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Maniben Kara
Maniben Kara
	Maniben Kara
Born	1905; Bombay, British India (now Mumbai, Maharashtra, India)
Died	1979
Occupation(s)	Social worker, trade unionist
Awards	Padma Shri

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Maniben Kara (1905-1979)^[1] was an Indian social worker and trade unionist.^[2] She was a founder member of the Hind Mazdoor Sabha and served as its president.^[3] She was honoured by the Government of India in 1970 with Padma Shri, the fourth highest Indian civilian award.^[4]

Early life[edit]

Born in 1905 in Bombay, British India (now Mumbai) in a middle-class family to an Arya Samaj member, Maniben Kara did her schooling at St. Columba High School, Gamdevi, Mumbai and secured a diploma in Social science from the University of Birmingham.^[5]

Career[edit]

Returning to India in 1929, she got involved with the Independence movement, founded Seva Mandir and a printing press and published Independent India,^[6] a nationalist publication for the Indian revolutionary, M. N. Roy.^[5] Later, she was known to have been influenced by Narayan Malhar Joshi, one of the early leaders of the All India Trade Union Congress,^[7] and started involving in trade union activism.^[5] Her area of operations was at the slums of Mumbai, the dwelling place of many of the conservancy workers of the Bombay Improvement Trust.^[5] She established a Mothers' Club and a Healthcare Centre and spread the message of hygiene and literacy among the sul dwellers.^[5] Later she started social organization called ; Seva Mandir which was later merged with NGO called Bhangini Samaj^[1]

The next stage of her work started with organizing workers' unions at Mumbai port and dockyard which later expanded to cover the tailors and textile workers.^[5] She joined the All India Trade Union Congress, the trade union arm of the Communist Party of India, and led several labour strikes which led to her arrest and solitary confinement in 1932.^[5] After Formation of Congress Ministries in 1937, All India Trade Union Congress and Indian National Congress drifted apart. Maniben was member of Royis Party led by M N Roy. Royst Party Started New central Trade Union Organization named Indian Federation of Labour (IFL). She continued her activities through the days of Indian freedom struggle and was nominated to the Central Legislative Assembly in 1946, entrusted with the responsibility of the labour ministry.^[5] Post Independence, After Partition IFL joined Hind Mazdoor Sabha.^[1] She was a key member when the Hind Mazdoor Sabha was formed in 1948^[8] and was also involved with the All India Railwaymen's Federation and was its former president.^[9] She was also a founding member of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU)^[5] and was involved with government committees such as National Committee on the Status of Women^[10] and other government initiatives.^[11]

Maniben Kara, who never contested in a political election,^[12] was honoured by the Government of India with the civilian award of Padma Shri in 1970. Nine years later, she died, at the age of 74.^[5] Hind Mazdoor Sabha honoured her by establishing an institute in her name, the Maniben Kara Institute (MKI), in 1980.^[3] The Western Railways Union started a trust in her honour, the Maniben Kara Foundation,^[13] and maintains the Maniben Kara Foundation Hall, in Grant Road area in Mumbai.^[14]

References[edit]

^ ^a ^b ^c Nayar, Sushila; Mankekar, Kamla, eds. (2003). Women Pioneers In India's Renaissance. National Book Trust, India. p. 469. ISBN 81-237-3766 1.
^ Geraldine Hancock Forbes (1999). Women in Modern India, Volume 4. Cambridge University Press. p. 290. ISBN 9780521653770.
^ ^a ^b "Labour Rights". Labour Rights. 2015. Archived from the original on 15 February 2015. Retrieved 15 May 2015.
^ "Padma Shri" (PDF). Padma Shri. 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 October 2015. Retrieved 11 November 2014.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j "Stree Shakti". Stree Shakti. 2015. Retrieved 16 May 2015.
^ "Independent India". Hathi Trust. 2015. Retrieved 16 May 2015.
^ "N. M. Joshi". The Hindu. 31 May 1955. Retrieved 16 May 2015.^{[dead link]}
^ Richard L. Park (August 1949). "Labor and Politics in India". Far Eastern Review. 18 (16): 181–187. doi:10.2307/3024423. JSTOR 3024423.
^ "AIRF". AIRF. 2015. Retrieved 15 May 2015.
^ "National Committee on the Status of Women" (PDF). ICSSR. 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 August 2015. Retrieved 15 May 2015.
^ "INFLIBNET" (PDF). INFLIBNET. 2015. Retrieved 16 May 2015.
^ Bela Rani Sharma (1998). Women's Rights and World Development. Sarup and sons. p. 383. ISBN 9788176250153.
^ "Maniben Kara Foundation". Indiacom. 2015. Retrieved 16 May 2015.
^ "Maniben Kara Foundation Hall". Mojo Street. 2015. Archived from the original on 30 June 2016. Retrieved 16 May 2015.

