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Bharat Ratna

The highest Indian civilian award, Bharat Ratna, was instituted in 1954 . Since then , the award has been bestowed upon 53 individuals , including 18 who were awarded posthumously

1954 Chakravarti Rajagopalachari , Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan and Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman

1955 Bhagwan Das , MokshagundamV isvesvaraya and Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru

1957 Govind Ballabh Pant
1958 Dhondo Keshav Karve

1961 Purushottam Das Tandon and Bidhan Chandra Roy

1962 Rajendra Prasad

1963 Dr. Zakir Husain and Pandurang Vaman Kane

1966 Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri [ Posthumous]

1971Indira Gandhi

1975 Varahagiri Venkata Giri [ VV Giri ]

1976 K Kamraj [ Posthumous ]

1980 Mother Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu [ Mother Teresa ]
1983 Acharya Vinoba Bhave [ Posthumous ]

1987 Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan

1988 M G Ramachandran [ Posthumous ]

1990 Dr. Bhim Rao Ramji Ambedkar [ Posthumous ] and Nelson Mandela

1991 Rajiv Gandhi [ Posthumous ] , SardarVallabhbhai Patel [ Posthumous ]and Morarji Desai

1992 Maulana Abul Kalam Azad [ Posthumous ] , Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhai Tata and Satyajit Ray

1997 Gulzarilal Nanda , Aruna Asaf Ali [ Posthumous ] and Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

1998 MS Subbulakshmi and Chidambaram Subramaniam

1999 Jayaprakash Narayan [ Posthumous ] , Amartya Sen , Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi [ Posthumous ] and Pandit Ravi Shankar

2001 Lata Mangeshkar and Ustad Bismillah Khan

2009 Pandit Bhimsen Joshi

2014 C. N. R. Rao and Sachin Tendulkar

2015 Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee , Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya [ Posthumous ] and Nanaji Deshmukh [ Posthumous ]

2019 Bhupendra Kumar Hazarika [ Posthumous ] and Pranab Mukherjee

2024 Karpoori Thakur [ Posthumous ] , Lal Krishna Advani , Chaudhary Charan Singh [ Posthumous ] , P V Narasimha Rao [ Posthumous ] and MS Swaminathan [ Posthumous ]