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colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Rajanikat_Arole.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cf/Rajanikat_Arole.jpg/220px-Rajanikat_Arole.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="220" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cf/Rajanikat_Arole.jpg/330px-Rajanikat_Arole.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cf/Rajanikat_Arole.jpg/440px-Rajanikat_Arole.jpg 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="512" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Rajanikant Arole</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display:inline" class="nickname">Rajanikant</div><br />18 September 1934<br /><div style="display:inline" class="birthplace"><a href="/wiki/Rahuri" title="Rahuri">Rahuri</a>, Maharashtra, India</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">26 May 2011<br /><div style="display:inline" class="deathplace"><a href="/wiki/Pune" title="Pune">Pune</a>, Maharashtra, India</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Nationality</th><td class="infobox-data category">Indian</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Education</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Bachelor_of_Medicine,_Bachelor_of_Surgery" title="Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery">MBBS</a>, <a href="/wiki/Doctor_of_Medicine" title="Doctor of Medicine">M.D.</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Alma mater</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Johns_Hopkins_University" title="Johns Hopkins University">Johns Hopkins University</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Occupation(s)</th><td class="infobox-data role"><a href="/wiki/Health_care" title="Health care">Health care</a>, <a href="/wiki/Social_Service" class="mw-redirect" title="Social Service">Social Service</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Years active</th><td class="infobox-data">1970–2011</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Known for</th><td class="infobox-data">Rural Health Project, Jamkhed</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Mabelle_Arole" title="Mabelle Arole">Mabelle Arole</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Awards</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Ramon_Magsaysay_Award" title="Ramon Magsaysay Award">Ramon Magsaysay Award</a> (1970)<br /><a href="/wiki/Padma_Bhushan" title="Padma Bhushan">Padma Bhushan</a> (1990)</td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Rajnikant Shankarrao Arole</b> was born in <a href="/wiki/Supa,_Parner" title="Supa, Parner">Supa</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Ahmednagar_district" title="Ahmednagar district">Ahmednagar district</a> of <a href="/wiki/Maharashtra" title="Maharashtra">Maharashtra</a>, India on 10 July 1934, the second child of Shankar and Leelawati Salve Arole. His parents were both schoolteachers and his father became Inspector of Schools. The Aroles raised their three sons and four daughters in the faith of the <a href="/wiki/Church_of_England" title="Church of England">Church of England</a>, inculcating in them Christian ethical and spiritual values that have guided Rajnikant through a lifetime of public service. </p><p>Rajnikant received the <a href="/wiki/Ramon_Magsaysay_Award" title="Ramon Magsaysay Award">Ramon Magsaysay Award</a> for Community Leadership in 1979.<sup id="cite_ref-CITATIONS_for_Rajanikant_Shankarrao_Arole_and_Mabelle_Rajanikant_Arole_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CITATIONS_for_Rajanikant_Shankarrao_Arole_and_Mabelle_Rajanikant_Arole-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He also received PadmaBhushan <a href="/wiki/Mother_Teresa" title="Mother Teresa">Mother Teresa</a> Memorial National Award for Social Justice. </p><p>He died on 25 May 2011 in Pune.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Career">Career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rajanikant_Arole&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>1960–1962 : Resident : ETCM Hospital, Kolar Karnataka, India</li> <li>1965–1970 : <a href="/wiki/Fulbright_Scholar" class="mw-redirect" title="Fulbright Scholar">Fulbright Scholar</a></li> <li>1962–1966 : Medical Suptd. : FJFM Hospital, Vadala Mission District <a href="/wiki/Ahmednagar" title="Ahmednagar">Ahmednagar</a>, India</li> <li>1966–1969 : Residency Lutheran Hospital <a href="/wiki/Cleveland" title="Cleveland">Cleveland</a>, Ohio, US</li> <li>1970–present Director : <a href="/wiki/Comprehensive_Rural_Health_Project" title="Comprehensive Rural Health Project">Comprehensive Rural Health Project</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jamkhed" title="Jamkhed">Jamkhed</a> District