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class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday">1946-09-04</span>) </span>4 September 1946<span class="noprint ForceAgeToShow"> (age 78)</span></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Shyam Saran</b> (born 4 September 1946) is an Indian career diplomat. He joined the <a href="/wiki/Indian_Foreign_Service" title="Indian Foreign Service">Indian Foreign Service</a> in 1970 and rose to become the <a href="/wiki/Foreign_Secretary_(India)" title="Foreign Secretary (India)">Foreign Secretary</a> to the <a href="/wiki/Government_of_India" title="Government of India">Government of India</a>. Prior to his appointment as the Foreign Secretary he served as India's ambassador to <a href="/wiki/Burma" class="mw-redirect" title="Burma">Myanmar</a>, <a href="/wiki/Indonesia" title="Indonesia">Indonesia</a> and <a href="/wiki/Nepal" title="Nepal">Nepal</a> and as its High Commissioner to <a href="/wiki/Mauritius" title="Mauritius">Mauritius</a>. Upon finishing his tenure as the Foreign Secretary, he was appointed the Prime Minister's Special Envoy for Indo-US Civil Nuclear Issues and later as Special Envoy and Chief Negotiator on Climate Change. </p><p>Until 2015, Shyam Saran was the Chairman of the National Security Advisory Board under the National Security Council. He also served as the Chairman of <a href="/w/index.php?title=Research_and_Information_System_for_Developing_Countries&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Research and Information System for Developing Countries (page does not exist)">Research and Information System for Developing Countries</a> — an autonomous think tank specializing in studies on economic and trade related issues.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He regularly comments and speaks on politics and foreign policy issues and is a contributor to multiple magazines and newspapers. </p><p>In 2011, in recognition of his contribution to the civil service, he was awarded the <a href="/wiki/Padma_Bhushan" title="Padma Bhushan">Padma Bhushan</a> - third highest civilian honor in India.<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="Early_career">Early career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Shyam_Saran&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>He joined the Indian Foreign Service in 1970 and subsequently served in different capacities in the Indian diplomatic missions in several capitals of the world including Beijing, Tokyo and Geneva. Prior to his appointment as the Foreign Secretary, he was India's Ambassador to <a href="/wiki/Burma" class="mw-redirect" title="Burma">Myanmar</a>, <a href="/wiki/Indonesia" title="Indonesia">Indonesia</a> and <a href="/wiki/Nepal" title="Nepal">Nepal</a> and High Commissioner to <a href="/wiki/Mauritius" title="Mauritius">Mauritius</a>. In the <a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_External_Affairs_(India)" title="Ministry of External Affairs (India)">Ministry of External Affairs</a>, New Delhi, he headed the Economic Division and the Multilateral Economic Division and also headed the East Asia Division which handles relations with China and Japan. As a Joint Secretary in the Prime Minister's Office in 1991/92, he advised the Prime Minister on foreign policy, nuclear and defense related issues. As foreign secretary and later as the special envoy on nuclear issues, he made a significant contribution to the Indo-US nuclear deal.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Foreign_Secretary">Foreign Secretary</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Shyam_Saran&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Foreign Secretary"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="China">China</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Shyam_Saran&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: China"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>As foreign secretary, he visited <a href="/wiki/China" title="China">China</a> in March 2005 for the 15th meeting of the India-China Joint Working Group on the boundary issue. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Foreign_Secretary,_Shri_Shyam_Saran_and_the_Secretary_Ministry_of_Cultural_Affairs_of_Bangladesh,_Mr._Shamim_Ahsan_signing_the_Cultural_Exchange_Programme_(CEP)_for_2005-2008,_in_Dhaka_on_August_6,_2005.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/The_Foreign_Secretary%2C_Shri_Shyam_Saran_and_the_Secretary_Ministry_of_Cultural_Affairs_of_Bangladesh%2C_Mr._Shamim_Ahsan_signing_the_Cultural_Exchange_Programme_%28CEP%29_for_2005-2008%2C_in_Dhaka_on_August_6%2C_2005.jpg/220px-thumbnail.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/The_Foreign_Secretary%2C_Shri_Shyam_Saran_and_the_Secretary_Ministry_of_Cultural_Affairs_of_Bangladesh%2C_Mr._Shamim_Ahsan_signing_the_Cultural_Exchange_Programme_%28CEP%29_for_2005-2008%2C_in_Dhaka_on_August_6%2C_2005.jpg/330px-thumbnail.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/The_Foreign_Secretary%2C_Shri_Shyam_Saran_and_the_Secretary_Ministry_of_Cultural_Affairs_of_Bangladesh%2C_Mr._Shamim_Ahsan_signing_the_Cultural_Exchange_Programme_%28CEP%29_for_2005-2008%2C_in_Dhaka_on_August_6%2C_2005.jpg/440px-thumbnail.