Padma Bhushan Awardees in Literature & Education

Year

Name

State

Country

1954

A. Lakshmanaswami Mudaliar

Tamil Nadu

India

1954

Amar Nath Jha

Uttar Pradesh

India

1954

Maithili Sharan Gupt

Uttar Pradesh

India

1954

Malihabadi Josh

Delhi

India

1954

Moulana Hussain Ahmed Madni

Punjab

India

1954

Vallathol Narayana Menon

Kerala

India

1955

Maneklal Sankalchand Thacker

Delhi

India

1955

Pran Krishna Parija

Orissa

India

1955

Suniti Kumar Chatterjee

West Bengal

India

1956

Bhai Vir Singh

Punjab

India

1956

Kasturi Srinivasan

Tamil Nadu

India

1956

Mahadevi Verma

Uttar Pradesh

India

1956

Rajsekhar Bose

West Bengal

India

1957

Abid Hussain

Uttar Pradesh

India

1957

Govind Sakharam Sardesai

Maharashtra

India

1957

Hazari Prasad Dwivedi

Uttar Pradesh

India

1957

K.A. Nilakanta Sastri

Tamil Nadu

India

1957

Shikan Lal Atreya

Uttar Pradesh

India

1957

Shyamanandan Sahaya

Bihar

India

1957

Siddheshwar Verma

Chandigarh

India

1958

Kuppali V. Gouda Puttappa

Karnataka

India

1958

Poola Tirupati Raju

Rajasthan

India

1958

Surya Narayan Vyas

Madhya Pradesh

India

1959

Nirmal Kumar Sidhanta

West Bengal

India

1959

Ramdhari Singh Dinkar

Bihar

India

1959

Tiruppattur R. Venkatachala Murthi

Tamil Nadu

India

1960

Bal Krishna Navin

Delhi

India

1960

Haridas Siddhanta Vagish

West Bengal

India

1960

Kazi Nazrul Islam

West Bengal

India

1960

Raj Rajeshwardatt Shastri Dravid

Uttar Pradesh

India

1960

Shiv Pujan Sahai

Bihar

India

1961

Anand Krishna

Uttar Pradesh

India

1961

Ardeshir Ruttonji Wadia

Maharashtra

India

1961

Seth Govind Das

Madhya Pradesh

India

1961

Sumitra Nadan Pant

Uttar Pradesh

India

1962

Asaf Ali Asghar Fyzee

Jammu and Kashmir

India

1962

Gyanesh Chandra Chatterjee

Delhi

India

1962

Jafar Ali Khan

Uttar Pradesh

India

1962

Narayan Sitaram Phadke

Maharashtra

India

1962

Niaz Mohd. Fatehpuri

Uttar Pradesh

India

1962

Radhika Raman Prasad Sinha

Bihar

India

1962

Ramchandra Narayan Dandekar

Maharashtra

India

1962

Sisir Kumar Mitra

West Bengal

India

1962

Venkatarama Raghavan

Tamil Nadu

India

1963

Badri Nath Prasad

Uttar Pradesh

India

1963

Makhanlal Chaturvedi

Madhya Pradesh

India

1963

Rahul Sankkritayan

Uttar Pradesh

India

1963

Ram Kumar Varma

Uttar Pradesh

India

1963

Trivenkate Rajendra Seshadari

Tamil Nadu

India

1964

Anukul Chandra Mukherjee

Uttar Pradesh

India

1964

R.Krishnaswamy Narayan

Karnataka

India

1964

Sheikh Abdullah

Uttar Pradesh

India

1964

Tushar Kanti Ghosh

West Bengal

India

1965

Brindaban Lal Verma

Uttar Pradesh

India

1965

Mohammad Mujeeb

Delhi

India

1965

Narasing Narayan Godbole

Maharashtra

India

1965

Triguna Sen

West Bengal

India

1966

Bhai Jodh Singh

Punjab

India

1966

Haribhau Upadhyaya

Uttar Pradesh

India

1966

Vinayak Sitaram Sarwate

Madhya Pradesh

India

1967

Akshy Kumar Jain

Delhi

India

1967

Ashoke Kumar Sarkar

West Bengal

India

1967

Dadasaheb Chintmani Pavate

Karnataka

India

1967

Datto Vaman Potdar

Maharashtra

India

1967

Kalyanji Vithalbhai Mehta

Gujarat

India

1967

Khwaja Ghulam Saiyidain

Uttar Pradesh

India

1967

Krishna Kant Handique

Assam

India

1967

Mulk Raj Anand

Maharashtra

India

1967

Shiva Rao Benegal

