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Award for promotion of the Hindi Language: Awarded for: Literary award in India: Sponsored by: Kendriya Hindi Sansthan, Government of India: First awarded: 2002 (Instituted in 1989) Last awarded: 2009: Highlights; Total awarded: 8: First winner: Shri. Harishankar 'Aadesh' Last winner: Dr. Surendra Gambhir
The Padma Bhushan (IAST: Padma Bhūṣaṇa, lit. 'Lotus Decoration') is the third-highest civilian award in the Republic of India , preceded by the Bharat Ratna and the Padma Vibhushan and followed by the Padma Shri .
When instituted in 1954, the Padma Bhushan was classified as "Dusra Varg" (Class II) under the three-tier Padma Vibhushan awards, which were preceded by the Bharat Ratna in hierarchy. On 15 January 1955, the Padma Vibhushan was reclassified into three different awards as the Padma Vibhushan, the Padma Bhushan and the Padma Shri. [3]
The Padma Shri (IAST: Padma Śrī, lit. 'Lotus Honour'), also spelled Padma Shree, is the fourth-highest civilian award of the Republic of India, after the Bharat Ratna, the Padma Vibhushan and the Padma Bhushan. Instituted on 2 January 1954, the award is conferred in recognition of "distinguished contribution in various spheres of activity ...
Year Image Laureates Field State / Country Notes 2020 M. Mumtaz Ali (Sri M.) (born 1949) Others Kerala Popularly known as "Sri M." and "Sri Madhukarnath", is a yogi, spiritual guide, social reformer and educationist, and an initiate of the Nath tradition of Hinduism and is the disciple of Sri Maheshwarnath Babaji, who was a disciple of Sri Guru Babaji (Mahavatar Babaji).
1960: Padma Bhushan Acharya Shivpujan Sahay (9 August 1893 – 21 January 1963) was a noted Hindi and Bhojpuri novelist , editor and prose writer . He contributed in pioneering modern trends in, as well as in fiction.
Banarsidas Chaturvedi (24 December 1892 – 2 May 1985) [1] was a noted Hindi-language writer, journalist and recipient of Padma Bhushan awarded by Government of India in 1973. [2] He was born on 24 December 1892 in Firozabad in the North-Western Provinces of British India and died on 2 May 1985. [3]
The following is an incomplete list of people who have either declined or renounced an Indian honour or decoration. These include recipients of the Bharat Ratna and the Padma awards (Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan, Padma Shri), along with other Indian governmental awards. In some instances, the families of an intended posthumous recipient of a ...