Sangeet Natak Akademi Award (

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: Saṅgīta Nāṭaka Akādamī Puraskāra), also known as the Akademi Puraskar, is an award given by the Sangeet Natak Akademi, India's National Academy of Music, Dance & Drama. It is the highest Indian recognition given to people in the field of performing arts. The award earlier in 2003, consisted of

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50,000, a citation, an '' angavastram'' (a shawl), and a ''tamrapatra'' (a brass plaque). Since 2009 cash prize has been increased to ₹1,00,000. The awards are given in the categories of music, dance, theatre, other traditional arts and puppetry, and for contribution/scholarship in performing arts.

Award recipients

The recipients of the Sangeet Natak Akademi award in various categories of performing arts have been listed below

Music

Hindustani music

Vocal

*1952 –

Mushtaq Hussain Khan Ustad Mushtaq Hussain Khan (1878–1964) was an Indian classical vocalist. He belonged to the Rampur-Sahaswan gharana. Early life Mushtaq Hussain was born in a family of traditional musicians in Sahaswan, a small town in Budaun District of Ut ...

*1953 – Kesarbai Kerkar *1954 – Rajab Ali Khan *1955 – Anant Manohar Joshi *1956 –

Rajabhaiyya Poonchhwale Raja Bhaiya Poochwale (1882–1956) was an Indian musician from Poonch Gharana. Raja Bhaiya Poochwale also considered from Gwalior Gharana. Raja Bhaiya was born on 12 August 1882 in Gwalior State of the Central India Agency. His birth name was R ...

*1957 – Rasoolan Bai *1958 – Ganesh Ramachandra Behere *1959 –

Krishnarao Shankar Pandit ''Gaan Maharishi'' Pt. Krishnarao Shankar Pandit (1893–1989) was an Indian musician, considered by many as one of the leading vocalists of the Gwalior gharana. He authored several articles and 8 books on music and was the founder of ''Shankar ...

*1960 – Altaf Hussain Khan *1961 – Y. S. Mirashi Buwa *1962 – Bade Ghulam Ali Khan *1963 – Omkarnath Thakur *1964 – Rahimuddin Khan Dagar *1965 –

Hirabai Barodekar Hirābai Barodekar (1905 – 1989) was an Indian Hindustāni classical music singer, of Kirana gharana. She was disciple of Ustād Abdul Wahid Khān. Early life and background Hirabai was born as Champākali to Kirānā Gharānā master Us ...

*1966 –

Siddheswari Devi Siddheswari Devi (1908 – 18 March 1977) was a legendary Hindustani singer from Varanasi, India, known as ''Maa'' (mother). Born in 1908, she lost her parents early and was brought up by her aunt, the noted singer Rajeshwari Devi. Initiation ...

*1967 – Amir Khan *1968 –

Mogubai Kurdikar Mogubai Kurdikar (15 July 1904 – 10 February 2001) was a renowned Indian classical vocalist of the Jaipur-Atrauli gharana. Early years and background Mogubai was born in the village of Kurdi in Portuguese-ruled Goa. Little is known of her fa ...

*1969 – Ramchatur Mallick *1970 – Nisar Hussain Khan *1971 – Mallikarjun Mansur *1972 – Begum Akhtar *1973 – Gangubai Hangal *1974 – Kumar Gandharva *1975 –

Bhimsen Joshi Pandit Bhimsen Gururaj Joshi BR (; ; 4 February 1922 – 24 January 2011), also known by the honorific prefix Pandit, was one of the greatest Indian vocalists from Karnataka, in the Hindustani classical tradition. He is known for the '' kha ...

*1975-76 Gavri Devi (Vocal) (Jodhpur, Rajasthan) *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 Ustad Nasir Aminuddin Dagar (20 October 1923 at Indore, India – 28 December 2000 Kolkata, India), of Dagar Gharana of Dhrupad singingGavri Devi (Vocal) (Jodhpur, Rajasthan) *1986 –

Asgari Bai Asgari Bai (25 August 1918 – 9 August 2006) was an Indian Dhrupad singer. She was a recipient of Padma Shri, Tansen Samman, Academy Samman and Shikhar Samman. Asgari Bai was born in Bijawar, Chhatarpur. She had come with her mother Nazeer ...

, Firoz Dastur,

Manik Varma Manik Varma (16 May 1926 – 10 November 1996) was an Indian classical singer from the Kirana and Agra gharanas (singing styles). Career Besides the pure classical khyal, she also sang semi-classical and light music like thumri, Marathi Nat ...

*1987 – C. R. Vyas, Shobha Gurtu, Pandit Jasraj *1988 – Padmavati Gokhale Shaligram *1989 – Jitendra Abhisheki *1990 – K. G. Ginde,

Dhondutai Kulkarni Dhondutai Kulkarni, (23 July 1927 – 1 June 2014) was an Indian classical singer from the Jaipur-Atrauli gharana. She was the last legendary exponent of orthodox Jaipur-Atrauli Gharana. Early life Dhondutai was born in a Brahmin family in Ko ...

*1991 – N. Zahiruddin Dagar,

Prabha Atre Prabha Atre (born 13 September 1932) is an Indian classical vocalist from the Kirana gharana. She has been awarded all three of the Padma Awards by the Government of India. Early life and education Atre was born to Abasaheb and Indirabai Atr ...

*1992 – Ramarao V. Naik,

Shiv Kumar Shukla Pandit Shivkumar Shukla (12 July 1918 – 31 December 1998) was an Indian classical vocalist of the Bhendibazaar gharana. A recipient of the 1992 Sangeet Natak Akademi Award, he was known for his works in Khayal form of Hindustani classical mu ...

*1993 – Bala Saheb Poochwale,

Rahim Fahimuddin Dagar Rahim Fahimuddin Dagar (2 February 1927 – 27 July 2011) was an exponent of Dagar vani Dhrupad of Indian classical music. He represented the 19th generation of Dagar Tradition. His cousins Nasir Moinuddin Dagar and Nasir Aminuddin Dagar were know ...

*1994 –

Sulochana Brahaspati Sulochana Brahaspati (born 1937, in Allahabad) is one of the noted vocalist of Hindustani classical music. In 1994, she was awarded the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award, the highest Indian recognition given to practicing artists, given by the Sangee ...

, 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 Pandit Ajoy Chakrabarty (born 25 December 1952) is an Hindustani classical vocalist, composer, lyricist and an exponent of the Patiala-Kasur gharana. He was given Padma Bhushan Award, the third highest civilian award in India in 2020. Early li ...

Rita Ganguly Rita Ganguly is an exponent in the Indian classical arts. An accomplished dancer, musician and vocalist, she was honoured with the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 2000 and with the Padma Shri in 2003. She is the mother of actress Meghna Kothari ...

, Malabika Kanan *2001 – Abhay Narayan Mallick, Sangameshwar Gurav,

Malini Rajurkar Malini Rajurkar (born 8 January 1941) is a Hindustani classical singer of Gwalior Gharana. Early life She grew up in the state of Rajasthan in India. For three years she taught mathematics at the Savitri Girls’ High School & College, Ajmer, w ...

*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 Shruti Sadolikar Katkar (born 9 Nov. 1951) is an Indian classical singer of the khyal style in the Jaipur-Atrauli gharana. She is a recipient of the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award for Hindustani vocal music for 2011. Early life and career Sadolika ...

Pandit Venkatesh Kumar Pandit M. Venkatesh Kumar (born July 1, 1953) is an Indian Hindustani vocalist. He is best known for his rendition of devotional songs composed by Swami Haridas. Kumar belongs to the Kirana and Gwalior Gharana. Early life and musical traini ...

*2012 – Shankar Lal Mishra,

Rajashekhar Mansur Rajshekhar Mansur (born 16 December 1942 death 1 May 2022) was an Indian classical vocalist of the Jaipur-Atrauli gharana. He was the son and disciple of vocalist Mallikarjun Mansur. Early life and education Mansur was born to singer Mallikarju ...

Ajay Pohankar Ajay Pohankar (born 24 February 1947) is an Indian classical vocalist belonging to Kirana Gharana school of Hindustani classical music. Background and career Ajay Pohankar ( mr, अजय पोहणकर) was born in Jabalpur, Madhya Prades ...

*2013 – Ritwik Sanyal, Veena Sahasrabuddhe *2014 –

Ashwini Bhide-Deshpande Ashwini Bhide-Deshpande (born 7 October 1960) is a Hindustani classical music vocalist from Mumbai. She belongs to the Jaipur-Atrauli gharana tradition. Early life and education Born in Mumbai into a family with strong musical tradition, Ashw ...

, Iqbal Ahmad Khan, Nathrao Neralkar *2015 –

Mashkoor Ali Khan Ustad Mashkoor Ali Khan is an Indian classical singer and teacher from the Kirana musical style. As the grandson of Abdul Karim Khan, a founder of the Kirana style, he is a descendant of the gharana's family lineage. He was educated by his fat ...

*2016 –

Prabhakar Karekar Pandit Prabhakar Karekar (b 1944) is a Hindustani classical vocalist, born in Goa, India. He was awarded Tansen Samman in 2014 and Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in the year 2016. Background Prabhakar Janardan Karekar was born in 1944, in what was ...

*2017 – Lalith J. Rao, Umakant and Ramakant Gundecha -

Gundecha Brothers The Gundecha Brothers are Indian classical singers of the dhrupad genre of the Dagar vani. From 1985 to 2019 the duo consisted of brothers Umakant Gundecha and Ramakant Gundecha and were awarded the Padma Shri for art for 2012. Following the de ...

*2018 –

Mani Prasad Pandit Mani Prasad (4 November 1930) is an Indian classical vocalist from the Kirana gharana (singing style). Early life and training Mani Prasad was born into a family of musicians. His father, Sukhdev Prasad, had received music training fr ...

Madhup Mudgal Madhup Mudgal is an Indian Hindustani classical music vocalist., known for his khayal and bhajan renditions. A disciple of Kumar Gandharva, he is also a composer, conductor of famous Gandharva Choir and has been principal of the Gandharva Maha ...

*2019 – Vinayak Torvi, Prem Kumar Mallick *2020 – Sumitra Guha, Arati Ankalikar-Tikekar *2021 –

Uday Bhawalkar Pandit Uday Bhawalkar is an Indian classical vocalist. He is an exponent of the dhrupad genre. Early years Uday Bhawalkar was born in Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh, the youngest of three siblings. He began training in classical music from his elder ...

Subhra Guha Subhra Guha (born 1956) is a vocalist in the Hindustani classical music tradition from the Agra gharana style of singing. Her repertoire covers khyals, thumri and dadra. Biography Subhra Guha was born in Calcutta in 1956. Her family encouraged ...

Instrumental

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Dabir Khan Dabir Khan was a 20th-century 'beenkar' and a vocalist. He was the grandson of legendary vina player Wazir Khan. Career Dabir Khan learned veena from his grandfather, Wazir Khan. He was employed at All India Radio Calcutta. Dabir Khan is ...

*1977 –

Asad Ali Khan Asad Ali Khan (1 December 1937 – 14 June 2011) was an Indian musician who played the plucked string instrument ''rudra veena''. Khan performed in the style ''dhrupad'' and was described as the best living ''rudra veena'' player in India by ...

*1981 – Zia Mohiuddin Dagar *1994 – Pandit Gopal Krishan *2012 –

Bahauddin Dagar Baha'ud'din Mohiuddin Dagar (born 1970) is the rudra veena player and son of famous north Indian musician Zia Mohiuddin Dagar. He plays rudra veena with the ''dagarbani'' style. He represents the 20th generation of Dagar lineage, referring to N ...

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Flute The flute is a family of classical music instrument in the woodwind group. Like all woodwinds, flutes are aerophones, meaning they make sound by vibrating a column of air. However, unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is a reedles ...

= *1983 – Pt. Hari Prasad Chaurasiya *1986 – Devendra Murdeshwar *1994 – Raghunath Seth *2010 –

Nityanand Haldipur Nityanand Haldipur (born 7 May 1948) is a performer and teacher of the Indian bamboo flute, known in India as the bansuri. He is a purist in the true Maihar Gharana tradition and learned from Ma Annapurna Devi, in Mumbai, India. He has been rated ...

*2014 –

Ronu Majumdar Ronu Majumdar is an Indian flautist in the Hindustani classical music tradition. Awards, nominations, and music collaborations In 1981, Ronu Majumdar won the first prize at the All India Radio competition, and the President's Gold Medal. He h ...

*2017 – Pt. Rajendra Prasanna *2019 – Chetan Joshi

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= *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 Raja Chatrapati Singh (1919–1998) was an Indian percussionist. He was famous for his virtuosity on Pakhavaj drums used in Hindustani Classical Music. Biography Chatrapati (also spelled ''Chhatrapati'') Singh Ju Deo was born in the Royal f ...

*1993 – Gopaldas Panse *1995 – Ram Ashish Pathak *2003 –

Bhavani Shankar Bhavani Shankar is an Indian pakhawaj drum player. Bhavani Shankar was born into a musical family, beginning his study of pakhawaj and tabla at the age of eight. His father Babulalji was a renowned Kathak performer, a style of Indian class ...

*2011 – Totaram Sharma *2020 – Dal Chand Sharma

= Santoor

= *1986 – Shivkumar Sharma *1993 – Bhajan Sopori *2018 – Tarun Bhattacharya

= Sarangi

= *1966 – Shakoor Khan *1975 –

Ram Narayan Ram Narayan (; born 25 December 1927), often referred to with the title Pandit, is an Indian musician who popularised the bowed instrument ''sarangi'' as a solo concert instrument in Hindustani classical music and became the first internation ...

*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

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Sarod The sarod is a stringed instrument, used in Hindustani music on the Indian subcontinent. Along with the sitar, it is among the most popular and prominent instruments. It is known for a deep, weighty, introspective sound, in contrast with the swe ...

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Allauddin Khan Allauddin Khan, also known as Baba Allauddin Khan ( – 6 September 1972) was an Indian sarod player and multi-instrumentalist, composer and one of the most notable music teachers of the 20th century in Indian classical music. For a generation m ...

*1953 –

Hafiz Ali Khan Hafiz Ali Khan (1888–1972) was an Indian sarod player.Brick, mortar & false notes
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*1963 – Ali Akbar Khan *1971 –

Radhika Mohan Maitra Radhika Mohan Maitra (1917–1981) was an Indian sarod player and the guru of Narendra Nath Dhar, Kalyan Mukherjea, Buddhadev Das Gupta, Sanjoy Bandopadhyay, Abanindra Maitra, Pranab Kumar Naha, Samarendra Nath Sikdar, Michael Robbins, and man ...

*1986 –

Sharan Rani Backliwal Sharan Rani (also known as Sharan Rani Backliwal, ''née'' Mathur) (9 April 1929 – 8 April 2008) was an Indian classical sarod player and music scholar. Her private collection of 379 musical instruments ranging from the 15th to the 19th ...

*1988 – Zarin Sharma *1989 – Amjad Ali Khan *1993 –

Buddhadev Das Gupta Buddhadev Das Gupta (1 February 1933 – 15 January 2018) was an Indian classical musician who played the sarod. He used to reside in Kolkata, India. He was one of the artists featured in Nimbus Records' '' The Raga Guide''. Early life and t ...

