Sangeet Natak Akademi Award

Award recipients

Music

Hindustani music

Vocal

• 1952 – Mushtaq Hussain Khan
• 1953 – Kesarbai Kerkar
• 1954 – Rajab Ali Khan
• 1955 – Anant Manohar Joshi
• 1956 – Rajabhaiyya Poonchhwale
• 1957 – Rasoolan Bai
• 1958 – Ganesh Ramachandra Behere
• 1959 – Krishnarao Shankar Pandit
• 1960 – Altaf Hussain Khan
• 1961 – Y. S. Mirashi Buwa
• 1962 – Bade Ghulam Ali Khan
• 1963 – Omkarnath Thakur
• 1964 – Rahimuddin Khan Dagar
• 1965 – Hirabai Barodekar
• 1966 – Siddheswari Devi
• 1967 – Amir Khan
• 1968 – Mogubai Kurdikar
• 1969 – Ramchatur Mallick
• 1970 – Nisar Hussain Khan
• 1971 – Mallikarjun Mansur
• 1972 – Begum Akhtar
• 1973 – Gangubai Hangal
• 1974 – Kumar Gandharva
• 1975 – Bhimsen Joshi
• 1975-76 Gavri Devi
• 1976 – Narayanrao Vyas
• 1977 – Girija Devi
• 1978 – Khadim Hussain Khan
• 1979 – Sarachchandra Arolkar
• 1980 – Nivruttibua Sarnaik
• 1981 – Basavaraj Rajguru
• 1982 – Vasantrao Deshpande
• 1983 – Mahadev Prasad Mishra
• 1984 – Sharafat Hussain Khan
• 1985 – Kishori Amonkar, Aminuddin Dagar
• 1986 - Gavri Devi
• 1986 – Asgari Bai, Firoz Dastur, Manik Varma
• 1987 – C. R. Vyas, Shobha Gurtu, Pandit Jasraj
• 1988 – Padmavati Gokhale Shaligram
• 1989 – Jitendra Abhisheki
• 1990 – K. G. Ginde, Dhondutai Kulkarni
• 1991 – N. Zahiruddin Dagar, Prabha Atre
• 1992 – Ramarao V. Naik, Shiv Kumar Shukla
• 1993 – Bala Saheb Poochwale, Rahim Fahimuddin Dagar
• 1994 – Sulochana Brahaspati, Zia Fariddudin Dagar
• 1995 – A. Kanan
• 1996 – Dinkar Kaikini, Hafeez Ahmad Khan
• 1997 – L. K. Pandit
• 1998 – Puttaraj Gawaigalu, Parveen Sultana, Rajan and Sajan Mishra
• 1999–2000 – Ajoy Chakraborty, Rita Ganguly, Malabika Kanan
• 2001 – Abhay Narayan Mallick, Sangameshwar Gurav, Malini Rajurkar
• 2002 – Sushila Rani Patel, Sharayu Kalekar
• 2003 – Ghulam Mustafa Khan, Yeshwant Balkrishna Joshi
• 2004 – Balwant Rai Bhatt, Tejpal Singh and Surinder Singh
• 2005 – S. C. R. Bhat, Ramashreya Jha
• 2006 – Vijay Kumar Kichlu, Rashid Khan
• 2007 – Vidyadhar Vyas, Govardhan Mishra
• 2008 – Ulhas Kashalkar, M.R. Gautam
• 2009 – Abdul Rashid Khan, Vasundhara Komkali
• 2010 – Chhannulal Mishra, Yashpaul
• 2011 – Shruti Sadolikar, Pandit Venkatesh Kumar
• 2012 - Rajashekhar Mansur, Ajay Pohankar
• 2013 - Ritwik Sanyal, Veena Sahasrabuddhe
• 2014 - Ashwini Bhide-Deshpande, Iqbal Ahmad Khan, Nath Narelkar
• 2015 - Mashkoor Ali Khan
• 2016 - Prabhakar Karekar
• 2017 - Lalith J. Rao
• 2017 - Umakant and Ramakant Gundecha - Gundecha Brothers

  Instrumental

Been">Pungi">Been/[Rudra Veena]/[Vichitra Veena]

• 1969 – Dabir Khan
• 1977 – Asad Ali Khan
• 1981 – Zia Mohiuddin Dagar
• 1994 – Pandit Gopal Krishan
• 2012 - Bahauddin Dagar
• Flute
• 1983 – Pt. Hari Prasad Chaurasiya
• 1986 – Devendra Murdeshwar
• 1994 – Raghunath Seth
• 2010 – Nityanand Haldipur
• 2014 - Ronu Majumdar
• 2017 – Shashank Subramanyam
• 2017 - Pt. Rajendra Prasanna

  [Guitar]

• 2005 – Brij Bhushan Kabra

  [Harmonium]

• 1999–2000 – Appa Jalgaonkar
• 2005 – Tulsidas Vasant Borkar

  [Pakhavaj]

• 1955 – Govind Rao Burhanpurkar
• 1965 – Sakharam Tavde
• 1967 – Ayodhya Prasad
• 1978 – Purushottam Das
• 1988 – Ramshankardas Pagaldas
• 1991 – Chatrapati Singh
• 1993 – Gopaldas Panse
• 1995 – Ram Ashish Pathak
• 2003 – Bhawani Shankar
• 2011 – Totaram Sharma

  [Santoor]

• 1986 – Shivkumar Sharma
• 1993 – Bhajan Sopori

  [Sarangi]

• 1966 – Shakoor Khan
• 1975 – Ram Narayan
• 1976 – Gopal Misra
• 1986 – Sabri Khan
• 1988 – Hanuman Prasad Mishra
• 1990 – Abdul Lateef Khan
• 1992 – Sultan Khan
• 1996 – Inderlal Dhandra, Ramchandra Mishra
• 2008 – Ramesh Mishra
• 2013 - Dhruba Ghosh

  [Sarod]

• 1952 – Allauddin Khan
• 1953 – Hafiz Ali Khan
• 1963 – Ali Akbar Khan
• 1971 – Radhika Mohan Maitra
• 1986 – Sharan Rani Backliwal
• 1988 – Zarin Sharma
• 1989 – Amjad Ali Khan
• 1993 – Buddhadev Das Gupta
• 1999–2000 – Rajeev Taranath
• 2004 – Aashish Khan
• 2019 - Tejendra Prasad Narayan

