MINISTRY OF HOME AFFAIRS (Public Section) Padma Awards Directory (1954-2017) Year-Wise List SL Prefix First Name Last Name State Award Field 1954 1 Shri Amarnath Jha UP PB Litt. & Edu. 2 Lt. (Col) Maharaj Kr. Palden T Namgyal PUN PB Public Affairs 3 Shri Pandyala Satyanarayana Rau AP PB Civil Service 4 Shri Sukumar Sen WB PB Civil Service 5 Lt. Gen. K.S. Thimayya KAR PB Civil Service 6 Dr. Homi Jehangir Bhabha MAH PB Science & Eng. 7 Dr. Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar UP PB Science & Eng. 8 Dr. Jnan Chandra Ghosh WB PB Science & Eng. 9 Shri Radha Krishna Gupta DEL PB Civil Service 10 Shri Moulana Hussain Ahmad Madni PUN PB Litt. & Edu. 11 Shri Ajudhia Nath Khosla DEL PB Science & Eng. 12 Shri Mahadeva Iyer Ganapati OR PB Civil Service 13 Dr. K.S. Krishnan TN PB Science & Eng. 14 Shri V.L. Mehta GUJ PB Public Affairs 15 Shri Vallathol Narayan Menon KER PB Litt. & Edu. 16 Dr. Arcot Lakshamanaswami Mudaliar TN PB Litt. & Edu. 17 Shri V. Narahari Raooo KAR PB Civil Service 18 Shri Jamini Roy WB PB Art 19 Shri Satya Narayana Shastri UP PB Medicine 20 Late Smt. M.S. Subbalakshmi TN PB Art 21 Shri R.R. Handa PUN PB Civil Service 22 Shri Josh Malihabadi DEL PB Litt. & Edu. 23 Shri Maithilisharan Gupta UP PB Litt. & Edu. 24 Shri Akhil Chandra Mitra UP PS Science & Eng. 25 Kum. Amalprava Das ASM PS Public Affairs 26 Shri Surinder Kumar Dey WB PS Civil Service 27 Dr. Vasant Ramji Khanolkar MAH PS Medicine 28 Shri Tarlok Singh PUN PS Civil Service 29 Shri Machani Somappa AP PS Public Affairs 30 Smt. Mrinmayi Ray AP PS Public Affairs 31 Smt. Asha Devi Aryanayakam MAH PS Public Affairs Page 1 of 118 SL Prefix First Name Last Name State Award Field 32 Shri Apa Saheb Bala Saheb Pant MAH PS Civil Service 33 Shri K.R. Chakravarty WB PS Science & Eng. 34 Smt. Bhag Mehta GUJ PS Civil Service 35 Dr. Mathra Das ASM PS Medicine 36 Smt. Achamma Mathai MAH PS Public Affairs 37 Smt. Perina Captian MAH PS Public Affairs 38 Major S.P.Patil Thorat MAH PS Civil Service 39 Shri Shankar Pillai DEL PS Litt. & Edu. 40 Dr. Bir Bhan Bhatia DEL PS Medicine 1955 1 Shri Surender Kumar Dey USA PB Civil Service 2 Shri Attur Rangaswami Venkatachari TN PB Civil Service 3 Prof. Maneklal Sankalchand Thacker DEL PB Litt. & Edu. 4 Dr. Pran Krushna Parija OR PB Litt. & Edu. 5 Smt. Rameshwari Nehru UP PB Social Work 6 Shri Sunder Das Khungar PUN PB Civil Service 7 Shri Madapati Hanumantha Rao AP PB Social Work 8 Smt. Kamaladevi Chattopadhyaya WB PB Social Work 9 Dr. Suniti Kumar Chatterji WB PB Litt. & Edu. 10 Dr. Lalit Mohan Banerjee WB PB Medicine 11 Shri Fateh Chand Badhwar PUN PB Civil Service 12 Dr. Vasant Ramji Khanolkar MAH PB Medicine 13 Shri Krishna Kant Handiqui ASM PS Litt. & Edu. 14 Dr. Siddha Nath Kaul DEL PS Medicine 15 Shri Habib-ur Rahman DEL PS Science & Eng. 16 Smt. Rattan Shastri RAJ PS Litt. & Edu. 17 Shri Humayun Mirza KAR PS Civil Service 18 Shri Kewal Singh