*1999–2000 –

Rajeev Taranath Rajeev Taranath (born 17 October 1932) is an Indian classical musician who plays the sarod. Taranath is a disciple of Ali Akbar Khan. Career Rajeev Taranath was born in Bangalore on 17 October 1932. He received his initial training in vocal mus ...

*2004 –

Aashish Khan Aashish Khan Debsharma (born 5 December 1939) is an Indian classical musician, a player of the sarod. He was nominated for a Grammy Award in 2006 in the 'Best World Music' category for his album "Golden Strings of the Sarode". He is also a recip ...

*2018 –

Tejendra Majumdar Pandit Tejendra Narayan Majumdar (born 17 May 1961) is an Indian sarod player and pupil of Bahadur Khan. Majumdar is one of the most popular and celebrated modern sarod players. Training He started his music training under his grandfather Bibhut ...

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= *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

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Sitar The sitar ( or ; ) is a plucked stringed instrument, originating from the Indian subcontinent, used in Hindustani classical music. The instrument was invented in medieval India, flourished in the 18th century, and arrived at its present form ...

= *1958 – Yusuf Ali *1960 –

Wahid Khan Wahid Khan was an Indian surbahar and sitar player. He was the son of Imdad Khan and belonged to the Imdadkhani gharana or ''Etawah gharana'' of classical music. Early life Wahid Khan was born in Etawah, Uttar Pradesh. He was still quite young ...

*1962 – Pt. Ravi Shankar *1968 –

Mushtaq Ali Khan Mushtaq Ali Khan (20 June 1911 in Banaras – 21 July 1989) and was an Indian classical sitar, surbahar (and pakhawaj) player. Training and lineage Khan learnt music from his father, Ashiq Ali Khan, who had learned sitar from the 19th cent ...

*1974 –

Nikhil Banerjee Pandit Nikhil Ranjan Banerjee (14 October 1931 – 27 January 1986) was an Indian classical sitarist of the Maihar Gharana. Along with Pandit Ravi Shankar and Ustad Vilayat Khan, he emerged as one of the leading exponents of the sitar. H ...

*1987 – Abdul Halim Jaffer Khan,

Imrat Khan Imrat Khan (17 November 1935 – 22 November 2018) was an Indian sitar and surbahar player and composer. He was the younger brother of sitar maestro Ustad Vilayat Khan.Farrell, Gerry (2001)"Khan, Imrat" ''Grove Music Online''. (subscription ...

(also Surbahar) *1989 – Balaram Pathak *1992 – Uma Shankar Mishra *1994 – Shamim Ahmed Khan *1996 – Debu Chaudhuri *2001 –

Manilal Nag Pandit Manilal Nag (born 16 August 1939) is an Indian classical sitar player and an exponent of the Bishnupur gharana of Bengal. He was given the Padma Shri Award, the fourth highest civilian award in India in 2020. Training and career Nag wa ...

*2003 – Arvind Parikh *2006 –

Shahid Parvez Ustad Shahid Parvez Khan (commonly known as Shahid Parvez, born 14 October 1954) is an Indian classical sitar maestro from the Imdadkhani gharana. He represents the seventh generation of the Etawah Gharana as its primary exponent. He is praise ...

*2010 – Budhaditya Mukherjee *2015 – Karthick Kumar *2019 – Manju Mehta *2020 – Kushal Das

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= *1991 – Annapurna Devi *2011 – Pushparaj Koshti

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= *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 Pandit Shankar Ghosh (10 October 1935 – 22 January 2016) was an Indian tabla player from the Farukhabad gharana of Hindustani classical music. He was an occasional Hindustani classical singer where he followed the Patiala gharana. He was ...

*2001 – Ishwar Lal Mishra *2002 – Suresh B. Gaitonde, Anindo Chatterjee *2004 – Pt. Suresh Talwalkar *2006 –

Kumar Bose Pandit Kumar Bose ( Bangla পন্ডিত কুমার বোস), born 4 April 1953, is an Indian tabla musician and composer of Indian classical music. Family Bose was born in Kolkata in a musical family. His father, Biswanath Bose, a ...

*2007 –

Nandan Mehta Nandan Mehta (26 February 1942 – 26 March 2010) was an Indian tabla player and music teacher from Ahmedabad who belonged to the Benaras Gharana of Hindustani classical music. He established Saptak School of Music and started Saptak Annual F ...

*2009 – Lachman Singh Seen *2012 –

Sabir Khan Sabir or Sabbir Khan may refer to: * Sabir Khan (musician), Indian sarangi player * Sabbir Khan (Bangladeshi cricketer) (born 1978), Bangladeshi cricketer * Sabir Khan (Indian cricketer) (born 2000), Indian cricketer * Sabbir Khan (born 1976), ...

(Tabla) *2013 – Hashmat Ali Khan *2014 – Pt. Nayan Ghosh *2016 – Arvind Mulgaonkar *2017 – Pt. Yogesh Samsi *2021 – Ravindra Yavagal

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Violin The violin, sometimes known as a '' fiddle'', is a wooden chordophone ( string instrument) in the violin family. Most violins have a hollow wooden body. It is the smallest and thus highest-pitched instrument ( soprano) in the family in regu ...

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V. G. Jog Vishnu Govind Jog, better known as V. G. Jog (22 February 1922 – 31 January 2004), was an Indian violinist. He was the foremost exponent of the violin in the Hindustani music tradition in the 20th century, and is credited for introducing ...

*1990 – N. Rajam *1995 – D. K. Datar *1996 – Annavarapu Rama Swamy *1997 –

Sisir Kana Dhar Chowdhury Sisir Kana Dhar Chowdhury (also written Sisirkana Dhar Choudhury; 27 December 1937 – 9 March 2021) introduced the viola to the Hindustani music sphere, and played a rare style of violin with an extra fifth melody string and sympathetic s ...

*2007 – Ramoo Prasad Shastri *2016 –

Kala Ramnath Kala Ramnath is an Indian classical violinist. She belongs to the Mewati gharana, a lineage of musicians. She was awarded the Sangeet Natak Academy Puraskaar in 2016, Rashtriya Kumar Gandharva Sanman in 2008 and the Pandit Jasraj Gaurav Puraska ...

*2021 – Sangeeta Shankar

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 Musiri Subramania Iyer (9 April 1899 – 25 March 1975) was a Carnatic vocalist whose stage performing career spanned the 1920s to the 1940s. After retirement from the stage, he remained an iconic figure in Carnatic music as a dedicated teache ...

*1958 – Chembai Vaidyanatha Bhagavathar *1959 –

G. N. Balasubramaniam Gudalur Narayanaswamy Balasubramaniam (6 January 1910 – 1 May 1965), popularly known as GNB, was an Indian Carnatic singer. He innovated the art through emphasis on ''laya ''control and reducing the ''gamakas'' which eventually made Carnatic ...

*1960 – Madurai Mani Iyer *1961 – Mudikondan C. Venkatarama Iyer *1962 –

D. K. Pattammal Damal Krishnaswamy Pattammal () (19 March 1919 – 16 July 2009), popularly known as D. K. Pattammal or DKP, was an Indian Carnatic musician and a playback singer for film songs in Tamil. Pattammal, along with her contemporaries M. S. Subbulakshm ...

*1963 –

B. Devendrappa Dr. B Devendrappa (1899–1986), known as the Palace Vidwan of Mysore, was one of the notable musicians in the court of Jayachamaraja Wodeyar. B Devendrappa was the son of vocalist B S Ramayya. He was born in Ayanur village of Shimoga district ...

*1964 – Chittoor S. Subramanyam *1965 –

T. Brinda Thanjavur Brinda (1912-1996) was one of the representatives of the Veenai Dhanammal school of Carnatic Music. She was primarily a vocalist, although she also played the Veena. She is affectionately referred to as 'Brindamma', by her fans. Musica ...

*1966 – Madurai Srirangam Iyengar *1967 – C. Venkata Rao *1968 –

Alathur Srinivasa Iyer Alathur Srinivasa Iyer (1911–1980), born in Tamil Nadu, was an Indian vocalist. Together with Alathur Sivasubramania Iyer, he formed the successful duo known as the Alathur Brothers (though the two were not in fact brothers). He was awarded ...

*1969 –

Dandapani Desikar M M Dandapani Desikar (August 27, 1908 – June 26, 1972) was a Carnatic vocalist, actor and composer. 'Isai Arasu' Dandapani Desikar was born in Tiruchengattangudi, near Nannilam in Madras Presidency. He got training from Manicka Desikar and K ...

*1970 –

M. L. Vasanthakumari Madras Lalitangi Vasanthakumari (popularly referred to as MLV) (3 July 1928 – 31 October 1990) was a Carnatic musician and playback singer for film songs in many Indian languages. MLV and her contemporaries D. K. Pattammal and M. S. Subbulak ...

*1971 – N. Channakeshaviah *1972 –

T. Muktha Thanjavur Muktha, also spelt Mukta and often referred as Mukthamma, (1914–2007) was one of the foremost representatives of the Veena Dhanammal school of Carnatic Music. She, along with her elder sister T. Brinda, formed one of the first women ...

*1973 – B.S. Raja Iyengar *1974 –

M. D. Ramanathan Manjapara Devesa Bhagavathar Ramanathan (20 May 1923 – 27 April 1984) was a Carnatic music composer and vocalist who created a distinctive style of singing rich in Bhava and Laya. He was considered for the Madras Music Academy's Sangeetha K ...

*1975 – M. Balamurali Krishna *1976 – K.V.Narayanaswamy *1977 –

Sripada Pinakapani Sripada Pinakapaani (3 August 1913 – 11 March 2013), was a medical doctor, administrator, professor in medicine, and carnatic musician. He received Sangeetha Kalanidhi award in 1983. Pinkapani was born at Priya Agraharam of Srikakulam di ...

*1978 – Madurai S. Somasundaram *1979 –

R K Srikanthan Rudrapatna Krishnashastri Srikantan (14 January 1920 – 17 February 2014), known as R. K. Srikantan, was a vocalist of the Carnatic musical tradition of South Indian music. He was awarded the Madras Music Academy's Sangeetha Kalanidhi in ...

*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 Madurai Narayanan Krishnan (1928–2005) was an Indian musician, known for his proficiency in carnatic music. He was known to have been proficient in all the three facets of music viz. vocals, lyrics and music and was considered by many as a ''V ...

*1987 – Mani Krishnaswami *1988 –

Nookala Chinna Satyanarayana Mahamahopadhyaya Dr. Nookala Chinna Satyanarayana (4 August 1923 – 11 July 2013) was a Carnatic musician, a classical vocalist, musicologist, author and teacher, a great administrator and motivator. He was a performer on All India Radio an ...

*1989 – Titte Krishna Iyengar *1990 –

T. V. Sankaranarayanan T. V. Sankaranarayanan, (7 March 1945 – 2 September 2022) was an Indian Carnatic vocalist (South Indian classical singer), known for his music that stems from the style of his guru and maternal-uncle, Madurai Mani Iyer. TVS was awarded the ...

*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 T. K. Govindarao (Tripunithura Krishnarao Govindarao) was the first Malayali film musician and a Carnatic musician (21 April 1929 – 18 September 2011). Earlier life T. K. Govindarao was a proponent of melody. He was born as the son of Tripuni ...

*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 The Bombay sisters, C. Saroja (b. 7 December 1936) and C. Lalitha (b. 26 August 1938), are a Carnatic music singing duo. Early life The Bombay Sisters, C. Saroja and C. Lalitha, were born in Trichur, Kerala to Mukthambal and N. Chidambaram Iye ...

& 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 Suguna Purushothaman (1941–25 February 2015) was an Indian Carnatic music vocalist, composer and teacher. She was awarded the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award for Carnatic music vocals in 2010. Suguna was born in Ponvilainthakalathur in Chengalpa ...

, Mysore Nagamani Srinath *2011 – J. Venkataraman *2012 – O. S. Thyagarajan *2013 –

Aruna Sairam Sangita Kalanidhi Aruna Sairam is an Indian classical vocalist and carnatic music singer. She is a recipient of the Padma Shri award from the Government of India and has been elected as Vice Chairman of the Sangeet Natak Academy (India's premie ...

, D. Seshchari & D. Raghavachari (Hyderabad Brothers) *2014 – Neyveli Santhanagopalan *2015 – R.N. Tharanathan, Suguna Varadachari, R.N. Thiagarajan *2016 – Neela Ramgopal, K. Omanakutty *2017 – M. S. Sheela *2018 – Alamelu Mani, Malladi Suribabu *2019 –

Charumathi Ramachandran Charumathi Ramachandran (born 12 July 1951) is a Carnatic music singer. She is a disciple of M.L. Vasanthakumari. She was a gold medalist and stood first in music from the Madras University The University of Madras (informally known as Mad ...

, Pala C. K. Ramachandran *2020 – R. K. Padmanabha, G. Balakrishna Prasad *2021 – Sudha Ragunathan, Radha Namboodiri

Instrumental

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Clarionet The clarinet is a musical instrument in the woodwind family. The instrument has a nearly cylindrical bore and a flared bell, and uses a single reed to produce sound. Clarinets comprise a family of instruments of differing sizes and pitches. ...

= *1994 –

A. K. C. Natarajan A. K. C. Natarajan (born 30 March 1931) is a carnatic music clarinet player. He was awarded the Madras Music Academy's Sangeetha Kalanidhi in 2008. He received a Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 1994. He was bestowed with the title ''Nadha Dwee ...

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Flute The flute is a family of classical music instrument in the woodwind group. Like all woodwinds, flutes are aerophones, meaning they make sound by vibrating a column of air. However, unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is a reedles ...

= *1954 –

Palladam Sanjiva Rao Palladam Sanjiva Rao (1882–1962) was an Indian flautist and carnatic musician from the state of Tamil Nadu. Personal life Sanjiva Rao was born in 1882 in the town of Palladam near Coimbatore in a Thanjavur Marathi family. Sanjiva Rao learnt m ...

*1961 – T. N. Swaminatha Pillai *1965 – T. R. Mahalingam *1984 – Natesan Ramani *1987 – T. Viswanathan *1989 –

Sikkil Sisters - Kunjumani & Neela Sikkil is an Indian unisex given name that may refer to * Sikkil Sisters – Kunjumani & Neela, Indian flute players *Sikkil Gurucharan . In 2020, he acted in a tamil anthology film, Putham Pudhu Kaalai. Early life Around 1987, as a 5-year-old, G ...

*1997 – Kesi Narayanaswamy *1999–2000 –

T.S Sankaran T. S. Sankaran (1930-2015) was an Indian Carnatic instrumentalist (flute). T S Sankaran was one of the foremost disciples of the legendary 'Flute Mali' - T R Mahalingam. He is the recipient of several awards including the Sangeet Natak Akademi A ...

*2004 –

Prapancham Sitaram Prof Dr. Prapancham Sitaram was a Carnatic flautist from the state of Andhra Pradesh, India. Prof. Sitaram was a disciple of flautist T.R. Mahalingam and was a top artist in the All India Radio. He served as head of many institutions in Andhra ...

