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title="Balasaraswati on a 2010 stamp"><img alt="Balasaraswati on a 2010 stamp" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/60/Balasaraswati_2010_stamp_of_India.jpg/220px-Balasaraswati_2010_stamp_of_India.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="292" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/60/Balasaraswati_2010_stamp_of_India.jpg/330px-Balasaraswati_2010_stamp_of_India.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/60/Balasaraswati_2010_stamp_of_India.jpg/440px-Balasaraswati_2010_stamp_of_India.jpg 2x" data-file-width="701" data-file-height="931" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Balasaraswati on a 2010 stamp</div></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122;background-color: #b0c4de">Background information</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1918-05-13</span>)</span>13 May 1918<br />Madras Presidency, <a href="/wiki/British_India" class="mw-redirect" title="British India">British India</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Origin</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Tanjore" class="mw-redirect" title="Tanjore">Tanjore</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">9 February 1984<span style="display:none">(1984-02-09)</span> (aged 65)<br />Madras, India</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Genres</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Carnatic_classical_music" class="mw-redirect" title="Carnatic classical music">Carnatic classical music</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Occupation</th><td class="infobox-data role"><a href="/wiki/Bharatanatyam" title="Bharatanatyam">Bharatanatyam dancer</a></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Musical artist</div> <p><b>Tanjore Balasaraswati</b>,<sup id="cite_ref-pa_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pa-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> also known as <b>Balasaraswati</b> (13 May 1918 – 9 February 1984), was an Indian dancer, and her rendering of <a href="/wiki/Bharatanatyam" title="Bharatanatyam">Bharatanatyam</a>, a classical dance style originated in the <a href="/wiki/South_Indian" class="mw-redirect" title="South Indian">South Indian</a> state of <a href="/wiki/Tamil_Nadu" title="Tamil Nadu">Tamil Nadu</a>, made this style of dancing well known in different parts of <a href="/wiki/India" title="India">India</a> and many parts of the world. </p><p>She was awarded the <a href="/wiki/Padma_Bhushan" title="Padma Bhushan">Padma Bhushan</a> in 1957<sup id="cite_ref-Padma_Awards_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Padma_Awards-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the <a href="/wiki/Padma_Vibhushan" title="Padma Vibhushan">Padma Vibhushan</a> in 1977, the third and the second highest civilian honours given by the <a href="/wiki/Government_of_India" title="Government of India">Government of India</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-pa_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pa-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1973, she was awarded the <i><a href="/wiki/Sangeetha_Kalanidhi" class="mw-redirect" title="Sangeetha Kalanidhi">Sangeetha Kalanidhi</a></i> by the <i><a href="/wiki/Madras_Music_Academy" title="Madras Music Academy">Madras Music Academy</a></i>. In 1981 she was awarded the <i><a href="/wiki/Sangeetha_Kalasikhamani" title="Sangeetha Kalasikhamani">Sangeetha Kalasikhamani</a></i> award of The Indian Fine Arts Society, Chennai. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life_and_background">Early life and background</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Balasaraswati&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life and background"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Balasaraswati was a seventh generation representative of a traditional matrilineal family of temple musicians and dancers (<a href="/wiki/Devadasi" title="Devadasi">devadasis</a>,<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> who traditionally enjoyed high social status, who have been described as the greatest single repository of the traditional performing arts of music and dance of the southern region of India. Her ancestor, Papammal, was a musician and dancer patronized in the mid-eighteenth century by the court of Thanjavur. Her grandmother, <a href="/wiki/Veenai_Dhanammal" title="Veenai Dhanammal">Veenai Dhanammal</a> (1867–1938), is considered by many to be the most influential musician of the early twentieth century. Her mother, Jayammal (1890–1967) was a singer who encouraged the training of Balasaraswati and was her accompanist.