What is Bharat Ratna ?
- Bharat Ratna is India’s highest civilian award.
- First awarded in 1954
- The award is designed in the shape of a Peepal leaf with Bharat Ratna inscribed on it in Devanagri script in the Sun figure.
- On the reverse side Satyamev Jayate has been written on Hindi with an inscription of state emblem.
- The emblem the sun and the rim are of Platinum. The inscriptions are in burnished bronze.
- Indira Gandhi was the youngest person alive at the time of receiving the award and Rajiv Gandhi is the youngest overall to receive the award.
- D.k. karve was the eldest person alive to receive the award and Vallabhai Patel is the eldest overall.
- First naturalised Indian citizen to recieve the award is Mother Teresa in 1980.
- Abdul Gaffar Khan was the first foreigner to be honoured with Bharat Ratna in 9187 and later Nelson Mandella 1990.
Winner of Bharat Ratna :
1954 – Shri Chakravarti Rajagopalachari, Dr. Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan, Dr Chandrasekhar Venkataraman
1955 – Dr. Bhagwan Das, Dr Mokshagundam Vishvesaraya, Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru
1957 – Pt. Govind Bhallav Pant
1958 – Dr Donde Keshav Karve
1961 – Shri Purushottam Das Tondon
1962 – Dr. Rajendra Prasad
1963 – Dr. Zakir Hussain
1966 – Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri
1971 – Smt. Indira Gandhi
1975 – Shri Varahagiri Venkata Giri
1976 – Shri Kumaraswamy Kamraj
1980 – Mother Teresa
1983 – Shri Acharya Vinobha Bhave
1987 – Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan
1988 – Shri Marudur Gopalan Ramachandran
1990 – Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, Dr. Nelson Rolihlahla Mandella
1991 – Shri Morarji Ranchodji Desai, Sardar Vallabhai Patel, Shri Rajiv Gandhi
1992 – Shri Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhai Tata, Shri Satyajit Ray, Shri Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
1997 – Shri Gulzari Lal Nanda, Smt. Aruna Asaf Ali, Dr. Abul Pakeer Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam
1998 – Shri Chidambram Subramaniam, Smt. Madurai Sanmukhavadivu Subbulakshami
1999 – Pandit Ravi Shankar, Lok Nayak Jayprakash Narayan, Prof Amartya Sen, Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi
2001 – Lata Dinanath Mangeshkar, Ustad Bismillah Khan
2008 – Pandit Bhimsen Joshi
2013 – Sachin Tendulakr, CNR Rao
2014 – Atal Bihari Bajpayee, Madan Mohan Malviya
2019 – Nanaji Deshmukh, Bhupen Hazarika, Pranab Mukherjee
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