*2017 –

Shashank Subramanyam Shashank Subramanyam (born 14 October 1978) is a flutist from India and specializes in Indian classical music. The Govt. of France awarded the prestigious Knighthood / title of Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. He is also the ...

*2019 – Sikkil Mala Chandrasekar

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Ghatam The ghaṭam ( sa, घटं ''ghaṭaṁ'', kan, ಘಟ ''ghaṭah'', ta, கடம் ''ghatam'', te, ఘటం ''ghatam'', ml, ഘടം, ''ghatam'') is a percussion instrument used in various repertoires across India. It's a varian ...

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

= Gottuvadhyam

= *1958 – Budaloor Krishnamurthy Shastri *2006 – N. Ravikiran

= Kanjira

= *2001 –

G. Harishankar Govinda Rao Harishankar, (India, June 10, 1958 in Chennai – February 11, 2002 in Chennai) was an Indian player of the ''kanjira'', Khanjira or Khanjari, a tambourine-like frame drum used in the Carnatic music of South India. He is the only kanj ...

=
Mandolin A mandolin ( it, mandolino ; literally "small mandola") is a stringed musical instrument in the lute family and is generally plucked with a pick. It most commonly has four courses of doubled strings tuned in unison, thus giving a total of ...

= *2009 – U. Srinivas

= Mridangam

= *1956 – Palghat Mani Iyer *1975 – C.S. Murugabhupathy *1979 –

Kolanka Venkata Raju Kolanka Venkata Raju is a Mridangam exponent and recipient of Sangeet Natak Akademi Award for 1979. He has received a Certificat of Merit from The Music Academy, Chennai. He is associated with violin player Dwaram Venkataswamy Naidu Dwaram Venk ...

*1983 –

Palghat R. Raghu Palghat R. Raghu (9 January 1928 – 2 June 2009) was a Carnatic musician and percussionist. He was awarded the Madras Music Academy's Sangeetha Kalanidhi in 2007. Early life Palghat Ramaswamy Raghu was born in Rangoon, Burma (now Myanmar) ...

*1987 –

T. K. Murthy Thanu Krishna Murthy (born 13 August 1924), better known as T. K. Murthy, is an Indian mridangam player. Murthy is a Padma Shri and Sangeetha Kalanidhi awardee. Personal life Murthy was born on 13 August 1924, to Thanu Bhagavathar and Annapurn ...

*1990 – T. V. Gopalakrishnan *1991 –

Vellore G. Ramabhadran Vellore G. Ramabhadran (4 August 1929 – 27 February 2012) was a Mridangam artiste from Tamil Nadu, India. He was awarded the Madras Music Academy's Sangeetha Kalanidhi in 2004. Early years Born in Vellore, he showed interest in Carnatic music ...

*1992 – Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman *1994 – Dandamudi Ram Mohan Rao *1996 –

Guruvayur Dorai Guruvayur Dorai (born 2 July 1935) is an Indian percussionist. He is one of the most senior exponents of the South Indian classical percussion instrument, the mridangam. He had his initial training under Palghat Subba Iyer and E.P. Narayana P ...

*1998 –

Karaikudi Mani Karaikudi Mani (born as Ganapathy Subramanyam on 11 September 1945 in Karaikudi, Tamil Nadu, India) is an Indian percussionist, primarily adept in the mridangam. He is regarded by the vast majority of Carnatic connoisseurs and aficionados as ...

*1999–2000 – V. Kamalakar Rao *2002 – Yella Venkateshwara Rao *2004 – Madras A. Kannan *2006 –

Thiruvarur Bakthavathsalam Thiruvaarur Bakthavathsalam (or Tiruvarur Bhaktavatsalam) (born 25 November 1956) is a mridangam Vidwan from a family of traditional musicians in the Tanjore district of Tamil Nadu, India. He is currently staying in Chennai. Early life He i ...

*2008 –

Mannargudi Easwaran Mannargudi Easwaran ( ta, மன்னார்குடி ஈஸ்வரன்) (born April 1, 1947) is a leading contemporary ''mridangam'' player and Carnatic musician. He was a staff artiste of All India Radio and has received several awa ...

*2009 –

Dandamudi Sumathi Ram Mohan Rao Nidumolu Sumathi (born October 16, 1950), also known as Dandamudi Sumathi is an Indian percussionist, primarily playing the mridangam. She is married to "Mridangam Maestro" Sri Dandamudi Ram Mohan Rao. She is one of the first female mridangam pla ...

*2010 –

Srimushnam V. Raja Rao Srimushnam V. Raja Rao (born 1955) is an Indian mridangam player and Carnatic vocalist. He received his initial training in Mridangam from his father S. Venkataramana Rao. He was later a student of Shri Kumbakonam M Rajappa Iyer. He has also ...

*2012 – K. V. Prasad *2013 –

Trichy Sankaran Trichy Sankaran (born 27 July 1942) is an Indian percussionist, composer, scholar, and educator. He was awarded the Madras Music Academy's Sangeetha Kalanidhi in 2011. As a mridangam ''vidwan'', he has been called a "doyen among the percussion ...

*2016 –

J. Vaidhyanathan J. Vaidhyanathan affectionately known as JV is a Mridangam exponent from Tamil Nadu, India. He was the first mridangist to receive the Yuva Kala Bharathi Award, Vellore Gopalachariar Memorial award and Isai Peroli Award. He also received several ...

*2017 –

Tiruvarur Vaidyanathan Tiruvarur Vaidyanathan (திருவாரூர் வைத்தியநாதன்) is a mridangam artist born 11 May 1963 in Tiruvarur, India to a family of mridangam artists. Awards and honors *South Asian Arts and cultural Organisat ...

*2019 – Trivandrum V Surendran *2020 –

Patri Satish Kumar Patri Satish Kumar is an Indian Carnatic musician and composer, who is an exponent of the Mridangam, an Indian percussion instrument. He has been conferred with the prestigious Sangeet Natak Akademy award by the Government of India in the year 20 ...

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Nagaswaram The Nagaswaram (nādḥasvaram) is a double reed wind instrument from South India. It is used as a traditional classical instrument in Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Karnataka, and Kerala. This instrument is "among the world's loudes ...

= *1955 – T. N. Rajarathinam Pillai *1962 – Dr. Thiruvengadu Subramania Pillai *1966 – P. S. Veeruswamy Pillai *1972 – T. S. Natarajasundaram Pillai *1976 –

Sheik Chinna Moulana Sheik Chinna Moulana (12 May 1924, Karavadi Prakasham, Andhra Pradesh – 13 April 1999, Srirangam, Tamil Nadu), popularly known as Sheik, was a legendary nadhaswaram player in the Carnatic tradition. He was awarded the Madras Music Academy's ...

*1981 –

Namagiripettai Krishnan Namagiripettai K Krishnan (2 April 1924 – 30 April 2001) was a Carnatic musician who played the Nadaswaram. He was born in Namagiripettai village and lived in Sendamangalam, Namakkal district, Tamil Nadu, India. He gave many performances acr ...

*1995 – Domada Chittiabbayi *2005 – Ongale N. Rangaiah *2007 – S. R. D. Vaidyanathan *2011 – Seshampatti T Sivalingam *2013 – Thiruvizha Jayashankar *2017 – S.Kasim, S.Babu - Kasim-Babu Brothers

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Saxophone The saxophone (often referred to colloquially as the sax) is a type of Single-reed instrument, single-reed woodwind instrument with a conical body, usually made of brass. As with all single-reed instruments, sound is produced when a reed (mouthpi ...

= *2003 –

Kadri Gopalnath Kadri Gopalnath (6 December 1949 – 11 October 2019) was an Indian alto saxophonist and one of the pioneers of Carnatic music for that instrument. Early life Born in Sajeepa Mooda village in Bantwal taluk of Dakshina Kannada to Taniyappa (a ...

= Thavil

= *1985 – Valangaiman A. Shanmugasundaram Pillai *1988 – Valayapatti A. R. Subramaniam *2001 –

Haridwaramangalam A. K. Palanivel Haridwaramangalam A. K. Palanivel (1948 in Tamil Nadu, India) is an artist of the Indian drum thavil. A. K. Palanivel first learnt thavil drumming under the tutelage of his father S. Kumaravel. From 1959 onwards, he was given extensive training ...

*2014 – Thiruvalaputhur T A Kaliyamurthy *2021 – Thanjavur R. Govindarajan

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Veena The ''veena'', also spelled ''vina'' ( sa, वीणा IAST: vīṇā), comprises various chordophone instruments from the Indian subcontinent. Ancient musical instruments evolved into many variations, such as lutes, zithers and arched harps ...

= *1952 – Karaikudi Sambasiva Iyer *1960 – L. Subramanya Sastri *1968 –

K. S. Narayanaswamy K. S. Narayanaswamy, (full name Koduvayur Sivarama Iyer Narayanaswamy; 27 September 1914 – 1999) was a Carnatic veena exponent of the Thanjavur style, in which nuances and subtleties are given more importance over rhythm based acrobatics.< ...

*1969 – Devakottai A. Narayana Iyengar *1970 – Mysore V. Doreswamy Iyengar *1973 – Emani Sankara Sastry *1977 – S. 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 Echampati Gayathri (née Gayathri Vasantha Shoba), popularly known as "Veena Gayathri"(born 9 November 1959) is a veena exponent of the traditional Carnatic music. She was appointed by the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, J.Jayalalithaa, as the fir ...

*2007 – Vidya Shankar *2011 – Ayyagari Syamasundaram *2017 –

Suma Sudhindra Suma Sudhindra is a classical musician and veena exponent from India, in the Carnatic Music genre. She was awarded Karnataka's second highest civilian award, the Rajyotsava Award, in the year 2001. Early days and personal life She was trained ...

*2021 – D. Balakrishnan

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Violin The violin, sometimes known as a '' fiddle'', is a wooden chordophone ( string instrument) in the violin family. Most violins have a hollow wooden body. It is the smallest and thus highest-pitched instrument ( soprano) in the family in regu ...

= *1953 – Dwaram Venkataswamy Naidu *1957 –

Tirumakudalu Chowdiah Tirumakudalu Chowdiah ( kn, ಸಂಗೀತ ರತ್ನ ತಿರುಮಕೂಡಲು ಚೌಡಯ್ಯ) (1895 – 19 January 1967) was a violin maestro from India in the Carnatic classical tradition. Early years Chowdiah, was born in ...

*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 Trippunithura Narayana Krishnan (6 October 19282 November 2020) was an Indian Carnatic music violinist. Along with Lalgudi Jayaraman and M. S. Gopalakrishnan he was considered part of the violin-trinity of Carnatic music. He was awarded the Ma ...

*1978 – Lalgudi Jayaraman *1982 – M. S. Gopalakrishnan *1986 –

M. Chandrasekaran Mohanan Chandrasekaran is a Carnatic classical violinist from Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. He was born in Calcutta, on 1937 December 11 as the younger of the two sons of T.N. Mohanan and Charubala Mohanan, a violinist herself. He was awarded th ...

*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 Mylapore Sundaram Anantharaman (26 August 1924 – 19 February 2018) was an Indian Carnatic and Hindustani violinist. He was an exponent of Parur style of violin playing. He received several awards including Kalaimamani Award and Sangeet Natak A ...

*1999–2000 – R. R. Keshavamurthy *2003 –

A. Kanyakumari Avasarala Kanyakumari is a violinist from South India who specializes in Carnatic music. Career Kanyakumari is a native of Vijayanagaram, Andhra Pradesh and has lived in Chennai for more than five decades. Awards and honours A Kanyakumari ...

*2005 – V. V. Subrahmanyam *2008 – B. Sasikumar *2010 –

Nagai Muralidharan Nagai Muralidharan (born 4 December 1958 in Chennai, Tamil Nadu) is a Carnatic violinist from India. He was awarded Kalaimamani by the State Government of Tamil Nadu in 2003. Musical career Muralidharan initially learned from his mother, Smt ...

*2012 – Mysore M. Nagaraja *2014 – Dwaram Durga Prasad Rao *2015 – Lalgudi G. J. R. Krishnan *2016 –

Mysore Manjunath Mysore Manjunath (born in Mysore, India), is an Indian violinist. The son and disciple of violinist Prof. Mahadevappa, Manjunath performed his first concert at the age of eight in Mysore as a child prodigy storming in to the music world. Train ...

*2018 – Ganesh and Kumaresh *2020 – M. A. Sundareswaran

Creative and experimental music

*1973 – Vishnudas Shirali *1976 – Timir Baran Bhattacharya *1978 – Rai Chand Boral *1982 –

Vijay Raghav Rao Pandit Vijay Raghav Rao (born Vijaya Raghava Rao; 3 November 1925 – 30 November 2011) was an Indian flutist, composer, choreographer, musicologist, poet and fiction writer. He was awarded the Padma Shri by Government of India in 1970, and in 1 ...

*1983 – Chidambaram S. Jayaraman *1986 – Anil Biswas *1986 – M. B. Srinivasan *1986 – Hemanta Kumar Mukhopadhyay *1988 –

Bhaskar Chandavarkar Bhaskar Chandavarkar (16 March 1936 – 26 July 2009) was an Indian sitar player, academic and film and theatre composer who worked with well-known directors of Indian cinema like Mrinal Sen, Girish Karnad, Aparna Sen, K. G. George and Amol P ...

*1989 –

Vanraj Bhatia Vanraj Bhatia (Hindi: वनराज भाटिया ; 31 May 1927 – 7 May 2021) was an Indian composer best known for his work in Indian New Wave cinema. He was also one of the leading composers of Western classical music in India. Bha ...

*1990 –

L. Subramaniam Lakshminarayana Subramaniam (born 23 July 1947) is an Indian violinist, composer and conductor, trained in the classical Carnatic music tradition and Western classical music. Early years Subramaniam was born in Madras, Madras Presidency, Brit ...

*1994 – V. Balsara *1995 – Atul Desai *1997 – Satish Bhatia *1998 –

Vishwa Mohan Bhatt Vishwa Mohan Bhatt, professionally known as V. M. Bhatt (born 27 July 1950), is an Hindustani classical music instrumentalist who plays the Mohan veena ( slide guitar). Personal life Bhatt lives in Jaipur, Rajasthan, India, with his wife and ...

*2001 – S. Rajaram *2002 – K. P. Udayabhanu *2007 – Khayyam *2012 –

Ilaiyaraaja Ilaiyaraaja (born R. Gnanathesikan, 3 June 1943) is an Indian musician, composer, arranger, conductor, orchestrator, instrumentalist, lyricist and singer, popular for his works in Indian Cinema, prominently in Tamil films. Reputed to be one o ...

*2020 –

Bickram Ghosh Bickram Ghosh is an Indian classical tabla player. Early life He started learning tabla from his father, Pandit Shankar Ghosh, who had played with Ali Akbar Khan. Career Ghosh has performed with Ali Akbar Khan and Pandit Ravi Shankar. Gho ...

Folk music

*2022 – Mahavir Nayak

Other major traditions of music

*2008 – Ningombam Ibobi Singh ( Nata Sankirtana, Manipur) *2009 – L. Ibohalmacha Singh (Nata Sankirtana, Manipur) *2010 – M.V. Simhachala Sastry (

Harikatha ''Harikatha'' ( Kannada: ಹರಿಕಥೆ : ''Harikathe''; Telugu: హరికథ : ''Harikatha;'' Marathi: हरीपाठ '': Haripatha'', ), also known as ''Harikatha Kaalakshepam'' in Telugu and Tamil (), is a form of Hindu tradition ...

