Last Updated: 23 December 2023
Sangeet Natak Akademi Award is given by the Sangeet Natak Akademi, India’s National Academy of Music, Dance & Drama. It is the highest Indian recognition given to people in the field of performing arts.
Sangeet Natak Akademi Award is also known as the Akademi Puraskar. It was first awarded in 1952 to 4 recipients.
In 2003, the award consisted of ₹50,000, a citation, an angavastram (a shawl), and a tamrapatra (a brass plaque). Since 2009, the cash prize has been increased to ₹1,000,000 (10 Lakh).
The awards are given in the categories of Music, Dance, Theatre, other Traditional Arts, and Puppetry, and for Contribution/Scholarship in Performing Arts.
The recipients of the Sangeet Natak Akademi award in various categories of performing arts are listed below
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Sangeet Natak Akademi Award
1952
| Field | Hindustani Music | Carnatic Music |
|---|---|---|
| Vocal | Mushtaq Hussain Khan | Ariyakudi Ramanuja Iyengar |
| Instrumental | Allauddin Khan (Sarod) | Karaikudi Sambasiva Iyer (Veena) |
1953
| Field | Hindustani Music | Carnatic Music |
|---|---|---|
| Vocal | Kesarbai Kerkar | Semmangudi R. Srinivasa Iyer |
| Instrumental | Hafiz Ali Khan (Sarod) | Dwaram Venkataswamy Naidu (Violin) |
1954
| Field | Hindustani Music | Carnatic Music |
|---|---|---|
| Vocal | Rajab Ali Khan | Mysore K. Vasudevacharya |
| Instrumental | Ustad Ahmed Jan Thirakwa (Tabla) | Palladam Sanjiva Rao (Flute) |
1955
| Field | Recipient |
|---|---|
| Vocal Hindustani Music | Anant Manohar Joshi |
| Instrumental Hindustani Music | Govind Rao Burhanpurkar (Pakhavaj) |
| Vocal Carnatic Music | Maharajapuram Vishwanatha Iyer |
| Instrumental Carnatic Music | T. N. Rajarathinam Pillai (Nagaswaram) |
| Dance | 1) T. Balasaraswati (Bharatanatyam) 2) Shambhu Maharaj (Kathak) |
| Theatre Acting | 1) Gubbi Veeranna (Kannada) 2) Narayan Rao Rajhans ‘Bal Gandharva’ (Marathi Theatre) |
1956
| Field | Recipient |
|---|---|
| Vocal Hindustani Music | Rajabhaiyya Poonchhwale |
| Instrumental Hindustani Music | Ustad Bismillah Khan (Shehnai) |
| Vocal Carnatic Music | M. S. Subbulakshmi |
| Instrumental Carnatic Music | Palghat Mani Iyer (Mridangam) |
| Dance | 1) Guru Kunchu Kurup (Kathakali) 2) Maisnam Amubi Singh (Manipuri) |
| Theatre Acting | Ganesh Govind Bodas (Marathi Theatre) |
1957
| Field | Recipient |
|---|---|
| Vocal Hindustani Music | Rasoolan Bai |
| Vocal Carnatic Music | Musiri Subramania Iyer |
| Instrumental Carnatic Music | Tirumakudalu Chowdiah (Violin) |
| Dance | 1) Rukmini Devi Arundale (Bharatanatyam) 2) Baijnath Prasad “Lacchu Maharaj” (Kathak) |
| Theatre Acting | Chintaman Ganesh Kolhatkar (Marathi Theatre) |
| Theatre Direction | Jaishankar Bhojak ‘Sundari’ |
| Films | 1) Debaki Bose (Direction) 2) Gajanan Digambar Madgulkar (Screenplay) |
1958
| Field | Recipient |
|---|---|
| Vocal Hindustani Music | Ganesh Ramachandra Behere |
| Instrumental Hindustani Music | Yusuf Ali (Sitar) |
| Vocal Carnatic Music | Chembai Vaidyanatha Bhagavathar |
| Instrumental Carnatic Music | Budaloor Krishnamurthy Shastri (Gottuvadhyam) |
| Dance | 1) Thotton K. Chandu Panikkar (Kathakali) 2) Haobam Atomba Singh (Manipuri) |
| Theatre Acting | Ahindra Choudhury (Bengali Theatre) |
| Theatre Playwriting | B.V. ‘Mama’ Warerkar (Marathi) |
| Films | 1) Sachin Dev Burman (Music Direction) 2) Durga Khote (Acting) |
1959
| Field | Recipient |
|---|---|
| Vocal Hindustani Music | Krishnarao Shankar Pandit |
| Instrumental Hindustani Music | Ustad Jahangir Khan (Tabla) |
| Vocal Carnatic Music | G. N. Balasubramaniam |
| Instrumental Carnatic Music | Kumbakonam Rajamanickam Pillai (Violin) |
| Dance | 1) Mylapore Gouri Amma (Bharatanatyam) 2) Sunder Prasad (Kathak) |
| Theatre Acting | Pammal Sambandha Mudaliar (Tamil) |
| Theatre Direction | Sombhu Mitra |
| Films | 1) Ashok Kumar (Acting) 2) Satyajit Ray (Direction) |
1960
| Field | Recipient |
|---|---|
| Vocal Hindustani Music | Altaf Hussain Khan |
| Instrumental Hindustani Music | Wahid Khan (Sitar) |
| Vocal Carnatic Music | Madurai Mani Iyer |
| Instrumental Carnatic Music | L. Subramanya Sastri (Veena) |
| Dance | Uday Shankar (Creative Dance/Choreography) |
| Theatre Acting | 1) Ashraf Khan (Gujarati Theatre) 2) C. I. Parameswaran Pillai (Malayalam) 3) Gopal Govind Pathak (Marathi Theatre) |
| Films | Chhabi Biswas (Acting) |
Related: Ashoka Chakra Award (List Of 86 Recipients)
1961
| Field | Recipient |
|---|---|
| Vocal Hindustani Music | Y. S. Mirashi Buwa |
| Instrumental Hindustani Music | Pt. Kanthe Maharaj (Tabla) |
| Vocal Carnatic Music | Mudikondan C. Venkatarama Iyer |
| Instrumental Carnatic Music | T. N. Swaminatha Pillai (Flute) |
| Dance | 1) Thekinkatti Ramunni Nair (Kathakali) 2) Vedantam Satyanarayana Sarma ‘Satyam’ (Kuchipudi) 3) T. Amudon Sharma (Manipuri) |
| Theatre Acting | 1) Mitradev Mahanta Adhikari (Assamese) 2) Subbaiah Naidu (Kannada) 3) Samuel Sahu (Oriya) 4) Sthanam Narasimha Rao (Telugu Theatre) |
| Theatre Direction | Kasambhai Nathubhai Mir |
| Theatre Playwriting | Prabhulal Dayaram Dwivedi (Gujarati) |
| Films | 1) Lalita Pawar (Acting) 2) Kavi Pradeep (Lyricist) 3) Mukhram Sharma (Screenplay) |
1962
| Field | Recipient |
|---|---|
| Vocal Hindustani Music | Bade Ghulam Ali Khan |
| Instrumental Hindustani Music | Pt. Ravi Shankar (Sitar) |
| Vocal Carnatic Music | D. K. Pattammal |
| Instrumental Carnatic Music | Dr. Thiruvengadu Subramania Pillai (Nagaswaram) |
| Dance | 1) R. Muthurathnambal (Bharatanatyam) 2) Mohanrao Kallianpurkar (Kathak) |
| Theatre Acting | 1) Tripti Mitra (Bengali Theatre) 2) T. K. Shanmugam (Tamil) |
| Theatre Direction | Ebrahim Alkazi |
1963
| Field | Recipient |
|---|---|
| Vocal Hindustani Music | Omkarnath Thakur |
| Instrumental Hindustani Music | Ali Akbar Khan (Sarod) |
| Vocal Carnatic Music | B. Devendrappa |
| Instrumental Carnatic Music | T. K. Jayarama Iyer (Violin) |
| Dance | 1) Sudhendra Narayan Singh Deo (Chhau) 2) Chenganoor Raman Pillai (Kathakali) 3) Atombapu Sharma (Manipuri) 4) Maniram Datta Moktar (Sattriya) |
| Theatre Acting | 1) Banda Kanakalingeswara Rao (Telugu Theatre) 2) Zohra Sehgal (Urdu) |
| Theatre Playwriting | Adya Rangacharya ‘Shriranga’ (Kannada) |
1964
| Field | Recipient |
|---|---|
| Vocal Hindustani Music | Rahimuddin Khan Dagar |
| Vocal Carnatic Music | Chittoor S. Subramanyam |
| Instrumental Carnatic Music | K. N. Chinnaswamy Iyer (Violin) |
| Dance | Birju Maharaj (Kathak) |
| Theatre Acting | Keshav Trimbak Date (Marathi Theatre) |
| Theatre Direction | T. S. Rajamanikkam |
| Theatre Others | Mani Madhava Chakyar (Kutiyattam) |
1965
| Field | Recipient |
|---|---|
| Vocal Hindustani Music | Hirabai Barodekar |
| Instrumental Hindustani Music | Sakharam Tavde (Pakhavaj) |
| Vocal Carnatic Music | T. Brinda |
| Instrumental Carnatic Music | T. R. Mahalingam (Flute) |
| Dance | 1) P. Chockkalingam Pillai (Bharatanatyam) 2) Guru Gopinath (Kathakali) 3) Guru Bipin Singh (Manipuri) |
| Theatre Acting | 1) Muljibhai Khushalbhai Nayak (Gujarati Theatre) 2) V. T. Aravindaksha Menon (Malayalam) 3) Krishnachandra Moreshwar “Daji Bhatawadekar” (Sanskrit) |
| Theatre Playwriting | Upendra Nath Ashk (Hindi) |
1966
| Field | Recipient |
|---|---|
| Vocal Hindustani Music | Siddheswari Devi |
| Instrumental Hindustani Music | Shakoor Khan (Sarangi) |