  [Shehnai]

• 1956 – Ustad Bismillah Khan
• 1985 – Ali Hussain Khan
• 1989 – Pt. Anant Lal
• 1996 – Pt.Raghunath Prasanna
• 2008 – Krishna Ram Chaudhary
• 2009 – Ali Ahmad Hussain
• 2017 - Rajendra Prasanna

  [Sitar]

• 1958 – Yusuf Ali
• 1960 – Wahid Khan
• 1962 – Pt. Ravi Shankar
• 1968 – Mushtaq Ali Khan
• 1974 – Nikhil Banerjee
• 1987 – Abdul Halim Jaffer Khan, Imrat Khan
• 1989 – Balaram Pathak
• 1992 – Uma Shankar Mishra
• 1994 – Shamim Ahmed Khan
• 1996 – Debu Chaudhuri
• 2001 – Manilal Nag
• 2003 – Arvind Parikh
• 2006 – Shahid Parvez
• 2010 – Budhaditya Mukherjee
• 2015 - Karthick Kumar

  [Surbahar]

• 1991 – Annapurna Devi
• 2011 – Pushparaj Koshti

  [Tabla]

• 1954 – Ustad Ahmed Jan Thirakwa
• 1959 – Ustad Jahangir Khan
• 1961 – Pt. Kanthe Maharaj
• 1970 – Masit Khan
• 1976 – Karamatulla Khan
• 1979 – Pt. Samta Prasad
• 1982 – Ustad Alla Rakha
• 1984 – Pt. Kishan Maharaj
• 1990 – Ustad Zakir Hussain
• 1991 – Shaikh Dawood
• 1997 – Swapan Chaudhuri, Lalji Gokhale
• 1998 – Pandharinath Gangadhar Nageshkar
• 1999–2000 – Shankar Ghosh
• 2001- Ishwar Lal Mishra
• 2002 – Suresh B. Gaitonde, Anindo Chatterjee
• 2004 – Pt. Suresh Talwalkar
• 2006 – Kumar Bose
• 2007 – Nandan Mehta
• 2009 – Lachman Singh Seen
• 2012 - Sabir Khan
• 2013 - Hashmat Ali Khan
• 2014 - Pt. Nayan Ghosh
• 2016 - Arvind Mulgaonkar
• 2017 - Pt. Yogesh Samsi

  [Violin]

• 1972 – Gajananrao Joshi
• 1980 – V. G. Jog
• 1990 – N. Rajam
• 1995 – D. K. Datar
• 1996 – Annavarapu Ramaswamy
• 1997 – Sisir Kana Dhar Chowdhury
• 2007 – Ramoo Prasad Shastri
• 2016 - Kala Ramnath
• 2017 - Jakir khan bhapang vadak
• 2018 - Niranjan rajya guru

  Carnatic music

Vocal

• 1952 – Ariyakudi Ramanuja Iyengar
• 1953 – Semmangudi R. Srinivasa Iyer
• 1954 – Mysore K. Vasudevacharya
• 1955 – Maharajapuram Vishwanatha Iyer
• 1956 – M. S. Subbulakshmi
• 1957 – Musiri Subramania Iyer
• 1958 – Chembai Vaidyanatha Bhagavathar
• 1959 – G. N. Balasubramaniam
• 1960 – Madurai Mani Iyer
• 1961 – Mudikondan C. Venkatarama Iyer
• 1962 – D. K. Pattammal
• 1963 – B. Devendrappa
• 1964 – Chittoor S. Subramanyam
• 1965 – T. Brinda
• 1966 – M.R. Srirengam Iyengar
• 1967 – C. Venkata Rao
• 1968 – Alathur Srinivasa Iyer
• 1969 – Dandapani Desikar
• 1970 – M. L. Vasanthakumari
• 1971 – N. Channakeshaviah
• 1972 – T. Muktha
• 1973 – B.S. Raja Iyengar
• 1974 – M. D. Ramanathan
• 1975 – M. Balamurali Krishna
• 1976 – K.V.Narayanaswamy
• 1977 – Sripada Pinakapani
• 1978 – Madurai S. Somasundaram
• 1979 – R K Srikanthan
• 1980 – Seerkhazhi S. Govindarajan
• 1981 – Radha and Jayalakshmi
• 1982 – T. M. Thiagarajan
• 1983 – D. K. Jayaraman
• 1984 – Maharajapuram V. Santhanam
• 1985 – Voleti Venkatesvarulu
• 1986 – B. Rajam Iyer
• 1986 – Nedunuri Krishnamoorthy
• 1987 – Madurai N. Krishnan
• 1987 – Mani Krishnaswami
• 1988 – Nookala Chinna Satyanarayana
• 1989 – Titte Krishna Iyengar
• 1990 – T. V. Sankaranarayanan
• 1991 – S. Rajam
• 1992 – K.R. Kumaraswamy Iyer
• 1993 – Trichy Swaminathan Iyer
• 1994 – C.S. Krishna Iyer
• 1995 – R. Vedavalli
• 1996 – T.K. Govinda Rao
• 1997 – M.S. Balasubramanya Sarma
• 2000 - S. R. Janakiraman
• 2001 - B.V. Raman
• 2002 – T. R. Subramaniam
• 2003 – Trichur V. Ramachandran, M. A. Narasimhachar
• 2004 – Thiruvengadu A. Jayaraman, C. Saroja & C. Lalitha
• 2005 – S. V. Parthasarrathy, P. S. Narayanaswamy
• 2006 – D. Pasupathi, Chingleput Ranganathan
• 2007 – B. Krishnamoorti
• 2008 – Puranam Purushottama Sastri
• 2009 – Parassala B Ponnammal
• 2010 – Suguna Purushothaman, Mysore Nagamani Srinath
• 2011 - J Venkataraman
• 2012 - O. S. Thyagarajan
• 2013 - Aruna Sairam, D. Seshchari & D. Raghavachari
• 2014 - Neyveli Santhanagopalan
• 2015 - R.N. Tharanathan, Smt. Suguna Varadachari, R.N. Thiagarajan
• 2016 - Neela Ramgopal, K Omanakutty

  Instrumental

[Clarionet]

• 1994 – A. K. C. Natarajan

  [Flute]