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2019)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>Balasaraswati created a revolution in traditional music and dance for bharata natyam, a combination of the performance arts of music and dance. She learned music within the family from her infancy, and her rigorous training in dance was begun when she was four under the distinguished dance teacher K. Kandappan Pillai, a member of the famed Thanjavur Nattuvanar family. Her younger brothers were the musicians <a href="/wiki/T._Ranganathan" title="T. Ranganathan">T. Ranganathan</a> and <a href="/wiki/T._Viswanathan" title="T. Viswanathan">T. Viswanathan</a> who would both become prominent performers and teachers in India and the United States. Her daughter, Lakshmi Knight (1943–2001), became a distinguished performer of her mother's style. Her grandson <a href="/wiki/Aniruddha_Knight" title="Aniruddha Knight">Aniruddha Knight</a> continues to perform the family style today, and is artistic director of Bala Music and Dance Association in the United States and the Balasaraswati School of Dance in India. Her son-in-law Douglas M. Knight, Jr. has written her biography with the support of a Guggenheim Fellowship (2003). Famous Indian film maker Satyajit Ray made a <a href="/wiki/Bala_(1976_film)" title="Bala (1976 film)">documentary on her works</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2019)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <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=Balasaraswati&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Balasaraswati's debut took place in 1925. She was the first performer of her traditional style outside of South India, performing first in Calcutta in 1934. As a young teenager, she was seen by choreographer <a href="/wiki/Uday_Shankar" title="Uday Shankar">Uday Shankar</a>, who became an ardent promoter of her performances, and throughout the 1930s she captured the imagination of audiences across India. She went on to a global career that attracted international critical attention and the respect of dance greats such as <a href="/wiki/Shambhu_Maharaj" title="Shambhu Maharaj">Shambhu Maharaj</a>, Dame <a href="/wiki/Margot_Fonteyn" title="Margot Fonteyn">Margot Fonteyn</a>, <a href="/wiki/Martha_Graham" title="Martha Graham">Martha Graham</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Merce_Cunningham" title="Merce Cunningham">Merce Cunningham</a>. Interest in Bharatanatyam rebounded in the 1950s as the public became interested in promoting a unique Indian art form. Balasaraswati, encouraged by an administrator at the Music Academy in Madras, established a dance school in association with the institution. There she trained new dancers in bharata natyam as per her vision. In the early 1960s she increasingly travelled globally, with performances in East Asia, Europe, and North America. Later that decade, throughout the 1970s, and into the early 1980s, she visited the United States repeatedly and held residencies—as both a teacher and a performer—at Wesleyan University (Middletown, Connecticut), California Institute of the Arts (Valencia), Mills College (Oakland, California), the University of Washington (Seattle), and Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival (Beckett, Massachusetts), among other institutions. Through her international engagements as well as her activities in India, especially in Madras, Balasaraswati not only exposed countless audiences to the traditional style of bharata natyam but also trained many new practitioners of the art form. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Awards">Awards</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Balasaraswati&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Awards"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>She received numerous awards in India, including the President's Award from the <a href="/wiki/Sangeet_Natak_Akademi" title="Sangeet Natak Akademi">Sangeet Natak Akademi</a> (1955),<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (July 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> <a href="/wiki/Padma_Vibhushan" title="Padma Vibhushan">Padma Vibhushan</a> from the Government of India for distinguished national service (1977)<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (July 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> and <a href="/wiki/Sangita_Kalanidhi" title="Sangita Kalanidhi">Sangita Kalanidhi</a> from the <a href="/wiki/Madras_Music_Academy" title="Madras Music Academy">Madras Music Academy</a>,<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (July 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> South India's highest award for musicians (1973). In a review in 1977, the New York Times dance critic <a href="/wiki/Anna_Kisselgoff" title="Anna Kisselgoff">Anna Kisselgoff</a> described her as one of the "supreme performing artists in the world".<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (July 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> <a href="/wiki/India_Today" title="India Today">India Today</a>,<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Dates_and_numbers#Chronological_items" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers"><span title="The time period mentioned near this tag is ambiguous. (July 2021)">when?