| Vocal Carnatic Music | Madurai Srirangam Iyengar |
| Instrumental Carnatic Music | P. S. Veeruswamy Pillai (Nagaswaram) |
| Dance | 1) Vazhuvoor B. Ramiah Pillai (Bharatanatyam) 2) Kelucharan Mohapatra (Odissi) |
1967
| Field | Recipient |
|---|---|
| Vocal Hindustani Music | Amir Khan |
| Instrumental Hindustani Music | Ayodhya Prasad (Pakhavaj) |
| Vocal Carnatic Music | C. Venkata Rao |
| Instrumental Carnatic Music | K. S. Venkataramiah ‘Papa’ (Violin) |
| Dance | Kalamandalam Krishnan Nair (Kathakali) |
| Theatre Acting | 1) Sabitabrata Dutta (Bengali Theatre) 2) S. V. Sahasranamam (Tamil) |
| Theatre Playwriting | P. L. Deshpande (Marathi) |
1968
| Field | Recipient |
|---|---|
| Vocal Hindustani Music | Mogubai Kurdikar |
| Instrumental Hindustani Music | Mushtaq Ali Khan (Sitar) |
| Vocal Carnatic Music | Alathur Srinivasa Iyer |
| Instrumental Carnatic Music | K. S. Narayanaswamy (Veena) |
| Dance | 1) Kamala (Bharatanatyam) 2) Damayanti Joshi (Kathak) 3) Kurichi Kunjan Panickar (Kathakali) 4) Chinta Krishnamurthy (Kuchipudi) |
| Theatre Acting | Jashwant Thaker (Gujarati Theatre) |
| Theatre Playwriting | 1) Badal Sircar (Bengali) 2) Mohan Rakesh (Hindi) |
1969
| Field | Recipient |
|---|---|
| Vocal Hindustani Music | Ramchatur Mallick |
| Instrumental Hindustani Music | Dabir Khan (Veena) |
| Vocal Carnatic Music | Dandapani Desikar |
| Instrumental Carnatic Music | Devakottai A. Narayana Iyengar (Veena) |
| Dance | 1) T. K. Swaminatha Pillai (Bharatanatyam) 2) Sitara Devi (Kathak) 3) Vazhenkada Kunchu Nair (Kathakali) 4) Ojha Thangjam Chaoba Singh (Manipuri) |
| Theatre Acting | N. N. Pillai (Malayalam) |
| Theatre Direction | Habib Tanvir |
| Theatre Playwriting | Manmatha Ray (Bengali) |
| Theatre Others | Gahan Chandra Goswami (Ankia Nat) |
1970
| Field | Recipient |
|---|---|
| Vocal Hindustani Music | Nisar Hussain Khan |
| Instrumental Hindustani Music | Masit Khan (Tabla) |
| Vocal Carnatic Music | M. L. Vasanthakumari |
| Instrumental Carnatic Music | Mysore V. Doreswamy Iyengar (Veena) |
| Dance | 1) Shanta Rao (Bharatanatyam) 2) Mrinalini Sarabhai (Creative Dance/Choreography) 3) M. Vishnu Namboodiri (Kathakali) 4) Pankaj Charan Das (Odissi) |
| Theatre Acting | Saraju Bala Devi (Bengali Theatre) |
| Theatre Direction | Adi Ferozeshah Marzban |
| Theatre Playwriting | Vijay Tendulkar (Marathi) |
Related: Dhyan Chand Award (2024 Updated)
1971
| Field | Recipient |
|---|---|
| Vocal Hindustani Music | Mallikarjun Mansur |
| Instrumental Hindustani Music | Radhika Mohan Maitra (Sarod) |
| Vocal Carnatic Music | N. Channakeshaviah |
| Instrumental Carnatic Music | Madurai S. Subramanya Iyer (Violin) |
| Dance | 1) T. Chandrakanthamma (Bharatanatyam) 2) Ananta Charan Sai (Chhau) 3) Kudamaloor Karunakaran Nair (Kathakali) |
| Theatre Acting | Shreeram Lagoo (Marathi Theatre) |
| Theatre Direction | Satyadev Dubey |
| Theatre Playwriting | 1) C. C. Mehta 2) Pragji Dossa |
1972
| Field | Recipient |
|---|---|
| Vocal Hindustani Music | Begum Akhtar |
| Instrumental Hindustani Music | Gajananrao Joshi (Violin) |
| Vocal Carnatic Music | T. Muktha |
| Instrumental Carnatic Music | T. S. Natarajasundaram Pillai (Nagaswaram) |
| Dance | 1) Sikkil Ramaswami Pillai (Bharatanatyam) 2) M. Madhava Panicker (Kathakali) 3) Kshetri Tombi Devi (Manipuri) 4) T. Chinnammu Amma (Mohiniattam) |
| Theatre Direction | Shyamanand Jalan |
| Theatre Playwriting | Girish Karnad (Kannada) |
| Theatre Others | Kudamaloor Karunakaran Nair (Kathakali) |
1973
| Field | Recipient |
|---|---|
| Vocal Hindustani Music | Gangubai Hangal |
| Vocal Carnatic Music | B.S. Raja Iyengar |
| Instrumental Carnatic Music | 1) Emani Sankara Sastry (Veena) 2) Vishnudas Shirali (Creative & Experimental) |
| Dance | 1) Kumbakonam K. Bhanumathi (Bharatanatyam) 2) Velinezhi K. Nanu Nayar (Kathakali) 3) Kavungal Chathunni Panicker (Kathakali) 4) L. Koireng Singh (Manipuri) |
| Theatre Acting | 1) Shobha Sen (Bengali Theatre) 2) Kalyanam Raghuramaiah (Telugu Theatre) |
| Theatre Direction | Ajitesh Bandopadhyay |
1974
| Field | Recipient |
|---|---|
| Vocal Hindustani Music | Kumar Gandharva |
| Instrumental Hindustani Music | Nikhil Banerjee (Sitar) |
| Vocal Carnatic Music | M. D. Ramanathan |
| Instrumental Carnatic Music | T. N. Krishnan (Violin) |
| Dance | 1) K. P. Kittappa Pillai (Bharatanatyam) 2) Gauri Shankar Devilal Kathak (Kathak) 3) Kalamandalam Ramankutty Nair (Kathakali) 4) L. Ibemhal Devi (Manipuri) |
| Theatre Acting | Pransukh Manilal Nayak (Gujarati Theatre) |
| Theatre Direction | Damodar Kashinath Kenkre |
| Theatre Playwriting | S.D. Sundaram (Tamil) |
| Theatre Allied Theatre Arts | Tapas Sen (Lighting) |
1975
| Field | Recipient |
|---|---|
| Vocal Hindustani Music | 1) Bhimsen Joshi 2) Gavri Devi |
| Instrumental Hindustani Music | Ram Narayan (Sarangi) |
| Vocal Carnatic Music | M. Balamurali Krishna |
| Instrumental Carnatic Music | C.S. Murugabhupathy (Mridangam) |
| Dance | 1) Krishna Chandra Naik (Chhau) 2) Roshan Kumari (Kathak) 3) K. Sankarankutty Panicker (Kathakali) 4) Rajani Maibi (Manipuri) |
| Theatre Acting | Molina Devi (Bengali Theatre) |
| Theatre Direction | Vijaya Mehta |
| Theatre Playwriting | Bijon Bhattacharya |
1976
| Field | Recipient |
|---|---|
| Vocal Hindustani Music | Narayanrao Vyas |
| Instrumental Hindustani Music | 1) Gopal Misra (Sarangi) 2) Karamatulla Khan (Tabla) |
| Vocal Carnatic Music | K.V. Narayanaswamy |
| Instrumental Carnatic Music | 1) Sheik Chinna Moulana (Nagaswaram) 2) Timir Baran Bhattacharya (Creative & Experimental) |
| Dance | 1) M. Muthiah Pillai (Bharatanatyam) 2) Narendra Sharma (Creative Dance) 3) Ojha Maibam Ibungohal Singh (Manipuri) 4) Sanjukta Panigrahi (Odissi) 5) Raghunath Panigrahi (Odissi) |
| Theatre Acting | Jyotsna Bhole (Marathi Theatre) |
| Theatre Direction | B. V. Karanth |
| Theatre Playwriting | C. T. Khanolkar (Marathi) |
| Theatre Others | Raghunath Panigrahi (Odissi Music) |
1977
| Field | Recipient |
|---|---|
| Vocal Hindustani Music | Girija Devi |
| Instrumental Hindustani Music | Asad Ali Khan (Veena) |
| Vocal Carnatic Music | Sripada Pinakapani |
| Instrumental Carnatic Music | S. Balachander (Veena) |
| Dance | 1) Yamini Krishnamurthy (Bharatanatyam) 2) Nayana Susheel Jhaveri (Manipuri) 3) Deba Prasad Das (Odissi) |
| Theatre Acting | Krishna Roy (Bengali Theatre) |
| Theatre Direction | Rajinder Nath |
| Theatre Playwriting | Lakshmi Narain Lal (Hindi) |
| Theatre Allied Theatre Arts | V. Ramamurthy (Lighting) |
1978
| Field | Recipient |
|---|---|
| Vocal Hindustani Music | Khadim Hussain Khan |
| Instrumental Hindustani Music | Purushottam Das (Pakhavaj) |
| Vocal Carnatic Music | Madurai S. Somasundaram |
| Instrumental Carnatic Music | 1) Lalgudi Jayaraman (Violin) 2) Rai Chand Boral (Creative & Experimental) |
| Dance | 1) C. Ramacharyalu (Kuchipudi) 2) Kalamandalam Kalyanikutty Amma (Mohiniattam) 3) Bapuram Bayan Attai (Sattriya) |
| Theatre Acting | Dattaram N. Walwaikar (Marathi Theatre) |
| Theatre Direction | Jabbar Patel |
| Theatre Puppetry | Kathinanada Das |
1979
| Field | Recipient |
|---|---|
| Vocal Hindustani Music | Sarachchandra Arolkar |
| Instrumental Hindustani Music | Pt. Samta Prasad (Tabla) |
| Vocal Carnatic Music | R K Srikanthan |
| Instrumental Carnatic Music | Kolanka Venkata Raju (Mridangam) |
