Padma Vibhushan Award (1971-1980)

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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 (1971-1980)

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 (1971-1980)

During this decade India honored luminaries such as space scientist Vikram Sarabhai (1972), Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw (1972), Carnatic vocalist M. S. Subbulakshmi (1975), ornithologist Salim Ali (1976), filmmaker Satyajit Ray (1976), and shehnai maestro Bismillah Khan (1980), alongside physicist Raja Ramanna and dancer Uday Shankar. Notably, the Janata government suspended the Padma Vibhushan award entirely in 1978 and 1979, amid criticism of the civilian honors system, before Indira Gandhi's government revived it in 1980.

Padma Vibhushan Award (1971-1980) Winners List

This Winners List features 48 winners of the Padma Vibhushan Award (1971-1980), from 1971 to 1980.

Year	Recipient Name	Gender	State, Country	Fields

1980	Bismillah Khan Also won: Padma Bhushan	male	Uttar Pradesh, India	Arts
1980	Rai Krishnadasa	male	Uttar Pradesh, India	Civil Service
1977	Ali Yavar Jung Also won: Padma Bhushan	male	Andhra Pradesh, India	Public Affairs
1977	Ajudhia Nath Khosla Also won: Padma Bhushan	male	Delhi, India	Civil Service
1977	T. Balasaraswati	female	Tamil Nadu, India	Arts
1977	Air Chief Marshal Om Prakash Mehra	male	Punjab, India	Civil Service
1977	Ajoy Kumar Mukherjee	male	West Bengal, India	Public Affairs
1977	Chandreshwar Prasad Narayan Singh	male	Delhi, India	Literature & Education
1976	Dr. Kalpathi Ramakrishna Ramanathan Also won: Padma Bhushan	male	Kerala, India	Science & Engineering
1976	Satyajit Ray Also won: Padma Bhushan , Ramon Magsaysay Award	male	West Bengal, India	Arts
1976	Salim Ali Also won: Padma Bhushan	male	Uttar Pradesh, India	Science & Engineering
1976	Giani Gurmukh Singh 'Musafir' (Posthumous)	male	Punjab, India	Literature & Education
1976	Keshav Shankar Pillai	male	Delhi, India	Arts
1976	Dr. Kalu Lal Shrimali	male	Uttar Pradesh, India	Literature & Education
1976	Col. Bashir Hussain Zaidi	male	Delhi, India	Literature & Education
1975	Dr. Raja Ramanna Also won: Padma Bhushan , Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology	male	Karnataka, India	Science & Engineering
1975	Mary Clubwala Jadhav Also won: Padma Bhushan	female	Tamil Nadu, India	Social Work
1975	Homi Nusserwanji Sethna Also won: Padma Bhushan , Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology	male	Maharashtra, India	Civil Service
1975	Madurai Shanmugavadivu Subbalakshmi Also won: Padma Bhushan , Ramon Magsaysay Award	female	Tamil Nadu, India	Arts
1975	Dr. Chintaman Dwarkanath Deshmukh Also won: Ramon Magsaysay Award	male	Maharashtra, India	Public Affairs
1975	Dr. Durgabai Deshmukh	female	Andhra Pradesh, India	Social Work
1975	Dr. Basanti Dulal Nag Chaudhuri	male	West Bengal, India	Literature & Education
1975	Dr. Premlila Vithaldas Thackersey	female	Maharashtra, India	Literature & Education
1974	Niren De	male	West Bengal, India	Public Affairs
1974	Binode Behari Mukherjee	male	West Bengal, India	Arts
1974	Dr. Vijayendra Kasturi Ranga Varadaraja Rao	male	Karnataka, India	Civil Service
1974	Harish Chandra Sarin	male	Delhi, India	Civil Service
1973	Dr. Daulat Singh Kothari Also won: Padma Bhushan	male	Chişinău, Moldova	Science & Engineering
1973	Basanti Devi	male	West Bengal, India	Civil Service
1973	Uehhrangrai Navalshankar Dhebar	male	Gujarat, India	Social Work
1973	Nellie Sen Gupta	female	West Bengal, India	Social Work
1973	Dr. Nagendra Singh	male	Rajasthan, India	Public Affairs
1973	Thirumalraya Swaminathan	male	Tamil Nadu, India	Civil Service
1972	Lt. Gen. Sam Hormusji Framji Jamshedji Manekshaw Also won: Padma Bhushan	male	Tamil Nadu, India	Civil Service
1972	Dr. Vikram Ambalal Sarabhai Also won: Padma Bhushan , Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology	male	Gujarat, India	Science & Engineering
1972	Air Vice Marshal P.Chandra Lal Also won: Padma Bhushan	male	Punjab, India	Civil Service
1972	Dr. Prahlad Balacharya Gajendragadkar	male	Maharashtra, India	Civil Service
1972	Dr. Aditya Nath Jha (Posthumous)	male	Uttar Pradesh, India	Civil Service
1972	Dr. Jivraj Narain Mehta	male	Maharashtra, India	Public Affairs
1972	Admiral Sardarilal Mathradas Nanda	male	Delhi, India	Civil Service
1972	Ghulam Mohd. Sadiq (Posthumous)	male	Jammu and Kashmir, India	Public Affairs
1972	Hormusji Maneckji Seervai	male	Maharashtra, India	Literature & Education
1971	Dr. Vithal Nagesh Shirodkar Also won: Padma Bhushan	male	Goa, India	Medicine
1971	Ustad Allauddin Khan Also won: Padma Bhushan	male	West Bengal, India	Arts
1971	Bimal Prasad Chaliha	male	Assam, India	Civil Service
1971	Sumati Morarjee	female	Maharashtra, India	Civil Service
1971	Uday Shankar	male	Maharashtra, India	Arts
1971	Balram Sivaraman	male	Tamil Nadu, India	Civil Service