, Tirupathi) *2011 – Gopal Chandra Panda (Odissi Music) *2012 – Bhai Balbir Singh Ragi ( Gurbani) *2013 – Bankim Sethi (Odissi Music) *2018 –

Suresh Wadkar Suresh Ishwar Wadkar (born 7 August 1955) is an Indian playback singer. He performs in both Hindi and Marathi films. He has sung songs in some Bhojpuri films, Odia albums and bhajans and in Konkani films. He was awarded the Sangeet Natak ...

(Sugam Sangeet), Shanti Hiranand (Sugam Sangeet), H. Ashangbi Devi (Nata Sankirtana, Manipur) *2019 – O. S. Arun (Sugam Sangeet), Sharma Bandhu (Sugam Sangeet), D. Uma Maheshwari (Harikatha) *2020 – Anup Jalota (Sugam Sangeet), N. Irabot Singh (Nata Sankirtana) *2021 – Susmita Das (Sugam Sangeet), H. R. Leelavathi (Sugam Sangeet), Kumud Diwan (Thumri)

Dance

Bharatanatyam Bharatanatyam () is a major form of Indian classical dance that originated in Tamil Nadu. It is one of the eight widely recognized Indian classical dance forms, and expresses South Indian religious themes and spiritual ideas, particularly of ...

*1955 – T. Balasaraswati *1957 –

Rukmini Devi Arundale Rukmini Devi Arundale (née Shastri; 29 February 1904 – 24 February 1986)Sharma, Shoba and Gangadean, Ashok (January 31, 2004 Naatya.org. Retrieved on 10 December 2018. was an Indian theosophist, dancer and choreographer of the Indian c ...

*1959 – Mylapore Gouri Amma *1962 – R. Muthurathnambal *1965 – P. Chockkalingam Pillai *1966 –

Vazhuvoor B. Ramiah Pillai Vazhuvoor Ramaiah Pillai (1910–1991) was an Indian Bharatanatyam dance teacher and choreographer. Early life Vazhuvoor Bagyathammal Ramaiah Pillai was born in 1910 to Parthiban and Bagyathammal in Vazhuvoor. He learned the arts of Nattuv ...

, Swarnasaraswathi *1968 – Kamala *1969 –

T. K. Swaminatha Pillai Thiruvalaputhur Swaminatha Pillai (died 13 March 1972) is a flute artist from Tamil Nadu. Early life T K Swaminatha Pillai was born as the first son of well-known dancer, Tiruvalaputtur Kalyani Ammal. His family, which belongs to the Isai ...

*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 Mungara Yamini Krishnamurthy (born 20 December 1940) is an Indian dancer of Bharatanatyam and Kuchipudi styles of dancing. Early life Yamini Krishnamurthy was born in Madanapalli, Chittoor District, Andhra Pradesh. She was brought up in Chida ...

*1979 – Pandanallur Subbaraya Pillai *1981 –

Indrani Rahman Indrani Rahman (19 September 1930, Chennai – 5 February 1999, New York) was an Indian classical dancer of Bharata Natyam, Kuchipudi, Kathakali and Odissi, which she popularised in the west, and later settled in New York in 1976. In 1952, s ...

*1982 –

Vyjayanthimala Vyjayanthimala (born 13 August 1936) is a former Indian actress, dancer and parliamentarian. She is the recipient of several accolades, including two BFJA Awards and five Filmfare Awards. She made her screen debut at the age of thirteen wit ...

*1983 – Padma Subramanyam *1984 – Subramaniam Sarada,

Sudharani Raghupathy Sudharani Raghupathy is a notable Indian classical dancer. She received Padma Shri in 1988 and Central Sangeet Natak Akademi award Sangeet Natak Akademi Award ( IPA: Saṅgīta Nāṭaka Akādamī Puraskāra), also known as the Akademi Puraska ...

*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 Kalanidhi Narayanan (7 December 1928 – 21 February 2016) was an Indian dancer and teacher of Indian classical dance form of Bharatnatyam, who was the early non- devadasi girl to learn the dance form and perform it on stage in the 1930s and 19 ...

*1991 – Adyar K. Lakshman *1992 – K. J. Sarasa *1993 �
Guru Kubernath Tanjorkar(Tanjavurkar)
C. V. Chandrasekhar *1994 – V. P. Dhananjayan and

Shanta Dhananjayan Vannadil Pudiyaveettil Dhananjayan (born 17 April 1939) and Shanta Dhananjayan (born 12 August 1943), also known as the Dhananjayans, are a dancing couple in India who were awarded the Padma Bhushan in 2009. Personal life V.P Dhananjayan was ...

*1995 – M. K. Saroja, Indira Rajan *1996 – Sarada Hoffman *1997 –

Kanaka Srinivasan Kanaka Srinivasan is an Indian classical dancer and one of the leading exponents of the classical dance form of Bharat Natyam. She is a disciple of Vazhuvoor B. Ramaiyah Pillai and is aligned with Vazhuvur tradition of the dance form. She is ...

*1998 – Lakshmi Viswanathan *1999–2000 – K. Kalyanasundaram Pillai, Leela Samson, H. R. Keshava Murthy *2001 –

Alarmel Valli Alarmel Valli is a leading Indian classical dancer and choreographer and the foremost exponent of the Pandanallur style in the Indian classical dance form, Bharatanatyam. She is widely acclaimed for her ability to turn traditional grammar into ...

, 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 (First Transgender to receive SN Akademi Award) *2012 – Priyadarsini Govind *2013 – Jamuna Krishnan, B. Herabhanathan *2014 – Adayar Janardanan *2015 – Ranganayaki Jayaraman *2016 – Geeta Chandran *2017 – Rama Vaidyanathan *2018 – Radha Sridhar *2019 –

Vasundhara Doraswamy Vasundhara Doraswamy (born 1949) is the founder and director of Vasundhara Performing Arts Centre, Mysore (India). She is a Bharatanatyam dancer, choreographer, and guru (teacher). She is also one of the disciples of the late Shri Pattabhi Jois ...

*2020 –

Meenakshi Chitharanjan Meenakshi Chitharanjan, an Indian classical dancer, teacher and choreographer, is known as an exponent of the Pandanallur style of the classical dance form of Bharatanatyam. She is the founder of ''Kaladiksha'', an institution promoting Bharatan ...

*2021 – Jayalakshmi Eshwar

Chhau

*1963 – Sudhendra Narayan Singh Deo (Seraikella) *1971 – Ananta Charan Sai (Mayurbhanj) *1975 – Krishna Chandra Naik (Mayurbhanj) *1981 –

Kedar Nath Sahoo Kedar Nath Sahoo was an Indian classical dancer, known as one of the leading exponents of the Seraikella tradition of Chhau dance. He served as the founder director of the ''Government Chhau Dance Centre'' (Chhau Nritya Kala Kendra) of the Gove ...

(Seraikella) *1982 – Gambhir Singh Mura (Purulia) *1987 – Madan Mohan Lenka (Mayurbhanj) *1988 – Srihari Nayak (Mayurbhanj) *1990 – Bikram Kumbhakar (Seraikella) *1991 – Chandra Sekhar Bhanj (Mayurbhanj) *2004 – Shashadhar Acharya *2012 – Jai Narayan Samal *2014 – Jagru Mahato *2015 – Sadashiva Pradhan *2016 –

Gopal Prasad Dubey Gopal Prasad Dubey is an Indian classical dancer, known for his expertise in the Indian classical dance form of Chhau. He is considered by many as the leading exponent of the Seraikella variant of the art form. Dubey was honored by the Governme ...

*2017 – Janmajay Saibabu *2018 – Tapan Kumar Pattanayak (Seraikella) *2019 – Brajendra Kumar Pattnaik *2020 – Trilochan Mohanta *2021 – Bhuvan Kumar

Creative dance/Choreography

*1960 – Uday Shankar *1970 –

Mrinalini Sarabhai Mrinalini Vikram Sarabhai (11 May 1918 – 21 January 2016) was an Indian classical dancer, choreographer and instructor. She was the founder and director of the Darpana Academy of Performing Arts, an institute for imparting training in dance, ...

*1976 – Narendra Sharma *1979 – Prabhat Ganguli *1980 – R. K. Priyagopal Sana *1981 – Parvati Kumar *1984 –

Rajkumar Singhajit Singh Rajkumar Singhajit Singh, (born 1 May 1935) is a leading exponent, choreographer and a guru of Indian classical dance form of Manipuri, including the Pung cholom and Raslila. He was awarded with the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 1984 and ...

*1989 –

Maya Rao Maya Rao (2 May 1928 – 1 September 2014) was an Indian classical dancer, choreographer and educator, in Kathak dance. She is known for her pioneering work in Kathak choreography, especially in dance ballets, and is credited for bringing Kath ...

*1991 – Chandralekha *1992 – Sachin Shankar *1993 – Manjusri Chaki Sircar *1995 –

Astad Deboo Astad Deboo (13 July 194710 December 2020) was an Indian contemporary dancer and choreographer. He was considered a pioneer of modern dance in India. Through his career he collaborated with artists including Pina Bausch, Alison Becker Chase a ...

*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 Tanushree Shankar (born 16 March 1956) is an Indian dancer and choreographer. She is based in Kolkata, India. She was a leading dancer of the Ananda Shankar Centre for Performing Arts in the 1970s and 1980s. She also acted in various films, ...

*2014 – Navtej Singh Johar *2015 – W. Lokendrajit Singh *2016 –

Anita Ratnam Anita Ratnam (born 21 May 1954) is an Indian classical and contemporary dancer and choreographer. Classically trained in Bharat Natyam, she has also received formal training in Kathakali, Mohiniattam, and T'ai chi and Kalarippayattu, thus creat ...

*2018 – Deepak Mazumdar *2019 – Mamata Shankar *2020 – Bhushan Lakhandri

Kathak

*1955 – Shambhu Maharaj *1957 – Baijnath Prasad " Lacchu Maharaj" *1959 – Sunder Prasad *1962 –

Mohanrao Kallianpurkar Mohanrao Shankarrao Kallianpurkar (; 12 August 1913 – 1 December 1985) was a Kathak dancer and teacher from Karnataka, considered to be one of the greatest scholars and teacher of Kathak dance form. He belongs to Jaipur school of Kathak. Bio ...

*1964 – Birju Maharaj *1968 –

Damayanti Joshi Damayanti Joshi (5 September 1928 – 19 September 2004) was a noted renowned exponent of the Kathak dance form.She believed Kathak is the art of storytelling. She began in the 1930s dancing in Madame Menaka's troupe, which travelled to many pa ...

*1969 – Sitara Devi *1974 – Gauri Shankar Devilal Kathak *1975 – Roshan Kumari *1979 –

Rohini Bhate Rohini Bhate (Marathi: रोहिणी भाटे) (14 November 1924 – 10 October 2008) was among the senior most Kathak dance exponents in India, who developed as a performer, teacher, writer, researcher and critic this Indian classical ...

*1982 – Kartik Ram,

Kumudini Lakhia Kumudini Lakhia (born 17 May 1930) is an Indian Kathak dancer and choreographer based in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, where she founded Kadamb School of Dance and Music, an institute of Indian dance and music in 1967. A pioneer in contemporary Kathak d ...

*1984 – Durga Lal *1987 –

Uma Sharma Uma Sharma (born 1942) is a kathak dancer, choreographer and teacher. She is also runs the Bharatiya Sangeet Sadan, Delhi, a classical dance and music academy, situated in New Delhi, founded by her father in 1946. She is most known for reviving ...

*1991 – Reba Vidyarthi *1995 – Ramlal Bareth *1996 –

Rani Karnaa ''Rani'' in Indian Subcontinent and Southeast Asia, sometimes spelled ''Ranee'', is a Hindu/Sanskrit feminine given name. The term is the female form of the term for princely rulers in South and Southeast Asia and applies equally to the wife of a ...

*1998 – Sunderlal Sathyanarayan Gangani *1999–2000 –

Shovana Narayan Shovana Narayan is a recognised Indian Kathak dancer and a career officer with Indian Audit and Accounts Service. She performs in India and internationally, and has been awarded the Padma Shri. She trained under Birju Maharaj. Early life ...

*2000 – Surendra Saikia *2002 –

Rajendra Gangani Rajendra Gangani is an Indian Kathak dancer known for his innovative style and technical wizardry. Gangani is one of the leading exponents of the Jaipur Gharana style of Kathak. For his contributions to the field of Kathak, Gangani received the ...

*2003 – Sunayana Hazarilal Agarwal, Urmila Nagar *2004 – Saswati Sen *2005 – Tirath Ram Azad *2006 – Munna Shukla *2007 –

Geetanjali Lal Geetanjali Lal (born Geetanjali Desai; 6 Nov 1948) is an Indian Kathak dancer and choreographer. Early life and education Geetanjali Lal received formal training in Hindustani Classical music by her father, Rajnikant Desai – a well-known voc ...

*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 Shobha Koser is an Indian Kathak dancer, writer and teacher. Koser hails from the Jaipur Gharana. Koser is the recipient of the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award (2019) She taught various actors including Poonam Dhillon. Dr. Shobha is a registrar of t ...

*2018 – Maulik Shah, Ishira Parikh *2019 –

Raghav Raj Bhatt Raghav Raj Bhatt is a renowned Kathak dancer, sketch artist and folk and tribal arts expert. He is the prime disciple of Padma Vibhushan Pt Birju Maharaj, Birju Maharaj Ji. His solo, duet and group productions have been staged at numerous prestig ...

Mangala Bhatt Mangala Bhatt is a Kathak dance exponent. She is the senior disciple of Kathak maestro Pt. Durga Lal Ji of Jaipur Gharana. She has performed at many festivals in India. She is also the founding director of Aakruti Kathak Kendra. Early life ...

*2020 – Kumkum Dhar *2021 – Shama Bhate

Kathakali Kathakali ( ml, കഥകളി) is a major form of classical Indian dance. It is a "story play" genre of art, but one distinguished by the elaborately colourful make-up and costumes of the traditional male actor-dancers. It is native to the M ...

*1956 – Guru Kunchu Kurup *1958 – Thotton K. Chandu Panikkar *1961 – Thekinkatti Ramunni Nair *1963 –

Chenganoor Raman Pillai Guru Chenganoor Raman Pillai, also spelt Chengannur Raman Pillai (1886–1980), was a celebrated Kathakali artist from Kerala in south India. He was known for his brilliant portrayal of the anti-heroic Kathi roles on stage, and was the head of p ...

*1965 – Guru Gopinath *1967 – Kalamandalam Krishnan Nair *1968 – Kurichi Kunjan Panickar *1969 –

Vazhenkada Kunchu Nair Vazhenkada Kunchu Nair, also spelt Kunju Nair, (1909-1981) was an Indian Kathakali dancer. Life He mainly served in PSV Natya Sangham, Kottakkal, since 1946, and from 1960 to 1972 at Kerala Kalamandalam. He was the first principal of Kerala Kala ...

