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.mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox biography vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size:125%;"><div class="fn">Shantilal Jamnadas Mehta</div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1905-01-10</span>)</span>10 January 1905<br /><div style="display:inline" class="birthplace"><a href="/wiki/Surendranagar_district" title="Surendranagar district">Surendranagar district</a>, <a href="/wiki/Saurashtra_(region)" title="Saurashtra (region)">Saurashtra</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bombay_Presidency" title="Bombay Presidency">Bombay Presidency</a>, British India</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">21 June 1997<span style="display:none">(1997-06-21)</span> (aged 92)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Occupation(s)</th><td class="infobox-data role">Surgeon<br />Medical academic</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Years active</th><td class="infobox-data">1927–1991</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Known for</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Jaslok_Hospital" title="Jaslok Hospital">Jaslok Hospital and Research Centre</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data">Champaben</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Awards</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Padma_Bhushan" title="Padma Bhushan">Padma Bhushan</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Royal_College_of_Surgeons_of_England" title="Royal College of Surgeons of England">RCS</a> Hallett Prize</td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Shantilal Jamnadas Mehta</b> (1905–1997) was an Indian surgeon, institution builder and medical academic, who established the <a href="/wiki/Jaslok_Hospital" title="Jaslok Hospital">Jaslok Hospital and Research Centre</a>, Mumbai.<sup id="cite_ref-Plarr's_Lives_of_the_Fellows_Online_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Plarr's_Lives_of_the_Fellows_Online-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His contributions were also reported in the establishment of <a href="/wiki/Tata_Memorial_Centre" title="Tata Memorial Centre">Tata Memorial Centre</a> and the <a href="/wiki/All_India_Institute_of_Medical_Sciences_Delhi" class="mw-redirect" title="All India Institute of Medical Sciences Delhi">All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi</a>. In 1971, the Government of India awarded him the third highest civilian honour of the <a href="/wiki/Padma_Bhushan" title="Padma Bhushan">Padma Bhushan</a> for his contributions to medicine.<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> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Biography">Biography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Shantilal_Jamnadas_Mehta&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Biography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Mehta was born on 10 January 1905 in <a href="/wiki/Surendranagar_district" title="Surendranagar district">Surendranagar district</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Saurashtra_(region)" title="Saurashtra (region)">Saurashtra</a> of the Indian city of <a href="/wiki/Gujarat" title="Gujarat">Gujarat</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Obituaries_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Obituaries-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Due to lack of good educational facilities in his native town, he stayed with his maternal grandfather, Motilal Kothari, in <a href="/wiki/Rajkot" title="Rajkot">Rajkot</a> and did his schooling there. Later, when Kothari moved to Mumbai, Mehta followed him to continue his education there and it was during this time, he developed a fascination for <a href="/wiki/Ayurveda" title="Ayurveda">ayurveda</a> when he was cured by an ayurvedic physician from a life-threatening bout of dysentery, after <a href="/wiki/Allopathic" class="mw-redirect" title="Allopathic">allopathic</a> treatment yielded no positive results. </p><p>His graduate degree in medicine came from <a href="/wiki/Grant_Medical_College_and_Sir_Jamshedjee_Jeejeebhoy_Group_of_Hospitals" title="Grant Medical College and Sir Jamshedjee Jeejeebhoy Group of Hospitals">Grant Medical College and Sir Jamshedjee Jeejeebhoy Group of Hospitals</a>, during which time he was also involved with the <a href="/wiki/Indian_independence_movement" title="Indian independence movement">Indian independence movement</a> and suffered incarceration at <a href="/wiki/Colaba" title="Colaba">Colaba</a> Police Station after he, along with five other activists, showed black flag at the visiting <a href="/wiki/Simon_Commission" title="Simon Commission">Simon Commission</a> in 1927.<sup id="cite_ref-Eminent_Indians_in_Medicine_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Eminent_Indians_in_Medicine-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Later, when he went to England for fellowship at the <a href="/wiki/Royal_College_of_Surgeons_of_England" title="Royal College of Surgeons of England">Royal College of Surgeons of England</a>, his earlier involvement in the freedom struggle caused him many difficulties but he completed the fellowship, winning the Hallett Prize, the first Indian to receive the honour. Subsequently, he worked for 9 months at the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Brompton_Hospital" title="Royal Brompton Hospital">Royal Brompton Hospital</a>, at ENT, Orthopedic and general surgery departments, where he had the opportunity to train under several notable surgeons.