Padma Vibhushan Award (1961-1970)

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Name	Padma Vibhushan
Type	Civilian Awards
Award For	Exceptional and Distinguished Service
Award By	Goverment of India
First	1954
Last	26th January 2026
Status	Active
Country	India

About Padma Vibhushan Award (1961-1970)

The Padma Vibhushan is the second-highest civilian award of the Republic of India, after the Bharat Ratna. Instituted on 2 January 1954, the award is given for "exceptional and distinguished service". All persons without distinction of race, occupation, position or sex are eligible for these awards.

History of Padma Vibhushan Award (1961-1970)

This decade's honorees were dominated by civil servants and public-affairs figures, alongside standout scientists and scholars. Notable recipients include astrophysicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1968), Nobel laureate biochemist Har Gobind Khorana (1969), statistician Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis (1968), linguist Suniti Kumar Chatterji (1963), diplomat Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit (1962), and Air Chief Marshal Arjan Singh (1965). Strikingly, no awards were conferred in 1961, and only Cardinal Valerian Gracias was honored in 1966, marking unusually sparse years.

Padma Vibhushan Award (1961-1970) Winners List

This Winners List features 33 winners of the Padma Vibhushan Award (1961-1970), from 1962 to 1970.

Year	Recipient Name	Gender	State, Country	Fields

1970	Lt. (Gen.) Harbakhsh Singh Also won: Padma Bhushan	male	Punjab, India	Civil Service
1970	Dr. Arcot Lakshamanaswami Mudaliar Also won: Padma Bhushan	male	Andhra Pradesh, India	Civil Service
1970	Dr. Tara Chand	male	Uttar Pradesh, India	Literature & Education
1970	Group Captain Suranjan Das (Posthumous)	male	West Bengal, India	Civil Service
1970	Anthony Lancelot Dias	male	Maharashtra, India	Public Affairs
1970	General Paramasiva Prabhakar Kumaramangalam (DSO MBE)	male	Tamil Nadu, India	Civil Service
1970	Dr. Binay Ranjan Sen	male	West Bengal, India	Civil Service
1969	Rajeshwar Dayal	male	Delhi, India	Civil Service
1969	Dattatraya Shridhar Joshi	male	Maharashtra, India	Civil Service
1969	Dr. Hargobind Khorana (Non-citizen)	male	Massachusetts, United States	Literature & Education
1969	Dr. Mohan Sinha Mehta	male	Rajasthan, India	Civil Service
1969	Ghananand Pande	male	Uttar Pradesh, India	Civil Service
1968	Dr. Madhav Shrihari Aney	male	Madhya Pradesh, India	Public Affairs
1968	Dr. Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (Non-citizen)	male	Illinois, United States	Science & Engineering
1968	Prof. Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis	male	Delhi, India	Literature & Education
1968	Kirpal Singh	male	Delhi, India	Civil Service
1968	Kuthur Vaidyanatha Kalyana Sundaram	male	Delhi, India	Public Affairs
1967	Chandra Kisan Daphtary	male	Maharashtra, India	Public Affairs
1967	Hafiz Mohammad Ibrahim	male	Andhra Pradesh, India	Civil Service
1967	Bhola Nath Jha	male	Uttar Pradesh, India	Civil Service
1967	Pattadakal Venkanna Raghavendra Rao	male	Andhra Pradesh, India	Civil Service
1966	Dr. Valerian Cardinal Gracias	male	Maharashtra, India	Social Work
1965	Gen. Jayanto Nath Chaudhuri	male	West Bengal, India	Civil Service
1965	Mehdi Nawaz Jung	male	Telangana, India	Public Affairs
1965	Air Marshal Arjan Singh (DFC)	male	Delhi, India	Civil Service
1964	Acharya Kakasaheb (Dattatreya Balkrishna) Kalelkar	male	Maharashtra, India	Literature & Education
1964	Pt. Gopinath Kaviraj	male	Uttar Pradesh, India	Literature & Education
1963	Dr. Arcot Lakshamanaswami Mudaliar Also won: Padma Bhushan	male	Tamil Nadu, India	Medicine
1963	Dr. Suniti Kumar Chatterjee	male	West Bengal, India	Literature & Education
1963	Hari Vinayak Pataskar	male	Maharashtra, India	Public Affairs
1962	Haravu venkatanarasingha Varada Raja Iengar	male	Tamil Nadu, India	Civil Service
1962	Padmaja Naidu	male	Andhra Pradesh, India	Public Affairs
1962	Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit	male	Uttar Pradesh, India	Civil Service