[Women_Pioneers_In_India's_Renaissance-1] Nayar, Sushila; Mankekar, Kamla, eds. (2003). Women Pioneers In India's Renaissance. National Book Trust, India. p. 469. ISBN 81-237-3766 1.

[Women_in_Modern_India,_Volume_4-2] Geraldine Hancock Forbes (1999). Women in Modern India, Volume 4. Cambridge University Press. p. 290. ISBN 9780521653770.

[Labour_Rights-3] "Labour Rights". Labour Rights. 2015. Archived from the original on 15 February 2015. Retrieved 15 May 2015.

[Padma_Shri-4] "Padma Shri" (PDF). Padma Shri. 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 October 2015. Retrieved 11 November 2014.

[Stree_Shakti-5] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j "Stree Shakti". Stree Shakti. 2015. Retrieved 16 May 2015.

[Independent_India-6] "Independent India". Hathi Trust. 2015. Retrieved 16 May 2015.

[N._M._Joshi-7] "N. M. Joshi". The Hindu. 31 May 1955. Retrieved 16 May 2015.^{[dead link]}

[Labor_and_Politics_in_India-8] Richard L. Park (August 1949). "Labor and Politics in India". Far Eastern Review. 18 (16): 181–187. doi:10.2307/3024423. JSTOR 3024423.

[AIRF-9] "AIRF". AIRF. 2015. Retrieved 15 May 2015.

[National_Committee_on_the_Status_of_Women-10] "National Committee on the Status of Women" (PDF). ICSSR. 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 August 2015. Retrieved 15 May 2015.

[INFLIBNET-11] "INFLIBNET" (PDF). INFLIBNET. 2015. Retrieved 16 May 2015.

[Women's_Rights_and_World_Development-12] Bela Rani Sharma (1998). Women's Rights and World Development. Sarup and sons. p. 383. ISBN 9788176250153.

[Maniben_Kara_Foundation-13] "Maniben Kara Foundation". Indiacom. 2015. Retrieved 16 May 2015.

[Maniben_Kara_Foundation_Hall-14] "Maniben Kara Foundation Hall". Mojo Street. 2015. Archived from the original on 30 June 2016. Retrieved 16 May 2015.