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1600" data-file-height="1200" /></a><figcaption>Shyam Saran and the Secretary Ministry of Cultural Affairs of Bangladesh, Shamim Ahsan signing the Cultural Exchange Programme (CEP) for 2005–2008 in Dhaka</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Stance_on_nuclear_weapons">Stance on nuclear weapons</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Shyam_Saran&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Stance on nuclear weapons"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In April 2006, he said that India has no obligation to define its minimum credible nuclear-deterrent after <a href="/wiki/United_States_Assistant_Secretary_of_State" title="United States Assistant Secretary of State">United States Assistant Secretary of State</a> <a href="/wiki/Richard_Boucher" class="mw-redirect" title="Richard Boucher">Richard Boucher</a> suggested that India "further define" its minimum deterrent. During his tenure, Saran helped negotiate the <a href="/wiki/U.S.%E2%80%93India_Civil_Nuclear_Agreement" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S.–India Civil Nuclear Agreement">U.S.–India Civil Nuclear Agreement</a>. In December 2012, he wrote a research article in which, he pointed out that Pakistan's nuclear arsenal expansion has been extended, this time, not to deter India but to deter possible American attack on Pakistan.<sup id="cite_ref-Daily_News,_India_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Daily_News,_India-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Later_career">Later career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Shyam_Saran&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Later career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Even though the <a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister%27s_Office_(India)" title="Prime Minister's Office (India)">Prime Minister's Office</a> was willing to extend his tenure as foreign secretary when he was set to retire in September 2006, Amb. Saran did retire. He was an advisor to the Prime Minister specializing in nuclear issues, as well as the Indian envoy on climate change. He quit office on 19 February 2010. He was the Chairman of the <i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Research_and_Information_System_for_Developing_Countries&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Research and Information System for Developing Countries (page does not exist)">Research and Information System for Developing Countries</a></i> (RIS) thinktank and a Senior Fellow at the <i><a href="/wiki/Centre_for_Policy_Research" title="Centre for Policy Research">Centre for Policy Research</a></i> in New Delhi. He is also on the advisory board of World Development Forum, an upcoming forum that aims to bring together citizens' groups, development organizations, businesses and governments, to a common platform to produce, evidence-based politically actionable guidance and unlock greater value, through human enterprise.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Additionally, Saran is a Member of the Board of Advisors of the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://globalpanel.org">Global Panel Foundation</a>, a respected NGO that works behind the scenes in crisis areas around the world.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Bibliography">Bibliography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Shyam_Saran&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Bibliography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1251242444">.mw-parser-output .ambox{border:1px solid #a2a9b1;border-left:10px solid #36c;background-color:#fbfbfb;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+link+.ambox{margin-top:-1px}html body.mediawiki .mw-parser-output .ambox.mbox-small-left{margin:4px 1em 4px 0;overflow:hidden;width:238px;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em}.mw-parser-output .ambox-speedy{border-left:10px solid #b32424;background-color:#fee7e6}.mw-parser-output .ambox-delete{border-left:10px solid #b32424}.mw-parser-output .ambox-content{border-left:10px solid #f28500}.mw-parser-output .ambox-style{border-left:10px solid #fc3}.mw-parser-output .ambox-move{border-left:10px solid #9932cc}.mw-parser-output .ambox-protection{border-left:10px solid #a2a9b1}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-text{border:none;padding:0.25em 0.5em;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image{border:none;padding:2px 0 2px 0.5em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-imageright{border:none;padding:2px 0.5em 2px 0;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-empty-cell{border:none;padding:0;width:1px}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image-div{width:52px}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .ambox{margin:0 10%}}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .ambox{display:none!important}}</style><table class="plainlinks metadata ambox mbox-small-left ambox-notice" role="presentation" style="width: auto;"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1d/Information_icon4.svg/20px-Information_icon4.