*1970 – M. Vishnu Namboodiri *1971 –

Kudamaloor Karunakaran Nair Kudamaloor Karunakaran Nair (1916-2000) was a pioneering Kathakali artiste who brought to prominence female characters in the classical dance-drama from Kerala in south India. Kathakali gained a lot through Karunakaran Nair's artistic contribution ...

*1972 – M. Madhava Panicker *1973 – Velinezhi K. Nanu Nayar *1973 – Kavungal Chathunni Panicker *1974 –

Kalamandalam Ramankutty Nair Kalamandalam Ramankutty Nair (25 May 1925 – 11 March 2013) was a performer of Kathakali, who practiced the Kerala art form for more than seven decades. Biography His guru was Pattikkamthodi Ravunni Menon, his only teacher in his entire ...

*1975 – K. Sankarankutty Panicker *1983 – Champakulam Pachu Pillai *1985 –

Mankompu Sivasankara Pillai Mankompu Sivasankara Pillai, of Kerala in south India, was a Kathakali artist of the classical dance-drama's southern style. Noted for his consummate depiction of pachcha, kathi and minukku roles, he is a disciple of Chenganoor Raman Pillai. Bo ...

*1987 – Kalamandalam Gopi *1988 –

Keezhpadam Kumaran Nair Keezhpadam Kumaran Nair (1916–2007) was a Kathakali artists from Kerala, India. Endowed and equip with a life profile that also show him to several traditional Indian performing arts other than Kathakali, his stage presentation infused a fres ...

*1989 – Oyoor Kochugovinda Pillai *1991 – Chennithala Chellapan Pillai *1993 –

Kalamandalam Padmanabhan Nair Kalamandalam Padmanabhan Nair (1928–2007) was an eminent Kathakali exponent, equally known for his capacities as a tutor, theoretician and author of a few authentic texts on the classical dance-drama from Kerala in south India. A son of the K ...

*1996 – Kottakkal Krishnan Kutty Nair *1997 –

Madavoor Vasudevan Nair Madavoor Vasudevan Nair (7 April 1929 alattukavu, vallikeezhu, kollam, (Kerala) – 6 February 2018) was a veteran Kathakali artiste. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan by the Government of India. He taught the Kaplingadan style of Kathakali per ...

*1998 –

Kottakkal Sivaraman Kottakkal Sivaraman (1936 – 19 July 2010) was a performing artiste who revolutionised the portrayal of female roles in Kathakali, the classical dance-drama from Kerala in southern India. Career Kathakali, being a largely masculine dance form w ...

*1999–2000 – Nelliyode Vasudevan Namboodiri *2003 – Sadanam P. V. Balakrishnan *2004 –

Kalamandalam Vasu Pisharody Kalamandalam Vasu Pisharody (15 August 1943 – 1 December 2022) was an Indian Kathakali actor known for his classical dance-drama of Kerala. A frontline disciple of Padma Shri Vazhenkada Kunchu Nair, he exceled in virtuous , anti-hero Kathi an ...

*2005 –

Mathoor Govindan Kutty Mathoor Govindan Kutty (5 October 19404 February 2021) was an Indian Kathakali artist from the state of Kerala. In a career spanning over six decades, he specialized in ''Kathakali Stri Vesham,'' the portrayal of female characters on stage. He wa ...

*2006 – Kottakkal Chandrasekharan *2007 –

Sadanam Krishnankutty Sadanam Krishnankutty (born Cherpulassery, 1941) is a performer of Kathakali, a classical dance-drama form of Kerala, South India. A recipient of Kerala State Kathakali award and Kalamandalam fellowship, he has donned a wide range of characte ...

*2008 – Kalamandalam Kuttan *2009 – Kalamandalam Rajan *2010 – Kalamandalam K. G. Vasudevan *2011 –

Thonnakkal Peethambaran Tonnakkal Peethambaran is a Kathakali exponent from Kerala, India. He has been honored with several noted awards including the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award 2011, Kerala state Kathakali award 2014 and Kerala Sangeetha Nataka Akademi award 2003. Bio ...

*2012 – Vazhengada Vijayan *2013 – Kalamandalam M. P. S. Namboodiri *2015 – K. Kunhiraman Nair *2016 –

Kalamandalam Ramachandran Unnithan Kalamandalam Ramachandran Unnithan is a Kathakali exponent from Kerala, India. He received several awards including the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award 2016. His biography titled ''Kachaiyum Mizhukkum'' was published in 2015. Biography Ramachandran ...

*2017 – Madambi Subramanian Namboodiri *2019 – Kottakkal Nandakumaran Nair *2021 – Inchakkattu Ramachandran Pillai

Kuchipudi

*1961 – Vedantam Satyanarayana Sarma ‘Satyam’ *1968 – Chinta Krishnamurthy *1978 – C. Ramacharyalu *1981 – Vempati Chinna Satyam *1983 – Nataraja Ramakrishna (also Bharatanatyam) *1985 – Vedantam Prahlada Sarma *1987 – Pasumarthi Venugopala Krishna Sarma *1990 –

Shobha Naidu Sobha Naidu (1956 – 14 October 2020) was among the foremost Kuchipudi dancers of India and a disciple of the renowned master Vempati Chinna Satyam. She mastered the technique of Kuchipudi and began dancing lead roles in dance-dramas at a youn ...

*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 – Gaddam Padmaja Reddy *2016 – A B Bala Kondala Rao *2017 – Deepika Reddy *2018 – Pasumurthy Ramalinga Sastry *2019 – Manju Barggavee *2020 – Pasumarthy Vithal and Bharathi Vithal *2021 – N. Sailaja

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. Thambalngoubi Devi *1996 –

Darshana Jhaveri Darshana Jhaveri (born 1940), the youngest of the four ''Jhaveri sisters'', is a leading Indian exponent of Manipuri dance, an Indian classical dance form. She is a disciple of Guru Bipin Singh, and started performing on stage in 1958 along wi ...

*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 *2018 – Akham Lakshmi Devi *2020 – Sruti Bandopadhay *2021 – Thokchom Ibemubi Devi

Mohiniattam Mohiniyattam, ( ml, മോഹിനിയാട്ടം), is an Indian classical dance form that developed and remained popular in the state of Kerala. Kathakali is another classical dance form of Kerala. Mohiniyattam dance gets its name fr ...

*1972 – T. Chinnammu Amma *1978 – Kalamandalam Kalyanikutty Amma *1994 – Kalamandalam Satyabhama *1998 – Kalamandalam Kshemavathy *1999–2000 – Bharati Shivaji *2004 –

Kalamandalam Sugandhi Kalamandalam Sugandhi is a Mohiniyattam dancer, choreographer and dance teacher from Kerala, India. She received several awards including Sangeet Natak Akademi Award, Kerala Sangeetha Nataka Akademi Award, Kerala Sangeetha Nataka Akademi Fello ...

*2006 – Kalamandalam Vimala Menon *2007 –

Deepti Omchery Bhalla Deepti Omchery Bhalla (born 1957) is a professor in Carnatic Music at the Faculty of Music and Fine Arts, University of Delhi, and a Mohiniyattam dancer. Education Bhalla was born in Delhi in 1957. She was trained in dancing and singing by her ...

*2008 – Kalamandalam Leelamma *2011 –

V. K. Hymavathy V. K. Hymavathy popularly known as Kalamandalam Hymavathy is a Mohiniyattam dancer and dance teacher from Kerala, India. She received several awards including Sangeet Natak Akademi Award, Kerala Sangeetha Nataka Akademi Gurupooja Award and Kera ...

*2015 – Mandakini Trivedi *2018 –

Gopika Varma Gopika Varma is a Kerala born Mohiniyattam dancer and dance teacher who is settled in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. She received several awards including Sangeet Natak Akademi Award, Kerala Sangeetha Nataka Akademi Award and Kalaimamani. Biograph ...

*2019 – Nirmala Paniker *2021 –

Neena Prasad Neena Prasad is an Indian dancer. She is an exponent in the field of Mohiniyattam. She is the founder and principal of Bharthanjali Academy of Indian Dances in Thiruvananthapuram and Sougandika Centre for Mohinyattam in Chennai. Early life and ...

Odissi Odissi (), also referred to as Orissi in old literature, is a major ancient Indian classical dance that originated in the temples of Odisha – an eastern coastal state of India.Kelucharan Mohapatra 1970 – Pankaj Charan Das 1976 –
Sanjukta Panigrahi Sanjukta Panigrahi (24 August 1944 – 24 June 1997) was a dancer from India, who was the foremost exponent of Indian classical dance Odissi. Sanjukta was the first Odia woman to embrace this ancient classical dance at an early age and ensure ...
(joint award with Raghunath Panigrahi for Odissi music) 1977 –
Deba Prasad Das Deba Prasad Das was an Indian classical dancer, considered by critics and connoisseurs as one of the four first generation gurus of the Indian classical dance form of Odissi. His Odissi style is robust and unique. He was a recipient of the 1977 S ...
1985 – Mayadhar Raut 1986 – Priyambada Mohanty Hejmadi 1987 –
Sonal Mansingh Sonal Mansingh (born 30 April 1944) is an Indian classical dancer and Guru Bharatanatyam and Odissi dancing style. She has been nominated by the President of India to become a Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha. She is the youngest recipient of ...
1992 – D. N. Pattnaik 1994 –
Kumkum Mohanty Kumkum Mohanty (born 10 September 1946) is an Odissi dancer. Mohanty was born at Cuttack. She received training from Guru Kelucharan Mohapatra at Kala Vikash Kendra. She is recognised for ''abhinaya''. She has worked as the special secretary ( ...
1995 – Raghunath Dutta 1997 – Gangadhar Pradhan 1999–2000 –
Minati Mishra Minati Mishra (1929 – 6 January 2020) was an Indian classical dancer and actress, known for her expertise in the Indian classical dance form of Odissi. She was reported in 2011 to be the oldest-living Odissi performer. The Government of India ...
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Madhavi Mudgal Madhavi Mudgal is an Indian classical dancer known for her Odissi dance style. She has won several awards, including the ''Sanskriti Award'', 1984, President of India's award of Padma Shri, 1990, the ''Orissa State Sangeet Natak Akademi Award'' ...
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 Aruna Mohanty (born April 4, 1960) is an Odissi dancer, choreographer and guru. She is currently the Secretary of the Orissa (Odisha) Dance Academy. She has received a number of awards for her work, including the Padma Shri, Padmashree award. ...
2011 – Ramli Ibrahim 2012 – Sharmila Biswas 2013 – Sangeeta Dash 2014 – Sudhakar Sahoo 2015 – Aloka Kanungo 2016 – Ratikant Mohapatra 2017 – Sujata Mohapatra 2018 – Surupa Sen 2019 – Sutapa Talukdar 2020 – Rabindra Atibudhi

Sattriya ''Sattriya'' ( as, সত্ৰীয়া), or ''Sattriya Nritya'', is a major Indian classical dance. This dance was initially created as part of Bhaona which are performances of ''Ankiya Nat'', one-act plays, originally created by Sankar ...

1963 – Maniram Datta Moktar 1978 – Bapuram Bayan Attai 1980 – Roseshwar Saikia Bayan Moktar 1996 –
Indira P. P. Bora Indira P. P. Bora is a Satriya dancer from Assam, India. Trained in Bharatnatyam for 13 years under Guru Rukmini Devi Arundale and in Kuchipudi under the guidance of Guru Vempati Chinna Satyam. Bora has promoted and performed Satriya in New Z ...
1998 – Pradip Chaliha 1999–2000 – Parmanand Borbayan 2001 –
Ghanakanta Bora Bayanacharya Shri Ghanakanta Bora Muktiyar is one of the most eminent exponents and gurus of Sattriya dance, a major classical dance tradition of Assam, India. He is also a renowned instrumentalist, choreographer and author. He has won the pres ...
2004 – Jatin Goswami 2007 – Ganakanta Dutta Borbayan 2010 – Manik Borbayan 2013 – Jogen Dutta Bayan 2014 – Anita Sharma 2015 –
Sarodi Saikia Sarodi Saikia ( as, শাৰদী শইকীয়া) is an Indian classical dancer, dance teacher and chetar player from Assam. She is best known for her Sattriya dance. Saikia received the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 2015. In 2022, the ...
2016 – Haricharan Bhuyan Borbayan 2017 – Ramkrishna Talukdar 2018 – Tankeswar Hazarika Borbayan 2019 – Ranjumoni Saikia

Other major traditions of dance and dance theatre
2007 –
Kalamandalam Sivan Namboodiri Kalamandalam Sivan Namboodiri is an Indian classical theatre performer, the first person from outside chakyar community to practice Koodiyattam, from Kerala. He was awarded the Padma Shri, in 2012, for his contributions to the art of Koodiyattam, ...
(Kutiyattam) 2009 – Kala Krishna (Andhranatyam) 2010 – Painkulam Rama Chakyar (Kutiyattam) 2012 – Painkulam Damodara Chakyar (Kutiyattam) 2013 – Srinivasa Rangachariar (Arayer Sevai) 2021 – Kalamandalam Girija (Kutiyattam)

Music for dance
2005 – Josyula Krishna Murthy (Kuchipudi Bhagavatha Maddalla) 2006 – Kalamandalam Gangadharan (Kathakali Pattu) 2008 – Ramhari Das (Odissi) 2010 – S. Rajeswari (Bharatanatyam) 2011 – Karaikudi Krishnamurthi 2012 – Jwala Prasad 2013 – Dhaneshwar Swain 2014 –
Varanasi Vishnu Namboothiri Varanasi Vishnu Namboothiri is a Maddalam exponent from Kerala, India, best known for playing Maddalam for Kathakali performances. He received several noted awards including Sangeet Natak Akademi Award, Kerala Sangeetha Nataka Akademi Gurupooja ...
(Kathakali) 2015 – Rajkumar Bharathi 2017 – Ashit Desai 2020 – Prema Ramamurthy, Arambam Tombinou Devi 2021 – Bijay Kumar Jena

Folk and Tribal dance
2017 – Mukund Nayak

Theatre

Acting

From 1952–2003 (language-wise)

= Assamese
= 1961 – Mitradev Mahanta Adhikari 2001 – Girish Chowdhury

= Bengali theatre
= 1958 –
Ahindra Choudhury Ahindra Choudhury (1896-1974) was an Indian actor, director, theatre personality and the co-founder of ''Photo Play Syndicate'', a Kolkata-based art organization for bioscope shows. A winner of the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 1958, Choudhur ...
1962 –
Tripti Mitra Tripti Mitra (''née'' Bahaduri; 25 October 1925 – 24 May 1989) was a popular Indian actress of Bengali theatre and films, and wife of Sombhu Mitra, noted theatre director, with whom she co-founded pioneering theatre group ''Bohurupee'' in 1 ...
1967 – Sabitabrata Dutta 1970 – Saraju Bala Devi 1973 –
Shobha Sen Shobha Sen (17 September 1923 – 13 August 2017) (also known as Sova Sen) was Bengali theatre and film actress.Anit Mukerjea (28 June 2004)"A Woman of Grit"Asia Africa Intelligence Wire (From The Statesman (India)) Career After graduating from ...
1975 –
Molina Devi Molina Devi (1917 — 13 August 1977), also known as Molina Debi and Malina Debi, was a Bengali Indian actress of Bengali and Hindi film and theatre. As an actress, she played a wide variety of parts, later frequently playing matronly parts, es ...
1977 – Krishna Roy 1983 –
Kumar Roy Kumar Roy (1926–2010) was a Bengali theatre actor, director and playwright. In 1983 he won the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award. He was associated with the group Bohurupee. In 1989 he directed the re-creation of the classic play '' Nabanna'' (1948) ...
1989 – Sekhar Chatterjee 1995 – Satya Bandopadhyay 1998 – Soumitra Chatterjee 1999–2000 – Ketaki Dutta Sabitri Chatterjee 2003 –
Shaoli Mitra Shaoli Mitra শাঁওলি মিত্র); 1948 – 16 January 2022) was an Indian Bengali theatre and film actress, director, and playwright. She played the role of ''Bangabala'' in Ritwik Ghatak's ''Jukti Takko Aar Gappo''. She is ...