• 1954 – Palladam Sanjiva Rao
• 1961– T.N. Swaminatha Pillai
• 1965 – T. R. Mahalingam
• 1984 – Natesan Ramani
• 1987 – T. Viswanathan
• 1989 – Sikkil Sisters - Kunjumani & Neela
• 1997 – Kesi Narayanaswamy
• 1999–2000 – T.S Sankaran
• 2004 – Prapancham Sitaram
• 2017 – Shashank Subramanyam

  [Ghatam]

• 1988 – Thetakudi Harihara Vinayakram
• 1995 – Umayalpuram K. Narayanaswamy
• 2011 - E. M. Subramaniam
• 2014 - Sukanya Ramgopal

  [Gottuvadhyam]

• 1958 – Budaloor Krishnamurthi Shastri
• 2006 – N. Ravikiran

  [Kanjira]

• 2001 – G. Harishankar

  [Mandolin]

• 2009 – U. Srinivas

  [Mridangam]

• 1956 – Palghat Mani Iyer
• 1975 – C.S. Murugabhupathy
• 1979 – Kolanka Venkata Raju
• 1983 – Palghat R. Raghu
• 1987 – T. K. Murthy
• 1990 – T. V. Gopalakrishnan
• 1991 – Vellore G. Ramabhadran
• 1992 – Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman
• 1994 – Dandamudi Rammohan Rao
• 1996 – Guruvayur Dorai
• 1998 – Karaikudi Mani
• 1999–2000 V. Kamalakar Rao
• 2002 – Yella Venkateshwara Rao
• 2004 – Madras A. Kannan
• 2006 – Thiruvarur Bakthavathsalam
• 2008 – Mannargudi Easwaran
• 2009 – Dandamudi Sumathi Dandamudi Sumathi Rama Mohan Rao
• 2010 – Srimushnam V. Raja Rao
• 2012 - K. V. Prasad
• 2013 - Trichy Sankaran
• 2016 - J. Vaidhyanathan
• 2017 - Tirvarur Vaidhyanathan

  [Nagaswaram]

• 1955 – T. N. Rajarathinam Pillai
• 1962 – Dr.Thiruvengadu Subramania Pillai
• 1966 – P.S. Veeruswamy Pillai
• 1972 – T. S. Natarajasundaram Pillai
• 1976 – Sheik Chinna Moulana
• 1981 – Namagiripettai Krishnan
• 1995 – Domada Chittiabbayi
• 2005 – Ongale N. Rangaiah
• 2007 – S. R. D. Vaidyanathan
• 2011 - Seshampatti T Sivalingam
• 2013 - Thiruvizha Jayashankar

  [Saxophone]

• 2003 – Kadri Gopalnath

  [Thavil]

• 1985 - Valangaiman A. Shanmugasundaram Pillai
• 1988 – Valayapatti A.R. Subramaniam
• 2001 – Haridwaramangalam A. K. Palanivel
• 2014 - T. A. Kaliyamurthy

  [Veena]

• 1952 – Karaikudi Sambasiva Iyer
• 1960 – L. Subramanya Sastri
• 1968 – K. S. Narayanaswamy
• 1969 – Devakottai A. Narayana Iyengar
• 1970 – Mysore V. Doreswamy Iyengar
• 1973 – Emani Sankara Sastry
• 1977 – Sundaram Balachander
• 1980 – Thanjavur K.P. Sivanandam
• 1986 – Rajeswari Padmanabhan
• 1988 – R. Pichumani Iyer
• 1990 – Chitti Babu
• 1992 – M.K. Kalyanakrishna Bhagavathar
• 1993 – Kalpakam Swaminathan
• 2001 – R.N. Doreswamy
• 2002 – E. Gayathri
• 2007 – Vidya Shankar
• 2011 - Ayyagari Syamasundaram
• 2012 - Mysore M. Nagaraja
• 2014 - Dwaram Durga Prasad Rao
• 2017 - Suma Sudhindra

  [Violin]

• 1953 – Dwaram Venkataswamy Naidu
• 1957 – Tirumakudalu Chowdiah
• 1959 – Kumbakonam Rajamanickam Pillai
• 1963 – T.K. Jayarama Iyer
• 1964 – K.N. Chinnaswamy Iyer
• 1967 – K.S. Venkataramiah 'Papa'
• 1971 – Madurai S. Subramanya Iyer
• 1974 – T. N. Krishnan
• 1978 – Lalgudi Jayaraman
• 1982 – M. S. Gopalakrishnan
• 1986 – M. Chandrasekaran
• 1988 – Chalakudy N.S. Narayanaswamy
• 1989 – R.K. Venkatarama Sastry
• 1991 – Kandadevi S. Alagiriswamy
• 1993 – Kunnakudi Vaidyanathan
• 1996 – Annavarapu Ramaswamy
• 1997 – T. Rukmini
• 1998 – M. S. Anantharaman
• 1999–2000 - R. R. Keshavamurthy
• 2003 – A. Kanyakumari
• 2005 – V. V. Subrahmanyam
• 2008 – B. Sasikumar
• 2010 – Nagai Muralidharan
• 2016 – Mysore Manjunath

  Creative and experimental music

• 1973 – Vishnudas Shirali
• 1976 – Timir Baran Bhattacharya
• 1978 – Rai Chand Boral
• 1982 – Vijay Raghav Rao
• 1983 – Chidambaram S. Jayaraman
• 1986 – Anil Biswas
• 1986 – M.B. Srinivasan
• 1986 – Hemanta Kumar Mukhopadhyay
• 1988 – Bhaskar Chandavarkar
• 1989 – Vanraj Bhatia
• 1990 – L. Subramaniam
• 1994 – V. Balsara
• 1995 – Atul Desai
• 1997 – Satish Bhatia
• 1998 – Vishwa Mohan Bhatt
• 2001 – S. Rajaram
• 2002 – K. P. Udayabhanu
• 2007 – Khayyam
• 2012 – Ilaiyaraaja

  Other major traditions of music

• 2007 — Amar Pal
• 2008 – Ningombam Ibobi Singh
• 2009 – L. Ibohalmacha Singh
• 2010 – M.V. Simhachala Sastry
• 2011 - Gopal Chandra Panda
• 2012 - Bhai Balbir Singh Ragi
• 2013 - Bankim Sethi

  Dance

[Bharatanatyam]