</span></a></i>]</sup> based on a survey, classified her as one of the 100 prominent Indians who have shaped the destiny of India.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (July 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> She was the only non-western dancer included in a compilation of the Dance Heritage Coalition, "America's Irreplaceable Dance Treasures: The First 100" (2000).<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <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=Balasaraswati&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bharatanatyam" title="Bharatanatyam">Bharatanatyam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mani_Madhava_Chakyar" title="Mani Madhava Chakyar">Mani Madhava Chakyar</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="In_popular_culture">In popular culture</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Balasaraswati&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: In popular culture"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Bengali film director <a href="/wiki/Satyajit_Ray" title="Satyajit Ray">Satyajit Ray</a> made a <a href="/wiki/Documentary_film" title="Documentary film">documentary film</a> on Balasaraswati named <i><a href="/wiki/Bala_(1976_film)" title="Bala (1976 film)">Bala</a></i> (1976).<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> </p> <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=Balasaraswati&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style 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Subbulakshmi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kodandera_Subayya_Thimayya" title="Kodandera Subayya Thimayya">Kodandera Subayya Thimayya</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1955</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/Fateh_Chand_Badhwar" title="Fateh Chand Badhwar">Fateh Chand Badhwar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lalit_Mohan_Banerjee" title="Lalit Mohan Banerjee">Lalit Mohan Banerjee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Suniti_Kumar_Chatterji" title="Suniti Kumar Chatterji">Suniti Kumar Chatterji</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kamaladevi_Chattopadhyay" title="Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay">Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/V._R._Khanolkar" title="V. R. Khanolkar">V. R. Khanolkar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sunder_Das_Khungar" title="Sunder Das Khungar">Sunder Das Khungar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rameshwari_Nehru" title="Rameshwari Nehru">Rameshwari Nehru</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prana_Krushna_Parija" title="Prana Krushna Parija">Prana Krushna Parija</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Madapati_Hanumantha_Rao" title="Madapati Hanumantha Rao">Madapati Hanumantha Rao</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maneklal_Sankalchand_Thacker" title="Maneklal Sankalchand Thacker">Maneklal Sankalchand Thacker</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1956</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/Rukmini_Devi_Arundale" title="Rukmini Devi Arundale">Rukmini Devi Arundale</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rajshekhar_Basu" title="Rajshekhar Basu">Rajshekhar Basu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dhyan_Chand" title="Dhyan Chand">Dhyan Chand</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zain_Yar_Jung" title="Zain Yar Jung">Zain Yar Jung</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/C._K._Nayudu" title="C. K. Nayudu">C. K. Nayudu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Muthulakshmi_Reddi" class="mw-redirect" title="Muthulakshmi Reddi">Muthulakshmi Reddi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kanwar_Sen" title="Kanwar Sen">Kanwar Sen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vir_Singh_(writer)" title="Vir Singh (writer)">Vir Singh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/K._Srinivasan" class="mw-redirect" title="K. Srinivasan">K. Srinivasan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mahadevi_Varma" title="Mahadevi Varma">Mahadevi Varma</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1957</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/Bhikhan_Lal_Atreya" title="Bhikhan Lal Atreya">Bhikhan Lal Atreya</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Balasaraswati</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alagappa_Chettiar" title="Alagappa Chettiar">Alagappa Chettiar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hazari_Prasad_Dwivedi" title="Hazari Prasad Dwivedi">Hazari Prasad Dwivedi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abid_Hussain" title="Abid Hussain">Abid Hussain</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mushtaq_Hussain_Khan" title="Mushtaq Hussain Khan">Mushtaq Hussain