Choudhary PUN PS Civil Service 19 Shri Laxmi Narayan Sahu OR PS Litt. & Edu. 20 Smt. Zarina Currimbhoy MAH PS Social Work 21 Smt. Mary Clubwalla Jadhav TN PS Social Work 22 Dr. Parakath Verghese Benjamin KER PS Medicine 23 Pt. Onkar Nath Thakore GUJ PS Art 24 Shri Maneck Jehangir Maneckji MAH PS Civil Service Bhickaji 25 Shri Digambar Vasudev Joglekar MAH PS Civil Service 26 Dr. Mahesh Prasad Mehray UP PS Medicine Page 2 of 118 SL Prefix First Name Last Name State Award Field 1956 1 Smt. Rukmini Devi Arundale TN PB Art 2 Shri Dhyan Chand PUN PB Sports 3 Shri Malur Srinivasa Iyengar TN PB Civil Service Thirumale 4 Shri Kanwar Sain RAJ PB Civil Service 5 Smt. Pushpavati Janardanrai Mehta MAH PB Public Affairs 6 Shri Cottari Kanakaiyah Nayudu TN PB Sports 7 Dr. Muthulakshmi Reddi TN PB Medicine 8 Smt. Mahadevi Varma UP PB Litt. & Edu. 9 Shri Kasturi Srinivasan TN PB Litt. & Edu. 10 Dr. Tiruvadi Sambasiva Venkatraman TN PB Science & Eng. 11 Bhai Vir Singh PUN PB Litt. & Edu. 12 Shri Nawab Zain Yar Jung AP PB Public Affairs 13 Shri Rajshekhar Bose WB PB Litt. & Edu. 14 Dr. Sohan Singh PUN PS Medicine 15 Dr. Isaac Santra WB PS Medicine 16 Shri Sthanam Narasimha Rao AP PS Art 17 Dr. Chintaman Govind Pandit GUJ PS Medicine 18 Shri Sukhdev Pande UTTR PS Litt. & Edu. 19 Dr. M.C. Modi KAR PS Medicine 20 Shri Satish Chandra Majumdar WB PS Science & Eng. 21 Dr. Mohan Lal UP PS Medicine 22 Dr. Suryya Kumar Bhuyan RAJ PS Litt. & Edu. 1957 1 Dr. K. Covilagam Kutti Raja KER PB Civil Service Ettan 2 Dr. Bhikham Lal Atreya UP PB Litt. & Edu. 3 Smt. T. Balasaraswathy TN PB Art 4 Dr. Hazari Prasad Dwivedi UP PB Litt. & Edu. 5 Dr. Radha Kumud Mookerji WB PB Public Affairs 6 Dr. Abid Husain UP PB Litt. & Edu. 7 Shri K.A. Nilakanta Sastri TN PB Litt. & Edu. 8 Dr. Rm. Alagappa Chettiar TN PB Social Work 9 Smt. Andal Venkatasubba Rao AP PB Social Work 10 Pt. Shrikrishna N. Ratanjankar UP PB Art 11 Shri Syamnandan Sahaya BIH PB Litt. & Edu. Page 3 of 118 SL Prefix First Name Last Name State Award Field 12 Shri Boshi Sen WB PB Science & Eng. 13 Dr. Siddheshwar Varma CHA PB Litt. & Edu. 14 Shri Govind Sakharam Sardesai MAH PB Litt. & Edu. 15 Ustad Mushtaq Husain Khan MP PB Art 16 Smt. Lakshmi Menon KER PB Public Affairs 17 Shri Narayana swami Dharmrajan TN PS Civil Service 18 Dr. Shiyali Ramamritha Ranganathan KAR PS Litt. & Edu. 19 Shri Dwaram Venkataswami Naidu AP PS Art 20 Shri Jashwantrai Jayantilal Anjaria MAH PS Civil Service 21 Shri Balbir Singh CHA PS Sports 22 Shri L. M. Chitale MAH PS Science & Eng. 23 Shri Samarendranath Sen WB PS Civil Service 24 Shri Ram Parkash Gehlote DEL PS Science & Eng. 25 Maj. Gen. Gurbaksh Singh TN PS Civil Service 26 Shri Thakkadu Jagadisan TN PS Social Work Natesasastrigal 27 Major Ralengnao Khathing MAN PS Public Affairs 28 Shri Sudhir Ranjan Khastgir UP PS Art 29 Dr. Khushdeva Singh PUN PS Medicine 30 Smt. Nalini Bala Devi ASM PS Litt. & Edu. 