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The Bharat Ratna is the highest civilian award of the Republic of India instituted on 2 January 1954. The award is conferred in recognition of exceptional service/performance of the highest order in any field of human endeavour without distinction of race, occupation, position, or sex.

Year	Laureates	Brief description
1954	C. Rajagopalachari	The only Indian and last Governor-General of independent India. An Indian independence activist, statesman, and lawyer. Chief Minister of Madras Presidency (1937–39) and Madras State (1952–54). Founder of the Indian political party Swatantra Party
1954	Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan	India’s first Vice-President (1952–62)India’s second President (1962–67) Since 1962, his birthday on 5 September is observed as “Teachers’ Day” in India.
1954	C. V. Raman	Physicist known for his work on the scattering of light and the discovery of the effect, better known as “Raman scattering” Nobel Prize winner in Physics in 1930.
1955	Bhagwan Das	Independence activist, philosopher, and educationist, and co-founder of Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapith. Founded Banaras Hindu University alongwith Madan Mohan Malaviya
1955	M. Visvesvaraya	Civil engineer, statesman, and Diwan of Mysore (1912–18) His birthday, 15 September, is observed as “Engineer’s Day” in India.
1955	Jawaharlal Nehru	Independence activist and author The first and the longest-serving Prime Minister of India (1947–64)
1957	Govind Ballabh Pant	Independent activist First Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh (1950–54) Union Home Minister from (1955–61)
1958	Dhondo Keshav Karve	Social reformer and educator who worked towards women’s education and remarriage of Hindu widows. He established the Widow Marriage Association (1883), Hindu Widows Home (1896), and started Shreemati Nathibai Damodar Thackersey Women’s University in 1916
1961	Bidhan Chandra Roy	A     physician,     political     leader,     philanthropist, educationist, and social workerRoy is often considered as “Maker of Modern West Bengal”.Second Chief Minister of West Bengal (1948–62)His birthday on 1 July is observed as National Doctors’ Day in India.
1961	Purushottam Das Tandon	Independence activist and speaker of the United Provinces Legislative Assembly (1937–50)He was known as “Rajarshi”He was actively involved in a campaign to get official language status to Hindi.
1962	Rajendra Prasad	Independence activist, lawyer, statesman, and scholar First President of India (1950–62)
1963	Zakir Husain	Independence activist, economist, and education philosopher Vice-Chancellor of Aligarh Muslim University (1948–56) Governor of Bihar (1957–62) Second Vice-President of India (1962–67) Third President of India (1967–69)
1963	Pandurang Vaman Kane	Indologist and Sanskrit scholar, best known for his work History of Dharmasastra: Ancient and Medieval Religious and Civil Law in India.
1966	Lal Bahadur Shastri	Independence activist Shastri served as second Prime Minister of India (1964–66)
1971	Indira Gandhi	Prime Minister of India 1966–77 and 1980– 84
1975	V.V.Giri	First President of the All-India Trade Union Congress in 1926 The first acting President and also fourth President of India (1969–74) Held positions of Governor of Uttar Pradesh, Kerala and Mysore and various other cabinet ministries
1976	K. Kamaraj	Independence activist and statesman Former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu for three terms; 1954–57, 1957–62, and 1962–63
1980	Mother Teresa	Catholic nun and the founder of the Missionaries of Charity Nobel Peace Prize winner for her humanitarian work in 1979 Beatified on 19 October 2003 by Pope John Paul II Canonized on 4 September 2016 by Pope Francis.
1983	Vinoba Bhave	Independence activist, social reformer Known for his Bhoodan movement, “Land-Gift Movement”. Often titled “Acharya” (“teacher”) Awarded the Ramon Magsaysay Award (1958)

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