<sup id="cite_ref-Eminent_Indians_in_Medicine_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Eminent_Indians_in_Medicine-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On his return to India in 1930, he joined <a href="/wiki/Grant_Medical_College_and_Sir_Jamshedjee_Jeejeebhoy_Group_of_Hospitals" title="Grant Medical College and Sir Jamshedjee Jeejeebhoy Group of Hospitals">Grant Medical College</a>, his alma mater, as a member of faculty and an honorary surgeon.<sup id="cite_ref-Obituaries_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Obituaries-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>, when <a href="/wiki/British_Army_during_the_Second_World_War" title="British Army during the Second World War">British Army</a> took over the hospital for treating armed personnel injured in the war, he was accorded the honorary rank of a Colonel, which he declined. He worked at the hospital, moving up through the ranks, from Associate Professor to Professor, till his superannuation in 1960, and continued his association with the institution for another ten years, in the capacity of the Emeritus Professor.<sup id="cite_ref-Eminent_Indians_in_Medicine_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Eminent_Indians_in_Medicine-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> While his tenure at GMC, he was also involved with the establishment of the <i>Association of Surgeons of India</i> in 1938 and the <a href="/wiki/Tata_Memorial_Centre" title="Tata Memorial Centre">Tata Memorial Centre</a> in 1941. After his retirement from GMC, he also served as the personal surgeon of <a href="/wiki/Indira_Gandhi" title="Indira Gandhi">Indira Gandhi</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. (June 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>Mehta was one of the Indian medical personnel involved in the establishment of the <a href="/wiki/National_Academy_of_Medical_Sciences" title="National Academy of Medical Sciences">National Academy of Medical Sciences</a> in 1961,<sup id="cite_ref-Obituaries_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Obituaries-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and was a founder fellow of the Academy.<sup id="cite_ref-Founder_Fellows_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Founder_Fellows-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1973, when an Indian-born British philanthropist, Seth Lokoomal Chanrai, decided to set up a hospital, he entrusted the project to Mehta, which resulted in the founding of <a href="/wiki/Jaslok_Hospital" title="Jaslok Hospital">Jaslok Hospital</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. (June 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> He worked as the medical director of the hospital<sup id="cite_ref-PM_Wishes_JP_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PM_Wishes_JP-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and established several specialty departments;<sup id="cite_ref-Dr._B._N._Colabawalla_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dr._B._N._Colabawalla-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the institution has since grown to become a multi-specialty tertiary care hospital.<sup id="cite_ref-Corporate_Profile_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Corporate_Profile-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He chaired the <i>Medical Education Review Committee</i> (later known as the <i>Mehta Committee</i>) of the <a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Health_and_Family_Welfare" title="Ministry of Health and Family Welfare">Ministry of Health and Family Welfare</a>, Government of India, in 1982, which proposed guidelines for medical education in India.<sup id="cite_ref-Mehta_Committee_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Mehta_Committee-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Later, he was also associated with <i>Swami Prakashanava Ayurvedic Research Centre</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-Eminent_Indians_in_Medicine_4-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Eminent_Indians_in_Medicine-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He received the third highest civilian honour of the <a href="/wiki/Padma_Bhushan" title="Padma Bhushan">Padma Bhushan</a> in 1971.<sup id="cite_ref-Padma_Awards_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Padma_Awards-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Mehta, who was married to Champaben, suffered from age-related illnesses towards the later stages of his life and died on 21 June 1997, at the age of 92.<sup id="cite_ref-Dr._Shantilal_J_Mehta_—_an_outstanding_Indian_surgeon_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dr._Shantilal_J_Mehta_—_an_outstanding_Indian_surgeon-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>Dr. Shantilal J. 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Pai</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vinayakrao_Patwardhan" title="Vinayakrao Patwardhan">Vinayakrao Patwardhan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dattatraya_Yeshwant_Phadke" title="Dattatraya Yeshwant Phadke">Dattatraya Yeshwant Phadke</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bhalchandra_Nilkanth_Purandare" title="Bhalchandra Nilkanth Purandare">Bhalchandra Nilkanth Purandare</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tapishwar_Narain_Raina" title="Tapishwar Narain Raina">Tapishwar Narain Raina</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bharat_Ram" title="Bharat Ram">Bharat Ram</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mohinder_Singh_Randhawa" title="Mohinder Singh Randhawa">Mohinder Singh Randhawa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Adya_Rangacharya" title="Adya Rangacharya">Adya