• 1955 – T. Balasaraswati
• 1957 – Rukmini Devi Arundale
• 1959 – Mylapore Gouri Amma
• 1962 – R. Muthurathnambal
• 1965 – P. Chockkalingam Pillai
• 1966 – Vazhuvoor B. Ramiah Pillai, Swarnasaraswathi
• 1968 – Kamala
• 1969 – T. K. Swaminatha Pillai
• 1970 – Shanta Rao
• 1971 – T. Chandrakanthamma
• 1972 – Sikkil Ramaswami Pillai
• 1973 – Kumbakonam K. Bhanumathi
• 1974 – K. P. Kittappa Pillai
• 1976 – M. Muthiah Pillai
• 1977 – Yamini Krishnamurthy
• 1979 – Pandanallur Subbaraya Pillai
• 1981 – Indrani Rahman
• 1982 – Vyjayanthimala
• 1983 – Padma Subramanyam
• 1984 – Subramaniam Sarada, Sudharani Raghupathy
• 1985 – T. K. Mahalingam Pillai
• 1986 – Krishnaveni Lakshmanan
• 1987 – U. S. Krishna Rao and Chandrabhaga Devi, Chitra Viswaswaran
• 1989 – V. S. Muthuswamy Pillai
• 1990 – Kalanidhi Narayanan
• 1991 – Adyar K. Lakshman
• 1992 – K. J. Sarasa
• 1993 – , C. V. Chandrasekhar
• 1994 – V. P. Dhananjayan and Shanta Dhananjayan
• 1995 – M. K. Saroja, Indira Rajan
• 1996 – Sarada Hoffman
• 1997 – Kanaka Srinivasan
• 1998 – Lakshmi Viswanathan
• 1999–2000 – K. Kalyanasundaram Pillai, Leela Samson, H. R. Keshava Murthy
• 2001 – Alarmel Valli, Pratibha Prahlad
• 2002 – Malavika Sarukkai
• 2003 – C. K. Balagopalan
• 2004 – Nirmala Ramachandran
• 2005 – R Rhadha
• 2006 – S. Narmada
• 2007 – Sucheta Bhide Chapekar
• 2008 – Saroja Vaidyanathan
• 2009 – Ananda Shankar Jayant
• 2011 - Narthaki Natraj
• 2012 - Priyadarsini Govind
• 2013 - Jamuna Krishnan, B. Herabhanathan
• 2014 - Adayar Janardanan
• 2015 - Ranganayaki Jayaraman
• 2016 - Geeta Chandran
• 2017 - Rama Vaidyanathan

  Chhau">Chhau dance">Chhau

• 1963 – Suddhendra Narayan Singh Deo
• 1971 – Ananta Charan Sai
• 1975 – Krishna Chandra Naik
• 1981 – Kedar Nath Sahoo
• 1982 – Gambhir Singh Mura
• 1987 – Madan Mohan Lenka
• 1988 – Srihari Nayak
• 1990 – Bikram Kumbhakar
• 1991 – Chandra Sekhar Bhanj
• 2004 – Shashadhar Acharya
• 2012 - Jai Narayan Samal
• 2014 - Jagru Mahato
• 2015 - Sadashiva Pradhan
• 2016 - Gopal Prasad Dubey
• 2017 - Janmajay Saibabu

  Creative dance/Choreography

• 1960 – Uday Shankar
• 1970 – Mrinalini Sarabhai
• 1976 – Narendra Sharma
• 1979 – Prabhat Ganguli
• 1980 – R. K. Priyagopal Sana
• 1981 – Parvati Kumar
• 1984 – Rajkumar Singhajit Singh
• 1989 – Maya Rao
• 1991 – Chandralekha
• 1992 – Sachin Shankar
• 1993 – Manjusri Chaki Sircar
• 1995 – Astad Deboo
• 1999–2000 Mallika Sarabhai
• 2001 – Gul Bardhan
• 2002 – Sambhu Bhattacharya
• 2005 – Th. Chaotombi Singh
• 2006 – Gorima Hazarika
• 2008 – Yogsunder Desai
• 2009 – Daksha Sheth
• 2010 – Uttara Asha Coorlawala
• 2011 - Tanushree Shankar
• 2014 - Navtej Singh Johar
• 2015 - W. Lokendrajit Singh
• 2016 - Anita Ratnam

  [Kathak]

• 1955 – Shambhu Maharaj
• 1957 – Baijnath Prasad "Lacchu Maharaj"
• 1959 – Sunder Prasad
• 1962 – Mohanrao Kallianpurkar
• 1964 – Birju Maharaj
• 1968 – Damayanti Joshi
• 1969 – Sitara Devi
• 1974 – Gauri Shankar Devilal Kathak
• 1975 – Roshan Kumari
• 1979 – Rohini Bhate
• 1982 – Kartik Ram, Kumudini Lakhia
• 1984 – Durga Lal
• 1987 – Uma Sharma
• 1991 – Reba Vidyarthi
• 1995 – Ramlal Bareth
• 1996 – Rani Karnaa
• 1998 – Sunderlal Sathyanarayan Gangani
• 1999–2000 – Shovana Narayan
• 2000 - Surendra Saikia
• 2002 – Rajendra Gangani
• 2003 – Sunayana Hazarilal Agarwal, Urmila Nagar
• 2004 – Saswati Sen
• 2005 – Tirath Ram Azad
• 2006 – Munna Shukla
• 2007 – Geetanjali Lal
• 2008 – Shashi Sankhla
• 2009 – Prerana Shrimali
• 2010 – Malabika Mitra
• 2011 - Manjushree Chatterjee
• 2012 - Vijay Shankar
• 2013 - Rajashree Shirke
• 2014 - Uma Dogra
• 2016 - Jitendra Maharaj
• 2017 - Shobha Koser

  [Kathakali]