Khan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lakshmi_N._Menon" title="Lakshmi N. Menon">Lakshmi N. Menon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Radha_Kumud_Mukherjee" title="Radha Kumud Mukherjee">Radha Kumud Mukherjee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andal_Venkatasubba_Rao" title="Andal Venkatasubba Rao">Andal Venkatasubba Rao</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shrikrishna_Narayan_Ratanjankar" title="Shrikrishna Narayan Ratanjankar">Shrikrishna Narayan Ratanjankar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shyam_Nandan_Sahay" title="Shyam Nandan Sahay">Shyam Nandan Sahay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Govind_Sakharam_Sardesai" title="Govind Sakharam Sardesai">Govind Sakharam Sardesai</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/K._A._Nilakanta_Sastri" title="K. A. Nilakanta Sastri">K. A. Nilakanta Sastri</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Basiswar_Sen" title="Basiswar Sen">Basiswar Sen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siddheshwar_Varma" title="Siddheshwar Varma">Siddheshwar Varma</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1958</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/Salim_Ali" title="Salim Ali">Salim Ali</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maharajkumar_of_Vizianagram" title="Maharajkumar of Vizianagram">Vijaya Anand</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/D._P._Roy_Choudhury" title="D. P. Roy Choudhury">D. P. Roy Choudhury</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jeahangir_Ghandy" class="mw-redirect" title="Jeahangir Ghandy">Jeahangir Ghandy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/N._S._Hardikar" title="N. S. Hardikar">N. S. Hardikar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ariyakudi_Ramanuja_Iyengar" title="Ariyakudi Ramanuja Iyengar">Ariyakudi Ramanuja Iyengar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Allauddin_Khan" title="Allauddin Khan">Allauddin Khan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/K._P._S._Menon_(senior)" class="mw-redirect" title="K. P. S. Menon (senior)">K. P. S. Menon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/A._C._N._Nambiar" title="A. C. N. Nambiar">A. C. N. Nambiar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kuvempu" title="Kuvempu">Kuvempu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Poola_Tirupati_Raju" title="Poola Tirupati Raju">Poola Tirupati Raju</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kamalendumati_Shah" title="Kamalendumati Shah">Kamalendumati Shah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hanut_Singh" title="Hanut Singh">Rao Raja Hanut Singh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rustom_Jal_Vakil" title="Rustom Jal Vakil">Rustom Jal Vakil</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Surya_Narayan_Vyas" title="Surya Narayan Vyas">Surya Narayan Vyas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Darashaw_Nosherwan_Wadia" title="Darashaw Nosherwan Wadia">Darashaw Nosherwan Wadia</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1959</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/Sisir_Bhaduri" title="Sisir Bhaduri">Sisir Bhaduri</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ramdhari_Singh_Dinkar" title="Ramdhari Singh Dinkar">Ramdhari Singh Dinkar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ali_Yavar_Jung" title="Ali Yavar Jung">Ali Yavar Jung</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hansa_Jivraj_Mehta" title="Hansa Jivraj Mehta">Hansa Jivraj Mehta</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pammal_Sambandha_Mudaliar" title="Pammal Sambandha Mudaliar">Pammal Sambandha Mudaliar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tiruppattur_R._Venkatachala_Murthi" class="mw-redirect" title="Tiruppattur R. Venkatachala Murthi">Tiruppattur R. Venkatachala Murthi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tenzing_Norgay" title="Tenzing Norgay">Tenzing Norgay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bhaurao_Patil" title="Bhaurao Patil">Bhaurao Patil</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dhanvanthi_Rama_Rau" title="Dhanvanthi Rama Rau">Dhanvanthi Rama Rau</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nirmal_Kumar_Sidhanta" title="Nirmal Kumar Sidhanta">Nirmal Kumar Sidhanta</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mysore_Vasudevachar" title="Mysore Vasudevachar">Mysore Vasudevachar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bhargavaram_Viththal_Varerkar" title="Bhargavaram Viththal Varerkar">Bhargavaram Viththal Varerkar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ghulam_Yazdani" title="Ghulam Yazdani">Ghulam Yazdani</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="Sangeet_Natak_Akademi_Fellowship" 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:Sangeet_Natak_Akademi_Fellowship" title="Template:Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Sangeet_Natak_Akademi_Fellowship" title="Template