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1972 Padma Bhushan Awardees
1972 Padma Bhushan Awardees were some of the jewels in their respective fields.

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The Padma Bhushan Award is considered as one of the highest civilian awards presented in India. In fact, it is ranked as the third highest among all the civilian awards in India, just behind the Bharat Ratna and Padma Vibhushan. The Government of India is in charge of presenting the award and it does so, with a view to recognise extraordinary talents from various fields and also to appreciate their achievements. The total number of Padma Bhushan Awardees in the year 1972 was 50 and the winners were honoured for their achievements through this award.

A detailed list of the 1972 Padma Bhushan Awardees is given below:





















Name Field State Country
B.N. Sircar Arts Bihar India
Papanasan Ramayya Sivam Arts Tamil Nadu India
Vinayakrao Patwardhan Arts Maharashtra India
Air Marshal H.C. Dewan Civil Service Punjab India
Air Marshal M.M. Engineer Civil Service Gujarat India
Amruti V. Mody Civil Service Maharashtra India
Ashwini Kumar Civil Service Punjab India
Benoy Shushan Gosh Civil Service West Bengal India
C.C. Bewoor Civil Service Karnataka India
Chandrika Prasad Srivastava Civil Service - United Kingdom
Inderjit Singh Gill Civil Service Maharashtra India
Jagjit Singh Arora Civil Service Delhi India
Jai Krishna Civil Service Uttar Pradesh India
K. P. Candeth Civil Service Delhi India
Khem Karan Singh Civil Service Punjab India
Khusro Faramurz Rustamji Civil Service Madhya Pradesh India
Mohd. Hayath Civil Service Karnataka India
Nori Gopala Krishna Murthi Civil Service Andhra Pradesh India
Pran Nath Luthra Civil Service Punjab India
Sagat Singh Civil Service Punjab India
Sartaj Singh Civil Service Punjab India
Sirtaz Singh Sahi Civil Service Chandigarh India
Surinder Singh Bedi Civil Service Delhi India
T.A. Pai Civil Service Karnataka India
T.N. Raina Civil Service Jammu and Kashmir India
Vice Nilkanta Krishnan Civil Service Tamil Nadu India
Vice Surendra Nath Kohli Civil Service Punjab India
Adya Rangacharya Literature & Education Karnataka India
Kayalath Pothen Philip Literature & Education Maharashtra India
Krishnaswamy Swaminathan Literature & Education Delhi India
Pran Nath Chhutani Literature & Education Chandigarh India
Baldev Singh Medicine Delhi India
Bhalchandra Nilkanth Purandare Medicine Maharashtra India
Lakhumal Hiranand Hiranandani Medicine Maharashtra India
Shantilal C. Sheth Medicine Maharashtra India
Sujay Bhushan Roy Medicine West Bengal India
Ayyagiri Sambasiva Rao Science & Engineering Andhra Pradesh India
Bal Dattatraya Tilak Science & Engineering Maharashtra India
Dattatraya Yeshwant Phadke Science & Engineering Maharashtra India
L.A.Krishna Iyer Science & Engineering Kerala India
M. Bhardwaja Ramachandra Rao Science & Engineering Delhi India
M.S. Swaminathan Science & Engineering Tamil Nadu India
Mohinder Singh Randhawa Science & Engineering Punjab India
Ram Narayan Chakravarty Science & Engineering West Bengal India
Gulestan Rustom Billimoria Social Work Maharashtra India
Madhavrao Khandarao Bagal Social Work Maharashtra India
Mahashwar Dayal Social Work Delhi India
Yashodhara Dasappa Social Work Karnataka India
Bharat Ram Trade & Industry Delhi India
Syad Hussain Zaheer Trade & Industry Andhra Pradesh India



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