| Dance | 1) Pandanallur Subbaraya Pillai (Bharatanatyam) 2) Prabhat Ganguli (Creative Dance) 3) Rohini Bhate (Kathak) |
| Theatre Acting | Amrish Puri (Hindi Theatre) |
| Theatre Direction | B. M. Shah |
| Theatre Playwriting | G. Sankara Pillai (Malayalam) |
| Theatre Puppetry | U. Kogga Devanna Kamath |
1980
| Field | Recipient |
|---|---|
| Vocal Hindustani Music | Nivruttibua Sarnaik |
| Instrumental Hindustani Music | V. G. Jog (Violin) |
| Vocal Carnatic Music | Seerkhazhi S. Govindarajan |
| Instrumental Carnatic Music | Thanjavur K.P. Sivanandam (Veena) |
| Dance | 1) R. K. Priyagopal Sana (Creative Dance) 2) L. Thouranishabi Devi (Manipuri) 3) Roseshwar Saikia Bayan Moktar (Sattriya) |
| Theatre Acting | Dina Pathak (Gujarati Theatre) |
| Theatre Direction | Rudraprasad Sengupta |
| Theatre Playwriting | Narasinga Rao Parwathavani (Kannada) |
| Theatre Puppetry | K.L. Krishnan Kutty Pulavar |
Related: Param Vir Chakra Winners List With PDF (2024 Updated)
1981
| Field | Recipient |
|---|---|
| Vocal Hindustani Music | Basavaraj Rajguru |
| Instrumental Hindustani Music | Zia Mohiuddin Dagar (Veena) |
| Vocal Carnatic Music | 1) Radha 2) Jayalakshmi |
| Instrumental Carnatic Music | Namagiripettai Krishnan (Nagaswaram) |
| Dance | 1) Indrani Rahman (Bharatanatyam) 2) Kedar Nath Sahoo (Chhau) 3) Parvati Kumar (Creative Dance) 4) Vempati Chinna Satyam (Kuchipudi) |
| Theatre Acting | Chintamani Govind Pendse (Marathi Theatre) |
| Theatre Direction | R. S. Manohar |
| Theatre Playwriting | Manoranjan Das (Oriya) |
| Theatre Allied Theatre Arts | Ashok Srivastava (Costumes/Make-up) |
| Theatre Others | Kamini Kumar Narzary (Bodo Tribal Dance) |
| Theatre Puppetry | M.R. Ranganatha Rao |
1982
| Field | Recipient |
|---|---|
| Vocal Hindustani Music | Vasantrao Deshpande |
| Instrumental Hindustani Music | Ustad Alla Rakha (Tabla) |
| Vocal Carnatic Music | T. M. Thiagarajan |
| Instrumental Carnatic Music | 1) M. S. Gopalakrishnan (Violin) 2) Vijay Raghav Rao (Creative & Experimental) |
| Dance | 1) Vyjayanthimala (Bharatanatyam) 2) Gambhir Singh Mura (Chhau) 3) Kartik Ram (Kathak) 4) Kumudini Lakhia (Kathak) 5) L. Tombi Devi (Manipuri) |
| Theatre Acting | Manohar Singh (Hindi Theatre) |
| Theatre Direction | Sheila Bhatia |
| Theatre Playwriting | M.G. Rangnekar (Marathi) Biswajit Das (Oriya) |
1983
| Field | Recipient |
|---|---|
| Vocal Hindustani Music | Mahadev Prasad Mishra |
| Instrumental Hindustani Music | Pt. Hari Prasad Chaurasiya (Flute) |
| Vocal Carnatic Music | D. K. Jayaraman |
| Instrumental Carnatic Music | 1) Palghat R. Raghu (Mridangam) 2) Chidambaram S. Jayaraman (Creative & Experimental) |
| Dance | 1) Padma Subramanyam (Bharatanatyam) 2) Champakulam Pachu Pillai (Kathakali) 3) Nataraja Ramakrishna (Kuchipudi & Bharatanatyam) |
| Theatre Acting | 1) Kumar Roy (Bengali Theatre) 2) Dattatray Ramachandra Bhat (Marathi Theatre) |
| Theatre Direction | Kavalam Narayana Panikkar |
| Theatre Playwriting | 1) Chandrashekhara Kambara (kannada) 2) Kavalam Narayana Panikkar (Malayalam) |
| Theatre Others | 1) Dharmiklal Chunilal Pandya (Akhyana) 2) Lalit Chandra Ojha (Ojapali & Deodhani Dances) |
| Theatre Puppetry | Meher Rustom Contractor |
1984
| Field | Recipient |
|---|---|
| Vocal Hindustani Music | Sharafat Hussain Khan |
| Instrumental Hindustani Music | Pt. Kishan Maharaj (Tabla) |
| Vocal Carnatic Music | Maharajapuram V. Santhanam |
| Instrumental Carnatic Music | Natesan Ramani (Flute) |
| Dance | 1) Subramaniam Sarada (Bharatanatyam) 2) Sudharani Raghupathy (Bharatanatyam) 3) Rajkumar Singhajit Singh (Creative Dance) 4) Durga Lal (Kathak) |
| Theatre Acting | Uttara Baokar (Hindi Theatre) |
| Theatre Playwriting | Vasant Shankar Kanetkar (Marathi) |
| Theatre Others | 1) Balakrushna Dash (Odissi Music) 2) Bhubaneswar Mishra (Odissi Music) |
1985
| Field | Recipient |
|---|---|
| Vocal Hindustani Music | 1) Kishori Amonkar 2) Aminuddin Dagar |
| Instrumental Hindustani Music | Ali Hussain Khan (Shehnai) |
| Vocal Carnatic Music | Voleti Venkatesvarulu |
| Instrumental Carnatic Music | Valangaiman A. Shanmugasundaram Pillai (Thavil) |
| Dance | 1) T. K. Mahalingam Pillai (Bharatanatyam) 2) Mankompu Sivasankara Pillai (Kathakali) 3) Vedantam Prahlada Sarma (Kuchipudi) 4) Khaidem Lokeshwar Singh (Manipuri) 5) Mayadhar Raut (Odissi) |
| Theatre Acting | 1) Fida Hussain (Hindi Theatre) 2) B. Jayamma (Kannada) |
| Theatre Direction | Heisnam Kanhailal |
| Theatre Playwriting | Manoj Mitra (Bengali) |
| Theatre Allied Theatre Arts | Goverdhan Panchal (Scenic Design) |
| Theatre Others | Mohan Chandra Barma (Bhaona) |
1986
| Field | Recipient |
|---|---|
| Vocal Hindustani Music | 1) Gavri Devi 2) Asgari Bai 3) Firoz Dastur 4) Manik Varma |
| Instrumental Hindustani Music | 1) Devendra Murdeshwar (Flute) 2) Shivkumar Sharma (Santoor) 3) Sabri Khan (Sarangi) 4) Sharan Rani Backliwal (Sarod) |
| Vocal Carnatic Music | 1) B. Rajam Iyer 2) Nedunuri Krishnamoorthy |
| Instrumental Carnatic Music | 1) Rajeswari Padmanabhan (Veena) 2) M. Chandrasekaran (Violin) 3) Anil Biswas (Creative & Experimental) 4) M. B. Srinivasan (Creative & Experimental) 5) Hemanta Kumar Mukhopadhyay (Creative & Experimental) |
| Dance | 1) Krishnaveni Lakshmanan (Bharatanatyam) 2) Priyambada Mohanty Hejmadi (Odissi) |
| Theatre Acting | 1) Prabhakar V. Panshikar (Marathi Theatre) 2) Peesapati Narasimha Murty (Telugu Theatre) |
| Theatre Direction | Alyque Padamsee |
| Theatre Playwriting | 1) Satya Prasad Barua (Assamese) 2) K. T. Muhammed (Malayalam) |
| Theatre Allied Theatre Arts | Khaled Choudhury (Scenic Design) |
1987
| Field | Recipient |
|---|---|
| Vocal Hindustani Music | 1) C. R. Vyas 2) Shobha Gurtu 3) Pandit Jasraj |
| Instrumental Hindustani Music | 1) Abdul Halim Jaffer Khan (Sitar) 2) Imrat Khan (Sitar) |
| Vocal Carnatic Music | 1) Madurai N. Krishnan 2) Mani Krishnaswami |
| Instrumental Carnatic Music | T. Viswanathan (Flute) T. K. Murthy (Mridangam) |
| Dance | 1) U. S. Krishna Rao (Bharatanatyam) 2) Chandrabhaga Devi (Bharatanatyam) 3) Chitra Viswaswaran (Bharatanatyam) 4) Madan Mohan Lenka (Chhau) 5) Uma Sharma (Kathak) 6) Kalamandalam Gopi (Kathakali) 7) Pasumarthi Venugopala Krishna Sarma (Kuchipudi) 8) Tarun Kumar Singh (Manipuri) 9) Sonal Mansingh (Odissi) |
| Theatre Acting | Sulabha Deshpande (Marathi Theatre) |
| Theatre Direction | 1) Tarun Roy 2) Ratan Thiyam |
| Theatre Playwriting | 1) V.V. Shirwadkar (Marathi) 2) Gopal Chhotray (Oriya) |
| Theatre Others | Bhupen Hazarika (Folk Music) |
| Theatre Puppetry | Suresh Dutta |
1988
| Field | Recipient |
|---|---|
| Vocal Hindustani Music | Padmavati Gokhale Shaligram |
| Instrumental Hindustani Music | 1) Ramshankardas Pagaldas (Pakhavaj) 2) Hanuman Prasad Mishra (Sarangi) 3) Zarin Sharma (Sarod) |
| Vocal Carnatic Music | Nookala Chinna Satyanarayana (1988) |
| Instrumental Carnatic Music | 1) Thetakudi Harihara Vinayakram (Ghatam) 2) Valayapatti A. R. Subramaniam (Thavil) 3) R. Pichumani Iyer (Veena) 4) Chalakudy N. S. Narayanaswamy (Violin) 5) Bhaskar Chandavarkar (Creative & Experimental) |
| Dance | 1) Srihari Nayak (Chhau) 2) Keezhpadam Kumaran Nair (Kathakali) 3) Ibopishak Sharma (Manipuri) |
| Theatre Acting | 1) Sarita Joshi (Gujarati Theatre) 2) Saudagar Nagnath Gore ‘Chhota Gandharva’ (Marathi Theatre) |
| Theatre Playwriting | Dharamvir Bharati (Hindi) |