31 Shri Krishnaswami Ramiah AP PS Science & Eng. 32 Shri Atmaram Ramchand Chellani AP PS Civil Service 1958 1 Dr. Kuppali V. Gowda Puttappa KAR PB Litt. & Edu. 2 Kumar D.P. Roy Choudhry WB PB Art 3 Prof. Poola Tirupati Raju RAJ PB Litt. & Edu. 4 Ustad Allauddin Khan UP PB Art 5 Shri Jehangir Ghandy MAH PB Trade & Ind. 6 Shri Rao Raja Hanunt Singh RAJ PB Public Affairs 7 Dr. Narayan Subrao Hardikar KAR PB Social Work 8 Shri Kumar Padma Menon KER PB Civil Service Sivasankara 9 Dr. Darashaw Nosherwan Wadia MAH PB Science & Eng. 10 Shri Ariyakudi Ramanuja Iyengar TN PB Art 11 Shri Salim Ali MAH PB Science & Eng. 12 Dr. Rustom Jal Vakil MAH PB Medicine 13 Maharaj Vijaya Ananda UP PB Sports 14 Shri Surya Narayan Vyas MP PB Litt. & Edu. Page 4 of 118 SL Prefix First Name Last Name State Award Field 15 Shri Arathil C. Narayanan Nambiar KER PB Civil Service 16 Smt. Kamalendumati Shah DEL PB Social Work 17 Shri Ram Chandra Varma UP PS Litt. & Edu. 18 Smt. Fatima Ismail MAH PS Social Work 19 Kum. Fatima A Rasheed alias Nargis MAH PS Art 20 Dr. Bal Raj Nijhawan AUS PS Science & Eng. 21 Shri Shambhoo Maharaj UP PS Art 22 Shri Punamalai Ekambaranathan TN PS Social Work 23 Brig. Ram Singh PUN PS Civil Service 24 Sardar Balwant Singh Puri PUN PS Social Work 25 Shri Lakshminarayana Puram Ramdas DEL PS Science & Eng. Ananthakrishnan 26 Dr. Aragula Nagaraja Rao AP PS Trade & Ind. 27 Shri Moturi Satyanarayana TN PS Public Affairs 28 Smt. Devika Rani KAR PS Art 29 Dr. Navalpakkam Parthasarathy THAI PS Science & Eng. 30 Kanwar Digvijai Singh UP PS Sports 31 Dr. Benjamin Peary Pal DEL PS Science & Eng. 32 Shri Maganlal Tribhuvandas Vyas GUJ PS Litt. & Edu. 33 Smt. R.S. Subbalakshmi TN PS Social Work 34 Shri Satyajit Ray WB PS Art 35 Shri Debaki Kumar Bose WB PS Art 1959 1 Smt. Dhanvanthi Rama Rau MAH PB Social Work 2 Shri Pammal S. Mudaliar TN PB Art 3 Shri Tiruppattur R. Murthi TN PB Litt. & Edu. Venkatachala 4 Shri Tenzing Norgay WB PB Sports 5 Shri Ramdhari Singh Dinkar UP PB Litt. & Edu. 6 Shri Nirmal Kumar Sidhanta WB PB Litt. & Edu. 7 Shri Sisir Kumar Bhaduri WB PB Art 8 Smt. Hansa Manubhai Mehta MAH PB Social Work 9 Shri Ghulam Yazdani AP PB Science & Eng. 10 Shri Bhaurao Payagounda Patil MAH PB Social Work 11 Shri Barhgavram Vithal Warerkar MAH PB Public Affairs 12 Shri Ali Yavar Jung MAH PB Civil Service 13 Shri Kankanhalli Vasudevacharya KAR PB Art 14 Dr. Jal Cawasha Paymaster MAH PB Medicine Page 5 of 118 SL Prefix First Name Last Name State Award Field 15 Dr. Badri Nath Uppal CHA PS Science & Eng. 16 Shri Balwant Singh Nag PUN PS Civil Service 17 Shri Ganesh Govind Karkhanis KAR PS Social Work 18 Shri Lakshman Singh Jangpangi OR PS Social Work 19 Shri Parixitlal Majumdar GUJ PS Social Work 20 Shri Mathew Kandathil Mathulla KAR PS Civil Service 21 Shri Mihir Sen WB PS Sports 22 Shri Jemadar Milkha Singh CHA PS Sports 23 Shri Komaravolu Chandrasekharan TN PS Litt.