How to Prepare for General Awareness – Awards, Medals, Prizes – Part II

There have been ~50 Indians who have been awarded the Prize. The prominent / recent ones are:

1959	C. D. Deshmukh	Government Service
1994	Kiran Bedi
1996	T N Seshan
2003	James Michael Lyngdoh
1965	Jayaprakash Narayan	Public Service
1974	M.S. Subbulakshmi
1985	Baba Amte
1958	Vinoba Bhave	Community Leadership
1963	Verghese Kurien
2008	Dr. Prakash Amte
2008	Dr. Mandakini Amte
2009	Deep Joshi
2012	Kulendei Francis
1967	Satyajit Ray	Journalism, Literature, and the Creative Communication Arts
1982	Arun Shourie
1984	R. K. Laxman
1992	Ravi Shankar
1997	Mahasweta Devi
2007	P. Sainath
1962	Mother Teresa	Peace
2006	Arvind Kejriwal	Emergent Leadership
2011	Nileema Mishra
2011	Harish Hande

Bharat Ratna

Bharat Ratna is the Republic of India's highest civilian award, for performance of highest order in any field of human endeavor.

It was first awarded in 1954 to C. Rajgopalachari, C V Raman & S Radhakrishnan. It was last awarded in 2008 to Bhimsen Joshi.

Of the 41 awards so far, there has been one award to a naturalized Indian citizen, Mother Teresa (1980), and to two non-Indians, Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan (1987) and Nelson Mandela (1990).

In 2011, the Government of India modified the eligibility criteria to allow sportspersons to receive the award.

Living recipients:

• Nelson Mandela (1990)
• A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (1997)
• Ravi Shankar (1999)
• Amartya Sen (1999)
• Lata Mangeshkar (2001)

Other Awards

Padma Vibhushan is the highest civilian honor after Bharat Ratna

Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna is the highest sporting honor

Dhyan Chand Award is highest award for lifetime achievement in sports and games.

Dadasaheb Phalke Award is the highest award for lifetime achievement in cinema.

Bhartiya Gnanpith Award is a literary award.

Shahitya Academy Fellowship is the highest literary honour conferred by the Government of India. In 2010, 5 people were honored with the Sahitya Akademi Fellowships. – Dr. Bholabhai Patel, Sri Kunwar Narain, Sri Khushwant Singh, Prof. Kedar Nath Singh & Chandranath Mishra 'Amar'.

Year	Awardee	Category	Award
2012	K. G. Subramanyan	Arts	Padma Vibhushan
2012	Mario Miranda	Arts
2012	Bhupen Hazarika	Arts
2012	Kantilal Hastimal Sancheti	Medicine
2012	T. V. Rajeswar	Civil Service
2009–10	Saina Nehwal	Badminton	Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna
2010–11	Gagan Narang	Shooting
2011–12	Vijay Kumar	Shooting
	Yogeshwar Dutt	Wrestling
2012	Jagraj Singh Mann	Athletics	Dhyan Chand Award
2012	Gundeep Kumar	Hockey
2012	Vinod Kumar	Wrestling
2012	Sukhbir Singh Tokas	Para-Sports
2010 (58th)	K Balachander	Director	Dada Saheb Phalke Award
2011 (59th)	Soumitra Chaterjee	Actor
2009 (49th)	Shrilal Shukla	Hindi	Bhartiya Jnanpith Award
2009 (50th)	Amarkant	Hindi
2010 (51st)	Chandrasekhar Kambar	Kannada

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