| Theatre Allied Theatre Arts | Dattatraya Ganesh Godse (Scenic Design) |
| Theatre Others | Pratima Barua Pandey (Folk Music) |
| Films | Salil Chowdhury (Music) |
1989
| Field | Recipient |
|---|---|
| Vocal Hindustani Music | Jitendra Abhisheki |
| Instrumental Hindustani Music | 1) Amjad Ali Khan (Sarod) 2) Pt. Anant Lal (Shehnai) 3) Balaram Pathak (Sitar) |
| Vocal Carnatic Music | Titte Krishna Iyengar |
| Instrumental Carnatic Music | 1) Sikkil Kunjumani (Flute) 2) Sikkil Neela (Flute) 3) R. K. Venkatarama Sastry (Violin) 4) Vanraj Bhatia (Creative & Experimental) |
| Dance | 1) V. S. Muthuswamy Pillai (Bharatanatyam) 2) Maya Rao (Creative Dance) 3) Oyoor Kochugovinda Pillai (Kathakali) |
| Theatre Acting | 1) Sekhar Chatterjee (Bengali Theatre) 2) Surekha Sikri (Hindi Theatre) |
| Theatre Direction | Bibhash Chakraborty |
| Theatre Playwriting | 1) G. B. Joshi (Kannada) 2) Mahesh Elkunchwar (Marathi) |
| Theatre Allied Theatre Arts | G.N. Dasgupta (Lighting) |
| Theatre Others | Rajen Pam (Tribal Music) |
Related: Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award (2024 Updated)
1990
| Field | Recipient |
|---|---|
| Vocal Hindustani Music | 1) K. G. Ginde 2) Dhondutai Kulkarni |
| Instrumental Hindustani Music | 1) Abdul Lateef Khan (Sarangi) 2) Ustad Zakir Hussain (Tabla) 3) N. Rajam (Violin) |
| Vocal Carnatic Music | T. V. Sankaranarayanan |
| Instrumental Carnatic Music | 1) T. V. Gopalakrishnan (Mridangam) 2) Chitti Babu (Veena) 3) L. Subramaniam (Creative & Experimental) |
| Dance | 1) Kalanidhi Narayanan (Bharatanatyam) 2) Bikram Kumbhakar (Chhau) 3) Shobha Naidu (Kuchipudi) 4) Th. Babu Singh (Manipuri) |
| Theatre Acting | 1) Naseeruddin Shah (Hindi Theatre) 2) Bhakti Barve Inamdar (Marathi Theatre) |
| Theatre Direction | 1) Geoffrey Kendal 2) Laura Kendal |
| Theatre Allied Theatre Arts | Roshan Alkazi (Costumes/Make-up) |
| Theatre Others | Rameshwar Pathak (Folk Music) |
1991
| Field | Recipient |
|---|---|
| Vocal Hindustani Music | 1) N. Zahiruddin Dagar 2) Prabha Atre |
| Instrumental Hindustani Music | 1) Chatrapati Singh (Pakhavaj) 2) Annapurna Devi (Surbahar) 3) Shaikh Dawood (Tabla) |
| Vocal Carnatic Music | S. Rajam |
| Instrumental Carnatic Music | 1) Vellore G. Ramabhadran (Mridangam) 2) Kandadevi S. Alagiriswamy (Violin) |
| Dance | 1) Adyar K. Lakshman (Bharatanatyam) 2) Chandra Sekhar Bhanj (Chhau) 3) Chandralekha (Creative Dance) 4) Reba Vidyarthi (Kathak) 5) Chennithala Chellapan Pillai (Kathakali) 6) Raja Reddy (Kuchipudi) 7) Radha Reddy (Kuchipudi) |
| Theatre Acting | 1) Sabitri Heisnam (Manipuri) 2) Neelu Phule (Marathi Theatre) |
| Theatre Direction | Fritz Bennewitz |
| Theatre Playwriting | Mohit Chattopadhyaya (Bengali) |
| Theatre Others | 1) Puranchand Wadali (Folk Music) 2) Pyarelal Wadali (Folk Music) |
| Films | Sudhir Phadke (Music) |
1992
| Field | Recipient |
|---|---|
| Vocal Hindustani Music | 1) Ramarao V. Naik 2) Shiv Kumar Shukla |
| Instrumental Hindustani Music | 1) Sultan Khan (Sarangi) 2) Uma Shankar Mishra (Sitar) |
| Vocal Carnatic Music | K. R. Kumaraswamy Iyer |
| Instrumental Carnatic Music | 1) Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman (Mridangam) 2) M. K. Kalyanakrishna Bhagavathar (Veena) |
| Dance | 1) K. J. Sarasa (Bharatanatyam) 2) Sachin Shankar (Creative Dance) 3) D. N. Pattnaik (Odissi) |
| Theatre Acting | 1) R. Nagarathnamma (Kannada) 2) Poornam Viswanathan (Tamil) |
| Theatre Direction | Mohan Maharishi |
| Theatre Playwriting | Surendra Verma (Hindi) |
| Theatre Others | Khagen Mahanta (Folk Music) |
| Theatre Puppetry | Dadi Dorab Pudumjee |
| Films | 1) Naushad (Music) 2) K. J. Yesudas (Music) |
1993
| Field | Recipient |
|---|---|
| Vocal Hindustani Music | 1) Bala Saheb Poochwale 2) Rahim Fahimuddin Dagar |
| Instrumental Hindustani Music | 1) Gopaldas Panse (Pakhavaj) 2) Bhajan Sopori (Santoor) 3) Buddhadev Das Gupta (Sarod) |
| Vocal Carnatic Music | Trichy Swaminathan Iyer |
| Instrumental Carnatic Music | 1) Kalpakam Swaminathan (Veena) 2) Kunnakudi Vaidyanathan (Violin) |
| Dance | 1) Guru Kubernath Tanjorkar (Bharatanatyam) 2) C. V. Chandrasekhar (Bharatanatyam) 3) Manjusri Chaki Sircar (Creative Dance) 4) Kalamandalam Padmanabhan Nair (Kathakali) 5) Josyula Seetharamaiah (Kuchipudi) 6) H. Ngangbi Devi (Manipuri) |
| Theatre Mime | Jogesh Dutta |
| Theatre Direction | 1) Kailash Pandya 2) Barry John |
| Theatre Playwriting | Gursharan Singh (Punjabi) |
| Theatre Allied Theatre Arts | M.S. Sathyu (Stagecraft) |
1994
| Field | Recipient |
|---|---|
| Vocal Hindustani Music | 1) Sulochana Brahaspati 2) Zia Fariddudin Dagar |
| Instrumental Hindustani Music | 1) Pandit Gopal Krishan (Veena) 2) Raghunath Seth (Flute) 3) Shamim Ahmed Khan (Sitar) |
| Vocal Carnatic Music | C. S. Krishna Iyer |
| Instrumental Carnatic Music | 1) A. K. C. Natarajan (Clarionet) 2) Dandamudi Ram Mohan Rao (Mridangam) 3) V. Balsara (Creative & Experimental) |
| Dance | 1) V. P. Dhananjayan (Bharatanatyam) 2) Shanta Dhananjayan (Bharatanatyam) 3) Vedantam Parvateesam (Kuchipudi) 4) T. Nadia Singh (Kuchipudi) 5) Kalamandalam Satyabhama (Mohiniattam) 6) Kumkum Mohanty (Odissi) |
| Theatre Acting | 1) Balappa Yenagi (Kannada) 2) Uzra Butt (Urdu) |
| Theatre Playwriting | Satish Alekar (Marathi) |
| Theatre Allied Theatre Arts | Kanishka Sen (Lighting) |
| Theatre Others | M. Boyer (Tiatr) |
| Overall Contribution | 1) Kanak Rele (Dance) 2) K. V. Subbanna (Theatre) |
1995
| Field | Recipient |
|---|---|
| Vocal Hindustani Music | A. Kanan |
| Instrumental Hindustani Music | 1) Ram Ashish Pathak (Pakhavaj) 2) D. K. Datar (Violin) |
| Vocal Carnatic Music | R. Vedavalli |
| Instrumental Carnatic Music | 1) Umayalpuram K. Narayanaswamy (Ghatam) 2) Domada Chittiabbayi (Nagaswaram) 3) Atul Desai (Creative & Experimental) |
| Dance | 1) M. K. Saroja (Bharatanatyam) 2) Indira Rajan (Bharatanatyam) 3) Astad Deboo (Creative Dance) 4) Ramlal Bareth (Kathak) 5) L. Thambalngoubi Devi (Manipuri) 6) Raghunath Dutta (Odissi) |
| Theatre Acting | Satya Bandopadhyay (Bengali theatre) |
| Theatre Direction | 1) M. K. Raina 2) Bansi Kaul |
| Theatre Allied Theatre Arts | N. Krishnamoorthy (Stagecraft) |
| Theatre Others | Teejan Bai (Pandavani) |
| Theatre Puppetry | T. Hombiah |
| Overall Contribution | Sunil Kothari (Dance) |
1996
| Field | Recipient |
|---|---|
| Vocal Hindustani Music | 1) Dinkar Kaikini 2) Hafeez Ahmed Khan |
| Instrumental Hindustani Music | 1) Inderlal Dhandra (Sarangi) 2) Ramchandra Mishra (Sarangi) 3) Pt. Raghunath Prasanna (Shehnai) 4) Debu Chaudhuri (Sitar) 5) Annavarapu Rama Swamy (Violin) |
| Vocal Carnatic Music | T. K. Govinda Rao |
| Instrumental Carnatic Music | 1) Guruvayur Dorai (Mridangam) 2) Annavarapu Ramaswamy (Violin) |
| Dance | 1) Sarada Hoffman (Bharatanatyam) 2) Rani Karnaa (Kathak) 3) Kottakkal Krishnan Kutty Nair (Kathakali) 4) Darshana Jhaveri (Manipuri) 5) Indira P. P. Bora (Sattriya) |
| Theatre Acting | 1) B. Jayashree (Kannada) 2) Mohan Agashe (Marathi Theatre) |
| Theatre Direction | Purushottam Darwhekar |
| Theatre Playwriting | G.P. Deshpande (Marathi) |
| Overall Contribution | Ram Gopal Bajaj (Theatre) |
1997
| Field | Recipient |
|---|---|
| Vocal Hindustani Music | L. K. Pandit |
| Instrumental Hindustani Music | 1) Swapan Chaudhuri (Tabla) 2) Lalji Gokhale (Tabla) 3) Sisir Kana Dhar Chowdhury (Violin) |