= Gujarati theatre
= 1960 – Ashraf Khan 1965 – Muljibhai Khushalbhai Nayak 1968 – Jashwant Thaker 1974 – Pransukh Manilal Nayak 1980 – Dina Pathak (Gandhi) 1988 –
Sarita Joshi Sarita Joshi (''née'' Bhosle) is an Indian stage, television and film actress and is a veteran actress of Gujarati theatre and Marathi theatre and also Marathi cinema. In 2020, she was awarded the Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian awa ...

= Hindi theatre
= 1979 – Amrish Puri 1982 – Manohar Singh 1984 – Uttara Baokar 1985 –
Fida Hussain Fida Hussain (born 10 June 1988) is an Italian cricketer. He was named in Italy's squad for the 2017 ICC World Cricket League Division Five tournament in South Africa. He played in Guernsey's opening fixture, against Guernsey Guernsey (; G ...
1989 – Surekha Sikri 1990–
Naseeruddin Shah Naseeruddin Shah (born 20 July 1950) is an Indian actor. He is notable in Indian parallel cinema. He has also starred in international productions. He has won numerous awards in his career, including three National Film Awards, three Filmfare ...
(also Urdu) 1999–2000 –
Seema Biswas Seema Biswas (born 14 January 1965) is an Indian actress who works in Hindi films and the theatre. She gained prominence after playing the role of Phoolan Devi in Shekhar Kapur's film ''Bandit Queen'' (1994), for which she won the National F ...

= Kannada
= 1955 – Gubbi Veeranna 1961 –
Subbaiah Naidu Mysore Venkatappa Subbaiah Naidu (1896 – 21 July 1962) was an Indian stage artiste in the silent movies era. He was an actor and director, well known for the movies '' Sati Sulochana'' (1934) in Kannada, which was also the first Kannada talk ...
1985 – B. Jayamma 1992 –
R. Nagarathnamma R. Nagarathnamma (1926–2012) was an Indian theatre personality and the founder of ''Stree Nataka Mandali'', an all-women theatre group based in Bengaluru. A recipient of the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award, she was honored by the Government of Ind ...
1994 – Balappa Yenagi 1996 – B. Jayashree 2003 –
C. R. Simha Channapatna Ramaswami Simha (16 June 1942 – 28 February 2014), better known as C. R. Simha, was an Indian actor, director, dramatist and playwright. He was best known for his work in Kannada films and for his work in stage shows. Starting h ...

= Malayalam
= 1960 – C. I. Parameswaran Pillai 1965 – V. T. Aravindaksha Menon 1969 –
N. N. Pillai N. N. Pillai (Narayana Pillai Narayana Pillai; 1918–1995) was an Indian playwright, actor, theatre director, orator An orator, or oratist, is a public speaker, especially one who is eloquent or skilled. Etymology Recorded in English c ...

= 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 Jyotsna Keshav Bhole also known as Jyotsnabai Bhole ( mr, ज्योत्स्ना केशव भोळे) (11 May 1914 – 5 August 2001), was a veteran Marathi stage artist and a Hindustani classical singer. Along with Padmabai ...
1978 – Dattaram N. Walwaikar 1981 – Chintamani Govind Pendse 1983 –
Dattatray Ramachandra Bhat Dattatray Ramachandra Bhat popularly known as Datta Bhat was an Indian film and theatre actor, in Hindi and Marathi. Stage career Bhat acted in the role of Natsamrat in noted Marathi playwright Kusumagraj’s iconic & milestone Marathi play "N ...
1986 – Prabhakar V. Panshikar 1987 –
Sulabha Deshpande Sulabha Deshpande ( mr, सुलभा देशपांडे; 1937 – 4 June 2016) was an Indian actress and theatre director. Apart from Marathi theatre and Hindi theatre in Mumbai, she acted in over 73 mainstream Bollywood films. She als ...
(also Hindi) 1988 – Saudagar Nagnath Gore 'Chhota Gandharva' 1990 – Bhakti Barve Inamdar 1991 – Neelu Phule 1996 –
Mohan Agashe Mohan Agashe (born 23 July 1947) is an Indian psychiatrist and actor. He was awarded the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 1996 in theatre. Early life Agashe was born in Bhor, Maharashtra. He studied in B. J. Medical College, Pune for his MBBS ...

= 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 Viswanathan Poornam Viswanathan (15 November 1921 – 1 October 2008) was an Indian actor who predominantly appeared in Tamil films. He started performing on stage at age 18. He worked as a reader for All India Radio and went on to act in films such as ''C ...

=
Telugu theatre Telugu theatre is Indian theatre in the Telugu language, based in the states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. Gurajada Apparao wrote the play, ''Kanyasulkam'' in 1892, which is often considered the greatest play in the Telugu language.20th Cen ...

= 1961 –
Sthanam Narasimha Rao Sthanam Narasimha Rao, popularly known as Sthanam (23 September 1902 – 21 February 1971), was an Indian actor known for his works in Telugu theatre and Telugu cinema. He was known for playing female characters and was a recipient of a Padma S ...
1963 –
Banda Kanakalingeswara Rao Banda Kanakalingeswara Rao (20 January 1907 – 3 December 1968) was an Indian actor known for his works in Telugu theatre, and Telugu cinema. He was the member of Kendriya Sangeet Natak Akademi since 1952 and Andhra Pradesh Sangeet Natak Akade ...
1973 – Kalyanam Raghuramaiah 1986 – Peesapati Narasimha Murty

= Urdu
= 1963 –
Zohra Sehgal Zohra Mumtaz Sehgal (born Sahibzadi Zohra Mumtazullah Khan Begum; 27 April 1912 – 10 July 2014) was an Indian actress, dancer, and choreographer. Having begun her career as a member of a contemporary dance troupe, she transitioned into acting ...
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 Rameshwar Nath "Ramesh" Mehta, (born 7 August 1923) is an Indian playwright, director, actor and translator. Biography Mehta moved to Delhi in 1942 in search of a job after his graduation. His farce ''Under Secretary'' has been translated in ...
2008 –
Markand Bhatt Markand Jashbhai Bhatt (2 October 1929 – 5 February 2016) was an Indian Gujarati theatre actor and director. Born and studied in Vadodara, he taught theatre for more than thirty years at M. S. University. He acted in and directed several Guja ...
, Arundhati Nag 2009 – Sudha Shivpuri, Neeta Mohindra 2010 –
Dilip Prabhavalkar Dilip Prabhavalkar (born 4 August 1944) is an Indian Marathi actor, director, playwright and author. He has a career spanning over four decades in Hindi and Marathi theatre, television and movies. He was awarded the National Film Award for Bes ...
, Banwari Taneja,
Maya Krishna Rao Maya Krishna Rao (born 1953) is an Indian theatre artist, stand-up comedian and social activist. Her well-known plays include ''Om Swaha'', ''Dafa No. 180'', ''Ravanama'' and ''Heads Are Meant for Walking Into''. She is a recipient of the Sangee ...
,
Swatilekha Sengupta Swatilekha Sengupta (''née'' Chatterjee; 22 May 1950 – 16 June 2021) was a Bengali actress. She had received the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award for her contribution to Indian theatre as an actor. Career Swatilekha started her career in theater ...
2012 – Parvesh Seth, Nirmal Rishi, Purisai Kannappa Sambandan 2013 – Vasant Josalkar, Kusum Haidar 2014 –
Debshankar Haldar Debshankar HaldarSpelling according tTelegraph Calcutta (or Debshankar HalderSpelling according t or Debsankar HalderThis spelling has been used in Nandikar'website.) is a Bengali theatre actor with a long career in Bengali theatre groups such a ...
, Ramdas Kamat 2017 – Anil Tickoo 2018 – Suhas Joshi, Teekam Joshi 2019 –
Alok Chatterjee Alok Chatterjee is an Indian theatre actor and director known for his theatre productions like '' Death of a Salesman'', ''Nat Samrat and #Anandmath latest play 2022''. He has been teaching at NSD and Pune based FTII. He also taught acting ...
, Pranjal Saikia 2020 – Prashant Damle, Bhupesh Joshi, Amit Banerjee 2021 – Neeleshwar Mishra, Y. G. Mahendran

Mime
1993 – Jogesh Dutta 2002 – Niranjan Goswami 2009 – Moinul Haque 2018 – Swapan Nandy 2021 – Vilas Janve

Direction
* 1957 – Jaishankar Bhojak 'Sundari' * 1959 –
Sombhu Mitra Sombhu Mitra (22 August 1915 – 19 May 1997) was an Indian film and stage actor, director, playwright, reciter and an Indian theatre personality, known especially for his involvement in Bengali theatre, where he is considered a pioneer. ...
* 1961 – Kasambhai Nathubhai Mir * 1962 –
Ebrahim Alkazi Ebrahim Alkazi (18 October 1925 – 4 August 2020) was an Indian theatre director and drama teacher. A rigid disciplinarian, he instilled in his acting students an awe and reverence that they still carry with them, with several of them havin ...
* 1964 – T. S. Rajamanikkam * 1969 – Habib Tanvir * 1970 – Adi Ferozeshah Marzban * 1971 –
Satyadev Dubey Satyadev Dubey (13 July 1936 – 25 December 2011) was an Indian theatre director, actor, playwright, screenwriter & film director. He was awarded the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 1971. He won the 1978 National Film Award for Best Scr ...
* 1972 –
Shyamanand Jalan Shyamanand Jalan (13 January 1934 – 24 May 2010) was a Kolkata-based Indian theatre director, and actor. He is credited for the renaissance period of modern Indian theatre and especially the Hindi theatre in Kolkata from the 1960s to 1980s. ...
* 1973 – Ajitesh Bandopadhyay * 1974 – Damodar Kashinath Kenkre * 1975 –
Vijaya Mehta Vijaya Mehta (born 4 November 1934), is a noted Indian Marathi film and theatre director and also an actor in many films from the Parallel Cinema. She is a founder member of Mumbai-based theatre group, Rangayan with playwright Vijay Tendulkar ...
* 1976 –
B. V. Karanth Babukodi Venkataramana Karanth (Kannada: ಬಾಬುಕೋಡಿ ವೆಂಕಟರಮಣ ಕಾರಂತ) (19 September 1929 – 1 September 2002) widely known as B. V. Karanth was an Indian film director, playwright, actor, screenwriter, co ...
* 1977 – Rajinder Nath * 1978 – Jabbar Patel * 1979 –
B. M. Shah Brij Mohan Shah (1933–1998), better known as B M Shah, was an Indian theatre director and playwright. Shah along with Mohan Upreti, are together credited for the revival of the theatre in the Uttarakhand. He was awarded the Sangeet Natak Akad ...
* 1980 –
Rudraprasad Sengupta Rudraprasad Sengupta (born 31 January 1935) is a Bengali Indian actor, director and cultural critic. Biography Sengupta was born in Calcutta (now Kolkata), Bengal, the son of Anant Sengupta and Usha Prabha Sengupta. He studied at the Scottis ...
* 1981 – R.S. Manohar * 1982 – Sheila Bhatia * 1983 –
Kavalam Narayana Panikkar Kavalam Narayana Panicker (1 May 1928 – 26 June 2016) was an Indian dramatist, theatre director, and poet. He has written over 26 Malayalam plays, many adapted from classical Sanskrit drama and Shakespeare, notably Kalidasa's ''Vikramorvasiy ...
* 1985 – Heisnam Kanhailal * 1986 –
Alyque Padamsee Alyque Padamsee (5 March 1928 – 17 November 2018) was an Indian theatre personality and ad film maker. He played Muhammad Ali Jinnah in the 1982 British period film '' Gandhi''. Besides being involved in Indian theatre as an actor and produc ...
* 1987 – Tarun Roy * 1987 – Ratan Thiyam * 1989 – Bibhash Chakraborty * 1990 –
Geoffrey Kendal Geoffrey Kendal (7 September 1909 – 14 May 1998) was an English actor and theatre director who delivered Shakespeare performances throughout India in the 1940s and 1950s. Early life and family Born Richard Geoffrey Bragg in Kendal, Westmorlan ...
& Laura Kendal (Joint Award) * 1991 – Fritz Bennewitz * 1992 – Mohan Maharishi * 1993 – Kailash Pandya * 1993 – Barry John * 1995 –
M. K. Raina Maharaj Krishen Raina (born 10 February 1948), popularly known as M. K. Raina, is an Indian theatre actor and director. Raina graduated from National School of Drama in 1970 with the Best Actor award. Early life Maharaj Krishna Raina was born ...
* 1995 – Bansi Kaul * 1996 – Purushottam Darwhekar * 1997 – Bhanu Bharti * 1998 –
Amal Allana Amal Allana (born 14 September 1947) is an Indian theatre director, scenic designer and costume designer and presently she is in her second consecutive term as the Chairperson of National School of Drama, India's premier institute of Theatre tr ...
* 1998 – Dulal Roy * 1998 –
Usha Ganguly Usha Ganguli (1945 – 23 April 2020) was an Indian theatre director-actor and activist, most known for her work in Hindi theatre in Kolkata in the 1970s and 1980s. She founded '' Rangakarmee'' theatre group in 1976, known for its productions ...
* 1999–2000 – Balwant Thakur * 1999–2000 – Nadira Zaheer Babbar * 1999–2000 – Prasanna * 2001 –
Shanta Gandhi Shanta Kalidas Gandhi (20 December 1917 – 6 May 2002) was an Indian theatre director, dancer and playwright who was closely associated with IPTA, the cultural wing of the Communist Party of India. She studied with Indira Gandhi at a residenti ...
* 2002 – Arun Mukherjee, Satish Anand, * 2003 – Devendra Raj Ankur, Neelam Mansingh Chowdhry * 2004 –
Anuradha Kapur Anuradha Kapur is an Indian theatre director and professor of drama. She taught at the National School of Drama (NSD) for over three decades and was the Director of National School of Drama for six years (2007–2013). For her work as a theatre ...
, 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 Waman Kendre is an Indian theatre director and academician. He has previously served as the Director of National School of Drama, (NSD) New Delhi from August 2013 to September 2018. He is married to Actress Gauri Kendre and also has a son Early ...
* 2013 – Kamalkar Muralidhar Sontakke,
Kewal Dhaliwal Kewal Dhaliwal (born 7 October 1964) is a Punjabi playwright, theater director and president of Punjab Sangeet Natak Akademi Chandigarh. An alumnus of the National School of Drama, Dhaliwal has been active in theater for more than thirty-five yea ...
, Prasanna Ramaswamy * 2014 – Surya Mohan Kulshreshtha, Chidambar Rao Jambe * 2015 – Parvez Akhtar, Mushtaq Kak * 2016 –
Satyabrata Rout Satyabrata Rout (born 17 March 1958) is an Indian theatre director Scenographer, Author and theatre academician. He is a former faculty member of the National School of Drama. At present, he is a professor and Head of the department of Theatre a ...
, Rajkamal Nayak * 2018 – Sanjay Upadhyay, S. Raghunandana * 2019 – Bharti Sharma, Kumar Sohoni, Abinash Sarma * 2020 – Lokendra Trivedi, Mithilesh Rai * 2021 – R. Venugopal Rao (Surabhi), Lalit Singh Pokharia, Sudesh Sharma, Ajay Malkani, Manoj Pattnaik

