Padma Vibhushan Award (1991-2000)

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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 (1991-2000)

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 (1991-2000)

India's Padma Vibhushan awards were suspended from 1993 to 1997 after litigation questioned whether such honors violated the Constitution's ban on titles, resuming in 1998. The 1991-92 honorees included painter M. F. Husain, Carnatic vocalist M. Balamuralikrishna, and freedom fighter Aruna Asaf Ali. After resumption, recipients included jurist Nanabhoy Palkhivala, dairy pioneer Verghese Kurien, playback legend Lata Mangeshkar, writer R. K. Narayan, and economist Jagdish Bhagwati, reflecting a decade marked by a mid-decade gap and renewed recognition across arts, public affairs, science, and literature.

Padma Vibhushan Award (1991-2000) Winners List

This Winners List features 50 winners of the Padma Vibhushan Award (1991-2000), from 1991 to 2000.

Year	Recipient Name	Gender	State, Country	Fields

2000	Pt. Hariprasad Chaurasia Also won: Padma Bhushan	male	Maharashtra, India	Arts
2000	Dr. Krishnaswamy Kasturirangan Also won: Padma Bhushan , Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology	male	Karnataka, India	Science & Engineering
2000	Pt. Jasraj Also won: Padma Bhushan	male	Maharashtra, India	Arts
2000	Kelu Charan Mohapatra Also won: Padma Bhushan	male	Odisha, India	Arts
2000	Rasipuram Krishnaswami Narayan Also won: Padma Bhushan	male	Tamil Nadu, India	Literature & Education
2000	Tarlok Singh Also won: Padma Bhushan	male	Delhi, India	Civil Service
2000	Sikander Bakht	male	Delhi, India	Public Affairs
2000	Prof. Jagdish Natwarlal Bhagwati (Non-citizen)	male	New York, United States	Literature & Education
2000	Dr. Manohar Singh Gill	male	Delhi, India	Civil Service
2000	Dr. Krishen Behari Lall	male	Delhi, India	Civil Service
2000	Maidavolu Narasimham	male	Andhra Pradesh, India	Trade & Industry
2000	Bhairab Datt Pande	male	Uttar Pradesh, India	Civil Service
2000	Prof. Kakkadan Nandanath Raj	male	Kerala, India	Literature & Education
1999	Bhimsen Gururaj Joshi Also won: Padma Bhushan	male	Maharashtra, India	Arts
1999	Damal Krishnaswami Pattamal Also won: Padma Bhushan	female	Tamil Nadu, India	Arts
1999	Kum. Lata Dinanath Mangeshkar Also won: Padma Bhushan	female	Maharashtra, India	Arts
1999	Varghese Kurien Also won: Padma Bhushan , Ramon Magsaysay Award	male	Gujarat, India	Science & Engineering
1999	Pandurangshastri Athavale Also won: Ramon Magsaysay Award	male	Maharashtra, India	Social Work
1999	Dr. Rajagopala Chidambaram	male	Maharashtra, India	Science & Engineering
1999	Nanaji Deshmukh	male	Delhi, India	Social Work
1999	Dr. Sarvepalli Gopal	male	Tamil Nadu, India	Literature & Education
1999	Satish Gujral	male	Delhi, India	Arts
1999	Justice Vaidynathapuram Rama Ayyar Krishna Iyer (Retd.)	male	Kerala, India	Public Affairs
1999	Justice Hans Raj Khanna (Retd.)	male	Delhi, India	Public Affairs
1999	Braj Kumar Nehru	male	Himachal Pradesh, India	Civil Service
1999	Lallan Prasad Singh (Posthumous)	male	Delhi, India	Civil Service
1999	Dharma Vira	male	Delhi, India	Civil Service
1998	Dr. Usha H. Mehta	female	Maharashtra, India	Social Work
1998	Nani Ardeshir Palkhivala	male	Maharashtra, India	Public Affairs
1998	Dr. Lakshmi Sahgal	female	Uttar Pradesh, India	Public Affairs
1998	Walter Sisulu (Non-citizen)	male	Eastern Cape, South Africa	Public Affairs
1992	Mallikarjuna Bhimarayappa Mansoor Also won: Padma Bhushan	male	Karnataka, India	Arts
1992	Dr. Sivaramakrishna Padmavati Also won: Padma Bhushan	female	Delhi, India	Medicine
1992	Aruna Asaf Ali	female	Delhi, India	Social Work
1992	Laxman shastri Balaji Joshi	male	Maharashtra, India	Literature & Education
1992	Kaloji Narayana Rao	male	Telangana, India	Arts
1992	Ravi Narayan Reddy (Posthumous)	male	Andhra Pradesh, India	Public Affairs
1992	Dr. Shantaram Rajaram Vankudre Alias Dr. V. Shantaram (Posthumous)	male	Maharashtra, India	Arts
1992	Govinddas Mannulal Shroff	male	Maharashtra, India	Literature & Education
1992	Sardar Swaran Singh	male	Punjab, India	Public Affairs
1992	Atal Bihari Vajpayee	male	Delhi, India	Public Affairs
1991	Prof. Hirendra Nath Mukerjee Also won: Padma Bhushan	male	West Bengal, India	Public Affairs
1991	Maqbool Fida Husain Also won: Padma Bhushan	male	Maharashtra, India	Arts
1991	Khusro Framurz Rustamji Also won: Padma Bhushan	male	Maharashtra, India	Civil Service
1991	Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer Also won: Padma Bhushan	male	Tamil Nadu, India	Arts
1991	Dr. Mangalampalli Balamurali Krishna	male	Tamil Nadu, India	Arts
1991	Gulzari Lal Nanda	male	Gujarat, India	Public Affairs
1991	Dr. Indraprasad Gordhanbhai Patel	male	Gujarat, India	Science & Engineering
1991	Prof. Nayakulu Gogineni Ranga	male	Andhra Pradesh, India	Public Affairs
1991	Prof. Rajaram Shastri	male	Uttar Pradesh, India	Literature & Education