Sr. No. Name Birth/Death Awarded in Year Notes State/Country 1 Chakravarti Rajgopalachari 1878-1972 1954 Independence Activist, Governor General Tamil Nadu 2 C.V. Raman 1888-1970 1954 Physicist Tamil Nadu 3 Sarvepalli Radhakrishanan 1888-1975 1954 Philosopher, Second President Andhra Pradesh 4 Bhagwan Das 1869-1958 1955 Independence Activist, Author Uttar Pradesh 5 Mokshagundam Read more…
‘Bharat Ratna’ is the highest civilian Award of the country, was instituted in the year 1954 and is awarded by Government of India in recognition of exceptional service/performance of the highest order in any field of human endeavour. Any person without distinction of race, occupation, position or sex is eligible Read more…
Sr. No. Year Recipients Language 1 1965 G. Sankara Kurup Malayalam 2 1966 Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay Bengali 3 1967 Umashankar Joshi Gujrati 3 1967 Kuppali Venkatappa Puttappa ‘Kuvempu’ Kannada 4 1968 Sumitranandan Pant Hindi 5 1969 Firaq Gorakhpuri Urdu 6 1970 Viswanatha Satyanarayana Telugu 7 1971 Bishnu Dey Bengali 8 1972 Read more…
Sr. No. Year Name of Author Portrait Work Type 1 1955 Bhai Veer Singh Mere Sainya Jio ਮੇਰੇ ਸਾਂਈਆਂ ਜੀਓ Poetry 2 1956 Amrita Pritam Sunehrhe ਸੁਨੇਹੜੇ Poetry 3 1959 Mohan Singh Wadda Vela ਵੱਡਾ ਵੇਲਾ Poetry 4 1961 Nanak Singh Ik Miyan Do Talwaran ਇੱਕ ਮਿਆਨ ਦੋ ਤਲਵਾਰਾਂ Novel Read more…