Thursday, December 25, 2014

Meet our 45 Bharat Ratnas

Educationist Madan Mohan Malviya and former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee are the 44th and 45th distinguished personalities who have been conferred with the country's highest civilian award Bharat Ratna.  Here's a list of others who have been conferred the Bharat Ratna:

1) 
C Rajagopalachari1954
2) Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan1954
3) C V Raman1954
4) Bhagwan Das1955
5) Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya1955
6) Jawaharlal Nehru1955
7) Govind Ballabh Pant1957
8) Dhondo Keshav Karve1958
9) Bidhan Chandra Roy1961
10)Purushottam Das Tandon1961
11)Rajendra Prasad1962
12)Zakir Hussain1963
13)Pandurang Vaman Kane1963
14)Lal Bahadur Shastri1966
15)Indira Gandhi1971
16)V V Giri1975
17)K Kamaraj1976
18)Mother Teresa1980
19)Acharya Vinoba Bhave1983
20)Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan1987
21)M G Ramachandra1988
22)B R Ambedkar1990
23)Nelson Mandela1990
24)Rajiv Gandhi1991
25)Vallabhbhai Patel1991
26)Morarji Desai1991
27)Maulana Abul Kalam Azad1992
28)J R D Tata1992
29)Satyajit Ray1992
30)Gulzarilal Nanda1997
31)Aruna Asaf Ali1997
32)A P J Abdul Kalam1997
33)M S Subbulakshmi1998
34)Chidambaram Subramaniam1998
35)Jayaprakash Narayan1999
36)Amartya Sen1999
37)Gopinath Bordoloi1999
38)Pandit Ravi Shankar1999
39)Lata Mangeshkar2001
40)Ustad Bismillah Khan2001
41)Bhimsen Joshi2009
42)C N R Rao2014
43)Sachin Tendulkar2014

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