Ahmednagar, India</li> <li>1989 – onwards : Associate Professor (visiting) : <a href="/wiki/Johns_Hopkins_School_of_Hygiene_and_Public_Health" class="mw-redirect" title="Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health">Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health</a>, <a href="/wiki/Baltimore,_MD" class="mw-redirect" title="Baltimore, MD">Baltimore, MD</a>, USA</li> <li>1990 – onwards : Director : Institute of Training and Research in Community Health & Population Jamkhed</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Awards_and_honours">Awards and honours</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rajanikant_Arole&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Awards and honours"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>1966 : Paul Harrison Award for outstanding work in Rural areas</li> <li>1979 : Ramon Magsaysay Award for Community Leadership</li> <li>1985 : Ph.D. for Public service, <a href="/wiki/Gettysburg_College" title="Gettysburg College">Gettysburg College</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gettysburg,_PA" class="mw-redirect" title="Gettysburg, PA">Gettysburg, PA</a> USA</li> <li>1987 : N.D. Diwan Memorial Award-Rehabilitation of the handicapped persons.</li> <li>1988 : NCIH Award for service in International health</li> <li>1990 : Padma Bhushan National Award for Social Service</li> <li>2001 : R. B. Hiwargaonkar Award 2000 for rural health service using Grassroots workers as Change Agents.</li> <li>2003 : Diwaliben Mehta Award for Tribal Work</li> <li>2004 : Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Dalit Mitra Award for work among backward classes.</li> <li>2005 : Mother Teresa Memorial National Award for Social Justice</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Positions_Held">Positions Held</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rajanikant_Arole&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Positions Held"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>President </p> <ul><li>1980–1990 : All India Marathi Science Congress, Pune</li> <li>1978 : Voluntary Health Association of India, <a href="/wiki/New_Delhi" title="New Delhi">New Delhi</a>, Chairman</li> <li>2007 : Maharashtra State Monitory Committee for Malnutrition, Deaths in children</li> <li>1992 : Organizing Committee for 6th Asian Congress for Agricultural Medicine And Rural Health</li> <li>1976 : Emmanuel Hospital Association of India, New Delhi, Member</li> <li>2007 : Central Council for Health and Family Welfare (Government of India)</li> <li>2005 : Empowered Committee, <a href="/wiki/National_Rural_Health_Mission" class="mw-redirect" title="National Rural Health Mission">National Rural Health Mission</a> (NRHM), Government of India</li> <li>2000 : <a href="/wiki/National_Commission_on_Population" title="National Commission on Population">National Commission on Population</a>; India Chaired by Prime Minister</li> <li>1991 : Senate, Poona University, Poona</li> <li>1989 : Planning Board Yeswantrao Chavan open University, Nasik, Maharashtra, India</li> <li>1988 : Central Council of Health and Family Welfare, Govt. of India, New Delhi (Chairman – Hon. Union Health Minister)</li> <li>1988 : Standing Committee of the Central Council of Health and Family Welfare, Govt. Of India, New Delhi.</li> <li>1988 : Steering Committee Health and FamiIndia, Technology Mission on water, Literacy Immunization, etc.</li> <li>1988 : Maharashtra State Planning Board Govt. of Maharashtra.</li> <li>1987–1990 : High Power Committee on Vocationalization of Education Govt. of Maharashtra.</li> <li>1988 : District Planning and Development Committee, Ahmednagar District</li> <li>1985–1993 : Executive Committee Maharashtra Institute for Development Administration</li> <li>1985 : Task Force on Nutrition, Govt. of India 1983 National Population Advisory Council Govt. of India, New Delhi.</li> <li>1983 : Faculty of Medicine, Senate, <a href="/wiki/Pune_University" class="mw-redirect" title="Pune University">Pune University</a></li> <li>1982 : Executive Committee, National Institute of Health and Family Welfare, New Delhi</li> <li>1982 : Central Govt. Evaluation Team Area Development Project, DANIDA)</li> <li>1981 : Advisory Panel, Family Planning Foundation of India, New Delhi</li> <li>1978 : Task Force on Family Planning <a href="/wiki/Indian_Council_of_Medical_Research" title="Indian Council of Medical Research">Indian Council of Medical Research</a> Govt. of India, New Delhi</li></ul> <p>Papers Presented at National & International Conferences/Congresses, Workshop Seminar Attended </p> <ul><li>1972: "Community Health in Asia – Role of Health in the Development of Nations." Ecumenical Christian Conference, Bangkok</li> <li>1972 : "Rural health Care" Christian Medical Commission Annual Meeting We Berlin</li> <li>1974 : "Mobilizing Grass Root Response for Health Development" International</li></ul> <p>Voluntary Service Organization (U N Geneva Manila, Philippines) </p> <ul><li>1974 : "Rehabilitation of Handicapped Persons Appropriate Technology" Action</li></ul> <p>Research / UNICEF, London U.K. </p> <ul><li>1977 : "Nutrition in Rural Areas" International Union of Nutrition Scientists New Delhi</li> <li>1977 : "Health Education for Rural Water Supply" IRDC WHO National Engineering and environmental Research Institute Nagpur, India</li> <li>1980 : "Appropriate Technology for Basic Health Services" UNICEF – Nairobi, Kenya</li> <li>1984: "Community Participation in Population Planning" OECD – Paris</li> <li>1985 : "Community Participation in Primary Health Care" WONCA – London UK</li></ul> <p>Oration </p> <ul><li>1980 : Dr. Borges Memorial Oration "Health Care Myth or Reality" Tata Memorial Cancer Hospital Bombay India</li> <li>1981 : Shantilal Seth Oration "Child in Village India" Indian Academy of Paediatrics Hyderabad</li> <li>1986 : Smt. Sabarwal Memorial Oration "Role of Women in Nutrition and Health" Lady Irwin College, New Delhi</li> <li>1988 : Shri R. S.Dubhashi Memorial Oration "Health for all by the year 2000", University of POONA (Pune)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rajanikant_Arole&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-CITATIONS_for_Rajanikant_Shankarrao_Arole_and_Mabelle_Rajanikant_Arole-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-CITATIONS_for_Rajanikant_Shankarrao_Arole_and_Mabelle_Rajanikant_Arole_1-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.rmaf.org.ph/Awardees/Citation/CitationAroleMab.htm">"CITATIONS for Rajanikant Shankarrao Arole and Mabelle Rajanikant Arole"</a>. 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class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1990</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Rajanikant Arole</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bimal_Kumar_Bachhawat" title="Bimal Kumar Bachhawat">Bimal Kumar Bachhawat</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Purushottam_Laxman_Deshpande" title="Purushottam Laxman Deshpande">Purushottam Laxman Deshpande</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/L._K._Doraiswamy" title="L. K. Doraiswamy">L. K. Doraiswamy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nikhil_Ghosh" title="Nikhil Ghosh">Nikhil Ghosh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/B._K._Goyal" title="B. K. Goyal">B. K. Goyal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jasraj" title="Jasraj">Jasraj</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/R._N._Malhotra" title="R. N. Malhotra">R. N. Malhotra</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bimal_Krishna_Matilal" title="Bimal Krishna Matilal">Bimal Krishna Matilal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sumant_Moolgaokar" title="Sumant Moolgaokar">Sumant Moolgaokar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hirendranath_Mukherjee" title="Hirendranath Mukherjee">Hirendranath Mukherjee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/C._D._Narasimhaiah" title="C. D. Narasimhaiah">C. D. Narasimhaiah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/M._S._Narasimhan" title="M. S. Narasimhan">M. S. Narasimhan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kunwar_Singh_Negi" title="Kunwar Singh Negi">Kunwar Singh Negi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trilochan_Pradhan" title="Trilochan Pradhan">Trilochan Pradhan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/N._Ram" title="N. Ram">N. Ram</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sukumar_Sen_(linguist)" title="Sukumar Sen (linguist)">Sukumar Sen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arun_Shourie" title="Arun Shourie">Arun Shourie</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Julius_Silverman" title="Julius Silverman">Julius Silverman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/M._R._Srinivasan" title="M. R. Srinivasan">M. R. Srinivasan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/M._S._Valiathan" title="M. S. Valiathan">M. S. Valiathan</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1991</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ebrahim_Alkazi" title="Ebrahim Alkazi">Ebrahim Alkazi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lala_Amarnath" title="Lala Amarnath">Lala Amarnath</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/N._S._Bendre" title="N. S. Bendre">N. S. Bendre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shyam_Benegal" title="Shyam Benegal">Shyam