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 Chandravadan Chimanlal Mehta (6 April 1901 – 4 May 1991), popularly known as C. C. Mehta or Chan. Chi. Mehta, was a Gujarati playwright, theatre critic, bibliographer, poet, story writer, autobiographer, travel writer and broadcaster from Vadod ...
, Pragji Dossa, Hindi 1965 – Upendra Nath Ashk 1968 – Mohan Rakesh 1977 – Lakshmi Narain Lal 1988 –
Dharamvir Bharati Dharamvir Bharati (25 December 1926 – 4 September 1997) was a renowned Hindi poet, author, playwright and a social thinker of India. He was the chief editor of the popular Hindi weekly magazine '' Dharmayug'', from 1960 till 1987.The Illustr ...
1992 –
Surendra Verma Surendra Verma (born 7 September 1941) is a leading Hindi litterateur and playwright. He started out as a playwright, when his play ''Surya Ki Antim Kiran Se Surya Ki Pahli Kiran Tak'' (From sunset to sunrise, 1972) became quite well known; it ...
2001 – Bhisham Sahni, D.P. Sinha 2006 – Prabhat Kumar Bhattacharya 2004 –
Swadesh Deepak Swadesh Deepak (born 1943) is an Indian playwright, novelist and short-story writer. Deepak has been active on the Hindi literary scene since the mid-1960s and is best known for ''Court Martial,'' a 1991 play. Deepak's most recent book is ''Maine ...
2007 – Reoti Sharan Sharna 2008 –
Mudra Rakshasa The Mudrarakshasa (मुद्राराक्षस, IAST: ''Mudrārākṣasa'', ) is a Sanskrit-language play by Vishakhadatta that narrates the ascent of the king Chandragupta Maurya ( BCE) to power in India. The play is an example of c ...
Kannada 1963 – Adya Rangacharya 'Shriranga' 1972 – Girish Karnad 1983 – Chandrashekhara Kambara 1980 – Narasinga Rao Parwathavani 1989 – G. B. Joshi 1997 – H. S. Shivaprakash Kashmiri **1997 –
Moti Lal Kemmu Moti Lal Kemmu (born 1933) is an Indian contemporary playwright A playwright or dramatist is a person who writes plays. Etymology The word "play" is from Middle English pleye, from Old English plæġ, pleġa, plæġa ("play, exercise; spor ...
*Malayalam 1979 – G. Sankara Pillai 1983 –
Kavalam Narayana Panikkar Kavalam Narayana Panicker (1 May 1928 – 26 June 2016) was an Indian dramatist, theatre director, and poet. He has written over 26 Malayalam plays, many adapted from classical Sanskrit drama and Shakespeare, notably Kalidasa's ''Vikramorvasiy ...
1986 – K. T. Muhammed 1997 – N. Krishna Pillai **2009 –
Vayala Vasudevan Pillai Vayala Vasudevan Pillai (22 April 1945 – 29 August 2011) was a Malayalam-language playwright from Kerala, India. He was the disciple of eminent playwright G. Sankara Pillai. He directed over 40 plays. Some of his popular plays include ''Viswad ...
*Manipuri **2007 – Yumnam Rajendra Singh Marathi 1958 – B.V. 'Mama' Warerkar 1967 – P. L. Deshpande 1970 –
Vijay Tendulkar Vijay Dhondopant Tendulkar (6 January 1928 – 19 May 2008) was a leading Indian playwright, movie and television writer, literary essayist, political journalist, and social commentator primarily in Marāthi. His Marathi plays established him as ...
1976 –
C. T. Khanolkar Chintamani Tryambak Khanolkar (C. T. Khanolkar) ( mr, चिंतामणी त्र्यंबक खानोलकर) (8 March 1930 – 26 April 1976) was a Marathi writer from Maharashtra, India. He wrote poetry under the name "Arati P ...
1982 – M.G. Rangnekar 1984 – Vasant Shankar Kanetkar 1987 – V.V. Shirwadkar 1989 –
Mahesh Elkunchwar Mahesh Elkunchwar (born 9 October 1939) is an Indian playwright and screenplay writer in Marathi language with more than 20 plays to his name, in addition to his theoretical writings, critical works, and his active work in India's ''Parallel Cin ...
1994 –
Satish Alekar Satish Vasant Alekar (born 30 January 1949) is a Marathi playwright, actor, and theatre director. A founder member of the Theatre Academy of Pune, and most known for his plays ''Mahanirvan'' (1974), ''Mahapoor'' (1975), ''Atirekee'' (1990), ''Pi ...
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 Balwant Gargi (4 December 1916 – 22 April 2003) was an Indian Punjabi language dramatist, theatre director, novelist, and short story writer, and academic. Early life On 4 December 1916, in Canal House in Sehna, Barnala (Punjab), Balwant Gar ...
**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 2018 – Rajiv Naik, Laltluangliana Khiangte 2019 – Hrishikesh Sulabh

Allied Theatre Arts
Lighting 1974 – Tapas Sen 1977 – V, Ramamurthy 1989 – G.N. Dasgupta 1994 – Kanishka Sen 1997 – Mansukh Joshi (for scenic design also) 1999–2000 – R.K. Dhingra 2002 – Ashok Sagar Bhagat 2003 – Sreenivas G. Kappanna 2005 – Suresh Bhardwaj 2006 - Gautam Bhattacharya 2011 – Kamal Jain 2019 – Souti Chakraborty **2020 – Raghav Prakash Scenic Design 1985 – Goverdhan Panchal 1986 –
Khaled Choudhury Khaled Choudhury (20 December 1919 – 30 April 2014) was a theatre personality and artist of Bengal. He worked for various directors of both Bengali and Hindi plays, including Sombhu Mitra, Tripti Mitra, and Shyamanand Jalan in various ...
1988 –
Dattatraya Ganesh Godse Dattatraya Ganesh Godse ( Devanagari: दत्तात्रय गणेश गोडसे, द. ग. गोडसे) was an Indian historian, playwright, art critic, art director, theatre and costume designer, and illustrator. He receive ...
1997 – Mansukh Joshi 1999–2000 – Robin Das 2007 – Mahendra Kumar Costumes/Make-up 1981 – Ashok Srivastava (Make-up) 1990 – Roshan Alkazi (Costume Design) 1999–2000 – Shakti Sen (Make-up) 2001 –
Dolly Ahluwalia Dolly Ahluwalia is an Indian actress and costume designer who was awarded the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 2001 for costume design.R. Paramashivan R. Paramashivan is an Indian musician and director associated with Karnataka theatre. Paramashivan works as a singer, instrumentalist, and composer. He was awarded the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award Sangeet Natak Akademi Award ( IPA: Saṅgīta ...
2009 – Kuldeep Singh 2012 - Murari Roychoudhury **2014 - Amod Bhatt, Amardas Manikpuri (Chhattisgarh) *Stagecraft 1993 –
M.S. Sathyu Mysore Shrinivas Sathyu ( kn, ಮೈಸೂರು ಶ್ರೀನಿವಾಸ ಸತ್ಯು) (born 6 July 1930) is a leading film director, stage designer and art director from India. He is best known for his directorial ''Garm Hava'' (1973), w ...
1995 – N. Krishnamoorthy 2002 – Nissar Allana 2005 – H. V. Sharma **2020 – N. Jadumani Singh

Major traditions of theatre
2007 – Kolyur Ramachandra Rao ( Yakshagana) 2008 – Bansi Lal Khiladi, Khayal (Rajasthan) 2012 – Ghulam Rasool Bhagat (
Bhand Pather Bhānds ( Devanagari: भांड; Urdu: بھانڈ, Gurmukhi: ਭੰਡ) are the traditional folk entertainers of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Nepal. In India and Nepal, the Bahand are now an endogamous Muslim community, which is no l ...
) 2014 – Manjunath Bhagwat Hostota (Yakshagana) 2018 – Bhagawat A. S. Nanjappa (Yakshagana), A. M. Parameswaran Kuttan Chakkiyar ( Kutiyattam) 2019 – K. S. Krishanappa (Isai Natakam) 2020 – P. P. Kandaswami ( Therukoothu) 2021 – Gunindra Nath Ojah (Music and Direction in Ankiya Bhaona)

Other Traditional / Folk/ Tribal/ Dance/ Music/ Theatre and Puppetry
* 1964 – Mani Madhava Chakyar (Kutiyattam), Kerala * 1969 – Gahan Chandra Goswami (Ankia Nat, Assam) * 1972 – Kudamaloor Karunakaran Nair (Kathakali), Kerala * 1976 – Raghunath Panigrahi (Joint Award with
Sanjukta Panigrahi Sanjukta Panigrahi (24 August 1944 – 24 June 1997) was a dancer from India, who was the foremost exponent of Indian classical dance Odissi. Sanjukta was the first Odia woman to embrace this ancient classical dance at an early age and ensure ...
for Odissi Music, Orissa) * 1981 – Kamini Kumar Narzary (Bodo Tribal Dance, Assam) * 1983 – Dharmiklal Chunilal Pandya (Akhyana), Gujarat * 1983 – Lalit Chandra Ojha (Ojapali and Deodhani Dances, Assam) * 1984 –
Balakrushna Dash Sangeeta Sudhakara Balakrushna Dash () was a veteran Guru of Odissi music. One of the chief disciples of the legend Pt Gokul Chandra Srichandan of Kendrapada, Dash worked variously as a vocalist, composer and music director. He received the Odish ...
(Odissi Music, Orissa) * 1985 – Mohan Chandra Barman (Bhaona, Assam) * 1984 –
Bhubaneswar Mishra Bhubaneswar Mishra (born 9 November 1961) is an Indian American computer scientist and professor at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University. He is known for his applied contributions to bioinformatics, cybersecu ...
(Odissi Music, Orissa) * 1987 – Bhupen Hazarika (Folk Music, Assam) * 1988 – Pratima Barua Pandey (Folk Music, Assam) * 1989 – Rajen Pam (Tribal Music, Assam) * 1990 – Rameshwar Pathak (Folk Music, Assam) * 1991 – Puranchand Wadali & Pyarelal Wadali (Folk Music), Punjab * 1992 – Khagen Mahanta (Folk Music, Assam) * 1994 –
M. Boyer Manuel Santana Aguiar (11 October 1930 – 30 May 2009), known professionally as M. Boyer was an Indian tiatrist from Goa. Boyer, was originally from Marcaim in Ponda, and later moved to Raia. His parents were Sebastiao Floriano Aguiar and Mar ...
( Tiatr), Goa * 1995 – Teejan Bai ( Pandavani), Madhya Pradesh * 1997 – Arghya sen abindra sangeet West Bengal * 1997 –
P. R. Thilagam P. R. Thilagam (born 1926), popularly known as Thiruvarur Thilagam, is an Indian composer, vocalist and exponent of ''Kuravanji'', a traditional form of dance drama popular in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. She hails from ''Kondi parampara'' ( ...
, Kuravanji performer, Tamil Nadu * 1998 – Ghulam Mohammad Saznawaz, Jammu and Kashmir * 2002 – Dilip Sarma & Sudakshina Sarma (Jyoti Sangeet, Assam - Joint Award) * 2003 – Prabhat Sarma (traditional & Folk Music, Assam) * 2003 – Kosha Kanta Deva Goswami (Mask Making Bhaona, Assam) * 2003 –
Banamali Maharana Banamali Maharana (, 16 May 1941 – 17 November 2018) was an Indian percussionist who played Mardala. Career Maharana began playing Khola (Mrudanga) and Dholak with Goswami. His formal training began after he joined the Annapurna Theatre, ...
(Odissi Music, Orissa) * 2005 – Khirod Khakhlari (Bodo Dance & Music, Assam) * 2005 – Kashinath Pujapanda (Odissi Music, Orissa) * 2005 –
Mathoor Govindan Kutty Mathoor Govindan Kutty (5 October 19404 February 2021) was an Indian Kathakali artist from the state of Kerala. In a career spanning over six decades, he specialized in ''Kathakali Stri Vesham,'' the portrayal of female characters on stage. He wa ...
(Kathakali), Kerala * 2007 – Subodh Debbarma (Folk dance), Tripura * 2007 – Amar Pal (Folk Song,
West Bengal West Bengal (, Bengali: ''Poshchim Bongo'', , abbr. WB) is a state in the eastern portion of India. It is situated along the Bay of Bengal, along with a population of over 91 million inhabitants within an area of . West Bengal is the fou ...
) * 2008 – Kartar Singh * 2008 – Mangi Bai Arya ( Mand), Rajasthan * 2008 – Lakha Khan Mangniyar, (Folk Music), Rajasthan * 2008 – Bansi Lal Khilari ( Khayal), Rajasthan * 2009 – Bhikhudan Gadhvi (Folk music), Gujarat * 2010 – Harbhajan Singh Namdhari (Gurbani Kirtan), Punjab * 2010 – Nazeer Ahmed Khan Warsi and Naseer Ahmed Khan Warsi ( Qawwali), Andhra Pradesh * 2010 – Dwijen Mukherjee (
Rabindra Sangeet ''Rabindra Sangeet'' ( bn, রবীন্দ্র সঙ্গীত; ), also known as Tagore Songs, are songs from the Indian subcontinent written and composed by the Bengali polymath Rabindranath Tagore, winner of the 1913 Nobel Prize in ...
), West Bengal * 2010 – Chandabai Tiwadi (Bharud), Maharashtra * 2010 – T. Somasundaram (Folk dance), Tamil Nadu * 2010 – Krishna Kumari (Folk music: Bhakha), Jammu and Kashmir * 2010 – Chand Jagdish Tiwadi (Folk theatre:
Bharud Eknath (IAST: Eka-nātha, Marathi pronunciation: knath (1533–1599), commonly known as Sant Eknath was an Indian Hindu saint, philosopher and poet. He was a devotee of the Hindu deity Vitthal and is a major figure of the Warkari movement. ...
), Maharashtra * 2011 – Trippekulam Achuta Marar(Kerla) * 2011 – Hemant Chauhan for Folk Music (Gujarat) * 2011 – Gurmeet Bawa for Folk Music (Punjab) * 2011 – Kashiram Sahu for Folk Theatre (Chhattisgarh) * 2011 – Mipham Otsal for Traditional Theatre (Jammu & Kashmir) * 2011 – Bellagallu Veeranna for Togalu Gombeyatta, Puppetry (Karnataka) * 2011 – Gopal Chandra Das for Putul Nach (Tripura) * 2011 – Kasmi Khan Niyazi for Making of musical Instrument (DeIhi) * 2012 – Go Ru Channabasappa (Folk Music - Karnataka) * 2012 – Kinaram Nath Oja (Suknani Ojapali - Assam) * 2012 – Prem Singh Dehati (Folk Music - Haryana) * 2012 – Sulochana Chavan (Lavani - Maharashtra) * 2012 – Mattannur Sankaran Kutty Marar (Thayambaka - Kerala) * 2012 – Govind Ram Nirmalkar (Nacha - Chhattisgarh) * 2012 – Heera Das Negi (Mask Making - Himachal Pradesh) * 2013 – Meeenakshi K. (Instrument Making - Ghatam - Tamil Nadu) * 2013 – Raj Begum, Traditional, Folk Music/Dance & Theatre (Jammu & Kashmir) * 2013 – T.A.R. Nadi Rao & N Jeeva Rao (Joint Award), Folk Music (Tamil Nadu) * 2013 – Gurdial Singh, Instrument Making (Punjab) * 2013 – Mohan Singh Khangura, Rabindra Sangeet (West Bengal) * 2013 – Umakanta Gogoi (Bairagi), Tokari Geet and Dehbichar Geet, (Assam) * 2013 – Sheikh Riyajuddin alias Rajubaba, Folk Theatre (Maharashtra) * 2014 – Puran Shah Koti (Traditional Music - Punjab) * 2014 – Kalamandalam Ram Mohan (Makeup/Costume for Kathakali) * 2014 – Reba Kanta Mohanta (Mask Making - Assam) * 2014 – Abdul Rashid Hafiz (Folk Music - Jammu & Kashmir ) * 2014 – K.Shanathoiba Sharma (Thang-Ta - Manipur) * 2014 – Ramdayal Sharma (Nautanki - U.P.) * 2014 – Thanga Darlong (Folk Music - Tripura) * 2015 – Ramchandra Singh (Folk Theater - Bihar) * 2017 – Mukund Nayak (Folk Music - Jharkhand) * 2017 – Prakash Khandge (Folk Arts - Maharashtra) * 2018 – Malini Awasthi (Folk Music - Uttar Pradesh) * 2018 – Gazi Khan Barna (Folk Music - Khartal, Rajasthan) * 2018 – Narendra Singh Negi (Folk Songs - Uttarakhand) * 2018 – Niranjan Rajyaguru (Folk Music - Gujarat) * 2018 – Mohd. Sadiq Bhagat (Folk Theatre - Bhand Pather, J&K) * 2018 – Kota Sachidanand Shastry (Harikatha - Andhra Pradesh) * 2018 –
Arjun Singh Dhurve Arjun Singh Dhurve (born 12 August 1953) is a folk dancer and a retired teacher from the Dindori district of the Indian State of Madhya Pradesh. He is famous for popularising Baiga folk songs and dance. Baiga Pardhauni dance is the main dan ...
(Folk Dance - Madhya Pradesh) * 2018 – Somnath Battu (Folk Music - Himachal Pradesh) * 2018 – Hem Chandra Goswami (Mask Making - Assam) * 2019 –
Mamta Chandrakar Mamta Chandrakar (born 3 December 1958) is a Padma Shri Awarded folk singer of Chhattisgarh. She is referred to as the Nightingale of Chhattisgarh. Mamta Chandrakar has her post graduation degree in singing from Indira Kala Sangeet Vishwavidy ...
(Folk Music Chhattisgarh) * 2019 – Ram Lal (Folk Music, Uttarakhand) * 2019 – Shankarbhai Hakabhai Dharjiya (Folk Music & Dance - Gujarat) * 2019 – Nathulal Solanki (Folk Music - Rajasthan) * 2019 – Pandurang Ghotkar (Folk Music - Maharashtra) * 2019 – Peruvanam Kuttan Marar (Thayambaka - Kerala) * 2019 – Urmila Pandey (Folk Music - Madhya Pradesh) * 2019 – Sayed Mohmmed P.P. (Folk Music & Dance - Lakshadweep) * 2019 – Majid Gulabsaheb Sitarmaker (Instrument Making - Maharashtra) * 2019 – Dulal Kanji (Instrument Making - West Bengal) * 2020 – Balkar Sidhu (Folk Dance - Punjab) * 2020 – Nandlal Garg (Folk Music - Himachal Pradesh) * 2020 – B. Lalthlengliana (Folk Theatre - Mizoram) * 2020 – Ranjana Kumri Jha (Folk Music - Bihar) * 2020 – S. G. Lakshmidevamma (Folk Music - Karnataka) * 2020 – Tarubala Debbarma (Folk Music and Dance - Tripura) * 2020 – Sang Jangmu (Folk Dance - Arunachal Pradesh) * 2020 – Gafoor Khan Manganiar (Folk Music - Rajasthan) * 2020 – Zachunu Keyho (Folk Music - Nagaland) * 2021 – Silbi Passah (Folk Music - Meghalaya) * 2021 – Durga Prasad Murmu (Folk Music and Dance - Jharkhand) * 2021 – Prashanna Gogoi (Folk Music & Dance - Assam) * 2021 – Gartigere Raghanna (H. N Raghavenda) (Folk Music - Karnataka) * 2021 – S Samundaram (Folk Music - Tamil Nadu) * 2021 – Data Ram Purohit (Folk Music & Theatre - Uttarakhand) * 2021 – Mahavir Singh Guddu (Folk Music & Dance - Haryana) * 2021 – N Tiken Singh (Folk Music - Manipur) * 2021 – N. Sekar (Folk Music - Puducherry) * 2021 – R. Murugan (Instrument Making - Tamil Nadu)