• 1956 – Guru Kunchu Kurup
• 1958 – Thotton K. Chandu Panikkar
• 1961 – Thekinkatti Ramunni Nair
• 1963 – Chenganoor Raman Pillai
• 1965 – Guru Gopinath
• 1967 – Kalamandalam Krishnan Nair
• 1968 – Kurichi Kunjan Panickar
• 1969 – Vazhenkada Kunchu Nair
• 1970 – M. Vishnu Namboodiri
• 1971 – Kudamaloor Karunakaran Nair
• 1972 – M. Madhava Panicker
• 1973 – Velinezhi K. Nanu Nayar
• 1973 – Kavungal Chathunni Panicker
• 1974 – Kalamandalam Ramankutty Nair
• 1975 – K. Sankarankutty Panicker
• 1983 – Champakulam Pachu Pillai
• 1985 – Mankompu Sivasankara Pillai
• 1987 – Kalamandalam Gopi
• 1988 – Keezhpadam Kumaran Nair
• 1989 – Oyoor Kochugovinda Pillai
• 1991 – Chennithala Chellapan Pillai
• 1993 – Kalamandalam Padmanabhan Nair
• 1996 – Kottakkal Krishnan Kutty Nair
• 1997 – Madavoor Vasudevan Nair
• 1998 – Kottakkal Sivaraman
• 1999–2000 Nelliyode Vasudevan Namboodiri
• 2003 – Sadanam P. V. Balakrishnan
• 2004 – Kalamandalam Vasu Pisharody
• 2005 – Mathoor Govindam Kutty
• 2006 – Kottakkal Chandrasekharan
• 2007 – Sadanam Krishnankutty
• 2008 – Kalamandalam Kuttan
• 2009 – Kalamandalam Rajan
• 2010 – Kalamandalam K. G. Vasudevan
• 2011 - Thonnakkal Peethambaram
• 2012 -Vazhengada Vijayan
• 2013 - Kalamandalam M.P.S. Namboodiri
• 2015 - K. Kunhiraman Nair
• 2016 - Kalamandalam Ramachandran Unnithan
• 2017 - Madambi Subramanian

  [Kuchipudi]

• 1961 – Vedantam Satyanarayana Sarma ‘Satyam’
• 1968 – Chinta Krishnamurthy
• 1978 – C. Ramacharyalu
• 1981 – Vempati Chinna Satyam
• 1983 – Nataraj Ramakrishna
• 1985 – Vedantam Prahlada Sarma
• 1987 – Pasumarthi Venugopala Krishna Sarma
• 1990 – Shobha Naidu
• 1991 – Raja Reddy and Radha Reddy
• 1993 – Josyula Seetharamaiah
• 1994 – Vedantam Parvateesam
• 1998 – Veernala Jayarama Rao and Banashree Rao
• 1999–2000 – Swapnasundari Rao
• 2003 – K. Uma Rama Rao
• 2004 – Pasumarthi Seetha Ramiah
• 2005 – Korada Narasimha Rao
• 2006 – Pasumarthi Rathiah Sarma
• 2007 – Yelesarapu Nageswara Sarma
• 2008 – Vasanta Lakshmi and Narasimhachari
• 2009 – Vyjayanthi Kashi
• 2010 – Ratna Kumar
• 2011 - Alekhya Punjala
• 2012 - Vedantam Ramalinga Sastry
• 2013 - Chinta Seetha Ramanjaneyulu
• 2014 - Vedantam Radhesyam
• 2015 - G Padmaja Reddy
• 2016 - A B Bala Kondala Rao
• 2017 - Deepika Reddy

  Manipuri">Manipuri dance">Manipuri

• 1956 – Maisnam Amubi Singh
• 1958 – Haobam Atomba Singh
• 1961 – T. Amudon Sharma
• 1963 – Atombapu Sharma
• 1965 – Guru Bipin Singh
• 1969 – Ojha Thangjam Chaoba Singh
• 1972 – Kshetri Tombi Devi
• 1973 – L. Koireng Singh
• 1974 – L. Ibemhal Devi
• 1975 – Rajani Maibi
• 1976 – Ojha Maibam Ibungohal Singh
• 1977 – Nayana Susheel Jhaveri
• 1980 – L. Thouranishabi Devi
• 1982 – L. Tombi Devi
• 1985 – Khaidem Lokeshwar Singh
• 1987 – Tarun Kumar Singh
• 1988 – Ibopishak Sharma
• 1990 – Th. Babu Singh
• 1993 – H. Ngangbi Devi
• 1994 – T. Nadia Singh
• 1995 – L. Thambalangoubi Devi
• 1996 – Darshana Jhaveri
• 1997 – Samanduram Tondon Devi
• 1998 – N. Madhabi Devi
• 1999–2000 – Sorokhaibam Naran Singh
• 2001 – Charu Sija Mathur
• 2002 – K. Ongbi Leipaklotpi Devi
• 2003 – Thiyam Suryamukhi Devi, Kalavati Devi
• 2005 – K. Radhamohon Sharma
• 2009 – L. Bino Devi
• 2010 – Phanjoubam Iboton Singh
• 2011 - Priti Patel
• 2014 - N. Amusana Devi
• 2016 - Maisnam Kaminikumar Singh
• 2017 - L.N.Oinam Ongdi Doni Devi

  [Mohiniattam]

• 1972 – T. Chinnammu Amma
• 1978 – Kalamandalam Kalyanikutty Amma
• 1994 – Kalamandalam Satyabhama
• 1998 – Kalamandalam Kshemavathy
• 1999–2000 – Bharati Shivaji
• 2004 – Kalamandalam Sugandhi
• 2006 – Kalamandalam Vimala Menon
• 2007 – Deepti Omchery Bhalla
• 2008 – Kalamandalam Leelamma
• 2011 - V. K. Hymavathy
• 2015 - Mandakini Trivedi

  [Odissi]

• 1966 – Kelucharan Mohapatra
• 1970 – Pankaj Charan Das
• 1976 – Sanjukta Panigrahi
• 1977 – Deba Prasad Das
• 1985 – Mayadhar Raut
• 1986 – Priyambada Mohanty Hejmadi
• 1987 – Sonal Mansingh
• 1992 – D. N. Pattnaik
• 1994 – Kumkum Mohanty
• 1995 – Raghunath Dutta
• 1997 – Gangadhar Pradhan
• 1999–2000 – Minati Mishra, Madhavi Mudgal
• 2002 – Kiran Segal
• 2003 – Hare Krishna Behera
• 2004 – Durllav Chandra Singh
• 2005 – Durga Charan Ranbir
• 2006 – Surendra Nath Jena
• 2007 – Ranjana Gauhar
• 2008 – Ramani Ranjan Jena
• 2009 – Geeta Mahalik
• 2010 – Aruna Mohanty
• 2011 - Ramli Ibrahim
• 2012 - Sharmila Biswas
• 2013 - Sangeeta Dash
• 2014 - Sudhakar Sahoo
• 2015 - Aloka Kanungo
• 2016 - Ratikant Mohapatra
• 2017 - Sujata Mohapatra