talk:Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Sangeet_Natak_Akademi_Fellowship" title="Special:EditPage/Template:Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div><div id="Sangeet_Natak_Akademi_Fellowship" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/Sangeet_Natak_Akademi_Fellowship" title="Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship">Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship</a></div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1954–1960</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/Allauddin_Khan" title="Allauddin Khan">Allauddin Khan</a> (1954)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hafiz_Ali_Khan" title="Hafiz Ali Khan">Hafiz Ali Khan</a> (1954)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ariyakudi_Ramanuja_Iyengar" title="Ariyakudi Ramanuja Iyengar">Ariyakudi Ramanuja Iyengar</a> (1954)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karaikudi_Sambasiva_Iyer" title="Karaikudi Sambasiva Iyer">Karaikudi Sambasiva Iyer</a> (1954)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prithviraj_Kapoor" title="Prithviraj Kapoor">Prithviraj Kapoor</a> (1954)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anjanibai_Malpekar" title="Anjanibai Malpekar">Anjanibai Malpekar</a> (1958)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1961–1980</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/Gopeshwar_Banerjee" title="Gopeshwar Banerjee">Gopeshwar Banerjee</a> (1962)</li> <li>D. Annaswami Bhagavathar (1962)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Uday_Shankar" title="Uday Shankar">Uday Shankar</a> (1962)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Papanasam_Sivan" title="Papanasam Sivan">Papanasam Sivan</a> (1962)</li> <li>Swami Prajnanananda (1963)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shrikrishna_Narayan_Ratanjankar" title="Shrikrishna Narayan Ratanjankar">Shrikrishna Narayan Ratanjankar</a> (1963)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pichu_Sambamoorthi" title="Pichu Sambamoorthi">Pichu Sambamoorthi</a> (1963)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bhargavaram_Viththal_Varerkar" title="Bhargavaram Viththal Varerkar">Mama Warerkar</a> (1963)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/T._L._Venkatarama_Iyer" title="T. L. Venkatarama Iyer">T. L. Venkatarama Aiyar</a> (1964)</li> <li>C. Saraswathi Bai (1964)</li> <li>Birendra Kishore Roy Choudhury (1964)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/B._R._Deodhar" title="B. R. Deodhar">B. R. Deodhar</a> (1964)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/V._Raghavan" title="V. Raghavan">V. Raghavan</a> (1964)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/P._V._Rajamannar" title="P. V. Rajamannar">P. V. Rajamannar</a> (1964)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vinayakrao_Patwardhan" title="Vinayakrao Patwardhan">Vinayakrao Patwardhan</a> (1965)</li> <li>Ganesh Hari Ranade (1965)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dilipkumar_Roy" title="Dilipkumar Roy">Dilipkumar Roy</a> (1965)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jaideva_Singh" title="Jaideva Singh">Jaideva Singh</a> (1965)</li> <li>D. G. Vyas (1965)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ashutosh_Bhattacharya" title="Ashutosh Bhattacharya">Ashutosh Bhattacharya</a> (1966)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/E._Krishna_Iyer" title="E. Krishna Iyer">E. Krishna Iyer</a> (1966)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sombhu_Mitra" title="Sombhu Mitra">Sombhu Mitra</a> (1966)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jayachamarajendra_Wadiyar" title="Jayachamarajendra Wadiyar">Jayachamarajendra Wadiyar</a> (1966)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ebrahim_Alkazi" title="Ebrahim Alkazi">Ebrahim Alkazi</a> (1967)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rukmini_Devi_Arundale" title="Rukmini Devi Arundale">Rukmini Devi Arundale</a> (1967)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Musiri_Subramania_Iyer" title="Musiri Subramania Iyer">Musiri Subramania Iyer</a> (1967)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bade_Ghulam_Ali_Khan" title="Bade Ghulam Ali Khan">Bade Ghulam Ali Khan</a> (1967)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guru_Kunchu_Kurup" title="Guru Kunchu Kurup">P. K. Kunju Kurup</a> (1967)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shambhu_Maharaj" title="Shambhu Maharaj">Shambhu Maharaj</a> (1967)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/V._Satyanarayana_Sarma" title="V. Satyanarayana Sarma">V. Satyanarayana Sarma</a> (1967)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Adya_Rangacharya" title="Adya Rangacharya">Adya Rangacharya</a> (1967)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kalicharan_Pattnaik" title="Kalicharan Pattnaik">Kali Charan Patnaik</a> (1968)</li> <li>K. C. D. Brahaspati (1970)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kapila_Vatsyayan" title="Kapila