Puppetry/ Mime/ Allied arts of traditional forms
* 1978 – Kathinanada Das (Ravanchhaya puppetry), Orissa * 1979 – U. Kogga Devanna Kamath (Gombeatta puppetry), Karnataka * 1980 – K.L. Krishnan Kutty Pulavar (Tholpava Koothu), Kerala * 1981 – M.R. Ranganatha Rao, Karnataka * 1983 – Meher Rustom Contractor, Gujarat * 1987 –
Suresh Dutta Suresh Dutta is an Indian puppet artist, theatre personality and the founder of Calcutta Puppet Theatre, a Kolkata-based theatre group dedicated to puppetry. Born in Faridpur, in the undivided Bengal of the British India, he trained art under P ...
, West Bengal * 1992 – Dadi Dorab Pudumjee, Delhi * 1995 – T. Hombiah, Karnataka * 1998 – Kolhacharan Sahu (Ravanchhaya puppetry), Orissa * 1999 – B.H. Puttashamachar, Karanataka * 2001 –
Hiren Bhattacharya Hiren Bhattacharyya (28 July 1932 – 4 July 2012), popularly known as Hiruda, was an Indian poet and lyricist best for his works in the Assamese literature. He had innumerable works published in Assamese and achieved many prizes and accolade ...
, Assam * 2003 – Puran Bhatt, Rajasthan * 2005 – Ganpat Sakharam Masge, Maharashtra * 2010 – K. Chinna Anjannamma (Shadow puppetry: Tolu Bommalata), Andhra Pradesh * 2010 – K.V. Ramakrishnan and K.C. Ramakrishnan (Glove puppetry: Pava Kathakali), Kerala * 2012 – Prafulla Karmakar (Traditional Puppetry - West Bengal) * 2013 – Lilavati M Kavi (Bajaj), Puppetry * 2014 – K. Kesavasamy (Puppetry - Puducherry) * 2016 – Prabhitangsu Das (Contemporary Puppetry - Tripura) * 2018 – Anupama Hoskere (Classical String Puppetry of Karnataka, Bengaluru) * 2020 – Meena Nayak (Puppetry - Maharashtra)

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= Flute The flute is a family of classical music instrument in the woodwind group. Like all woodwinds, flutes are aerophones, meaning they make sound by vibrating a column of air. However, unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is a reedles ...

= Guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected string ...

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= Sarod The sarod is a stringed instrument, used in Hindustani music on the Indian subcontinent. Along with the sitar, it is among the most popular and prominent instruments. It is known for a deep, weighty, introspective sound, in contrast with the swe ...

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= Sitar The sitar ( or ; ) is a plucked stringed instrument, originating from the Indian subcontinent, used in Hindustani classical music. The instrument was invented in medieval India, flourished in the 18th century, and arrived at its present form ...

= Surbahar

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= Violin The violin, sometimes known as a '' fiddle'', is a wooden chordophone ( string instrument) in the violin family. Most violins have a hollow wooden body. It is the smallest and thus highest-pitched instrument ( soprano) in the family in regu ...

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= Clarionet The clarinet is a musical instrument in the woodwind family. The instrument has a nearly cylindrical bore and a flared bell, and uses a single reed to produce sound. Clarinets comprise a family of instruments of differing sizes and pitches. ...

= Flute The flute is a family of classical music instrument in the woodwind group. Like all woodwinds, flutes are aerophones, meaning they make sound by vibrating a column of air. However, unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is a reedles ...

= Ghatam The ghaṭam ( sa, घटं ''ghaṭaṁ'', kan, ಘಟ ''ghaṭah'', ta, கடம் ''ghatam'', te, ఘటం ''ghatam'', ml, ഘടം, ''ghatam'') is a percussion instrument used in various repertoires across India. It's a varian ...

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= Mandolin A mandolin ( it, mandolino ; literally "small mandola") is a stringed musical instrument in the lute family and is generally plucked with a pick. It most commonly has four courses of doubled strings tuned in unison, thus giving a total of ...

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= Nagaswaram The Nagaswaram (nādḥasvaram) is a double reed wind instrument from South India. It is used as a traditional classical instrument in Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Karnataka, and Kerala. This instrument is "among the world's loudes ...

= Saxophone The saxophone (often referred to colloquially as the sax) is a type of Single-reed instrument, single-reed woodwind instrument with a conical body, usually made of brass. As with all single-reed instruments, sound is produced when a reed (mouthpi ...

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= Veena The ''veena'', also spelled ''vina'' ( sa, वीणा IAST: vīṇā), comprises various chordophone instruments from the Indian subcontinent. Ancient musical instruments evolved into many variations, such as lutes, zithers and arched harps ...

= Violin The violin, sometimes known as a '' fiddle'', is a wooden chordophone ( string instrument) in the violin family. Most violins have a hollow wooden body. It is the smallest and thus highest-pitched instrument ( soprano) in the family in regu ...

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Bharatanatyam Bharatanatyam () is a major form of Indian classical dance that originated in Tamil Nadu. It is one of the eight widely recognized Indian classical dance forms, and expresses South Indian religious themes and spiritual ideas, particularly of ...

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Kathakali Kathakali ( ml, കഥകളി) is a major form of classical Indian dance. It is a "story play" genre of art, but one distinguished by the elaborately colourful make-up and costumes of the traditional male actor-dancers. It is native to the M ...

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Mohiniattam Mohiniyattam, ( ml, മോഹിനിയാട്ടം), is an Indian classical dance form that developed and remained popular in the state of Kerala. Kathakali is another classical dance form of Kerala. Mohiniyattam dance gets its name fr ...

Sattriya ''Sattriya'' ( as, সত্ৰীয়া), or ''Sattriya Nritya'', is a major Indian classical dance. This dance was initially created as part of Bhaona which are performances of ''Ankiya Nat'', one-act plays, originally created by Sankar ...

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Been Been may refer to: To be Have been * Been (surname) * Beens, an ethnic group of Bangladesh Pungi or been, an Indian wind instrument Rudra veena The ''Rudra veena'' ( sa, रुद्र वीणा) (also spelled ''Rudraveena'' or ''Rudra ...
/ Rudra Veena/ Vichitra Veena

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Flute The flute is a family of classical music instrument in the woodwind group. Like all woodwinds, flutes are aerophones, meaning they make sound by vibrating a column of air. However, unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is a reedles ...

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Guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected string ...

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Sarod The sarod is a stringed instrument, used in Hindustani music on the Indian subcontinent. Along with the sitar, it is among the most popular and prominent instruments. It is known for a deep, weighty, introspective sound, in contrast with the swe ...

=
Sitar The sitar ( or ; ) is a plucked stringed instrument, originating from the Indian subcontinent, used in Hindustani classical music. The instrument was invented in medieval India, flourished in the 18th century, and arrived at its present form ...

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Tabla A tabla, bn, তবলা, prs, طبلا, gu, તબલા, hi, तबला, kn, ತಬಲಾ, ml, തബല, mr, तबला, ne, तबला, or, ତବଲା, ps, طبله, pa, ਤਬਲਾ, ta, தபலா, te, తబల� ...

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Violin The violin, sometimes known as a '' fiddle'', is a wooden chordophone ( string instrument) in the violin family. Most violins have a hollow wooden body. It is the smallest and thus highest-pitched instrument ( soprano) in the family in regu ...

=
Clarionet The clarinet is a musical instrument in the woodwind family. The instrument has a nearly cylindrical bore and a flared bell, and uses a single reed to produce sound. Clarinets comprise a family of instruments of differing sizes and pitches. ...

=
Flute The flute is a family of classical music instrument in the woodwind group. Like all woodwinds, flutes are aerophones, meaning they make sound by vibrating a column of air. However, unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is a reedles ...

=
Ghatam The ghaṭam ( sa, घटं ''ghaṭaṁ'', kan, ಘಟ ''ghaṭah'', ta, கடம் ''ghatam'', te, ఘటం ''ghatam'', ml, ഘടം, ''ghatam'') is a percussion instrument used in various repertoires across India. It's a varian ...

=
Mandolin A mandolin ( it, mandolino ; literally "small mandola") is a stringed musical instrument in the lute family and is generally plucked with a pick. It most commonly has four courses of doubled strings tuned in unison, thus giving a total of ...

=
Nagaswaram The Nagaswaram (nādḥasvaram) is a double reed wind instrument from South India. It is used as a traditional classical instrument in Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Karnataka, and Kerala. This instrument is "among the world's loudes ...

=
Saxophone The saxophone (often referred to colloquially as the sax) is a type of Single-reed instrument, single-reed woodwind instrument with a conical body, usually made of brass. As with all single-reed instruments, sound is produced when a reed (mouthpi ...

=
Veena The ''veena'', also spelled ''vina'' ( sa, वीणा IAST: vīṇā), comprises various chordophone instruments from the Indian subcontinent. Ancient musical instruments evolved into many variations, such as lutes, zithers and arched harps ...

=
Violin The violin, sometimes known as a '' fiddle'', is a wooden chordophone ( string instrument) in the violin family. Most violins have a hollow wooden body. It is the smallest and thus highest-pitched instrument ( soprano) in the family in regu ...

=
Telugu theatre Telugu theatre is Indian theatre in the Telugu language, based in the states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. Gurajada Apparao wrote the play, ''Kanyasulkam'' in 1892, which is often considered the greatest play in the Telugu language.20th Cen ...