  [Sattriya]

• 1963 – Maniram Datta Moktar
• 1978 – Bapuram Bayan Attai
• 1980 – Roseshwar Saikia Bayan Moktar
• 1996 – Indira P P Bora
• 1998 – Pradip Chaliha
• 1999–2000 – Parmanand Borbayan
• 2001 – Ghanakanta Bora
• 2004 – Jatin Goswami
• 2007 – Ganakanta Dutta Borbayan
• 2010 – Manik Borbayan
• 2013 - Jogen Dutta Bayan
• 2014 - Anita Sharma
• 2015 - Sharodi Saikia
• 2016 - Haricharan Bhuyan Borbayan
• 2017 - Ramkrishna Talukdar

  Other major traditions of dance and dance theatre

• 2007 – Kalamandalam Sivan Namboodiri
• 2009 – Kala Krishna
• 2010 – Painkulam Rama Chakyar
• 2012 - Painkulam Damodara Chakyar
• 2013 - Srinivasa Rangachariar

  Music for dance

• 2005 – Josyula Krishna Murthy
• 2006 – Kalamandalam Gangadharan
• 2008 – Ramhari Das
• 2010 – S. Rajeswari
• 2011 - Karaikudi Krishnamurthi
• 2012 - Jwala Prasad
• 2013 - Dhaneshwar Swain
• 2014 - Varanasi Vishnu Namboothiri
• 2015 - Rajkumar Bharathi
• 2017 - Ashit Desai

  Theatre

Acting

From 1952–2003 (language-wise)

Assamese

• 1961 – Mitradev Mahanta Adhikari
• 2001 – Girish Chowdhury

  [Bengali theatre]

• 1958 – Ahindra Choudhury
• 1962 – Tripti Mitra
• 1967 – Sabitabrata Dutta
• 1970 – Saraju Bala Devi
• 1973 – Shobha Sen
• 1975 – Molina Devi
• 1977 – Krishna Roy
• 1983 – Kumar Roy
• 1989 – Sekhar Chatterjee
• 1995 – Satya Bandopadhyay
• 1998 – Soumitra Chatterjee
• 1999–2000 – Ketaki Dutta Sabitri Chatterjee
• 2003 – Shaoli Mitra

  [Gujarati theatre]

• 1960 – Ashraf Khan
• 1965 – Muljibhai Khushalbhai Nayak
• 1968 – Jaswant D. Thaker
• 1974 – Pransukh Manilal Nayak
• 1980 – Dina Pathak
• 1988 – Sarita Joshi

  [Hindi theatre]

• 1979 – Amrish Puri
• 1982 – Manohar Singh
• 1984 – Uttara Baokar
• 1985 – Fida Hussain
• 1989 – Surekha Sikri
• 1990– Naseeruddin Shah
• 1999–2000 Seema Biswas

  Kannada

• 1955 – Gubbi Veeranna
• 1961 – Subbaiah Naidu
• 1985 – B. Jayamma
• 1992 – R. Nagarathnamma
• 1994 – Balappa Yenagi
• 1996 – B. Jayashree
• 2003 – C. R. Simha

  Malayalam

• 1960 – C. I. Parameswaran Pillai
• 1965 – V. T. Aravindaksha Menon
• 1969 – N. N. Pillai

  Manipuri

• 1991 – Sabitri Heisnam
• 1997 – R. K. Bhogen

  [Marathi theatre]

• 1955 – Narayan Rao Rajhans 'Bal Gandharva'
• 1956 – Ganesh Govind Bodas
• 1957 – Chintaman Ganesh Kolhatkar
• 1960 – Gopal Govind Pathak
• 1964 – Keshav Trimbak Date
• 1971 – Shreeram Lagoo
• 1976 – Jyotsna Bhole
• 1978 – Dattaram N. Walwaikar
• 1981 – Chintamani Govind Pendse
• 1983 – Dattatray Ramachandra Bhat
• 1986 – Prabhakar V. Panshikar
• 1987 – Sulabha Deshpande
• 1990 – Bhakti Barve Inamdar
• 1991 – Neelu Phule
• 1996 – Mohan Agashe
• 2018 – Suhas Joshi

  Oriya

• 1961 – Samuel Sahu

  Sanskrit

• 1965 – Krishnachandra Moreshwar "Daji Bhatawadekar"

  Tamil

• 1959 – Pammal Sambandha Mudaliar
• 1962 – T. K. Shanmugam
• 1967 – S. V. Sahasranamam
• 1992 – Poornam Vishwanathan

  [Telugu theatre]

• 1961 – Sthanam Narasimha Rao
• 1963 – Banda Kanakalingeswara Rao
• 1973 – Kalyanam Raghuramaiah
• 1986 – Peesapati Narasimha Murty

  Urdu

• 1963 – Zohra Sehgal
• 1994 – Uzra Butt

  From 2004 onwards

• 2004 – Rohini Hattangady, Ramcharan Nirmalkar
• 2005 – Chindodi Leela
• 2006 – Dharani Barman, Gita Dey, K. Kaladharan Nair
• 2007 – Ramesh Mehta
• 2008 – Markand Bhatt, Arundhati Nag
• 2009 – Sudha Shivpuri, Neeta Mohindra
• 2010 – Dilip Prabhavalkar, Banwari Taneja, Maya Krishna Rao, Swatilekha Sengupta
• 2012 - Parvesh Seth, Nirmal Rishi, Purisai Kannappa Sambandan
• 2013 - Vasant Josalkar, Kusum Haidar
• 2014 - Debshankar Haldar, Ramdas Kamat