Delhi

India

1967

T.M.Ponnambalam Mahadevan

Tamil Nadu

India

1968

Acharya Vishva Bandhu

Uttar Pradesh

India

1968

Gopalan Narasimhan

Tamil Nadu

India

1968

Govinda Shankara Kurup

Kerala

India

1968

K.S. Karanth

Karnataka

India

1968

M. Manukonda Chalpathi Rao

Andhra Pradesh

India

1968

Mamidipudi Venkatarangaya

Andhra Pradesh

India

1968

Manchakkattuvalasu PalanivellappaGounder Periaswamy Thooran

Tamil Nadu

India

1968

Mariadas Ruthnaswamy

Tamil Nadu

India

1968

Radhanath Rath

Orissa

India

1968

Raghupati Sahai alias Gorakhpuri Firaq

Uttar Pradesh

India

1968

Shripad Damodar Satwaleker

Maharashtra

India

1968

Sudhir Ranjan Sengupta

West Bengal

India

1968

Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar

Maharashtra

India

1969

Govind Behari Lal

-

USA

1969

Haroon Khan Shervani

Andhra Pradesh

India

1969

Krishna Chandar

Maharashtra

India

1969

Krishna Ramchand Kriplani

Delhi

India

1969

Narayan Bhikaji Parulakar

Maharashtra

India

1969

Niharanjan Ray

West Bengal

India

1969

Raja Rao

-

USA

1969

Raman Madhavan Nair

Chandigarh

India

1969

Samad Yar Khan Nizami Sagar

Uttar Pradesh

India

1969

Tarasankar Bandyopadhyaya

West Bengal

India

1969

Vithalbhai Kanthabhai Jhaveri

Maharashtra

India

1969

Yeshwant Dinkar Pendharkar

Maharashtra

India

1970

Amiya Chakravarty

West Bengal

India

1970

Birender Nath Ganguli

Delhi

India

1970

Buddhadeva Bose

West Bengal

India

1970

Gurram Jashuva

Andhra Pradesh

India

1970

Purusthottam Kashinath Kelkar

Maharashtra

India

1970

Ratan Lal Joshi

Delhi

India

1970

Syed Abdul Latif

Andhra Pradesh

India

1970

T.S. Avinashilingam Chettair

Tamil Nadu

India

1970

Viswanatha Satyanarayana

Andhra Pradesh

India

1970

Vivekananda Mukhopadhya

West Bengal

India

1970

Yash Pal

Punjab

India

1971

A. Vithal Alias Dhananjay Keer

Maharashtra

India

1971

Bhagwati Charan Varma

Uttar Pradesh

India

1971

Jainendra Kumar Jain

Delhi

India

1971

Kalindi Charan Panigrahi

Orissa

India

1971

Kandathil Mammen Cherian

Kerala

India

1971

Suraj Bhan

Chandigarh

India

1971

Veni Shankar Jha

Madhya Pradesh

India

1971

Venkatarama Ramalingam Pillai

Tamil Nadu

India

1972

Adya Rangacharya

Karnataka

India

1972

Kayalath Pothen Philip

Maharashtra

India

1972

Krishnaswamy Swaminathan

Delhi

India

1972

Pran Nath Chhutani

Chandigarh

India

1973

Banarsi Das Chaturvedi

Uttar Pradesh

India

1973

Harindra Nath Chattopadhaya

Andhra Pradesh

India

1973

Kunjuraman Sukumaran

Kerala

India

1973

Pothen Joseph

Kerala

India

1974

Bhupati Mohan Sen

West Bengal

India

1974

Camille Bulcke

-

Belgium

1974

Dr. D.Venkataramanaiah Gundappa Dr DVG

Karnataka

India

1974

Jayant Pandurang Naik

Maharashtra

India

1974

Khushwant Singh

Punjab

India

1974

Sukhlalji Sanghavi

Gujarat

India

1974

Vasant Shankar S. Hazurbazar

Maharashtra

India

1975

Balai Chand Mukhopadhyaya

Bihar

India

1975

Kirpal Singh Narang

Punjab

India

1975

Pratul Chandra Gupta

West Bengal

India

1975

Vasudev Vishnu Mirashi

Maharashtra

India

1976

Devulapalli Venkat K. Shastry

Andhra Pradesh

India

1976

Ennakkal Chandy George Sudarshan

-

USA

1976

Harbans Rai Bachchan

Maharashtra

India

1976

Laxman Shastri Joshi