Benegal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/D._B._Deodhar" title="D. B. Deodhar">D. B. Deodhar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amjad_Ali_Khan" title="Amjad Ali Khan">Amjad Ali Khan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dilip_Kumar" title="Dilip Kumar">Dilip Kumar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Narayan_Singh_Manaklao" title="Narayan Singh Manaklao">Narayan Singh Manaklao</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Muthu_Krishna_Mani" title="Muthu Krishna Mani">Muthu Krishna Mani</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ram_Narayan" title="Ram Narayan">Ram Narayan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fali_Sam_Nariman" title="Fali Sam Nariman">Fali Sam Nariman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kapil_Dev" title="Kapil Dev">Kapil Dev</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manubhai_Pancholi" title="Manubhai Pancholi">Manubhai Pancholi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shakuntala_Paranjpye" title="Shakuntala Paranjpye">Shakuntala Paranjpye</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bindeshwar_Pathak" title="Bindeshwar Pathak">Bindeshwar Pathak</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Samta_Prasad" title="Samta Prasad">Samta Prasad</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Basavaraj_Rajguru" title="Basavaraj Rajguru">Basavaraj Rajguru</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prathap_C._Reddy" title="Prathap C. Reddy">Prathap C. Reddy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amala_Shankar" title="Amala Shankar">Amala Shankar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kusumagraj" title="Kusumagraj"> Vishnu Vaman Shirwadkar (Kusumagraj)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kuthur_Ramakrishnan_Srinivasan" title="Kuthur Ramakrishnan Srinivasan">Kuthur Ramakrishnan Srinivasan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ale_Ahmad_Suroor" title="Ale Ahmad Suroor">Ale Ahmad Suroor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leslie_Swindale" title="Leslie Swindale">Leslie Swindale</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jiwan_Singh_Umranangal" title="Jiwan Singh Umranangal">Jiwan Singh Umranangal</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1992</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bijoy_Chandra_Bhagavati" title="Bijoy Chandra Bhagavati">Bijoy Chandra Bhagavati</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Debu_Chaudhuri" title="Debu Chaudhuri">Debu Chaudhuri</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hariprasad_Chaurasia" title="Hariprasad Chaurasia">Hariprasad Chaurasia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thayil_John_Cherian" class="mw-redirect" title="Thayil John Cherian">Thayil John Cherian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ranjan_Roy_Daniel" title="Ranjan Roy Daniel">Ranjan Roy Daniel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Virendra_Dayal" title="Virendra Dayal">Virendra Dayal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/B._Saroja_Devi" title="B. Saroja Devi">B. Saroja Devi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Khem_Singh_Gill" title="Khem Singh Gill">Khem Singh Gill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vavilala_Gopalakrishnayya" title="Vavilala Gopalakrishnayya">Vavilala Gopalakrishnayya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anna_Hazare" title="Anna Hazare">Anna Hazare</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hakim_Abdul_Hameed" title="Hakim Abdul Hameed">Hakim Abdul Hameed</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jaggayya" title="Jaggayya">Jaggayya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Girish_Karnad" title="Girish Karnad">Girish Karnad</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Krishnaswamy_Kasturirangan" title="Krishnaswamy Kasturirangan">Krishnaswamy Kasturirangan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Triloki_Nath_Khoshoo" title="Triloki Nath Khoshoo">Triloki Nath Khoshoo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/T._N._Krishnan" title="T. N. Krishnan">T. N. Krishnan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ramachandra_Datatraya_Lele" title="Ramachandra Datatraya Lele">Ramachandra Datatraya Lele</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Talat_Mahmood" title="Talat Mahmood">Talat Mahmood</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Syed_Abdul_Malik" title="Syed Abdul Malik">Syed Abdul Malik</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dalsukh_Dahyabhai_Malvania" title="Dalsukh Dahyabhai Malvania">Dalsukh Dahyabhai Malvania</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sonal_Mansingh" title="Sonal Mansingh">Sonal