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1d/Information_icon4.svg/30px-Information_icon4.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1d/Information_icon4.svg/40px-Information_icon4.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="620" data-file-height="620" /></span></span></td><td class="mbox-text" style="width: auto;"><div class="mbox-text-span">This list is <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Lists#Incomplete_lists" title="Wikipedia:WikiProject Lists">incomplete</a>; you can help by <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Shyam_Saran&action=edit">adding missing items</a>. <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">May 2015</span>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Essays_and_reporting">Essays and reporting</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Shyam_Saran&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Essays and reporting"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><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 id="CITEREFSaran2014" class="citation journal cs1">Saran, Shyam (6 October 2014). "Crucible of convergence". <i><a href="/wiki/India_Today" title="India Today">India Today</a></i>. <b>39</b> (40): 26–28.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=India+Today&rft.atitle=Crucible+of+convergence&rft.volume=39&rft.issue=40&rft.pages=26-28&rft.date=2014-10-06&rft.aulast=Saran&rft.aufirst=Shyam&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AShyam+Saran" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Books">Books</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Shyam_Saran&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Books"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>How India Sees The World: Kautilya To The 21st Century.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Shyam_Saran&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Navtej_Sarna" title="Navtej Sarna">Navtej Sarna</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vikas_Swarup" title="Vikas Swarup">Vikas Swarup</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Taranjit_Singh_Sandhu" title="Taranjit Singh Sandhu">Taranjit Singh Sandhu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harsh_Vardhan_Shringla" title="Harsh Vardhan Shringla">Harsh Vardhan Shringla</a></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=Shyam_Saran&action=edit&section=10" 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-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140728230642/http://www.ris.org.in/about-ris/chairman.html">"Ambassador Shyam Saran, Chairman, Research and Information Systems"</a>. 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Bhabha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shashikumar_Chitre" title="Shashikumar Chitre">Shashikumar Chitre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Khaled_Choudhury" title="Khaled Choudhury">Khaled Choudhury</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jatin_Das_(painter)" title="Jatin Das (painter)">Jatin Das</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vidya_Dehejia" title="Vidya Dehejia">Vidya Dehejia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dharmendra" title="Dharmendra">Dharmendra</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/S._N._Goenka" title="S. N. Goenka">S. N. Goenka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/M._S._Gopalakrishnan" title="M. S. Gopalakrishnan">M. S. Gopalakrishnan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/T._V._Gopalakrishnan" title="T. V. Gopalakrishnan">T. V. Gopalakrishnan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Buddhadev_Das_Gupta" title="Buddhadev Das Gupta">Buddhadev Das Gupta</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sunil_Janah" title="Sunil Janah">Sunil Janah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anish_Kapoor" title="Anish Kapoor">Anish Kapoor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/S._B._Mujumdar" title="S. B. Mujumdar">S. B. Mujumdar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/B._Muthuraman" title="B. Muthuraman">B. Muthuraman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mira_Nair" title="Mira Nair">Mira Nair</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arvind_Panagariya" title="Arvind Panagariya">Arvind Panagariya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Pereira_(scholar)" title="José Pereira (scholar)">José Pereira</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mata_Prasad" title="Mata Prasad">Mata Prasad</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/M._S._Raghunathan" title="M. S. Raghunathan">M. S. Raghunathan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/P._Chandrasekhara_Rao" title="P. Chandrasekhara Rao">P. Chandrasekhara Rao</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ronen_Sen" title="Ronen Sen">Ronen Sen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Devi_Shetty" title="Devi Shetty">Devi