[[ Hosei Norota]]||[[Public Affairs]]|| ||[[Japan ]] |- |[[2001]]||[[ Hrishikesh Mukherjee|Hrishikesh Mukherjee]]||[[Arts]]||[[Maharashtra]]||[[India ]] |- |[[2001]]||[[ John Kenneth Galbraith|John Kenneth Galbraith]]||[[Literature|Literature & Education]]|| ||[[United States ]] |- |[[2001]]||[[ Kotta Satchidananda Murty| Kotta Satchidananda Murty]]||[[Literature|Literature & Education]]||[[Andhra Pradesh]]||[[India ]] |- |[[2001]]||[[ Zubin Mehta]]||[[Arts]]|| ||[[United States ]] |- |[[2002]]||[[ Chakravthi Rangarajan|Dr. Chakravthi Rangarajan]]||[[Literature|Literature & Education]]||[[Andhra Pradesh]]||[[India ]] |- |[[2002]]||[[ Gangubai Hangal|Dr.(Smt.) Gangubai Hangal]]||[[Arts]]||[[Karnataka]]||[[India ]] |- |[[2002]]||[[ Kishan Maharaj|Pandit Kishan Maharaj]]||[[Arts]]||[[Uttar Pradesh]]||[[India ]] |- |[[2002]]||[[ Soli Jehangir Sorabjee|Shri Soli Jehangir Sorabjee]]||[[Public Affairs]]||[[Delhi]]||[[India ]] |- |[[2002]]||[[ Kishori Amonkar|Smt. 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