Friends.. As you know only the last day (24
Dec 2014) bharat has got two more ratnas with the selection of Atal Bihari
Vajpayee & Madan Mohan Malviya for the prestigious award. So now it’s time
to rewind all the awardees of Bharat Ratna since its inception. Before going to
the list, let's have a deep look into this award. You can download this article as PDF from link given below.
Know about Bharat Ratna?
>> Bharat Ratna, the country’s
highest civilian award instituted on 2 January 1954, is given in recognition of
exceptional service, performance of the highest order in any field of human
endeavour. Any person without distinction of race, occupation, position or sex
is eligible for this award.
>> The recommendations for Bharat
Ratna are made by the Prime Minister to the President. The number of annual
awards is restricted to a maximum of three in a particular year.
>> The award was originally limited
to achievements in the arts, literature, science and public services but the
government expanded the criteria to include "any field of human
endeavour" in December 2011.
>> Recipients receive a Sanad
(certificate) signed by the President and a peepal-leaf–shaped medallion; there
is no monetary grant associated with the award. Bharat Ratna recipients rank
seventh in the Indian order of precedence, but are constitutionally prohibited
from using the award name as a title.
>> However, should an award winner
consider it necessary, he or she may use the following expression in their
biodata or letterhead or visiting card etc. to indicate that he or she is a
recipient of the award: ‘Awarded Bharat Ratna by the President’ or ‘Recipient
of Bharat Ratna Award’.
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Full list of Bharat
Ratna recipients:
1) C.
Rajagopalachari (1954)
2) Sarvepalli
Radhakrishnan (1954)
3) C.V.
Raman (1954)
4) Bhagwan
Das (1955)
5) Mokshagundam
Visvesvaraya (1955)
6)
Jawaharlal Nehru (1955)
7) Govind
Ballabh Pant (1957)
8) Dhondo
Keshav Karve (1958)
9) Bidhan
Chandra Roy (1961)
10)
Purushottam Das Tandon (1961)
11)
Rajendra Prasad (1962)
12) Zakir
Hussain (1963)
13)
Pandurang Vaman Kane (1963)
14) Lal
Bahadur Shastri (1966)
15) Indira
Gandhi (1971)
16) V.V.
Giri (1975)
17) K
Kamaraj (1976)
18) Mother
Teresa (1980)
19)
Acharya Vinoba Bhave (1983)
20) Khan
Abdul Ghaffar Khan (1987)
21) M.G.
Ramachandran (1988)
22) B.R.
Ambedkar (1990)
23) Nelson
Mandela (1990)
24) Rajiv
Gandhi (1991)
25)
Vallabhbhai Patel (1991)
26)
Morarji Desai (1991)
27)
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad (1992)
28) JRD
Tata (1992)
29)
Satyajit Ray (1992)
30)
Gulzarilal Nanda (1997)
31) Aruna
Asaf Ali (1997)
32) APJ
Abdul Kalam (1997)
33) M.S.
Subbulakshmi (1998)
34) Chidambaram
Subramaniam (1998)
35)
Jayaprakash Narayan (1999)
36)
Amartya Sen (1999)
37)
Gopinath Bordoloi (1999)
38) Pandit
Ravi Shankar (1999)
39) Lata
Mangeshkar 2001)
40) Ustad
Bismillah Khan (2001)
41)
Bhimsen Joshi (2009)
42) C.N.R
Rao (2014)
43) Sachin
Tendulkar (2014)
44) Atal
Bihari Vajpayee (2015)
45) Madan
Mohan Malviya (2015) 