  Mime

• 1993 – Jogesh Dutta
• 2002 – Niranjan Goswami
• 2009 – Moinul Haque

  Direction

• 1957 - Jaishankar Bhojak 'Sundari'
• 1959 - Sombhu Mitra
• 1961 - Kasambhai Nathubhai Mir
• 1962 - Ebrahim Alkazi
• 1964 - T. S. Rajamanikkam
• 1969 - Habib Tanvir
• 1970 - Adi Ferozeshah Marzban
• 1971 - Satyadev Dubey
• 1972 - Shyamanand Jalan
• 1973 - Ajitesh Bandopadhyay
• 1974 - Damodar Kashinath Kenkre
• 1975 - Vijaya Mehta
• 1976 - B. V. Karanth
• 1977 - Rajinder Nath
• 1978 - Jabbar Patel
• 1979 - B. M. Shah
• 1980 - Rudraprasad Sengupta
• 1981 - R.S. Manohar
• 1982 - Sheila Bhatia
• 1983 - Kavalam Narayana Panikkar
• 1985 - Heisnam Kanhailal
• 1986 - Alyque Padamsee
• 1987 - Tarun Roy
• 1987 - Ratan Thiyam
• 1989 - Bibhash Chakraborty
• 1990 - Geoffrey Kendal & Laura Kendal
• 1991 - Fritz Bennewitz
• 1992 - Mohan Maharishi
• 1993 - Kailash Pandya
• 1993 - Barry John
• 1995 - M. K. Raina
• 1995 - Bansi Kaul
• 1996 - Purushottam Darwhekar
• 1997 - Bhanu Bharti
• 1998 - Amal Allana
• 1998 - Dulal Roy
• 1998 - Usha Ganguly
• 1999–2000 - Balwant Thakur
• 1999–2000 - Nadira Zaheer Babbar
• 1999–2000 - Prasanna
• 2001 - Shanta Gandhi
• 2002 - Arun Mukherjee, Satish Anand,
• 2003 - Devendra Raj Ankur, Neelam Mansingh Chowdhry
• 2004 - Anuradha Kapur, Arambam Lokendra Singh, Raj Besaria
• 2005 - Ranjit Kapoor, V.K. Sharma
• 2006 - E. Joychandra Singh, R. Nagesh, Amitava Dasgupta
• 2007 - Hari Madhab Mukherjee, N.C. Thakur
• 2008 - S. Ramanujam, Probir Guha
• 2009 - Joy Michael, Dinesh Thakur
• 2010 - Veenapani Chawla, Urmil Kumar Thapliyal
• 2011 - Alakhnandan, Kirti Jain
• 2012 - Tripurari Sharma, Waman Kendre
• 2013 - Kamalkar Muralidhar Sontakke, Kewal Dhaliwal, Prasanna Ramaswamy
• 2014 - Surya Mohan Kulshreshtha, Chidambar Rao Jambe
• 2015 - Parvez Akhtar, Mushtaq Kak
• 2018 - Prof. Satyabrata Rout

  Playwriting

• Assamese
• *1986 – Satya Prasad Barua
• *2003 – Aruna Sarma
• Bengali
• *1968 – Badal Sircar
• *1969 – Manmatha Ray
• *1975 – Bijon Bhattacharya
• *1985 – Manoj Mitra
• *1991 – Mohit Chattopadhyaya
• Dogri
• *2008 – Narsingh Dev Jamwal
• Gujarati
• *1961 – Prabhulal Dayaram Dwivedi
• *1971 – C. C. Mehta, Pragji Dossa,
• Hindi
• *1965 – Upendra Nath Ashk
• *1968 – Mohan Rakesh
• *1977 – Lakshmi Narain Lal
• *1988 – Dharamvir Bharati
• *1992 – Surendra Verma
• *2001 – Bhisham Sahni, D.P. Sinha
• *2006 – Prabhat Kumar Bhattacharya
• *2004 – Swadesh Deepak
• *2007 – Reoti Sharan Sharna
• *2008 – Mudra Rakshasa
• Kannada
• *1963 – Adya Rangacharya 'Shriranga'
• *1972 – Girish Karnad
• *1983 – Chandrashekhara Kambara
• *1980 – Narasinga Rao Parwathavani
• *1989 – G.B. Joshi
• *1997 – H.S. Shiva Prakash
• Kashmiri
• *1997 – Moti Lal Kemmu
• Malayalam
• *1979 – G. Sankara Pillai
• *1983 - Kavalam Narayana Panikkar
• *1986 – K. T. Muhammed
• *1997 – N. Krishna Pillai
• *2009 – Vayala Vasudevan Pillai
• Manipuri
• *2007 – Yumnam Rajendra Singh
• Marathi
• *1958 – B.V. 'Mama' Warerkar
• *1967 – P. L. Deshpande
• *1970 – Vijay Tendulkar
• *1976 – C. T. Khanolkar
• *1982 – M.G. Rangnekar
• *1984 – Vasant Shankar Kanetkar
• *1987 – V.V. Shirwadkar
• *1989 – Mahesh Elkunchwar
• *1994 – Satish Alekar
• *1996 – G.P. Deshpande
• *2003 – Ratnakar Ramkrishna Matkari
• *2009 – Shankar Narayan Navre
• Mizo
• *2007 – Lathangfala Sailo
• Oriya
• *1981 – Manorajan Das
• *1982-Biswajit Das
• *1987 – Gopal Chhotray
• Punjabi
• *1993 – Gursharan Singh
• *1998 – Balwant Gargi
• *2010 – Atamjeet Singh
• Tamil
• *1974 – S.D. Sundaram
• *1999–2000 – Na. Muthuswamy
• *2004 – Indira Parthasarathy
• Telugu
• *2010 – D. Vizai Bhaskar

  2012 onwards

• 2012 - Arjun Deo Charan
• 2013 - Rameshwar Prem, Pundalik Narayan Naik
• 2014 - Asgar Wajahat

  Allied Theatre Arts

• Lighting
• *1974 – Tapas Sen
• *1977 – V, Ramamurthy
• *1989 – G.N. Dasgupta
• *1994 – Kanishka Sen
• *1997 – Mansukh Joshi
• *1999–2000 – R.K. Dhingra
• *2002 – Ashok Sagar Bhagat
• *2003 – Sreenivas G. Kappanna
• *2005 – Suresh Bhardwaj
• *2006 - Gautam Bhattacharya
• *2011 - Kamal Jain
• Scenic Design
• *1985 – Goverdhan Panchal
• *1986 – Khaled Choudhury
• *1988 – Dattatraya Ganesh Godse
• *1997 – Mansukh Joshi
• *1999–2000 – Robin Das
• *2007 – Mahendra Kumar
• Costumes/Make-up
• *1981 – Ashok Srivastava
• *1990 – Roshan Alkazi
• *1999–2000 – Shakti Sen
• *2001 – Dolly Ahluwalia
• *2003 – Anant Gopal Shinde
• *2004 – Prema Karanth
• *2008 - Amba Sanyal
• *2009 – Kamal Arora
• *2013 - Krishna Borkar
• Music for Theatre
• *1999–2000 – Kajal Ghosh, Kamal Tewari
• *2005 - R. Paramashivan
• *2009 – Kuldeep Singh
• *2012 - Murari Roychoudhury
• *2014 - Amod Bhatt, Amardas Manikpuri
• Stagecraft
• *1993 – M.S. Sathyu
• *1995 – N. Krishnamoorthy
• *2002 – Nissar Allana
• *2005 - H. V. Sharma