| Vocal Carnatic Music | M. S. Balasubramanya Sarma |
| Instrumental Carnatic Music | 1) Kesi Narayanaswamy (Flute) 2) T. Rukmini (Violin) 3) Satish Bhatia (Creative & Experimental) |
| Dance | 1) Kanaka Srinivasan (Bharatanatyam) 2) Madavoor Vasudevan Nair (Kathakali) 3) Samanduram Tondon Devi (Manipuri) 4) Gangadhar Pradhan (Odissi) |
| Theatre Acting | R. K. Bhogen (Manipuri) |
| Theatre Direction | Bhanu Bharti |
| Theatre Playwriting | 1) H. S. Shivaprakash (Kannada) 2) Moti Lal Kemmu (Kashmiri) 3) N. Krishna Pillai (Malayalam) |
| Theatre Allied Theatre Arts | Mansukh Joshi (Lighting & Scenic Design |
| Theatre Others | 1) Arghya sen (Rabindra Sangeet) 2) P. R. Thilagam (Kuravanji Performer) |
1998
| Field | Recipient |
|---|---|
| Vocal Hindustani Music | 1) Puttaraj Gawaigalu 2) Parveen Sultana 3) Rajan Mishra 4) Sajan Mishra |
| Instrumental Hindustani Music | Pandharinath Gangadhar Nageshkar (Tabla) |
| Instrumental Carnatic Music | 1) Karaikudi Mani (Mridangam) 2) M. S. Anantharaman (Violin) 3) Vishwa Mohan Bhatt (Creative & Experimental) |
| Dance | 1) Lakshmi Viswanathan (Bharatanatyam) 2) Sunderlal Sathyanarayan Gangani (Kathak) 3) Kottakkal Sivaraman (Kathakali) 4) Veernala Jayarama Rao (Kuchipudi) 5) Banashree Rao (Kuchipudi) 6) N. Madhabi Devi (Manipuri) 7) Kalamandalam Kshemavathy (Mohiniattam) 8) Pradip Chaliha (Sattriya) |
| Theatre Acting | Soumitra Chatterjee (Bengali Theatre) |
| Theatre Direction | 1) Amal Allana 2) Dulal Roy 3) Usha Ganguly |
| Theatre Playwriting | Balwant Gargi (Punjabi) |
| Theatre Others | Ghulam Mohammad Saznawaz |
| Theatre Puppetry | Kolhacharan Sahu (Ravanchhaya Puppetry) |
1999-2000
| Field | Recipient |
|---|---|
| Vocal Hindustani Music | 1) Ajoy Chakraborty 2) Rita Ganguly 3) Malabika Kanan |
| Instrumental Hindustani Music | 1) Rajeev Taranath (Sarod) 2) Shankar Ghosh (Tabla) |
| Instrumental Carnatic Music | 1) T.S Sankaran (Flute) 2) V. Kamalakar Rao (Mridangam) 3) R. R. Keshavamurthy (Violin) |
| Dance | 1) K. Kalyanasundaram Pillai (Bharatanatyam) 2) Leela Samson (Bharatanatyam) 3) H. R. Keshava Murthy (Bharatanatyam) 4) Mallika Sarabhai (Creative Dance) 5) Shovana Narayan (Kathak) 6) Nelliyode Vasudevan Namboodiri (Kathakali) 7) Swapnasundari Rao (Kuchipudi) 8) Sorokhaibam Naran Singh (Manipuri) 9) Bharati Shivaji (Mohiniattam) 10) Minati Mishra (Odissi) 11) Madhavi Mudgal (Odissi) 12) Parmanand Borbayan (Sattriya) |
| Theatre Acting | 1) Ketaki Dutta Sabitri Chatterjee (Bengali Theatre) 2) Seema Biswas (Hindi Theatre) |
| Theatre Direction | 1) Balwant Thakur 2) Nadira Zaheer Babbar 3) Prasanna |
| Theatre Playwriting | Na. Muthuswamy (Tamil) |
| Theatre Allied Theatre Arts | 1) R.K. Dhingra (Lighting) 2) Robin Das (Scenic Design) 3) Shakti Sen (Make-up) 4) Kajal Ghosh (Music for Theatre) 5) Kamal Tewari (Music for Theatre) |
| Theatre Puppetry | B.H. Puttashamachar |
Related: List Of Padma Bhushan Award Recipients (1954-2024)
2000
| Field | Recipient |
|---|---|
| Instrumental Hindustani Music | Appa Jalgaonkar (Harmonium) |
| Vocal Carnatic Music | S. R. Janakiraman |
| Dance | Surendra Saikia (Kathak) |
| Overall Contribution | 1) B. V. K. Sastry (Performing Arts) 2) Nemi Chandra Jain (Performing Arts) 3) Shanta Serbjeet Singh (Performing Arts) |
2001
| Field | Recipient |
|---|---|
| Vocal Hindustani Music | 1) Abhay Narayan Mallick 2) Sangameshwar Gurav 3) Malini Rajurkar |
| Instrumental Hindustani Music | 1) Manilal Nag (Sitar) 2) Ishwar Lal Mishra (Tabla) |
| Vocal Carnatic Music | B. V. Raman |
| Instrumental Carnatic Music | 1) G. Harishankar (Kanjira) 2) Haridwaramangalam A. K. Palanivel (Thavil) 3) R. N. Doreswamy (Veena) 4) S. Rajaram (Creative & Experimental) |
| Dance | 1) Alarmel Valli (Bharatanatyam) 2) Pratibha Prahlad (Bharatanatyam) 3) Gul Bardhan (Creative Dance) 4) Charu Sija Mathur (Manipuri) 5) Ghanakanta Bora (Sattriya) |
| Theatre Acting | Girish Chowdhury (Assamese) |
| Theatre Direction | Shanta Gandhi |
| Theatre Playwriting | 1) Bhisham Sahni (Hindi) 2) D.P. Sinha (Hindi) |
| Theatre Allied Theatre Arts | Dolly Ahluwalia (Costume Design) |
| Theatre Puppetry | Hiren Bhattacharya |
| Theatre Films | Prem Matiyani (Theatre) |
| Overall Contribution | Suresh Awasthi (Performing Arts) |
2002
| Field | Recipient |
|---|---|
| Vocal Hindustani Music | 1) Sushila Rani Patel 2) Sharayu Kalekar |
| Instrumental Hindustani Music | 1) Suresh B. Gaitonde (Tabla) 2) Anindo Chatterjee (Tabla) |
| Vocal Carnatic Music | T. R. Subramaniam |
| Instrumental Carnatic Music | 1) Yella Venkateshwara Rao (Mridangam) 2) E. Gayathri (Veena) 3) K. P. Udayabhanu (Creative & Experimental) |
| Dance | 1) Malavika Sarukkai (Bharatanatyam) 2) Sambhu Bhattacharya (Creative Dance) 3) Rajendra Gangani (Kathak) 4) K. Ongbi Leipaklotpi Devi (Manipuri) 5) Kiran Segal (Odissi) |
| Theatre Mime | Niranjan Goswami |
| Theatre Direction | 1) Arun Mukherjee 2) Satish Anand |
| Theatre Allied Theatre Arts | 1) Ashok Sagar Bhagat (Lighting) 2) Nissar Allana (Stagecraft) |
| Theatre Others | 1) Dilip Sarma (Jyoti Sangeet) 2) Sudakshina Sarma (Jyoti Sangeet) |
| Overall Contribution | 1) Romesh Chander (Theatre) 2) J. N. Kaushal (Theatre) |
2003
| Field | Recipient |
|---|---|
| Vocal Hindustani Music | 1) Ghulam Mustafa Khan 2) Yeshwant Balkrishna Joshi |
| Instrumental Hindustani Music | 1) Bhavani Shankar (Pakhavaj) 2) Arvind Parikh (Sitar) |
| Vocal Carnatic Music | 1) Trichur V. Ramachandran 2) M. A. Narasimhachar |
| Instrumental Carnatic Music | 1) Kadri Gopalnath (Saxophone) 2) A. Kanyakumari (Violin) |
| Dance | 1) C. K. Balagopalan (Bharatanatyam) 2) Sunayana Hazarilal Agarwal (Kathak) 3) Urmila Nagar (Kathak) 4) Sadanam P. V. Balakrishnan (Kathakali) 5) K. Uma Rama Rao (Kuchipudi) 6) Thiyam Suryamukhi Devi (Manipuri) 7) Kalavati Devi (Manipuri) 8) Hare Krishna Behera (Odissi) |
| Theatre Acting | 1) Shaoli Mitra (Bengali Theatre) 2) C. R. Simha (Kannada) |
| Theatre Direction | 1) Devendra Raj Ankur 2) Neelam Mansingh Chowdhry |
| Theatre Playwriting | 1) Aruna Sarma (Assamese) 2) Ratnakar Ramkrishna Matkari (Marathi) |
| Theatre Allied Theatre Arts | 1) Sreenivas G. Kappanna (Lighting) 2) Anant Gopal Shinde (Make-up) |
| Theatre Others | 1) Prabhat Sarma (Traditional & Folk Music) 2) Kosha Kanta Deva Goswami (Mask Making Bhaona) 3) Banamali Maharana (Odissi Music) |
| Theatre Puppetry | Puran Bhatt |
| Overall Contribution | P. V. Subramanium ‘Subbudu’ (Performing Arts) |
2004
| Field | Recipient |
|---|---|
| Vocal Hindustani Music | 1) Balwant Rai Bhatt 2) Tejpal Singh 3) Surinder Singh |
| Instrumental Hindustani Music | 1) Aashish Khan (Sarod) 2) Pt. Suresh Talwalkar (Tabla) |
| Vocal Carnatic Music | 1) Thiruvengadu A. Jayaraman 2) C. Saroja 3) C. Lalitha |
| Instrumental Carnatic Music | 1) Prapancham Sitaram (Flute) 2) Madras A. Kannan (Mridangam) |
| Dance | 1) Nirmala Ramachandran (Bharatanatyam) 2) Shashadhar Acharya (Chhau) 3) Saswati Sen (Kathak) 4) Kalamandalam Vasu Pisharody (Kathakali) 5) Pasumarthi Seetha Ramiah (Kuchipudi) 6) Kalamandalam Sugandhi (Mohiniattam) 7) Durllav Chandra Singh (Odissi) 8) Jatin Goswami (Sattriya) |
| Theatre Acting | 1) Rohini Hattangady 2) Ramcharan Nirmalkar |
| Theatre Direction | 1) Anuradha Kapur 2) Arambam Lokendra Singh 3) Raj Besaria |
| Theatre Playwriting | 1) Swadesh Deepak (Hindi) 2) Indira Parthasarathy (Tamil) |