Maharashtra

India

1976

Navakanta Barua

Assam

India

1977

Gopinnath Aman

Delhi

India

1977

Harish Chandra

-

USA

1977

Kailash Nath Kaul

Uttar Pradesh

India

1977

Thenpattinam Ponnuswamy Meenakshi Sundaram

Tamil Nadu

India

1977

Yusuf Husain Khan

Delhi

India

1981

Shri Amritlal Nagar

Uttar Pradesh

India

1981

Shri Gopi Nath Mohanty

Odisha

India

1982

Acharya P.N. Pttabhirama Sastri

Uttar Pradesh

India

1982

Jhabar Mal Sharma

Rajasthan

India

1982

Stella Kramrisch

-

USA

1983

Benudhar Sharma

Assam

India

1983

K. Gopalaiyer Ramanathan

Maharashtra

India

1983

Nagendra

Delhi

India

1983

Subodh Chandra Sengupta

West Bengal

India

1984

Acharya Baldev Upadhyaya

Uttar Pradesh

India

1984

Brig. Kotta Satchidananda Murty

Andhra Pradesh

India

1984

Ganda Singh

Punjab

India

1984

Hanumanthappa Narasimhaiah

Karnataka

India

1984

Horace Alexander

-

USA

1984

Ishwari Prasad

Uttar Pradesh

India

1984

Marie Seton

-

UK

1984

Narayan Chaturvedi

Uttar Pradesh

India

1985

Gurbachan Singh Talib

Punjab

India

1985

Rais Ahmed

Delhi

India

1985

Shiba Prasad Chatterjee

West Bengal

India

1985

T. Purushottamdas Luhar Sudaram

Puducherry

India

1985

Thakazi Shivasankara Pillai

Kerala

India

1985

Vuppuluri Ganapathi Sastry

Andhra Pradesh

India

1987

Ananda Sankar Ray

West Bengal

India

1987

Nalapat Balmani Amma

Kerala

India

1988

Bal Ram Nanda

Delhi

India

1988

Kartar Singh Duggal

Delhi

India

1989

Girilal Jain

Delhi

India

1990

Arun Shourie

Delhi

India

1990

Bimal Krishna Matilal

-

UK

1990

Closepet Dasappa Narasimhaiah

Karnataka

India

1990

Hirendra Nath Mukerjee

West Bengal

India

1990

Kunwar Singh Negi

Uttarakhand

India

1990

Narasimhan Ram

Tamil Nadu

India

1990

Sattaiyappa Dhandapani Desikar

Tamil Nadu

India

1990

Sukumar Sen

West Bengal

India

1991

Kuthur Ramakrishnan Srinivasan

Tamil Nadu

India

1991

Vishnu Vaman Shirwadkar

Maharashtra

India

1992

C. Narayana Reddy

Andhra Pradesh

India

1992

Cingireddy Narayana Reddy

Andhra Pradesh

India

1992

Dalsukh Dahyabhai Malvania

Gujarat

India

1992

Dalsukh Dahyabhai Malvania

Gujarat

India

1992

Setu Madhava Rao Pagadi

Maharashtra

India

1992

Setu Madhavrao Pagdi

Maharashtra

India

1992

Syed Abdul Malik

Assam

India

1992

Syed Abdul Malik

Assam

India

1998

Prof. Debi Prasad Chattopadhyaya

West Bengal

India

1998

Shri K.M. Mathew

Kerala

India

1998

Dr. Bhisham Sahni

Delhi

India

1998

Dr. Udupi Rajagopalachar Ananthamurthy

Karnataka

India

1999

Prof. Vidya Niwas Misra

Uttar Pradesh

India

1999

Shri Dominic Chacko Kizhakemuri (Posthumous)

Kerala

India

1999

Dr. Shivmangal Singh Suman

Madhya Pradesh

India

2000

Holenarasipur Yoganarasiham Prasad Sharada

Delhi

India

2001

Aroon Purie

Delhi

India

2001

Boyi Bhimanna

Andhra Pradesh

India

2001

Karimpumannil Mathai GeorgeOnline art courses

Kerala

India

2001

Shiv Kumar

Andhra Pradesh

India

2002

Bellur Krishnamachar Sundara Raja Iyengar

Maharashtra

India

2002

Mario De Miranda

Goa

India

2002

Nirmal Verma

Delhi

India

2002

Yevgeni Petrovich Chelyshev

-

Russia

2003

Ottupulakkal Velukkuty Vijayan

Kerala

India

2003

Sitakant Mahapatra

Orissa

India

2003

Subhash Mukhopadhyay (poet)