  Major traditions of theatre

• 2007 – Kolyur Ramachandra Rao
• 2008 – Bansi Lal Khiladi, Khayal
• 2012 - Ghulam Rasool Bhagat
• 2014 - Manjunath Bhagwat Hostota

  Other Traditional / Folk/ Tribal/ Dance/ Music/ Theatre and Puppetry

Other Traditional / Folk / Tribal/ Music/ Dance and Theatre

• 1964 – Mani Madhava Chakyar, Kerala
• 1969 - Gahan Chandra Goswami
• 1972 – Kudamaloor Karunakaran Nair, Kerala
• 1981 - Kamini Kumar Narzary
• 1983 - Dharmiklal Chunilal Pandya, Gujarat
• 1983 - Lalit Chandra Ojha
• 1985 - Mohan Chandra Barman
• 1987 - Bhupen Hazarika
• 1988 - Pratima Barua Pandey
• 1989 - Rajen Pam
• 1990 - Rameshwar Pathak
• 1991 – Puranchand Wadali & Pyarelal Wadali, Punjab
• 1992 - Khagen Mahanta
• 1994 – M. Boyer, Goa
• 1995 – Teejan Bai, Madhya Pradesh
• 1997 - Arghya sen , West Bengal
• 1997 - P. R. Thilagam, Kuravanji performer, Tamil Nadu
• 1998 - Ghulam Mohammad Saznawaz, Jammu and Kashmir
• 2002 - Dilip Sarma & Sudakshina Sarma
• 2003 - Prabhat Sarma
• 2003 - Kosha Kanta Deva Goswami
• 2005 - Khirod Khakhlari
• 2005 – Mathoor Govindan Kutty, Kerala
• 2008 – Mangi Bai Arya, Rajasthan
• 2008 – Lakha Khan Mangniyar,, Rajasthan
• 2008 – Bansi Lal Khilari, Rajasthan
• 2009 – Bhikhudan Gadhvi, Gujarat
• 2010 – Harbhajan Singh Namdhari, Punjab
• 2010 – Nazeer Ahmed Khan Warsi and Naseer Ahmed Khan Warsi, Andhra Pradesh
• 2010 – Dwijen Mukherjee, West Bengal
• 2010 – Chandabai Tiwadi, Maharashtra
• 2010 – T. Somasundaram, Tamil Nadu
• 2010 – Krishna Kumari, Jammu and Kashmir
• 2010 – Chand Jagdish Tiwadi, Maharashtra
• 2011 - Trippekulam Achuta Marar
• 2011 - Hemant Chauhan for Folk Music
• 2011 - Gurmeet Bawa for Folk Music
• 2011 - Kashiram Sahu for Folk Theatre
• 2011 - Mipham Otsal for Traditional Theatre
• 2011 - Bellagallu Veeranna for Togalu Gombeyatta, Puppetry
• 2011 - Gopal Chandra Das for Putul Nach
• 2011 - Kasmi Khan Niyazi for Making of musical Instrument
• 2012 - Go Ru Channabasappa
• 2012 - Kinaram Nath Oja
• 2012 - Prem Singh Dehati
• 2012 - Sulochana Chavan
• 2012 - Mattannur Sankaran Kutty Marar
• 2012 - Govind Ram Nirmalkar
• 2012 - Heera Das Negi
• 2013 - Meeenakshi K.
• 2013 - Raj Begum, Traditional, Folk Music/Dance & Theatre
• 2013 - T.A.R. Nadi Rao & N Jeeva Rao, Folk Music
• 2013 - Gurdial Singh, Instrument Making
• 2013 - Mohan Singh Khangura, Rabindra Sangeet
• 2013 - Umakanta Gogoi, Tokari Geet and Dehbichar Geet,
• 2013 - Sheikh Riyajuddin alias Rajubaba, Folk Theatre
• 2014 - Puran Shah Koti
• 2014 - Kalamandalam Ram Mohan
• 2014 - Reba Kanta Mohanta
• 2014 - Abdul Rashid Hafiz
• 2014 - K.Shanathoiba Sharma
• 2014 - Ramdayal Sharma
• 2014 - Thanga Darlong
• 2015 - Ramchandra Singh
• 2017 - Mukund Nayak
• 2018 - Narendra Singh Negi

  Puppetry /Mime/ Allied arts of traditional forms

• 1978 – Kathinanada Das, Orissa
• 1979 – U. Kogga Devanna Kamath, Karnataka
• 1980 – K.L. Krishnan Kutty Pulavar, Kerala
• 1981 – M.R. Ranganatha Rao, Karnataka
• 1983 – Meher Rustom Contractor, Gujarat
• 1987 – Suresh Dutta, West Bengal
• 1992 – Dadi Dorab Pudumjee, Delhi
• 1995 – T. Hombiah, Karnataka
• 1998 – Kolhacharan Sahu, Orissa
• 1999 – B.H. Puttashamachar, Karanataka
• 2001 – Hiren Bhattacharya, West Bengal
• 2003 – Puran Bhatt, Rajasthan
• 2005 - Ganpat Sakharam Masge,Maharashtra
• 2010 – K. Chinna Anjannamma, Andhra Pradesh
• 2010 – K.V. Ramakrishnan and K.C. Ramakrishnan, Kerala
• 2012 – Prafulla Karmakar
• 2013 – Lilavati M Kavi, Puppetry
• 2014 – K. Kesavasamy
• 2016 – Prabhitangsu Das
• 2018 – Anupama Hoskere

  Overall Contribution/Scholarship

Films