Rangacharya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/M._B._Ramachandra_Rao" title="M. B. Ramachandra Rao">M. B. Ramachandra Rao</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/A._S._Rao" title="A. S. Rao">A. S. Rao</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sujoy_B._Roy" title="Sujoy B. Roy">Sujoy Bhushan Roy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Khusro_Faramurz_Rustamji" title="Khusro Faramurz Rustamji">Khusro Faramurz Rustamji</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shantilal_C._Sheth" title="Shantilal C. Sheth">Shantilal C. Sheth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Baldev_Singh_(neurologist)" title="Baldev Singh (neurologist)">Baldev Singh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Khem_Karan_Singh" title="Khem Karan Singh">Khem Karan Singh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sartaj_Singh_(general)" title="Sartaj Singh (general)">Sartaj Singh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sagat_Singh" title="Sagat Singh">Sagat Singh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Birendranath_Sircar" title="Birendranath Sircar">Birendranath Sircar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Papanasam_Sivan" title="Papanasam Sivan">Papanasam Sivan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chandrika_Prasad_Srivastava" title="Chandrika Prasad Srivastava">Chandrika Prasad Srivastava</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/M._S._Swaminathan" title="M. S. Swaminathan">M. S. Swaminathan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/K._Swaminathan" title="K. Swaminathan">K. Swaminathan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bal_Dattatreya_Tilak" title="Bal Dattatreya Tilak">Bal Dattatreya Tilak</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Syed_Husain_Zaheer" title="Syed Husain Zaheer">Syed Husain Zaheer</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1973</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/Om_P._Bahl" title="Om P. Bahl">Om P. Bahl</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chembai" title="Chembai">Chembai</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harindranath_Chattopadhyay" title="Harindranath Chattopadhyay">Harindranath Chattopadhyay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Banarsidas_Chaturvedi" title="Banarsidas Chaturvedi">Banarsidas Chaturvedi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/M._A._Muthiah_Chettiar" title="M. A. Muthiah Chettiar">M. A. Muthiah Chettiar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/M._F._Husain" title="M. F. Husain">M. F. Husain</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pothan_Joseph" title="Pothan Joseph">Pothan Joseph</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/N._R._Malkani" title="N. R. Malkani">N. R. Malkani</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vinoo_Mankad" title="Vinoo Mankad">Vinoo Mankad</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/R._M._Muzumdar" title="R. M. Muzumdar">R. M. Muzumdar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Krishnarao_Shankar_Pandit" title="Krishnarao Shankar Pandit">Krishnarao Shankar Pandit</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pitambar_Pant" title="Pitambar Pant">Pitambar Pant</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vennelakanti_Raghavayya" title="Vennelakanti Raghavayya">Vennelakanti Raghavayya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Raja_Ramanna" title="Raja Ramanna">Raja Ramanna</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/K._Sukumaran_(journalist)" title="K. Sukumaran (journalist)">K. Sukumaran</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1974</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/Alice_Boner" title="Alice Boner">Alice Boner</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Camille_Bulcke" title="Camille Bulcke">Camille Bulcke</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ram_Kumar_Caroli" title="Ram Kumar Caroli">Ram Kumar Caroli</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dhirendra_Nath_Ganguly" title="Dhirendra Nath Ganguly">Dhirendra Nath Ganguly</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/D._V._Gundappa" title="D. V. Gundappa">D. V. Gundappa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/V._S._Huzurbazar" title="V. S. Huzurbazar">V. S. Huzurbazar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chintamoni_Kar" title="Chintamoni Kar">Chintamoni Kar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mogubai_Kurdikar" title="Mogubai Kurdikar">Mogubai Kurdikar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jayant_Pandurang_Naik" title="Jayant Pandurang Naik">Jayant Pandurang Naik</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Habib_Rahman_(architect)" title="Habib Rahman (architect)">Habib Rahman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/B._N._Reddy" class="mw-redirect" title="B. N. Reddy">B. N. Reddy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Richardson_(bishop_of_Car_Nicobar)" title="John Richardson (bishop of Car Nicobar)">John Richardson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Toppur_Seethapathy_Sadasivan" title="Toppur Seethapathy Sadasivan">Toppur Seethapathy Sadasivan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sukhlal_Sanghvi" title="Sukhlal Sanghvi">Sukhlal Sanghvi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hasmukh_Dhirajlal_Sankalia" title="Hasmukh Dhirajlal Sankalia">Hasmukh Dhirajlal Sankalia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jaideva_Singh" title="Jaideva Singh">Jaideva Singh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Khushwant_Singh" title="Khushwant Singh">Khushwant