Year

Name

Field

State

Country

1954

Jamini Roy

Art

West Bengal

India

1954

M. S. Subbalakshmi

Art

Tamil Nadu

India

1954

K. S. Thimayya

Civil Service

Karnataka

India

1954

Mahadeva Iyer Ganapati

Civil Service

Orissa

India

1954

Pandyala Satyanarayan Rao

Civil Service

Andhra Pradesh

India

1954

R.R. Handa

Civil Service

Punjab

India

1954

Radha Krishan Gupta

Civil Service

Delhi

India

1954

Sukumar Sen

Civil Service

West Bengal

India

1954

V. Narahari Raooo

Civil Service

Karnataka

India

1954

A. Lakshmanaswami Mudaliar

Literature & Education

Tamil Nadu

India

1954

Amar Nath Jha

Literature & Education

Uttar Pradesh

India

1954

Maithili Sharan Gupt

Literature & Education

Uttar Pradesh

India

1954

Malihabadi Josh

Literature & Education

Delhi

India

1954

Moulana Hussain Ahmed Madni

Literature & Education

Punjab

India

1954

Vallathol Narayana Menon

Literature & Education

Kerala

India

1954

Satya Narayana Shastri

Medicine

Uttar Pradesh

India

1954

Maharaj Kr. Palden T Namgyal

Public Affairs

Punjab

India

1954

V.L. Mehta

Public Affairs

Gujarat

India

1954

Ajudhia Nath Khosla

Science & Engineering

Delhi

India

1954

Homi Jehangir Bhabha

Science & Engineering

Maharashtra

India

1954

J.C. Ghosh

Science & Engineering

West Bengal

India

1954

K. S. Krishnan

Science & Engineering

Tamil Nadu

India

1954

Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar

Science & Engineering

Uttar Pradesh

India

1955

Attur Rangaswami Venkatachari

Civil Service

Tamil Nadu

India

1955

Fatah Chand Badhwar

Civil Service

Punjab

India

1955

Sunder Das Khungar

Civil Service

Punjab

India

1955

Surinder Kumar Dey

Civil Service

USA

1955

Maneklal Sankalchand Thacker

Literature & Education

Delhi

India

1955

Pran Krishna Parija

Literature & Education

Orissa

India

1955

Suniti Kumar Chatterjee

Literature & Education

West Bengal

India

1955

Lalit Mohan Banerjee

Medicine

West Bengal

India

1955

Vasant Ramji Khanolkar

Medicine

Maharashtra

India

1955

Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay

Social Work

West Bengal

India

1955

Madapati Hanumantha Rao

Social Work

Andhra Pradesh

India

1955

Rameshwari Nehru

Social Work

Uttar Pradesh

India

1956

Rukmini Devi Arundale

Art

Tamil Nadu

India

1956

Kanwar Sain

Civil Service

Rajasthan

India

1956

Malur Srinivasa Thirumale Iyengar

Civil Service

Tamil Nadu

India

1956

Bhai Vir Singh

Literature & Education

Punjab

India

1956

Kasturi Srinivasan

Literature & Education

Tamil Nadu

India

1956

Mahadevi Verma

Literature & Education

Uttar Pradesh

India

1956

Rajsekhar Bose

Literature & Education

West Bengal

India

1956

Muthulakshmi Reddi

Medicine

Tamil Nadu

India

1956

Nawab Zain Yar Jung

Public Affairs

Andhra Pradesh

India

1956

Pushpavati Janardenrai Mehta

Public Affairs

Maharashtra

India

1956

Triuvadi Sambasiva Venkataraman

Science & Engineering

Tamil Nadu

India

1956

Cottari Kankaiyah Nayudu

Sports

Tamil Nadu

India

1956

Dhyan Chand

Sports

Punjab

India

1957

Shrikrishna N. Ratanjankar

Art

Uttar Pradesh

India

1957

T. Balasaraswathy

Art

Tamil Nadu

India

1957

Ustad Mushtaq Hussain Khan

Art

Madhya Pradesh

India

1957

K. Covilagam Kutti Ettan Raja

Civil Service

Kerala

India

1957

Abid Hussain

Literature & Education

Uttar Pradesh

India

1957

Govind Sakharam Sardesai

Literature & Education

Maharashtra

India

1957

Hazari Prasad Dwivedi

Literature & Education

Uttar Pradesh

India

1957

K.A. Nilakanta Sastri

Literature & Education

Tamil Nadu

India

1957

Shikan Lal Atreya

Literature & Education

Uttar Pradesh

India

1957

Shyamanandan Sahaya

Literature & Education

Bihar

India

1957

Siddheshwar Verma

Literature & Education

Chandigarh

India

1957

Lakshmi Nandan Menon

Public Affairs

Kerala

India

1957

Radha Kumud Mookherjee

Public Affairs

West Bengal

India

1957

Bosi Sen

Science & Engineering

West Bengal

India

1957

Andal Venkatasuba Rao

Social Work

Andhra Pradesh

India

1957

R. Allagappa Chettair

Social Work

Tamil Nadu

India

1958

Ariyakudi Ramanja Iyengar

Art

Tamil Nadu

India

1958

D.P. Roy Choudhury

Art

West Bengal

India

1958

Ustad Allauddin Khan

Art

Uttar Pradesh

India

1958

Arathil C. Narayanan Nambiar

Civil Service

Kerala

India

1958

Kumar Padma Siva Shankara Menon

Civil Service

Kerala

India

1958

Kuppali V. Gouda Puttappa

Literature & Education

Karnataka

India

1958

Poola Tirupati Raju

Literature & Education

Rajasthan

India

1958

Surya Narayan Vyas

Literature & Education

Madhya Pradesh

India

1958

Rustom Jal Vakil

Medicine

Maharashtra

India

1958

Rao Raja Hanut Singh

Public Affairs

Rajasthan

India

1958

Darashaw Nosherwan Wadia

Science & Engineering

Maharashtra

India

1958

Salim-Mozuddin Abdul Ali

Science & Engineering

Maharashtra

India

1958

Kamalendumati Shah

Social Work

Delhi

India

1958

Narayan Subarao Hardikar

Social Work

Karnataka

India

1958

Vijaya Anand

Sports

Uttar Pradesh

India

1958

Jeahangir Ghandy

Trade & Industry

Maharashtra

India

1959

Mysore Kankanhalli Vasudevachary

Art

Karnataka

India

1959

Pammal Sambanda Mudaliar

Art

Tamil Nadu

India

1959

Sisir Kumar Bhaduri

Art

West Bengal

India

1959

Ali Yavar Jung

Civil Service

Maharashtra

India

1959

Nirmal Kumar Sidhanta

Literature & Education

West Bengal

India

1959

Ramdhari Singh Dinkar

Literature & Education

Bihar

India

1959

Tiruppattur R. Venkatachala Murthi

Literature & Education

Tamil Nadu

India

1959

Jal Gawashaw Paymaster

Medicine

Maharashtra

India

1959

Bhargavram Vithal Warerkar

Public Affairs

Maharashtra

India

1959

Ghulam Yazdan

Science & Engineering

Andhra Pradesh

India

1959

Bhaurao Payagounda Patil

Social Work

Maharashtra

India

1959

Dhanvanthi Rama Rau

Social Work

Maharashtra

India

1959

Hansa Jivraj Manubhai Mehta

Social Work

Maharashtra

India

1959

Tenzing Norgay Sherpa

Sports

West Bengal

India