| Theatre Allied Theatre Arts | Prema Karanth (Costume Design) |
| Overall Contribution | Sushil Kumar Saxena (Performing Arts) |
2005
| Field | Recipient |
|---|---|
| Vocal Hindustani Music | 1) S. C. R. Bhat 2) Ramashreya Jha |
| Instrumental Hindustani Music | 1) Brij Bhushan Kabra (Guitar) 2) Tulsidas Vasant Borkar (Harmonium) |
| Vocal Carnatic Music | 1) S. V. Parthasarrathy 2) P. S. Narayanaswamy |
| Instrumental Carnatic Music | 1) Ongale N. Rangaiah (Nagaswaram) 2) V. V. Subrahmanyam (Violin) |
| Dance | 1) R. Rhadha (Bharatanatyam) 2) Th. Chaotombi Singh (Creative Dance) 3) Tirath Ram Azad (Kathak) 4) Mathoor Govindan Kutty (Kathakali) 5) Korada Narasimha Rao (Kuchipudi) 6) K. Radhamohon Sharma (Manipuri) 7) Durga Charan Ranbir (Odissi) 8) Josyula Krishna Murthy (Kuchipudi Bhagavatha Maddalla) |
| Theatre Acting | Chindodi Leela |
| Theatre Direction | 1) Ranjit Kapoor 2) V K Sharma |
| Theatre Allied Theatre Arts | 1) Suresh Bhardwaj (Lighting) 2) R. Paramashivan (Music for Theatre) 3) H. V. Sharma (Stagecraft) |
| Theatre Others | 1) Khirod Khakhlari (Bodo Dance & Music) 2) Kashinath Pujapanda (Odissi Music) 3) Mathoor Govindan Kutty (Kathakali) |
| Theatre Puppetry | Ganpat Sakharam Masge |
| Overall Contribution | Pratibha Agrawal (Theatre) |
2006
| Field | Recipient |
|---|---|
| Vocal Hindustani Music | 1) Vijay Kumar Kichlu 2) Rashid Khan |
| Instrumental Hindustani Music | 1) Shahid Parvez (Sitar) 2) Kumar Bose (Tabla) |
| Vocal Carnatic Music | 1) D. Pasupathi 2) Chingleput Ranganathan |
| Instrumental Carnatic Music | 1) N. Ravikiran (Gottuvadhyam) 2) Thiruvarur Bakthavathsalam (Mridangam) |
| Dance | 1) S. Narmada (Bharatanatyam) 2) Gorima Hazarika (Creative Dance) 3) Munna Shukla (Kathak) 4) Kottakkal Chandrasekharan (Kathakali) 5) Pasumarthi Rathiah Sarma (Kuchipudi) 6) Kalamandalam Vimala Menon (Mohiniattam) 7) Surendra Nath Jena (Odissi) 8) Kalamandalam Gangadharan (Kathakali Pattu) |
| Theatre Acting | 1) Dharani Barman 2) Gita Dey 3) K. Kaladharan Nair |
| Theatre Direction | 1) E. Joychandra Singh 2) R. Nagesh 3) Amitava Dasgupta |
| Theatre Playwriting | Prabhat Kumar Bhattacharya (Hindi) |
| Theatre Allied Theatre Arts | Gautam Bhattacharya (Lighting) |
| Overall Contribution | Rekha Jain (Performing Arts) |
2007
| Field | Recipient |
|---|---|
| Vocal Hindustani Music | 1) Vidyadhar Vyas 2) Govardhan Mishra |
| Instrumental Hindustani Music | 1) Nandan Mehta (Tabla) 2) Ramoo Prasad Shastri (Violin) |
| Vocal Carnatic Music | B. Krishnamoorti |
| Instrumental Carnatic Music | 1) S. R. D. Vaidyanathan (Nagaswaram) 2) Vidya Shankar (Veena) 3) Khayyam (Creative & Experimental) |
| Dance | 1) Sucheta Bhide Chapekar (Bharatanatyam) 2) Geetanjali Lal (Kathak) 3) Sadanam Krishnankutty (Kathakali) 4) Yelesarapu Nageswara Sarma (Kuchipudi) 5) Deepti Omchery Bhalla (Mohiniattam) 6) Ranjana Gauhar (Odissi) 7) Ganakanta Dutta Borbayan (Sattriya) 8) Kalamandalam Sivan Namboodiri (Kutiyattam) |
| Theatre Acting | Ramesh Mehta |
| Theatre Direction | 1) Hari Madhab Mukherjee 2) N.C. Thakur |
| Theatre Playwriting | 1) Reoti Sharan Sharna (Hindi) 2) Yumnam Rajendra Singh (Manipuri) 3) Lathangfala Sailo (Mizo) |
| Theatre Allied Theatre Arts | Mahendra Kumar (Scenic Design) |
| Theatre Major Traditions | Kolyur Ramachandra Rao (Yakshagana) |
| Theatre Others | 1) Subodh Debbarma (Folk Dance) 2) Amar Pal (Folk Song) |
| Overall Contribution | Mukund Lath (Performing Arts) |
2008
| Field | Recipient |
|---|---|
| Vocal Hindustani Music | 1) Ulhas Kashalkar 2) M.R. Gautam |
| Instrumental Hindustani Music | 1) Ramesh Mishra (Sarangi) 2) Krishna Ram Chaudhary (Shehnai) |
| Vocal Carnatic Music | Puranam Purushottama Sastri |
| Instrumental Carnatic Music | 1) Mannargudi Easwaran (Mridangam) 2) B. Sasikumar (Violin) 3) Ningombam Ibobi Singh (Nata Sankirtana) |
| Dance | 1) Saroja Vaidyanathan (Bharatanatyam) 2) Yogsunder Desai (Creative Dance) 3) Shashi Sankhla (Kathak) 4) Kalamandalam Kuttan (Kathakali) 5) Vasanta Lakshmi and Narasimhachari (Kuchipudi) 6) Kalamandalam Leelamma (Mohiniattam) 7) Ramani Ranjan Jena (Odissi) 8) Ramhari Das (Odissi) |
| Theatre Acting | 1) Markand Bhatt 2) Arundhati Nag |
| Theatre Direction | 1) S. Ramanujam 2) Probir Guha |
| Theatre Playwriting | 1) Narsingh Dev Jamwal (Dogri) 2) Mudra Rakshasa (Hindi) |
| Theatre Allied Theatre Arts | Amba Sanyal (Costume Designing) |
| Theatre Major Traditions | Bansi Lal Khiladi (Khayal) |
| Theatre Others | 1) Kartar Singh (Gurbani) 2) Mangi Bai Arya (Mand) 3) Lakha Khan Mangniyar (Folk Music) 4) Bansi Lal Khilari (Khayal) |
| Overall Contribution | R. Sathyanarayana (Performing Arts) |
2009
| Field | Recipient |
|---|---|
| Vocal Hindustani Music | 1) Abdul Rashid Khan 2) Vasundhara Komkali |
| Instrumental Hindustani Music | 1) Ali Ahmad Hussain (Shehnai) 2) Lachman Singh Seen (Tabla) |
| Vocal Carnatic Music | Parassala B Ponnammal |
| Instrumental Carnatic Music | 1) U. Srinivas (Mandolin) 2) Dandamudi Sumathi Ram Mohan Rao (Mridangam) 3) L. Ibohalmacha Singh (Nata Sankirtana) |
| Dance | 1) Ananda Shankar Jayant (Bharatanatyam) 2) Daksha Sheth (Creative Dance) 3) Prerana Shrimali (Kathak) 4) Kalamandalam Rajan (Kathakali) 5) Vyjayanthi Kashi (Kuchipudi) 6) L. Bino Devi (Manipuri) 7) Geeta Mahalik (Odissi) 8) Kala Krishna (Andhranatyam) |
| Theatre Acting | 1) Sudha Shivpuri 2) Neeta Mohindra |
| Theatre Mime | Moinul Haque |
| Theatre Direction | 1) Joy Michael 2) Dinesh Thakur |
| Theatre Playwriting | 1) Vayala Vasudevan Pillai (Malayalam) 2) Shankar Narayan Navre (Marathi) |
| Theatre Allied Theatre Arts | 1) Kamal Arora (Make-up) 2) Kuldeep Singh (Music for Theatre) |
| Theatre Others | Bhikhudan Gadhvi (Folk music) |
| Overall Contribution | Leela Venkataraman (Performing Arts) |
2010
| Field | Recipient |
|---|---|
| Vocal Hindustani Music | 1) Chhannulal Mishra 2) Yashpaul |
| Instrumental Hindustani Music | 1) Nityanand Haldipur (Flute) 2) Budhaditya Mukherjee (Sitar) |
| Vocal Carnatic Music | 1) Suguna Purushothaman 2) Mysore Nagamani Srinath |
| Instrumental Carnatic Music | 1) Srimushnam V. Raja Rao (Mridangam) 2) Nagai Muralidharan (Violin) 3) M.V. Simhachala Sastry (Harikatha) |
| Dance | 1) Uttara Asha Coorlawala (Creative Dance) 2) Malabika Mitra (Kathak) 3) Kalamandalam K. G. Vasudevan (Kathakali) 4) Ratna Kumar (Kuchipudi) 5) Phanjoubam Iboton Singh (Manipuri) 6) Aruna Mohanty (Odissi) 7) Manik Borbayan (Sattriya) 8) Painkulam Rama Chakyar (Kutiyattam) 9) S. Rajeswari (Bharatanatyam) |
| Theatre Acting | 1) Dilip Prabhavalkar 2) Banwari Taneja 3) Maya Krishna Rao 4) Swatilekha Sengupta |
| Theatre Direction | 1) Veenapani Chawla 2) Urmil Kumar Thapliyal |
| Theatre Playwriting | 1) Atamjeet Singh (Punjabi) 2) D. Vizai Bhaskar (Telegu) |
| Theatre Others | 1) Harbhajan Singh Namdhari (Gurbani Kirtan) 2) Nazeer Ahmed Khan Warsi (Qawwali) 3) Naseer Ahmed Khan Warsi (Qawwali) 4) Dwijen Mukherjee (Rabindra Sangeet) 5) Chandabai Tiwadi (Bharud) 6) T. Somasundaram (Folk Dance) 7) Krishna Kumari (Folk Music: Bhakha) 8) Chand Jagdish Tiwadi (Folk theatre: Bharud) |
| Theatre Puppetry | 1) K. Chinna Anjannamma (Shadow Puppetry: Tolu Bommalata) 2) K.V. Ramakrishnan (Glove Puppetry: Pava Kathakali) 3) K.C. Ramakrishnan (Glove Puppetry: Pava Kathakali) |
| Overall Contribution | 1) Ashok Ranade (Music) 2) Jaidev Taneja (Theatre) |
