Year |
Laureates |
State / Country |
Prime Minister / Party in Power |
1954 |
C. Rajagopalachari |
Tamil Nadu |
Jawaharlal Nehru, Indian National Congress |
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan |
Tamil Nadu |
Jawaharlal Nehru, Indian National Congress |
C. V. Raman |
Tamil Nadu |
Jawaharlal Nehru, Indian National Congress |
1955 |
Bhagwan Das |
Uttar Pradesh |
Jawaharlal Nehru, Indian National Congress |
M. Visvesvaraya |
Karnataka |
Jawaharlal Nehru, Indian National Congress |
Jawaharlal Nehru |
Uttar Pradesh |
Jawaharlal Nehru, Indian National Congress |
1957 |
Govind Ballabh Pant |
Uttarakhand |
Jawaharlal Nehru, Indian National Congress |
1958 |
Dhondo Keshav Karve |
Maharashtra |
Jawaharlal Nehru, Indian National Congress |
1961 |
Bidhan Chandra Roy |
West Bengal |
Jawaharlal Nehru, Indian National Congress |
Purushottam Das Tandon |
Uttar Pradesh |
Jawaharlal Nehru, Indian National Congress |
1962 |
Rajendra Prasad |
Bihar |
Jawaharlal Nehru, Indian National Congress |
1963 |
Zakir Husain |
Uttar Pradesh |
Jawaharlal Nehru, Indian National Congress |
Pandurang Vaman Kane |
Maharashtra |
Jawaharlal Nehru, Indian National Congress |
1966 |
Lal Bahadur Shastri |
Uttar Pradesh |
Indira Gandhi,
Indian National Congress |
1971 |
Indira Gandhi |
Uttar Pradesh |
Indira Gandhi,
Indian National Congress |
1975 |
V. V. Giri |
Odisha |
Indira Gandhi,
Indian National Congress |
1976 |
K. Kamaraj |
Tamil Nadu |
Indira Gandhi,
Indian National Congress |
1980 |
Mother Teresa |
West Bengal
(Born in Skopje,
now North Macedonia) |
Indira Gandhi,
Indian National Congress |
1983 |
Vinoba Bhave |
Maharashtra |
Indira Gandhi,
Indian National Congress |
1987 |
Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan |
Pakistan |
Rajiv Gandhi,
Indian National Congress |
1988 |
M. G. Ramachandran |
Tamil Nadu |
Rajiv Gandhi,
Indian National Congress |
1990 |
B. R. Ambedkar |
Madhya Pradesh |
Vishwanath Pratap Singh,
Janata Dal (National Front) |
Nelson Mandela |
South Africa |
Rajiv Gandhi,
Indian National Congress |
1991 |
Rajiv Gandhi |
Uttar Pradesh |
P. V. Narasimha Rao, Indian National Congress |
Vallabhbhai Patel |
Gujarat |
P. V. Narasimha Rao, Indian National Congress |
Morarji Desai |
Gujarat |
P. V. Narasimha Rao, Indian National Congress |
1992 |
Abul Kalam Azad |
West Bengal |
P. V. Narasimha Rao, Indian National Congress |
J. R. D. Tata |
Maharashtra |
P. V. Narasimha Rao, Indian National Congress |
Satyajit Ray |
West Bengal |
P. V. Narasimha Rao, Indian National Congress |
1997 |
Gulzarilal Nanda |
Punjab |
H D Deve Gowda, Janata Dal Coalition |
Aruna Asaf Ali |
West Bengal |
Inder Kumar Gujral, Janata Dal
(United Front) |
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam |
Tamil Nadu |
Inder Kumar Gujral, Janata Dal
(United Front) |
1998 |
M. S. Subbulakshmi |
Tamil Nadu |
Inder Kumar Gujral, Janata Dal
(United Front) |
Chidambaram Subramaniam |
Tamil Nadu |
Inder Kumar Gujral, Janata Dal
(United Front) |
1999 |
Jayaprakash Narayan |
Bihar |
Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Bharatiya Janata Party (NDA) |
Amartya Sen |
West Bengal |
Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Bharatiya Janata Party (NDA) |
Gopinath Bordoloi |
Assam |
Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Bharatiya Janata Party (NDA) |
Ravi Shankar |
West Bengal |
Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Bharatiya Janata Party (NDA) |
2001 |
Lata Mangeshkar |
Maharashtra |
Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Bharatiya Janata Party (NDA) |
Bismillah Khan |
Bihar |
Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Bharatiya Janata Party (NDA) |
2009 |
Bhimsen Joshi |
Karnataka |
Manmohan Singh, Indian National Congress (UPA) |
2014 |
C. N. R. Rao |
Karnataka |
Manmohan Singh, Indian National Congress (UPA) |
Sachin Tendulkar |
Maharashtra |
Manmohan Singh, Indian National Congress (UPA) |
2015 |
Madan Mohan Malaviya |
Uttar Pradesh |
Narendra Modi, Bharatiya Janata Party (NDA) |
Atal Bihari Vajpayee |
Madhya Pradesh |
Narendra Modi, Bharatiya Janata Party (NDA) |
2019 |
Pranab Mukherjee |
West Bengal |
Narendra Modi, Bharatiya Janata Party (NDA) |
Bhupen Hazarika |
Assam |
Narendra Modi, Bharatiya Janata Party (NDA) |
Nanaji Deshmukh |
Maharashtra |
Narendra Modi, Bharatiya Janata Party (NDA) |