Indian Awards: An award is a symbol of honour presented to a person for their achievements. In India, people are awarded for their excellence in various fields from film-making to service to the nation. Indian awards can be classified mainly into four types, namely, Civilian, Military, Leadership, and Literature awards. There are also other Indian awards granted for bravery, sports, etc.

Civilian awards can be further classified into Bharat Ratna, Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri awards, with the Bharat Ratna being the highest civilian award in India. People preparing for bank exams or any other competitive exams must be well aware of the highest award in India and their recipients in India. Here is the list of Indian awards and their recipients as well as the Nobel Prize winners in India until 2022.

List Of Indian Awards

Bharat Ratna Awards are presented to a maximum number of 3 persons per year. There are three categories of Padma Awards – Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri. In 2021 a total of 7 Padma Vibhushan, 10 Padma Bhushan and 102 Padma Shri have been awarded to civilians. Among them, 29 are women awardees, 16 are Posthumous awardees, 10 are civilians from various categories of Foreigners/ PIO/ OCI/ NRI and 1 transgender awardee.

Recipients of Padma Awards in India are generally recommended by an award committee that constitutes the State Governments, Union Territory Administrations, Central Ministries or Institutions of Excellence, etc. Based on the recommendations of the Awards Committee, the awards are presented after the successful approval of the Home Minister, Prime Minister and President. These awards are presented by the President of India and we have included the names of the award recipients for the year 2021 below. Read on to find more.

Indian Awards: Bharat Ratna

Bharat Ratna is considered to be the highest civilian award in India and it is conferred upon distinctive personalities for achievement in different fields such as Science, Literature, Arts, Public Services and Sports.

Bharat Ratna literally translates to Jewel of India or Gem of India. The awardees are recommended by the Prime Minister of India to the President. The recipients of this award are granted a certificate signed by the President along with a peepal-leaf-shaped medallion.

The award recognizes the exceptional service or performance of the highest order without any distinction. The youngest receiver of the Bharat Ratna Award is Sachin Tendulkar at the age of 40 and the oldest receiver of the Bharat Ratna Award is Dhondo Keshav Karve at the age of 100.

In 2020 and 2021 the Bharat Ratna awards are not awarded to anybody so we are presenting the list of the Bharat Ratna Award recipients in 2019.

Name of the Bharat Ratna Award Recipient	Field of the Recipient
Nanaji Deshmukh	Social Activist   Member of RSS A leader of Bharatiya Jana Sangh Also, Padma Vibhushan recipient of 1999.
Bhupen Hazarika	Known as Sudhakantha.   Indian playback singer, lyricist, musician, poet and filmmaker.
Pranab Mukherjee	Indian Politician, Served as 13th Indian President-2009-2012

Indian Awards: Padma Vibhushan

Padma Vibhushan is the second-highest civilian award in India. The award is presented to people for their exceptional and distinguished service in various fields, such as Social Work, Public Affairs, Medicine, Literature, Sports, Civil Services, etc. The award announcement takes place every year on Republic day.

Here is the list of Padma Vibhushan recipients and the fields they provided exceptional service in:

SI.No.	Padma Vibhushan Recipients	Field	State/ Country
1	Shri Shinzo Abe	Public Affairs	Japan
2	Shri S P Balasubramaniam (Posthumous)	Art	Tamil Nadu
3	Dr. Belle Monappa Hegde	Medicine	Karnataka
4	Shri Narinder Singh Kapany (Posthumous)	Science and Engineering	USA
5	Maulana Wahiduddin Khan	Others- Spiritualism	Delhi
6	Shri B. B. Lal	Others- Archaeology	Delhi
7	Shri Sudarshan Sahoo	Art	Odisha

Indian Awards: Padma Bhushan

Padma Bhushan is the third-highest civilian award and like other awards, Padma Bhushan is also awarded to people who offered their exceptional services in their respective fields.

SI.No.	Name	Field	State/ Country
1	Krishna Nair Shantakumari Chithra	Art	Kerala
2	Tarun Gogoi (Posthumous)	Public Affairs	Assam
3	Chandrashekhar Kambara	Literature and Education	Karnataka
4	Sumitra Mahajan	Public Affairs	Madhya Pradesh
5	Nripendra Misra	Civil Service	Uttar Pradesh
6	Ram Vilas Paswan (Posthumous)	Public Affairs	Bihar
7	Keshubhai Patel (Posthumous)	Public Affairs	Gujarat
8	Kalbe Sadiq (Posthumous)	Others- Spiritualism	Uttar Pradesh
9	Rajnikant Devidas Shroff	Trade and Industry	Maharashtra
10	Tarlochan Singh	Public Affairs	Haryana

Indian Awards: Padma Shri

Padma Shri is the fourth-highest civilian award in India. This award is conferred upon people from various areas, such as Arts, Education, Sports, Medicine, Public Affairs, Social Service, Industry, Science and Literature.