Related: Bharat Ratna Award List In India (1954-2024)
2011
| Field | Recipient |
|---|---|
| Vocal Hindustani Music | 1) Shruti Sadolikar 2) Pandit Venkatesh Kumar |
| Instrumental Hindustani Music | 1) Totaram Sharma (Pakhavaj) 2) Pushparaj Koshti (Surbahar) |
| Vocal Carnatic Music | J. Venkataraman |
| Instrumental Carnatic Music | 1) E. M. Subramaniam (Ghatam) 2) Seshampatti T Sivalingam (Nagaswaram) 3) Ayyagari Syamasundaram (Veena) 4) Gopal Chandra Panda (Odissi Music) |
| Dance | 1) Narthaki Nataraj (Bharatanatyam) 2) Tanushree Shankar (Creative Dance) 3) Manjushree Chatterjee (Kathak) 4) Thonnakkal Peethambaran (Kathakali) 5) Alekhya Punjala (Kuchipudi) 6) Priti Patel (Manipuri) 7) V. K. Hymavathy (Mohiniattam) 8) Ramli Ibrahim (Odissi) |
| Dance Music for Dance | Karaikudi Krishnamurthi |
| Theatre Direction | 1) Alakhnandan 2) Kirti Jain |
| Theatre Allied Theatre Arts | Kamal Jain (Lighting) |
| Theatre Others | 1) Trippekulam Achuta Marar 2) Hemant Chauhan (Folk Music) 3) Gurmeet Bawa (Folk Music) 4) Kashiram Sahu (Folk Theatre) 5) Mipham Otsal (Traditional Theatre) 6) Bellagallu Veeranna (Togalu Gombeyatta, Puppetry) 7) Gopal Chandra Das (Putul Nach) 8) Kasmi Khan Niyazi (Making of Musical Instrument) |
| Overall Contribution | 1) Shrivatsa Goswami 2) Sundari K. Shridharani |
2012
| Field | Recipient |
|---|---|
| Vocal Hindustani Music | 1) Shankar Lal Mishra 2) Rajashekhar Mansur 3) Ajay Pohankar |
| Instrumental Hindustani Music | 1) Bahauddin Dagar (Veena) 2) Sabir Khan (Tabla) |
| Vocal Carnatic Music | O. S. Thyagarajan |
| Instrumental Carnatic Music | 1) K. V. Prasad (Mridangam) 2) Mysore M. Nagaraja (Violin) 3) Ilaiyaraaja (Creative & Experimental) 4) Bhai Balbir Singh Ragi (Gurbani) |
| Dance | 1) Priyadarsini Govind (Bharatanatyam) 2) Jai Narayan Samal (Chhau) 3) Vijay Shankar (Kathak) 4) Vazhengada Vijayan (Kathakali) 5) Vedantam Ramalinga Sastry (Kuchipudi) 6) Sharmila Biswas (Odissi) 7) Painkulam Damodara Chakyar (Kutiyattam) |
| Dance Music for Dance | Jwala Prasad |
| Theatre Acting | 1) Parvesh Seth 2) Nirmal Rishi 3) Purisai Kannappa Sambandan |
| Theatre Direction | 1) Tripurari Sharma 2) Waman Kendre |
| Theatre Playwriting | Arjun Deo Charan |
| Theatre Allied Theatre Arts | Murari Roychoudhury (Music for Theatre) |
| Theatre Major Traditions | Ghulam Rasool Bhagat (Bhand Pather) |
| Theatre Others | 1) Go Ru Channabasappa (Folk Music) 2) Kinaram Nath Oja (Suknani Ojapali) 3) Prem Singh Dehati (Folk Music) 4) Sulochana Chavan (Lavani) 5) Mattannur Sankaran Kutty Marar (Thayambaka) 6) Govind Ram Nirmalkar (Nacha) 7) Heera Das Negi (Mask Making) |
| Theatre Puppetry | Prafulla Karmakar (Traditional Puppetry) |
| Overall Contribution | 1) Arun Kakade 2) Nandini Ramani |
2013
| Field | Recipient |
|---|---|
| Vocal Hindustani Music | 1) Ritwik Sanyal 2) Veena Sahasrabuddhe |
| Instrumental Hindustani Music | 1) Dhruba Ghosh (Sarangi) 2) Hashmat Ali Khan (Tabla) |
| Vocal Carnatic Music | 1) Aruna Sairam 2) D. Seshchari 3) D. Raghavachari |
| Instrumental Carnatic Music | 1) Trichy Sankaran (Mridangam) 2) Thiruvizha Jayashankar (Nagaswaram) 3) Bankim Sethi (Odissi Music) |
| Dance | 1) Jamuna Krishnan (Bharatanatyam) 2) B. Herabhanathan (Bharatanatyam) 3) Rajashree Shirke (Kathak) 4) Kalamandalam M. P. S. Namboodiri (Kathakali) 5) Chinta Seetha Ramanjaneyulu (Kuchipudi) 6) Sangeeta Dash (Odissi) 7) Jogen Dutta Bayan (Sattriya) 8) Srinivasa Rangachariar (Arayer Sevai) |
| Dance Music for Dance | Dhaneshwar Swain |
| Theatre Acting | 1) Vasant Josalkar 2) Kusum Haidar |
| Theatre Direction | 1) Kamalkar Muralidhar Sontakke 2) Kewal Dhaliwal 3) Prasanna Ramaswamy |
| Theatre Playwriting | 1) Rameshwar Prem 2) Pundalik Narayan Naik |
| Theatre Allied Theatre Arts | Krishna Borkar (Make-up) |
| Theatre Others | 1) Meeenakshi K. (Instrument Making ) 2) Raj Begum (Folk Music/Dance & Theatre) 3) T.A.R. Nadi Rao (Folk Music) 4) N Jeeva Rao (Folk Music) 5) Gurdial Singh (Instrument Making) 6) Mohan Singh Khangura (Rabindra Sangeet) 7) Umakanta Gogoi (Tokari Geet & Dehbichar Geet) 8) Sheikh Riyajuddin alias Rajubaba (Folk Theatre) |
| Theatre Puppetry | Lilavati M Kavi (Bajaj) |
| Overall Contribution | 1) N. Ramanathan 2) Mysore V. Subramanya |
2014
| Field | Recipient |
|---|---|
| Vocal Hindustani Music | 1) Ashwini Bhide-Deshpande 2) Iqbal Ahmad Khan 3) Nathrao Neralkar |
| Instrumental Hindustani Music | 1) Ronu Majumdar (Flute) 2) Pt. Nayan Ghosh (Tabla) |
| Vocal Carnatic Music | Neyveli Santhanagopalan |
| Instrumental Carnatic Music | 1) Sukanya Ramgopal (Ghatam) 2) Thiruvalaputhur T A Kaliyamurthy (Thavil) 3) Dwaram Durga Prasad Rao (Violin) |
| Dance | 1) Adayar Janardanan (Bharatanatyam) 2) Jagru Mahato (Chhau) 3) Navtej Singh Johar (Creative Dance) 4) Uma Dogra (Kathak) 5) Vedantam Radhesyam (Kuchipudi) 6) N. Amusana Devi (Manipuri) 7) Sudhakar Sahoo (Odissi) 8) Anita Sharma (Sattriya) |
| Dance Music for Dance | Varanasi Vishnu Namboothiri (Kathakali) |
| Theatre Acting | 1) Debshankar Haldar 2) Ramdas Kamat |
| Theatre Direction | 1) Surya Mohan Kulshreshtha 2) Chidambar Rao Jambe |
| Theatre Playwriting | Asgar Wajahat |
| Theatre Allied Theatre Arts | 1) Amod Bhatt 2) Amardas Manikpuri |
| Theatre Major Traditions | Manjunath Bhagwat Hostota (Yakshagana) |
| Theatre Others | 1) Puran Shah Koti (Traditional Music) 2) Kalamandalam Ram Mohan (Makeup/Costume for Kathakali) 3) Reba Kanta Mohanta (Mask Making) 4) Abdul Rashid Hafiz (Folk Music) 5) K.Shanathoiba Sharma (Thang-Ta) 6) Ramdayal Sharma (Nautanki) 7) Thanga Darlong (Folk Music) |
| Theatre Puppetry | K. Kesavasamy |
| Overall Contribution | 1) Indudhar Nirody 2) Akshara K. V. |
2015
| Field | Recipient |
|---|---|
| Vocal Hindustani Music | Mashkoor Ali Khan |
| Instrumental Hindustani Music | Karthick Kumar (Sitar) |
| Vocal Carnatic Music | 1) R.N. Tharanathan 2) Suguna Varadachari 3) R.N. Thiagarajan |
| Instrumental Carnatic Music | Lalgudi G. J. R. Krishnan (Violin) |
| Dance | 1) Ranganayaki Jayaraman (Bharatanatyam) 2) Sadashiva Pradhan (Chhau) 3) W. Lokendrajit Singh (Creative Dance) 4) K. Kunhiraman Nair (Kathakali) 5) Gaddam Padmaja Reddy (Kuchipudi) 6) Mandakini Trivedi (Mohiniattam) 7) Aloka Kanungo (Odissi) 8) Sarodi Saikia (Sattriya) |
| Dance Music for Dance | Rajkumar Bharathi |
| Theatre Direction | 1) Parvez Akhtar 2) Mushtaq Kak |
| Theatre Others | Ramchandra Singh (Folk Theater) |
| Overall Contribution | 1) Chaman Lal Ahuja (Performing Arts) 2) Shanta Gokhale (Performing Arts) 3) Rani Balbir Kaur (Theatre) |
2016
| Field | Recipient |
|---|---|
| Vocal Hindustani Music | Prabhakar Karekar |
| Instrumental Hindustani Music | 1) Arvind Mulgaonkar (Tabla) 2) Kala Ramnath (Violin) |
| Vocal Carnatic Music | 1) Neela Ramgopal 2) K. Omanakutty |
| Instrumental Carnatic Music | 1) J. Vaidhyanathan (Mridangam) 2) Mysore Manjunath (Violin) |
| Dance | 1) Geeta Chandran (Bharatanatyam) 2) Gopal Prasad Dubey (Chhau) 3) Anita Ratnam (Creative Dance) 4) Jitendra Maharaj (Kathak) 5) Kalamandalam Ramachandran Unnithan (Kathakali) 6) A B Bala Kondala Rao (Kuchipudi) 7) Maisnam Kaminikumar Singh (Manipuri) 8) Ratikant Mohapatra (Odissi) 9) Haricharan Bhuyan Borbaya (Sattriya) |
| Theatre Direction | 1) Satyabrata Rout 2) Rajkamal Nayak |
| Theatre Puppetry | Prabhitangsu Das |
2017
| Field | Recipient |
|---|---|