Mansingh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/M._Sarada_Menon" title="M. Sarada Menon">M. Sarada Menon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Naushad" title="Naushad">Naushad</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Setumadhavarao_Pagadi" title="Setumadhavarao Pagadi">Setumadhavarao Pagadi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hasmukhbhai_Parekh" title="Hasmukhbhai Parekh">Hasmukhbhai Parekh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/C._Narayana_Reddy" title="C. Narayana Reddy">C. Narayana Reddy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mrinalini_Sarabhai" title="Mrinalini Sarabhai">Mrinalini Sarabhai</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gursaran_Talwar" title="Gursaran Talwar">Gursaran Talwar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brihaspati_Dev_Triguna" title="Brihaspati Dev Triguna">Brihaspati Dev Triguna</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/K._Venkatalakshamma" title="K. Venkatalakshamma">K. Venkatalakshamma</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/C._R._Vyas" title="C. R. Vyas">C. R. Vyas</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1998</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/U._R._Ananthamurthy" title="U. R. Ananthamurthy">U. R. Ananthamurthy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sivaramakrishna_Chandrasekhar" title="Sivaramakrishna Chandrasekhar">Sivaramakrishna Chandrasekhar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Debiprasad_Chattopadhyaya" title="Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya">Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Satyapal_Dang" title="Satyapal Dang">Satyapal Dang</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gurbaksh_Singh_Dhillon" title="Gurbaksh Singh Dhillon">Gurbaksh Singh Dhillon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/H._K._Dua" title="H. K. Dua">H. K. Dua</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hemlata_Gupta" title="Hemlata Gupta">Hemlata Gupta</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/K._M._Mathew" title="K. M. Mathew">K. M. Mathew</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/G._Madhavan_Nair" title="G. Madhavan Nair">G. Madhavan Nair</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rajendra_Singh_Paroda" title="Rajendra Singh Paroda">Rajendra Singh Paroda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/G._B._Parulkar" title="G. B. Parulkar">G. B. Parulkar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vaidyeswaran_Rajaraman" title="Vaidyeswaran Rajaraman">Vaidyeswaran Rajaraman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bhisham_Sahni" title="Bhisham Sahni">Bhisham Sahni</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vempati_Chinna_Satyam" title="Vempati Chinna Satyam">Vempati Chinna Satyam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Laxmi_Mall_Singhvi" title="Laxmi Mall Singhvi">Laxmi Mall Singhvi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/V._M._Tarkunde" title="V. M. Tarkunde">V. M. Tarkunde</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Panangipalli_Venugopal" title="Panangipalli Venugopal">Panangipalli Venugopal</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1999</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/S._S._Badrinath" title="S. S. Badrinath">S. S. Badrinath</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jacob_Cherian" title="Jacob Cherian">Jacob Cherian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pushpalata_Das" title="Pushpalata Das">Pushpalata Das</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sohrab_Pirojsha_Godrej" title="Sohrab Pirojsha Godrej">Sohrab Pirojsha Godrej</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Joseph_(scientist)" title="George Joseph (scientist)">George Joseph</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anil_Kakodkar" title="Anil Kakodkar">Anil Kakodkar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/D._C._Kizhakemuri" title="D. C. Kizhakemuri">D. C. Kizhakemuri</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ashok_Kumar" title="Ashok Kumar">Ashok Kumar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vidya_Niwas_Mishra" title="Vidya Niwas Mishra">Vidya Niwas Mishra</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/H._D._Shourie" title="H. D. Shourie">H. D. Shourie</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shivmangal_Singh_Suman" title="Shivmangal Singh Suman">Shivmangal Singh Suman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ram_Kinkar_Upadhyay" title="Ram Kinkar Upadhyay">Ram Kinkar Upadhyay</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow hlist" colspan="2"><div># Posthumous conferral <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Padma_Bhushan_award_recipients_(1954%E2%80%931959)" title="List