Shetty</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/M._V._Subbiah" title="M. V. Subbiah">M. V. Subbiah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/N._Vittal" title="N. Vittal">N. Vittal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/N._H._Wadia" title="N. H. Wadia">N. H. Wadia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Yeo" title="George Yeo">George Yeo</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2013</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/Satya_N._Atluri" title="Satya N. Atluri">Satya N. Atluri</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maharaj_Kishan_Bhan" title="Maharaj Kishan Bhan">Maharaj Kishan Bhan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jaspal_Bhatti" title="Jaspal Bhatti">Jaspal Bhatti</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rahul_Dravid" title="Rahul Dravid">Rahul Dravid</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Adi_Godrej" title="Adi Godrej">Adi Godrej</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abdul_Rashid_Khan" title="Abdul Rashid Khan">Abdul Rashid Khan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rajesh_Khanna" title="Rajesh Khanna">Rajesh Khanna</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mary_Kom" title="Mary Kom">Mary Kom</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nandkishore_Shamrao_Laud" title="Nandkishore Shamrao Laud">Nandkishore Shamrao Laud</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mangesh_Padgaonkar" title="Mangesh Padgaonkar">Mangesh Padgaonkar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hemendra_Singh_Panwar" title="Hemendra Singh Panwar">Hemendra Singh Panwar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jogesh_Pati" title="Jogesh Pati">Jogesh Pati</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shivajirao_Girdhar_Patil" title="Shivajirao Girdhar Patil">Shivajirao Girdhar Patil</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/A._Sivathanu_Pillai" title="A. Sivathanu Pillai">A. Sivathanu Pillai</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/D._Ramanaidu" title="D. Ramanaidu">D. Ramanaidu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kanak_Rele" title="Kanak Rele">Kanak Rele</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/V._K._Saraswat" title="V. K. Saraswat">V. K. Saraswat</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ashoke_Sen" title="Ashoke Sen">Ashoke Sen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gayatri_Chakravorty_Spivak" title="Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak">Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/B._N._Suresh" title="B. N. Suresh">B. N. Suresh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sharmila_Tagore" title="Sharmila Tagore">Sharmila Tagore</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/R._Thyagarajan_(industrialist)" title="R. Thyagarajan (industrialist)">Ramamurthy Thyagarajan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saroja_Vaidyanathan" title="Saroja Vaidyanathan">Saroja Vaidyanathan</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2014</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/Anisuzzaman" title="Anisuzzaman">Anisuzzaman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mrityunjay_Athreya" title="Mrityunjay Athreya">Mrityunjay Athreya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Padmanabhan_Balaram" title="Padmanabhan Balaram">Padmanabhan Balaram</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dalveer_Bhandari" title="Dalveer Bhandari">Dalveer Bhandari</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ruskin_Bond" title="Ruskin Bond">Ruskin Bond</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anita_Desai" title="Anita Desai">Anita Desai</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pullela_Gopichand" title="Pullela Gopichand">Pullela Gopichand</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kamal_Haasan" title="Kamal Haasan">Kamal Haasan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jyeshtharaj_Joshi" title="Jyeshtharaj Joshi">Jyeshtharaj Joshi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/V._N._Kaul" title="V. N. Kaul">V. N. Kaul</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Neelam_Kler" title="Neelam Kler">Neelam Kler</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/M._Mahadevappa" title="M. Mahadevappa">M. Mahadevappa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leander_Paes" title="Leander Paes">Leander Paes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Koppillil_Radhakrishnan" title="Koppillil Radhakrishnan">Koppillil Radhakrishnan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anumolu_Ramakrishna" title="Anumolu Ramakrishna">Anumolu Ramakrishna</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thirumalachari_Ramasami" title="Thirumalachari Ramasami">Thirumalachari Ramasami</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lloyd_Rudolph" title="Lloyd Rudolph">Lloyd Rudolph</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Susanne_Hoeber_Rudolph" title="Susanne Hoeber Rudolph">Susanne Hoeber Rudolph</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vinod_Prakash_Sharma" title="Vinod Prakash Sharma">Vinod Prakash Sharma</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gulam_Mohammed_Sheikh" title="Gulam Mohammed