West Bengal

India

2004

Chennamaneni Hanumantha Rao

Andhra Pradesh

India

2004

Gopi Chand Narang

Delhi

India

2004

Krishna Srinivas

Tamil Nadu

India

2004

Madhav Vittal Kamath

Maharashtra

India

2004

Vishnu Prabhakar

Delhi

India

2005

Andre Beteille

Delhi

India

2005

Balraj Puri

Jammu and Kashmir

India

2005

Irfan Habib

Uttar Pradesh

India

2005

Madath Thekepat Vasudevan Nair

Kerala

India

2005

Mrinal Datta Chaudhuri

Delhi

India

2005

Mrinal Miri

Meghalaya

India

2005

Qurratulain Hyder

Uttar Pradesh

India

2005

Sardar Anjum

Haryana

India

2005

William Mark Tully

Delhi

India

2006

Dinesh Nandini Dalmia

Delhi

India

2006

Dusan Zbavitel

-

Czech Republic

2006

Gregory Bongard-Levin

-

Russia

2006

Kamleshwar Prasad Saxena

Delhi

India

2006

Lokesh Chandra

Delhi

India

2006

M.V. Pylee

Kerala

India

2006

Ramakanta Rath

Orissa

India

2006

Vijay Shankar Vyas

Rajasthan

India

2007

Bhikhu Parekh

-

UK

2007

Captain L.Z. Sailo

Mizoram

India

2007

Chandra Prasad Saikia

Assam

India

2007

Father Gabriel

Kerala

India

2007

Gopaldas Neeraj

Uttar Pradesh

India

2007

Javed Jan Nisaar Akhtar

Maharashtra

India

2007

Jeffrey D. Sachs

-

USA

2007

T.N. Srinivasan

-

USA

2007

Tapan Ray Chaudhuri

-

UK

2008

Brijinder Nath Goswamy

Chandigarh

India

2008

Ji Xianlin

-

China

2008

Kaushik Basu

-

USA

2008

Padma Desai

-

USA

2008

Ravindra Kelekar

Goa

India

2008

Shayama Chona

Delhi

India

2008

Srilal Shukla

Uttar Pradesh

India

2008

Srinivasa S.R. Varadhan

-

USA

2008

T. K. Oommen

Haryana

India

2009

Alappat Sreedhara Menon

Kerala

India

2009

C.K. Prahlad

-

USA

2009

D. Jayakanthan

Tamil Nadu

India

2009

Isher Judge Ahluwalia

Delhi

India

2009

Kunwar Narain

Delhi

India

2009

Minoru Hara

-

Japan

2009

Ramachandra Guha

Karnataka

India

2010

Anil Bordia

Rajasthan

India

2010

Bipan Chandra

Delhi

India

2010

G. P. Chopra

Delhi

India

2010

Mohammad Amin

Delhi

India

2010

Satya Vrat Shastri

Delhi

India

2010

Tan Chung

-

USA

2011

Ramdas Madhava Pai

Karnataka

India

2011

Sankha Ghosh

West Bengal

India

2011

Thayil Jacob Sony George

Karnataka

India

2012

Arvind Panagariya

USA

2012

Homi K. Bhabha

UK

2012

Jose Pereira

USA

2012

Shantaram Balwant Mujumdar

Maharashtra

India

2012

Vidya Dehejia

USA

2013

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

USA

2013

Mangesh Padgaonkar

Maharashtra

India

2014

Anisuzzaman

Bangladesh

2014

Anita Desai

Delhi

India

2014

Dhirubhai Thaker

Gujarat

India

2014

Lloyd Rudolph

USA

2014

Mrityunjay Athreya

Delhi

India

2014

Ruskin Bond

Uttarakhand

India

2014

Susanne Hoeber Rudolph

USA

2014

Vairamuthu

Tamil Nadu

India

2015

David Frawley

USA

2015

Rajat Sharma

Delhi

India

2015

Swapan Dasgupta

Delhi

India

2016

Barjinder Singh Hamdard

Punjab

India

2016

N. S. Ramanuja Tatacharya

Maharashtra

India

2016

Yarlagadda Lakshmi Prasad

Andhra Pradesh

India

2017

Cho Ramaswamy

Tamil Nadu

India

2017

Deviprasad Dwivedi

Uttar Pradesh

India

2017

Maha Chakri Sirindhorn

Thailand

2018

Ved Prakash Nanda

India

2019

Kuldip Nayar

Delhi

India

2020

Jagdish Sheth

USA

2020

Manoj Das

Puducherry

India

2021

Chandrashekhara Kambara

Karnataka

India

2022

Pratibha Ray

Odisha

India

2022

Swami Sachchidanand

Gujarat

India

2022

Vashishth Tripathi

Uttar Pradesh

India

2023

Kapil Kapoor

Delhi

India

2023

S. L. Bhyrappa

Karnataka

India

2024

Hormusji N. Cama

Maharashtra

India

2024

Kundan Vyas

Maharashtra

India

2025

A. Surya Prakash

Karnataka

India

2025

Bibek Debroy

Delhi

India

2025

Ram Bahadur Rai

Uttar Pradesh

India