Bharat Ratna
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Today President Ramnath Kovind will confer the Bharat Ratna, India’s highest civilian award. People to get honoured with these awards are India’s 13th President, Pranab Mukherjee, Social activist and politician Late Shri Nanaji Deshmukh and eminent singer Bhupen Hazarika.
Bharat Ratna is awarded to those people who give significant contribution in the field of art, literature, sports, public services.
The award was observed in January 1954 by India’s first President Dr Rajendra Prasad. While Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan was the first person to get honoured with Bharat Ratna.
Do you know how many people have been given this honour in the past 65 years? Do you know that two foreign nationals are also included in this highest civilian award of India?
Today we are going to tell you about all the persons who have been honoured with Bharat Ratna.
Year 1954
Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan - Second President of India.
Chakravarti Rajagopalachari - Freedom Fighter and Last Governor-General.
Dr Chandrashekhara Venkata Raman - Nobel Award Winner and Doctorate of Physics
Year 1955
Dr Bhagwan Das - Freedom Fighter and Writer.
Sir Dr Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya - Civil Engineer and Diwan of Mysore.
Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru - First Prime Minister, Writer and Freedom Fighter.
Year 1957
Govind Vallabh Pant - Freedom Fighter, First Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh and Second Home Minister of the Country.
Dr Dhondo Keshav Karve - Teacher and Social Reformer.
Year 1958
Dr Bidhan Chandra Roy - Doctor and Chief Minister of West Bengal.
Year 1961
Purushottam Das Tandon - Freedom Fighter and Teacher.
Dr Rajendra Prasad - India's First President, Freedom Fighter and Jurist.
Year 1963
Dr Zakir Hussain -Third President of the country.
Dr. Pandurang Vaman Kane - Indologists and Doctorate of Sanskrit.
Year 1966
Lal Bahadur Shastri - Third Prime Minister and Freedom Fighter of India
Year 1971
Indira Gandhi - Fourth Prime Minister of the country.
Year 1975
Varahagiri Venkata Giri - Country's Fourth President and Member of Labour Union.
Year 1976
K. Kamaraj - Freedom Fighter and Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu.
Year 1980
Mother Teresa - Nobel Prize Winner, Catholic Nun and Founder of Missionary.
Year 1983
Acharya Vinoba Bhave - Freedom Fighter and Social Reformer.
Year 1987
Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan - Freedom Fighter
Year 1988
Marudur Gopala Ramachandran - Actor and Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu.
Year 1990
Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar - Architect, Politician and Economist of the Indian Constitution.
Nelson Mandela - Nobel Prize Winner and Anti-Apartheid Revolutionary, Political Leader, and Philanthropist
Year 1991
Rajiv Gandhi - Seventh Prime Minister of the Country.
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel - First Home Minister and Freedom Fighter of the Country.
Morarjibhai Desai - The Fifth Prime Minister and Freedom Fighter of the Country.
Year 1992
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad - First Education Minister and Freedom Fighter of the Country.
Jahangir Ratanji Dadabhai Tata - Eminent Industrialist of the Country.
Satyajit Ray - Filmmaker and Director.
Year 1997
APJ Abdul Kalam - 11th President and Scientist of the Country.
Gulzarilal Nanda - Freedom Fighter and Two-time Acting Prime Minister.
Aruna Asaf Ali - Freedom Fighter.
Year 1997
MS Subbulakshmi - Classical Music Singer.
C. Subramaniam - Freedom Fighter and Minister of Agriculture.
Jayaprakash Narayan - Freedom fighter and Politician.
Year 1999
Pandit Ravi Shankar - Musician, Composer
Amartya Sen - Nobel Award Winner and Economist.
Gopinath Bordoloi - Freedom Fighter and Chief Minister of Assam.
Year 2001
Lata Mangeshkar - Singer.
Ustad Bismillah Khan - Musician (Shehnai player).
Year 2008
Pandit Bhimsen Joshi - Classical Singer.
Year 2014
Sachin Tendulkar - Indian Cricketer.
C.N.R. Rao - Well-known scientist and Professor of Chemistry.
Atal Bihari Vajpayee - Politician, 10th Prime Minister of the Country, Poet and Journalist.
Pt. Madan Mohan Malaviya - Educationist, Politician and Social Reformer
Year 2019
Pranab Mukherjee: Former President and Politician
Nanaji Deshmukh: Indian Social Worker and Jana Sangh leader
Bhupen Hazarika: Singer
The first foreign national to get Bharat Ratna is Abdul Ghaffar Khan and the second foreign national was former President of Africa, Nelson Mandela. Including the list of the year 2019, a total of 48 people have been awarded the Bharat Ratna so far.