of Padma Bhushan award recipients (1954–1959)">1954–1959</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Padma_Bhushan_award_recipients_(1960%E2%80%931969)" title="List of Padma Bhushan award recipients (1960–1969)">1960–1969</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Padma_Bhushan_award_recipients_(1970%E2%80%931979)" title="List of Padma Bhushan award recipients (1970–1979)">1970–1979</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Padma_Bhushan_award_recipients_(1980%E2%80%931989)" title="List of Padma Bhushan award recipients (1980–1989)">1980–1989</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Padma_Bhushan_award_recipients_(1990%E2%80%931999)" title="List of Padma Bhushan award recipients (1990–1999)">1990–1999</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Padma_Bhushan_award_recipients_(2000%E2%80%932009)" title="List of Padma Bhushan award recipients (2000–2009)">2000–2009</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Padma_Bhushan_award_recipients_(2010%E2%80%932019)" title="List of Padma Bhushan award recipients (2010–2019)">2010–2019</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Padma_Bhushan_award_recipients_(2020%E2%80%932029)" title="List of Padma Bhushan award recipients (2020–2029)">2020–2029</a></li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374" /><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235" /></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Ramon_Magsaysay_Award_winners_of_India87" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374" /><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231" /><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:RMA_winners_of_India" title="Template:RMA winners of India"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:RMA_winners_of_India" title="Template talk:RMA winners of India"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:RMA_winners_of_India" title="Special:EditPage/Template:RMA winners of India"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div><div id="Ramon_Magsaysay_Award_winners_of_India87" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/Ramon_Magsaysay_Award" title="Ramon Magsaysay Award">Ramon Magsaysay Award</a> winners of <a href="/wiki/India" title="India">India</a></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Amitabha_Chowdhury" title="Amitabha Chowdhury">Amitabha Chowdhury</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anshu_Gupta" title="Anshu Gupta">Anshu Gupta</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aruna_Roy" title="Aruna Roy">Aruna Roy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arun_Shourie" title="Arun Shourie">Arun Shourie</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arvind_Kejriwal" title="Arvind Kejriwal">Arvind Kejriwal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Baba_Amte" title="Baba Amte">Baba Amte</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Banoo_Jehangir_Coyaji" title="Banoo Jehangir Coyaji">Banoo Jehangir Coyaji</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bezwada_Wilson" title="Bezwada Wilson">Bezwada Wilson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bharat_Vatwani" title="Bharat Vatwani">Bharat Vatwani</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/B._G._Verghese" title="B. 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Deshmukh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dara_Nusserwanji_Khurody" title="Dara Nusserwanji Khurody">Dara Nusserwanji Khurody</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Deep_Joshi" title="Deep Joshi">Deep Joshi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ela_Bhatt" title="Ela Bhatt">Ela Bhatt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gour_Kishore_Ghosh" title="Gour Kishore Ghosh">Gour Kishore Ghosh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harish_Hande" title="Harish Hande">Harish Hande</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jockin_Arputham" title="Jockin Arputham">Jockin Arputham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Michael_Lyngdoh" title="James Michael Lyngdoh">James Michael Lyngdoh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jayaprakash_Narayan" title="Jayaprakash Narayan">Jayaprakash Narayan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kamaladevi_Chattopadhyay" title="Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay">Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kiran_Bedi" title="Kiran Bedi">Kiran Bedi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kulandei_Francis" title="Kulandei Francis">Kulandei Francis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/K._V._Subbanna" title="K. 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