Singh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arunachala_Sreenivasan" title="Arunachala Sreenivasan">Arunachala Sreenivasan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Raman_Viswanathan" title="Raman Viswanathan">Raman Viswanathan</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1975</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/Begum_Akhtar" title="Begum Akhtar">Begum Akhtar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dilbagh_Singh_Athwal" title="Dilbagh Singh Athwal">Dilbagh Singh Athwal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Asima_Chatterjee" title="Asima Chatterjee">Asima Chatterjee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Madhav_Sadashiv_Gore" title="Madhav Sadashiv Gore">Madhav Sadashiv Gore</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pratul_Chandra_Gupta" title="Pratul Chandra Gupta">Pratul Chandra Gupta</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/P._K._Iyengar" title="P. K. Iyengar">P. K. Iyengar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Darab_Jehangir_Jussawala" title="Darab Jehangir Jussawala">Darab Jehangir Jussawala</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pancheti_Koteswaram" title="Pancheti Koteswaram">Pancheti Koteswaram</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vasudev_Vishnu_Mirashi" title="Vasudev Vishnu Mirashi">Vasudev Vishnu Mirashi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Balai_Chand_Mukhopadhyay" title="Balai Chand Mukhopadhyay">Balai Chand Mukhopadhyay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kirpal_Singh_Narang" title="Kirpal Singh Narang">Kirpal Singh Narang</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ronald_Carlton_Vivian_Piadade_Noronha" title="Ronald Carlton Vivian Piadade Noronha">Ronald Carlton Vivian Piadade Noronha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ratan_Shastri" title="Ratan Shastri">Ratan Shastri</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1976</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/Malcolm_Adiseshiah" title="Malcolm Adiseshiah">Malcolm Adiseshiah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harivansh_Rai_Bachchan" title="Harivansh Rai Bachchan">Harivansh Rai Bachchan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nabakanta_Barua" title="Nabakanta Barua">Nabakanta Barua</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Laxmanshastri_Balaji_Joshi" class="mw-redirect" title="Laxmanshastri Balaji Joshi">Laxmanshastri Balaji Joshi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Naval_Godrej" title="Naval Godrej">Naoroji Pirojsha Godrej</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zehra_Ali_Yavar_Jung" title="Zehra Ali Yavar Jung">Zehra Ali Yavar Jung</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mallikarjun_Mansur" title="Mallikarjun Mansur">Mallikarjun Mansur</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yash_Pal" title="Yash Pal">Yash Pal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bhogilal_Pandya" title="Bhogilal Pandya">Bhogilal Pandya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Udupi_Ramachandra_Rao" title="Udupi Ramachandra Rao">Udupi Ramachandra Rao</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Krishnaswami_Srinivas_Sanjivi" title="Krishnaswami Srinivas Sanjivi">Krishnaswami Srinivas Sanjivi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Devulapalli_Krishnasastri" title="Devulapalli Krishnasastri">Devulapalli Krishnasastri</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/C._Sivaramamurti" title="C. Sivaramamurti">C. Sivaramamurti</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/E._C._George_Sudarshan" title="E. C. George Sudarshan">E. C. George Sudarshan</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1977</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/Gopinath_Aman" title="Gopinath Aman">Gopinath Aman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prithvi_Singh_Azad" title="Prithvi Singh Azad">Prithvi Singh Azad</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harish-Chandra" title="Harish-Chandra">Harish-Chandra</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kumar_Gandharva" title="Kumar Gandharva">Kumar Gandharva</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Phulrenu_Guha" title="Phulrenu Guha">Phulrenu Guha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jagmohan" title="Jagmohan">Jagmohan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kailas_Nath_Kaul" title="Kailas Nath Kaul">Kailas Nath Kaul</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yusuf_Husain" title="Yusuf Husain">Yusuf Husain</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/K._S._Narayanaswamy" title="K. S. Narayanaswamy">K. S. Narayanaswamy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Balasubramaniam_Ramamurthi" title="Balasubramaniam Ramamurthi">Balasubramaniam Ramamurthi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Perugu_Siva_Reddy" title="Perugu Siva Reddy">Perugu Siva Reddy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Annapurna_Devi" title="Annapurna Devi">Annapurna Devi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yudhvir_Singh" title="Yudhvir Singh">Yudhvir Singh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/M._N._Srinivas" title="M. N. Srinivas">M. N. Srinivas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/T._P._Meenakshisundaram" title="T. P. Meenakshisundaram">Thenpattinam Ponnusamy Meenakshi Sundaran</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><noscript><img src="https://login.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralAutoLogin/start?useformat=desktop&type=1x1&usesul3=0" alt="" width="1" height="1" style="border: none; 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