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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 || Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman |
| 1955 | Bhagwan Das || MokshagundamV isvesvaraya || Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru |
| 1957 | Govind Ballabh Pant |
| 1958 | Dhondo Keshav Karve |
| 1961 | Purushottam Das Tandon || Bidhan Chandra Roy |
| 1962 | Rajendra Prasad |
| 1963 | Dr. Zakir Husain || Pandurang Vaman Kane |
| 1966 | Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri [ Posthumous ] |
| 1971 | Indira Gandhi |
| 1975 | Varahagiri Venkata Giri |
| 1976 | K Kamraj [ Posthumous ] |
| 1980 | Mother Teresa |
| 1983 | Acharya Vinoba Bhave [ Posthumous ] |
| 1987 | Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan |
| 1988 | M G Ramachandran [ Posthumous ] |
| 1990 | Dr. Bhim Rao Ramji Ambedkar [ Posthumous ] || Nelson Mandela |
| 1991 | Rajiv Gandhi [ Posthumous ] || Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel [ Posthumous ] || Morarji Desai |
| 1992 | Maulana Abul Kalam Azad [ Posthumous ] || Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhai Tata || Satyajit Ray |
| 1997 | Gulzarilal Nanda || Aruna Asaf Ali [ Posthumous ] || Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam |
| 1998 | MS Subbulakshmi || Chidambaram Subramaniam |
| 1999 | Jayaprakash Narayan [ Posthumous ] || Amartya Sen || Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi [ Posthumous ] || Pandit Ravi Shankar |
| 2001 | Lata Mangeshkar || Ustad Bismillah Khan |
| 2009 | Pandit Bhimsen Joshi |
| 2014 | CNR Rao || Sachin Tendulkar |
| 2015 | Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee || Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya [ Posthumous ] |
| 2019 | Bhupendra Kumar Hazarika [ Posthumous ] || Pranab Mukherjee || Nanaji Deshmukh |
| 2024 | Karpoori Thakur [ Posthumous ] , Lal Krishna Advani || Chaudhary Charan Singh [ Posthumous ] || P V Narasimha Rao [ Posthumous ] || MS Swaminathan [ Posthumous ] |