| Vocal Hindustani Music | 1) Lalith J. Rao 2) Umakant Gundecha 3) Ramakant Gundecha |
| Instrumental Hindustani Music | 1) Rajendra Prasanna (Sitar) 2) Pt. Yogesh Samsi (Tabla) |
| Vocal Carnatic Music | M. S. Sheela |
| Instrumental Carnatic Music | 1) Shashank Subramanyam (Flute) 2) Tiruvarur Vaidyanathan (Mridangam) 3) S.Kasim (Nagaswaram) 4) S.Babu (Nagaswaram) 5) Suma Sudhindra (Veena) 6) Rama Vaidyanathan (Bharatanatyam) 7) Janmajay Saibabu (Chhau) |
| Dance | 1) Shobha Koser (Kathak) 2) Madambi Subramanian Namboodiri (Kathakali) 3) Deepika Reddy (Kuchipudi) 4) L.N. Oinam Ongdi Doni Devi (Manipuri) 5) Sujata Mohapatra (Odissi) 6) Ramkrishna Talukdar (Sattriya) |
| Dance Music for Dance | Ashit Desai |
| Dance Folk & Tribal Dance | Mukund Nayak |
| Theatre Acting | Anil Tickoo |
| Theatre Others | 1) Mukund Nayak (Folk Music) 2) Prakash Khandge (Folk Arts) |
| Overall Contribution | Sandhya Purecha (Dance) |
2018
| Field | Recipient |
|---|---|
| Vocal Hindustani Music | 1) Mani Prasad 2) Madhup Mudgal |
| Instrumental Hindustani Music | 1) Tarun Bhattacharya (Santoor) 2) Tejendra Majumdar (Sarod) |
| Vocal Carnatic Music | 1) Alamelu Mani 2) Malladi Suribabu |
| Instrumental Carnatic Music | 1) Ganesh (Violin) 2) Kumaresh (Violin) 3) Suresh Wadkar (Sugam Sangeet) 4) Shanti Hiranand (Sugam Sangeet) 5) H. Ashangbi Devi (Nata Sankirtana) |
| Dance | 1) Radha Sridhar (Bharatanatyam) 2) Tapan Kumar Pattanayak (Chhau) 3) Deepak Mazumdar (Creative Dance) 4) Maulik Shah (Kathak) 5) Ishira Parikh (Kathak) 6) Pasumurthy Ramalinga Sastry (Kuchipudi) 7) Akham Lakshmi Devi (Manipuri) 8) Gopika Varma (Mohiniattam) 9) Surupa Sen (Odissi) 10) Tankeswar Hazarika Borbayan (Sattriya) |
| Theatre Acting | 1) Suhas Joshi 2) Teekam Joshi |
| Theatre Mime | Swapan Nandy |
| Theatre Direction | 1) Sanjay Upadhyay 2) S. Raghunandana |
| Theatre Playwriting | 1) Rajiv Naik 2) Laltluangliana Khiangte |
| Theatre Major Traditions | 1) Bhagawat A. S. Nanjappa (Yakshagana) 2) A. M. Parameswaran Kuttan Chakkiyar (Kutiyattam) |
| Theatre Others | 1) Malini Awasthi (Folk Music) 2) Gazi Khan Barna (Folk Music) 3) Narendra Singh Negi (Folk Songs) 4) Niranjan Rajyaguru (Folk Music) 5) Mohd. Sadiq Bhagat (Folk Theatre) 6) Kota Sachidanand Shastry (Harikatha) 7) Arjun Singh Dhurve (Folk Dance) 8) Somnath Battu (Folk Music) 9) Hem Chandra Goswami (Mask Making) |
| Theatre Puppetry | Anupama Hoskere |
| Overall Contribution | 1) Diwan Singh Bajeli (Theatre) 2) Puru Dadheech (Dance) |
2019
| Field | Recipient |
|---|---|
| Vocal Hindustani Music | 1) Vinayak Torvi 2) Prem Kumar Mallick |
| Instrumental Hindustani Music | 1) Chetan Joshi (Flute) 2) Manju Mehta (Sitar) |
| Vocal Carnatic Music | 1) Charumathi Ramachandran 2) Pala C. K. Ramachandran |
| Instrumental Carnatic Music | 1) Sikkil Mala Chandrasekar (Flute) 2) Trivandrum V Surendran (Mridangam) 3) O. S. Arun (Sugam Sangeet) 4) Sharma Bandhu (Sugam Sangeet) 5) D. Uma Maheshwari (Harikatha) |
| Dance | 1) Vasundhara Doraswamy (Bharatanatyam) 2) Brajendra Kumar Pattnaik (Chhau) 3) Mamata Shankar (Creative Dance) 4) Raghav Raj Bhatt (Kathak) 5) Mangala Bhatt (Kathak) 6) Kottakkal Nandakumaran Nair (Kathakali) 7) Manju Barggavee (Kuchipudi) 8) Nirmala Paniker (Mohiniattam) 9) Sutapa Talukdar (Odissi) 10) Ranjumoni Saikia (Sattriya) |
| Theatre Acting | 1) Alok Chatterjee 2) Pranjal Saikia |
| Theatre Direction | 1) Bharti Sharma 2) Kumar Sohoni 3) Abinash Sarma |
| Theatre Playwriting | Hrishikesh Sulabh |
| Theatre Allied Theatre Arts | 1) Souti Chakraborty (Lighting) 2) N.K. Ramakrishna (Make-up) |
| Theatre Major Traditions | K. S. Krishanappa (Isai Natakam) |
| 1) Mamta Chandrakar (Folk Music) 2) Ram Lal (Folk Music) 3) Shankarbhai Hakabhai Dharjiya (Folk Music & Dance) 4) Nathulal Solanki (Folk Music) 5) Pandurang Ghotkar (Folk Music) 6) Peruvanam Kuttan Marar (Thayambaka) 7) Urmila Pandey (Folk Music) 8) Sayed Mohmmed P.P. (Folk Music & Dance) 9) Majid Gulabsaheb Sitarmaker (Instrument Making) 10) Dulal Kanji (Instrument Making) | |
| Overall Contribution | 1) Utpal K. Banerjee 2) Ritha Rajan |
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2020
| Field | Recipient |
|---|---|
| Vocal Hindustani Music | 1) Sumitra Guha 2) Arati Ankalikar-Tikekar |
| Instrumental Hindustani Music | 1) Dal Chand Sharma (Pakhavaj) 2) Kushal Das (Sitar) |
| Vocal Carnatic Music | 1) R. K. Padmanabha 2) G. Balakrishna Prasad |
| Instrumental Carnatic Music | 1) Patri Satish Kumar (Mridangam) 2) M. A. Sundareswaran (Violin) 3) Bickram Ghosh (Creative & Experimental) 4) Anup Jalota (Sugam Sangeet) 5) N. Irabot Singh (Nata Sankirtana) |
| Dance | 1) Meenakshi Chitharanjan (Bharatanatyam) 2) Trilochan Mohanta (Chhau) 3) Bhushan Lakhandri (Creative Dance) 4) Kumkum Dhar (Kathak) 5) Pasumarthy Vithal Manipuri 6) Bharathi Vithal (Kuchipudi) 7) Sruti Bandopadhay (Manipuri) 8) Rabindra Atibudhi (Odissi) |
| Dance Music for Dance | 1) Prema Ramamurthy 2) Arambam Tombinou Devi |
| Theatre Acting | 1) Prashant Damle 2) Bhupesh Joshi 3) Amit Banerjee |
| Theatre Direction | 1) Lokendra Trivedi 2) Mithilesh Rai |
| Theatre Allied Theatre Arts | 1) Raghav Prakash (Lighting) 2) M. Purushottam (Costume Design) 3) N. Jadumani Singh (Stagecraft) |
| Theatre Major Traditions | P. P. Kandaswami (Therukoothu) |
| 1) Balkar Sidhu (Folk Dance) 2) Nandlal Garg (Folk Music) 3) B. Lalthlengliana (Folk Theatre) 4) Ranjana Kumri Jha (Folk Music) 5) S. G. Lakshmidevamma (Folk Music) 6) Tarubala Debbarma (Folk Music & Dance) 7) Sang Jangmu (Folk Dance) 8) Gafoor Khan Manganiar (Folk Music) 9) Zachunu Keyho (Folk Music) | |
| Theatre Puppetry | Meena Nayak |
| Overall Contribution | 1) Mahesh Champaklal (Theatre) 2) Nandkishore Kapote (Dance) |
2021
| Field | Recipient |
|---|---|
| Vocal Hindustani Music | 1) Uday Bhawalkar 2) Subhra Guha |
| Instrumental Hindustani Music | 1) Ravindra Yavagal (Tabla) 2) Sangeeta Shankar (Violin) |
| Vocal Carnatic Music | 1) Sudha Ragunathan 2) Radha Namboodiri |
| Instrumental Carnatic Music | 1) Thanjavur R. Govindarajan (Thavil) 2) D. Balakrishnan (Veena) 3) Susmita Das (Sugam Sangeet) 4) H. R. Leelavathi (Sugam Sangeet) 5) Kumud Diwan (Thumri) |
| Dance | 1) Jayalakshmi Eshwar (Bharatanatyam) 2) Bhuvan Kumar (Chhau) 3) Shama Bhate (Kathak) 4) Inchakkattu Ramachandran Pillai (Kathakali) 5) N. Sailaja (Kuchipudi) 6) Thokchom Ibemubi Devi (Manipuri) 7) Neena Prasad (Mohiniattam) 8) Kalamandalam Girija (Kutiyattam) |
| Dance Music for Dance | Bijay Kumar Jena |
| Theatre Acting | 1) Neeleshwar Mishra 2) Y. G. Mahendran |
| Theatre Mime | Vilas Janve |
| Theatre Direction | 1) R. Venugopal Rao (Surabhi) 2) Lalit Singh Pokharia 3) Sudesh Sharma 4) Ajay Malkani 5) Manoj Pattnaik |
| Theatre Major Traditions | Gunindra Nath Ojah |
| Theatre Others | 1) Silbi Passah (Folk Music) 2) Durga Prasad Murmu (Folk Music & Dance) 3) Prashanna Gogoi (Folk Music & Dance) 4) Gartigere Raghanna (Folk Music) 5) S Samundaram (Folk Music) 6) Data Ram Purohit (Folk Music & Theatre) 7) Mahavir Singh Guddu (Folk Music & Dance) 8) N Tiken Singh (Folk Music) 9) N. Sekar (Folk Music) 10) R. Murugan (Instrument Making) |
| Overall Contribution | 1) Vibha Dadheech (Dance) 2) Premchand Hombal (Dance) |
2022
| Field | Recipient |
|---|---|
| Folk Music Carnatic Music | Mahavir Nayak |
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