The list below includes the names of a few recipients of the Padma Shri awards 2021:

SI.No.	Name	Field	State/ Country
1	Gulfam Ahmed	Art	Uttar Pradesh
2	P. Anitha	Sports	Tamil Nadu
3	Rama Swamy Annavarapu	Art	Andhra Pradesh
4	Subbu Arumugam	Art	Tamil Nadu
5	Prakasarao Asavadi	Literature and Education	Andhra Pradesh
6	Bhuri Bai	Art	Madhya Pradesh
7	Radhe Shyam Barle	Art	Chhattisgarh
8	Dharma Narayan Barma	Literature and Education	West Bengal
9	Lakhimi Baruah	Social Work	Assam
10	Biren Kumar Basak	Art	West Bengal
11	Rajni Bector	Trade and Industry	Punjab
12	Peter Brook	Art	United Kingdom
13	Sangkhumi Bualchhuak	Social Work	Mizoram
14	Gopiram Bargayn Burabhakat	Art	Assam
15	Bijoya Chakravarty	Public Affairs	Assam
16	Sujit  Chattopadhyay	Literature and Education	West Bengal
17	Jagdish Chaudhary (Posthumous)	Social Work	Uttar Pradesh
18	Tsultrim Chonjor	Social Work	Ladakh
19	Mouma Das	Sports	West Bengal
20	Srikant Datar	Literature and Education	The U.S.A.
21	Narayan Debnath	Art	West Bengal
22	Chutni Devi	Social Work	Jharkhand
23	Dulari Devi	Art	Bihar
24	Radhe Devi	Art	Manipur
25	Shanti Devi	Social Work	Odisha
26	Wayan Dibia	Art	Indonesia
27	Dadudan Gadhavi	Literature and Education	Gujarat
28	Parshuram Atmaram Gangavane	Art	Maharashtra
29	Jai Bhagwan Goyal	Literature and Education	Haryana
30	Jagdish Chandra Halder	Literature and Education	West Bengal
31	Mangal Singh Hazowary	Literature and Education	Assam
32	Anshu Jamsenpa	Sports	Arunachal Pradesh
33	Purnamasi Jani	Art	Odisha
34	Matha B. Manjamma Jogati	Art	Karnataka
35	Damodaran Kaithapram	Art	Kerala
36	Namdeo C. Kamble	Literature and Education	Maharashtra
37	Maheshbhai and Nareshbhai Kanodia (Duo) (Posthumous)	Art	Gujarat
38	Rajat Kumar Kar	Literature and Education	Odisha
39	Rangasami Lakshminarayana Kashyap	Literature and Education	Karnataka
40	Prakash Kaur	Social Work	Punjab

Check Out The Complete List of Padma Awardees 2021 Here

Indian Awards: Military Awards

Param Veer Chakra is the highest gallantry award in India for military services, and it is bestowed on the uppermost height of forfeit during battles or wars. So far only 20 army personnel and one air force personnel received this prestigious award.

Maha Veer Chakra: Maha Veer Chakra is the second highest military award presented for the act of braveness during the war.

Veer Chakra is awarded for bravery in the battleground. It is the third-highest award for military services.

Ashok Chakra is one of the peacetime awards and is presented for valour, courageous action or self-sacrifice away from the battlefield.  Kirti Chakra comes second on the list followed by Shaurya Chakra.

There are various other awards as well. Dada Saheb Phalke Award is considered India’s highest award in cinema which is presented annually by the Government of India for lifetime contribution to Indian cinema.

Nobel Prize Winners in India

Apart from the Indian awards, various people have received the Nobel Prize in different fields and have brought laurels to the country. Rabindranath Tagore, the man who authored the Indian National Anthem was the first Nobel Prize winner in India in 1913, and Abhijit Banerjee, in 2019 being the latest one to receive the honour.

Here, we take a look at the many Nobel Prize winners in India.

SL No.	Nobel Prize Winners	Field	Year Received
1	Abhijit Banerjee	Economics	2019
2	Kailash Satyarthi	Peace	2014
3	Venkatraman Ramakrishnan	Chemistry	2009
4	Amartya Sen	Economics	1998
5	Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar	Physics	1983
6	Mother Teresa	Peace	1979
7	Hargobind Khorana	Medicine	1968
8	CV Raman	Physics	1930
9	Rabindranath Tagore	Literature	1913

Indian Awards: Frequently Asked Questions

Some of the frequently asked questions on the Indian Awards are as follows:

Q1: What are the Padma Awards?
Ans: The Padma Awards are the Highest Civilian Awards in India and are given in three categories namely, Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri.

Q2: How many Padma Vibhushan awards were given in 2021?
Ans: In 2021, 7 Padma Vibhushan awards were given.

Q3: How many Padma Bhushan awards were given in 2021?
Ans: In 2021, 10 Padma Bhushan awards were given.

Q4. How many Padma Shri awards were given in 2021?
Ans: 102 Padma Shri awards were given in 2021.

Q5. How many Padma Awards were announced in 2021?
Ans: In the year 2021, 119 Padma awards (including 1 Duo) were given to the achievers of various fields.

Q6: When are Padma Awards announced?
Ans: The Padma Awards are announced on the occasion of Republic Day (26 January) every year.

Q7: Who gives Padma Awards to the winners?
Ans: The President Of India gives the Padma Awards at Rashtrapati Bhawan.

Q8: Who is the last person to get the Bharat Ratna Award?
Ans: Pranab Mukherjee is the last person to get the Bharat Ratna Award.

Indian Awards represent a great honour. Questions related to awards and honours are often asked in various competitive exams, like IBPS PO, SBI PO, SSC exams, RRB exams, etc. Candidates appearing for these exams for government jobs must be aware of the name of the recipients of important awards, especially, the Indian Awards. They should also be aware of other events and issues of national and international events.

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