List of 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  | 
 
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   1998  | 
  
   Shri K.M. Mathew  | 
  
   Kerala  | 
  
   India  | 
 
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   1998  | 
  
   Dr. Bhisham Sahni  | 
  
   Delhi  | 
  
   India  | 
 
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   1998  | 
  
   Dr. Udupi Rajagopalachar
  Ananthamurthy  | 
  
   Karnataka  | 
  
   India  | 
 
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   1999  | 
  
   Prof. Vidya Niwas Misra  | 
  
   Uttar Pradesh  | 
  
   India  | 
 
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   1999  | 
  
   Shri Dominic Chacko Kizhakemuri
  (Posthumous)  | 
  
   Kerala  | 
  
   India  | 
 
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   1999  | 
  
   Dr. Shivmangal Singh Suman  | 
  
   Madhya Pradesh  | 
  
   India  | 
 
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   2000  | 
  
   Holenarasipur Yoganarasiham Prasad
  Sharada  | 
  
   Delhi  | 
  
   India  | 
 
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   2001  | 
  
   Aroon Purie  | 
  
   Delhi  | 
  
   India  | 
 
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   2001  | 
  
   Boyi Bhimanna  | 
  
   Andhra Pradesh  | 
  
   India  | 
 
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   2001  | 
  
   Karimpumannil Mathai GeorgeOnline
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   Kerala  | 
  
   India  | 
 
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   2001  | 
  
   Shiv Kumar  | 
  
   Andhra Pradesh  | 
  
   India  | 
 
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   2002  | 
  
   Bellur Krishnamachar Sundara Raja
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   Maharashtra  | 
  
   India  | 
 
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   2002  | 
  
   Mario De Miranda  | 
  
   Goa  | 
  
   India  | 
 
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   2002  | 
  
   Nirmal Verma  | 
  
   Delhi  | 
  
   India  | 
 
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   2002  | 
  
   Yevgeni Petrovich Chelyshev  | 
  
   -  | 
  
   Russia  | 
 
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   2003  | 
  
   Ottupulakkal Velukkuty Vijayan  | 
  
   Kerala  | 
  
   India  | 
 
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   2003  | 
  
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   West Bengal  | 
  
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   2004  | 
  
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   Tamil Nadu  | 
  
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   2004  | 
  
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   Maharashtra  | 
  
   India  | 
 
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   2004  | 
  
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   Delhi  | 
  
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   2005  | 
  
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   Uttar Pradesh  | 
  
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   2005  | 
  
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   Kerala  | 
  
   India  | 
 
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   2005  | 
  
   Mrinal Datta Chaudhuri  | 
  
   Delhi  | 
  
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   2005  | 
  
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   Meghalaya  | 
  
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   2005  | 
  
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   Uttar Pradesh  | 
  
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   2005  | 
  
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   Maharashtra  | 
  
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   2007  | 
  
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   Karnataka  | 
  
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   Delhi  | 
  
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   West Bengal  | 
  
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   Karnataka  | 
  
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   2012  | 
  
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   USA  | 
 
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   Punjab  | 
  
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   Maharashtra  | 
  
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   2022  | 
  
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   India  | 
 
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   2023  | 
  
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   2023  | 
  
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   2024  | 
  
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