Vatsyayan">Kapila Vatsyayan</a> (1970)</li> <li>Dilip Chandra Vedi (1970)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tarapada_Chakraborty" title="Tarapada Chakraborty">Tarapada Chakraborty</a> (1972)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Krishnarao_Phulambrikar" title="Krishnarao Phulambrikar">Krishnarao Phulambrikar</a> (1972)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rallapalli_Ananta_Krishna_Sharma" title="Rallapalli Ananta Krishna Sharma">Rallapalli Ananta Krishna Sharma</a> (1972)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shivaram_Karanth" title="Shivaram Karanth">Shivaram Karanth</a> (1973)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kamaladevi_Chattopadhyay" title="Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay">Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay</a> (1974)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jnan_Prakash_Ghosh" title="Jnan Prakash Ghosh">Jnan Prakash Ghosh</a> (1974)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/M._S._Subbulakshmi" title="M. S. Subbulakshmi">M. S. Subbulakshmi</a> (1974)</li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">T. Balasaraswati</a> (1975)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zubin_Mehta" title="Zubin Mehta">Zubin Mehta</a> (1975)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rasiklal_Parikh" title="Rasiklal Parikh">Rasiklal Parikh</a> (1975)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ravi_Shankar" title="Ravi Shankar">Ravi Shankar</a> (1975)</li> <li>Embar S. Vijayaraghavachariar (1975)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Santidev_Ghosh" title="Santidev Ghosh">Santidev Ghosh</a> (1976)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Semmangudi_Srinivasa_Iyer" title="Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer">Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer</a> (1976)</li> <li>Hirjibhai Rustomji Doctor (1977)</li> <li>Tinuvengadu Subramania Pillai (1978)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/B._Puttaswamayya" title="B. Puttaswamayya">B. Puttaswamayya</a> (1978)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Purushottam_Laxman_Deshpande" title="Purushottam Laxman Deshpande">Purushottam Laxman Deshpande</a> (1979)</li> <li>D. T. Joshi (1979)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sumati_Mutatkar" title="Sumati Mutatkar">Sumati Mutatkar</a> (1979)</li> <li>T. P. Kuppiah Pillai (1979)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/V._K._Narayana_Menon" title="V. K. Narayana Menon">V. K. Narayana Menon</a> (1980)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1981–2000</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/Mani_Madhava_Chakyar" title="Mani Madhava Chakyar">Mani Madhava Chakyar</a> (1982)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mallikarjun_Mansur" title="Mallikarjun Mansur">Mallikarjun Mansur</a> (1982)</li> <li>M. Kirupanandawari (1984)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chandravadan_Mehta" title="Chandravadan Mehta">Chandravadan Mehta</a> (1984)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siyaram_Tiwari_(musician)" title="Siyaram Tiwari (musician)">Siyaram Tiwari</a> (1984)</li> <li>V. V. Swarna Venkatesa Deekshithar (1986)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Komal_Kothari" title="Komal Kothari">Komal Kothari</a> (1986)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/S._Ramanathan_(musician)" title="S. Ramanathan (musician)">S. Ramanathan</a> (1986)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Satyajit_Ray" title="Satyajit Ray">Satyajit Ray</a> (1986)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kumar_Gandharva" title="Kumar Gandharva">Shivaputra Siddaramayya Komkali ‘Kumar Gandharva’</a> (1988)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lata_Mangeshkar" title="Lata Mangeshkar">Lata Mangeshkar</a> (1989)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Utpal_Dutt" title="Utpal Dutt">Utpal Dutt</a> (1990)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ram_Gopal_(dancer)" title="Ram Gopal (dancer)">Ram Gopal</a> (1990)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alain_Dani%C3%A9lou" title="Alain Daniélou">Alain Daniélou</a> (1991)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kelucharan_Mohapatra" title="Kelucharan Mohapatra">Kelucharan Mohapatra</a> (1991)</li> <li>T. S. Parthasarathy (1991)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ali_Akbar_Khan" title="Ali Akbar Khan">Ali Akbar Khan</a> (1992)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/D._K._Pattammal" title="D. K. Pattammal">D. K. Pattammal</a> (1992)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prem_Lata_Sharma" title="Prem Lata Sharma">Prem Lata Sharma</a> (1992)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Girish_Karnad" title="Girish Karnad">Girish Karnad</a> (1993)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mrinalini_Sarabhai" title="Mrinalini