Sheikh">Gulam Mohammed Sheikh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parween_Sultana" title="Parween Sultana">Parween Sultana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dhirubhai_Thaker" title="Dhirubhai Thaker">Dhirubhai Thaker</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vairamuthu" title="Vairamuthu">Vairamuthu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/J._S._Verma" title="J. S. Verma">J. S. Verma</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/T._H._Vinayakram" title="T. H. Vinayakram">T. H. Vinayakram</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2015</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/Jahnu_Barua" title="Jahnu Barua">Jahnu Barua</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manjul_Bhargava" title="Manjul Bhargava">Manjul Bhargava</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vijay_P._Bhatkar" title="Vijay P. Bhatkar">Vijay P. Bhatkar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Swapan_Dasgupta" title="Swapan Dasgupta">Swapan Dasgupta</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Frawley" title="David Frawley">David Frawley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bill_Gates" title="Bill Gates">Bill Gates</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Melinda_French_Gates" title="Melinda French Gates">Melinda French Gates</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Swami_Satyamitranand" title="Swami Satyamitranand">Swami Satyamitranand</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/N._Gopalaswami" title="N. Gopalaswami">N. Gopalaswami</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Subhash_C._Kashyap" title="Subhash C. Kashyap">Subhash C. Kashyap</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gokulotsavji_Maharaj" title="Gokulotsavji Maharaj">Gokulotsavji Maharaj</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saichiro_Misumi" title="Saichiro Misumi">Saichiro Misumi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ambrish_Mithal" title="Ambrish Mithal">Ambrish Mithal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sudha_Ragunathan" title="Sudha Ragunathan">Sudha Ragunathan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harish_Salve" title="Harish Salve">Harish Salve</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ashok_Seth" title="Ashok Seth">Ashok Seth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rajat_Sharma" title="Rajat Sharma">Rajat Sharma</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Satpal_Singh" title="Satpal Singh">Satpal Singh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shivakumara_Swami" title="Shivakumara Swami">Shivakumara Swami</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Khadg_Singh_Valdiya" title="Khadg Singh Valdiya">Khadg Singh Valdiya</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2016</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/R._C._Bhargava" title="R. C. Bhargava">Ravindra Chandra Bhargava</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_D._Blackwill" title="Robert D. Blackwill">Robert D. Blackwill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hafeez_Contractor" title="Hafeez Contractor">Hafeez Contractor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Indu_Jain" title="Indu Jain">Indu Jain</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Heisnam_Kanhailal" title="Heisnam Kanhailal">Heisnam Kanhailal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anupam_Kher" title="Anupam Kher">Anupam Kher</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sania_Mirza" title="Sania Mirza">Sania Mirza</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pallonji_Mistry" title="Pallonji Mistry">Pallonji Mistry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Udit_Narayan" title="Udit Narayan">Udit Narayan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saina_Nehwal" title="Saina Nehwal">Saina Nehwal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yarlagadda_Lakshmi_Prasad" title="Yarlagadda Lakshmi Prasad">Yarlagadda Lakshmi Prasad</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vinod_Rai" title="Vinod Rai">Vinod Rai</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/N._S._Ramanuja_Tatacharya" title="N. S. Ramanuja Tatacharya">N. S. Ramanuja Tatacharya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/A._V._Rama_Rao" title="A. V. Rama Rao">A. V. Rama Rao</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/D._Nageshwara_Reddy" title="D. Nageshwara Reddy">D. Nageshwara Reddy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dayananda_Saraswati_(Arsha_Vidya)" title="Dayananda Saraswati (Arsha Vidya)">Dayananda Saraswati</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Barjinder_Singh_Hamdard" title="Barjinder Singh Hamdard">Barjinder Singh Hamdard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ram_V._Sutar" title="Ram V. Sutar">Ram V. Sutar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tejomayananda" title="Tejomayananda">Tejomayananda</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2017</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/Vishwa_Mohan_Bhatt" title="Vishwa Mohan Bhatt">Vishwa Mohan