BHARAT RATNA AWARD

Bharat Ratna is India's highest civilian award. We have some information that will help you prepare for the various Entrance and Recruitment Exams.

Some Facts:

1. The award is conferred to the People who make great contribution in the field of art, literature, and science, and social service.
2. The award was started by Dr. Rajendra Prasad, the first President of India, on January 2, 1954.
3. The honour has been awarded to forty persons.
4. Two non-Indians and a naturalized Indian citizen are among the awardees.
5. With 8 honours each Tamil Nadu and Uttar Pradesh are the states with the most number of awardees.
6. The award is designed in the shape of a "peepul leaf" and with words "Bharat Ratna" written on it. The reverse side of the medal carries the state emblem and motto.
7. The award to Subhash Chandra Bose (1992) was withdrawn
8. The award was briefly suspended from July 13, 1977 to January 26, 1980.
9. No one has been awarded Bharat Ratna since 2001.
10. Pandit Bhimsen Joshi was awarded Bharat Ratna in 2008

S.No	Recipient	Year
1	Lata Mangeshkar	2001
2	Ustad Bismillah Khan	2001
3	Pandit Ravi Shankar	1999
4	Amartya Sen	1999
5	Gopinath Bordoloi	1999
6	M. S. Subbulakshmi	1998
7	Chidambaram Subramaniam	1998
8	Jayaprakash Narayan	1998
9	A.P.J. Abdul Kalam	1997
10	Gulzarilal Nanda	1997
11	Aruna Asaf Ali	1997
12	Maulana Abul Kalam Azad	1992
13	J. R. D. Tata	1992
14	Satyajit Ray	1992
15	Rajiv Gandhi	1991
16	Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel	1991
17	Morarji Desai	1991
18	B. R. Ambedkar	1990
19	Nelson Mandela	1990
20	M. G. Ramachandran	1988
21	Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan	1987
22	Acharya Vinoba Bhave	1983
23	Mother Teresa	1980
24	K. Kamaraj	1976
25	V. V. Giri	1975
26	Indira Gandhi	1971
27	Lal Bahadur Shastri	1966
28	Dr. Zakir Hussain	1963
29	Pandurang Vaman Kane	1963
30	Dr. Rajendra Prasad	1962
31	Dr. B. C. Roy	1961
32	Purushottam Das Tandon	1961
33	Dhondo Keshav Karve	1958
34	Govind Ballabh Pant	1957
35	Bhagwan Das	1955
36	Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvarayya	1955
37	Jawaharlal Nehru	1955
38	Sir Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan	1954
39	Chakravarti Rajagopalachari	1954
40	Sir C. V. Raman	1954