Sarabhai">Mrinalini Sarabhai</a> (1993)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bismillah_Khan" title="Bismillah Khan">Bismillah Khan</a> (1994)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yehudi_Menuhin" title="Yehudi Menuhin">Yehudi Menuhin</a> (1994)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maheswar_Neog" title="Maheswar Neog">Maheswar Neog</a> (1994)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vilayat_Khan" title="Vilayat Khan">Vilayat Khan</a> (1995)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ammannur_Madhava_Chakyar" title="Ammannur Madhava Chakyar">Ammannur Madhava Chakyar</a> (1996)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gangubai_Hangal" title="Gangubai Hangal">Gangubai Hangal</a> (1996)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Habib_Tanvir" title="Habib Tanvir">Habib Tanvir</a> (1996)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Badal_Sarkar" class="mw-redirect" title="Badal Sarkar">Badal Sarkar</a> (1997)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bhimsen_Joshi" title="Bhimsen Joshi">Bhimsen Joshi</a> (1998)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Birju_Maharaj" title="Birju Maharaj">Birju Maharaj</a> (1998)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/K._P._Kittappa_Pillai" title="K. P. Kittappa Pillai">K. P. Kittappa Pillai</a> (1998)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vijay_Tendulkar" title="Vijay Tendulkar">Vijay Tendulkar</a> (1998)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2001–2021</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/M._Balamuralikrishna" title="M. Balamuralikrishna">M. Balamuralikrishna</a> (2001)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/B._V._Karanth" title="B. V. Karanth">B. V. Karanth</a> (2001)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vempati_Chinna_Satyam" title="Vempati Chinna Satyam">Vempati Chinna Satyam</a> (2001)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shanno_Khurana" title="Shanno Khurana">Shanno Khurana</a> (2002)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kavalam_Narayana_Panicker" title="Kavalam Narayana Panicker">Kavalam Narayana Panicker</a> (2002)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chandralekha_(dancer)" title="Chandralekha (dancer)">Chandralekha</a> (2004)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Annapurna_Devi" title="Annapurna Devi">Annapurna Devi</a> (2004)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bindhyabasini_Devi" title="Bindhyabasini Devi">Bindhyabasini Devi</a> (2004)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ramankutty_Nair" title="Ramankutty Nair">Ramankutty Nair</a> (2004)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zohra_Sehgal" title="Zohra Sehgal">Zohra Sehgal</a> (2004)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tapas_Sen" title="Tapas Sen">Tapas Sen</a> (2004)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rohini_Bhate" title="Rohini Bhate">Rohini Bhate</a> (2006)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/T._N._Krishnan" title="T. N. Krishnan">T. N. Krishnan</a> (2006)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kishan_Maharaj" title="Kishan Maharaj">Kishan Maharaj</a> (2006)</li> <li>Gursharan Singh (2006)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ningthoukhongjam_Khelchandra" title="Ningthoukhongjam Khelchandra">Ningthoukhongjam Khelchandra</a> (2006)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sushil_Kumar_Saxena" title="Sushil Kumar Saxena">Sushil Kumar Saxena</a> (2007)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Khaled_Choudhury" title="Khaled Choudhury">Khaled Choudhury</a> (2008)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sitara_Devi" title="Sitara Devi">Sitara Devi</a> (2008)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bhupen_Hazarika" title="Bhupen Hazarika">Bhupen Hazarika</a> (2008)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/R._C._Mehta" title="R. C. Mehta">R. C. Mehta</a> (2008)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kishori_Amonkar" title="Kishori Amonkar">Kishori Amonkar</a> (2009)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jasraj" title="Jasraj">Jasraj</a> (2009)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lalgudi_Jayaraman" title="Lalgudi Jayaraman">Lalgudi Jayaraman</a> (2009)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yamini_Krishnamurthy" title="Yamini Krishnamurthy">Yamini Krishnamurthy</a> (2009)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shriram_Lagoo" title="Shriram Lagoo">Shriram Lagoo</a> (2009)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kamlesh_Dutt_Tripathi" title="Kamlesh Dutt Tripathi">Kamlesh Dutt Tripathi</a> (2009)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Girija_Devi" title="Girija Devi">Girija Devi</a> (2010)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/T._K._Murthy" title="T. K. Murthy">T. K. 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