Bhatt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Deviprasad_Dwivedi" title="Deviprasad Dwivedi">Deviprasad Dwivedi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ratnasundarsuri" title="Ratnasundarsuri">Ratnasundarsuri</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Niranjanananda_Saraswati" title="Niranjanananda Saraswati">Niranjanananda Saraswati</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cho_Ramaswamy" title="Cho Ramaswamy">Cho Ramaswamy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sirindhorn" title="Sirindhorn">Maha Chakri Sirindhorn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tehemton_Erach_Udwadia" title="Tehemton Erach Udwadia">Tehemton Erach Udwadia</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2018</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/Pankaj_Advani_(billiards_player)" title="Pankaj Advani (billiards player)">Pankaj Advani</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philipose_Mar_Chrysostom_Mar_Thoma" title="Philipose Mar Chrysostom Mar Thoma">Philipose Mar Chrysostom</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/MS_Dhoni" title="MS Dhoni">Mahendra Singh Dhoni</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Kadakin" title="Alexander Kadakin">Alexander Kadakin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/R._Nagaswamy" title="R. Nagaswamy">Ramachandran Nagaswamy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Laxman_Pai" title="Laxman Pai">Laxman Pai</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arvind_Parikh" title="Arvind Parikh">Arvind Parikh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sharda_Sinha" title="Sharda Sinha">Sharda Sinha</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2019</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/John_T._Chambers" title="John T. Chambers">John T. Chambers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sukhdev_Singh_Dhindsa" title="Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa">Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pravin_Gordhan" title="Pravin Gordhan">Pravin Gordhan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dharampal_Gulati" title="Dharampal Gulati">Dharampal Gulati</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Darshan_Lal_Jain" title="Darshan Lal Jain">Darshan Lal Jain</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ashok_Laxmanrao_Kukade" title="Ashok Laxmanrao Kukade">Ashok Laxmanrao Kukade</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kariya_Munda" title="Kariya Munda">Kariya Munda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Budhaditya_Mukherjee" title="Budhaditya Mukherjee">Budhaditya Mukherjee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mohanlal" title="Mohanlal">Mohanlal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nambi_Narayanan" title="Nambi Narayanan">Nambi Narayanan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kuldip_Nayar" title="Kuldip Nayar">Kuldip Nayar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bachendri_Pal" title="Bachendri Pal">Bachendri Pal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/V._K._Shunglu" title="V. K. Shunglu">V. K. Shunglu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hukmdev_Narayan_Yadav" title="Hukmdev Narayan Yadav">Hukmdev Narayan Yadav</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="Indian_civil_servants" 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:Indian_civil_servants" title="Template:Indian civil servants"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Indian_civil_servants" title="Template talk:Indian civil servants"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Indian_civil_servants" title="Special:EditPage/Template:Indian civil servants"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div><div id="Indian_civil_servants" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/Indian_civil_servant" title="Indian civil servant">Indian civil servants</a></div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Organizations</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/Indian_Administrative_Service" title="Indian Administrative Service">Indian Administrative Service</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Indian_Forest_Service" title="Indian Forest Service">Indian Forest Service</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Indian_Police_Service" title="Indian Police Service">Indian Police Service</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Indian_Foreign_Service" title="Indian Foreign Service">Indian Foreign Service</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Award presented to Civil Servants</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/G-Files_awards" title="G-Files awards">G-Files awards</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Indian_Administrative_Service" title="Indian Administrative Service">Indian Administrative Service Officers</a></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/Amrit_Abhijat" title="Amrit Abhijat">Amrit Abhijat</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/K._M._Abraham_(Bureaucrat)" class="mw-redirect" title="K. 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