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+'''Maniben Kara''' (1905-1979)<ref name="Women Pioneers In India's Renaissance">{{cite book|url=http://www.exoticindiaart.com/book/details/women-pioneers-in-india-s-renaissance-IDD677/|title=Women Pioneers In India's Renaissance|publisher=National Book Trust, India|year=2003|isbn=81-237-3766 1|editor-last=Nayar|editor-first=Sushila|pages=469|editor-last2=Mankekar|editor-first2=Kamla|editor-link2=Kamla Mankekar}}</ref> was an Indian social worker and trade unionist.<ref name="Women in Modern India, Volume 4">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hjilIrVt9hUC&q=Kumari+Maniben+Kara&pg=PA174 | title=Women in Modern India, Volume 4 | publisher=Cambridge University Press | author=Geraldine Hancock Forbes | year=1999 | pages=290 | isbn=9780521653770}}</ref> She was a founder member of the [[Hind Mazdoor Sabha]] and served as its president.<ref name="Labour Rights">{{cite web | url=http://www.labour-rights-india.eu/index.php?id=partners_mki | title=Labour Rights | publisher=Labour Rights | date=2015 | access-date=15 May 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150215233255/http://www.labour-rights-india.eu/index.php?id=partners_mki | archive-date=15 February 2015 | url-status=dead }}</ref> She was honoured by the [[Government of India]] in 1970 with [[Padma Shri]], the fourth highest Indian civilian award.<ref name="Padma Shri">{{cite web|url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |title=Padma Shri |publisher=Padma Shri |date=2015 |access-date=11 November 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151015193758/http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |archive-date=15 October 2015 }}</ref>
-==Biography==
+==Early life==
-Born in 1905 in [[Mumbai]], in the Indian state of [[Maharashtra]] in a middle class family to an [[Arya Samaj]] member, Maniben Kara did her schooling at St. Columba High School, Gamdevi, Mumbai and secured a diploma in Social science from the [[University of Birmingham]].<ref name="Stree Shakti">{{cite web | url=http://www.streeshakti.com/bookM.aspx?author=9 | title=Stree Shakti | publisher=Stree Shakti | date=2015 | accessdate=16 May 2015}}</ref> Returning to India in 1929, she got involved with the Independence movement, founded ''Seva Mandir'' and a printing press and published ''Independent India'',<ref name="Independent India">{{cite web | url=http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007132445 | title=Independent India | publisher=Hathi Trust | date=2015 | accessdate=16 May 2015}}</ref> a nationalist publication for the Indian revolutionary, [[M. N. Roy]].<ref name="Stree Shakti" /> Later, she was known to have been influenced by [[Narayan Malhar Joshi]], one of the early leaders of the [[All India Trade Union Congress]],<ref name="N. M. Joshi">{{cite web | url=http://www.thehindu.com/2005/05/31/stories/2005053100610902.htm | title=N. M. Joshi | publisher=The Hindu | date=31 May 1955 | accessdate=16 May 2015}}</ref> and started involving in trade union activism.<ref name="Stree Shakti" /> Her area of operations was at the slums of Mumbai, the dwelling place of many of the conservancy workers of the Bombay Improvement Trust.<ref name="Stree Shakti" /> She established a Mothers' Club and a Healthcare Centre and spread the message of hygiene and literacy among the sul dwellers.<ref name="Stree Shakti" />
+Born in 1905 in [[Bombay]], [[British India]] (now [[Mumbai]]) in a middle-class family to an [[Arya Samaj]] member, Maniben Kara did her schooling at St. Columba High School, Gamdevi, Mumbai and secured a diploma in Social science from the [[University of Birmingham]].<ref name="Stree Shakti">{{cite web | url=http://www.streeshakti.com/bookM.aspx?author=9 | title=Stree Shakti | publisher=Stree Shakti | date=2015 | access-date=16 May 2015}}</ref>
+==Career==
-The next stage of her work started with organizing workers' unions at Mumbai port and dockyard which later expanded to cover the tailors and textile workers.<ref name="Stree Shakti" /> She joined the [[All India Trade Union Congress]], the trade union arm of the [[Communist Party of India]], and led several labour strikes which led to her arrest and solitary confinement in 1932.<ref name="Stree Shakti" /> She continued her activities through the days of [[Indian freedom struggle]] and was nominated to the [[Central Legislative Assembly]] in 1946, entrusted with the responsibility of the labour ministry.<ref name="Stree Shakti" /> Post Independence, she was a key member when the [[Hind Mazdoor Sabha]] was formed in 1948<ref name="Labor and Politics in India">{{cite journal | url=http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/3024423?uid=3737432&uid=2&uid=4&sid=21106844219983 | title=Labor and Politics in India | author=Richard L. Park | journal=Far Eastern Review |date=August 1949  | volume=18 | issue=16 | pages=181-187}}</ref> and was also involved with the All India Railwaymen’s Federation and was its former president.<ref name="AIRF">{{cite web | url=http://www.airfindia.com/Women%20Wing%20AIRF.html | title=AIRF | publisher=AIRF | date=2015 | accessdate=15 May 2015}}</ref> She was also a founding member of the [[International Confederation of Free Trade Unions]] (ICFTU)<ref name="Stree Shakti" /> and was involved with government committees such as National Committee on the Status of Women<ref name="National Committee on the Status of Women">{{cite web | url=http://www.arvindguptatoys.com/arvindgupta/JP-59.pdf | title=National Committee on the Status of Women | publisher=ICSSR | date=2015 | accessdate=15 May 2015}}</ref> and other government initiatives.<ref name="Inflibnet">{{cite web | url=http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/bitstream/10603/812/16/16_bibliography%201.pdf | title=Inflibnet | publisher=Inflibnet | date=2015 | accessdate=16 May 2015}}</ref>
+Returning to India in 1929, she got involved with the Independence movement, founded ''Seva Mandir'' and a printing press and published ''Independent India'',<ref name="Independent India">{{cite web | url=http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007132445 | title=Independent India | publisher=Hathi Trust | date=2015 | access-date=16 May 2015}}</ref> a nationalist publication for the Indian revolutionary, [[M. N. Roy]].<ref name="Stree Shakti" /> Later, she was known to have been influenced by [[Narayan Malhar Joshi]], one of the early leaders of the [[All India Trade Union Congress]],<ref name="N. M. Joshi">{{cite web | url=http://www.thehindu.com/2005/05/31/stories/2005053100610902.htm | title=N. M. Joshi | date=31 May 1955 | work=[[The Hindu]] | access-date=16 May 2015}}{{dead link|date=April 2021|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> and started involving in trade union activism.<ref name="Stree Shakti" /> Her area of operations was at the slums of Mumbai, the dwelling place of many of the conservancy workers of the Bombay Improvement Trust.<ref name="Stree Shakti" /> She established a Mothers' Club and a Healthcare Centre and spread the message of hygiene and literacy among the sul dwellers.<ref name="Stree Shakti" /> Later she started social organization called ;'' Seva Mandir'' which was later merged with NGO called ''Bhangini Samaj''<ref name="Women Pioneers In India's Renaissance"/>
+The next stage of her work started with organizing workers' unions at Mumbai port and dockyard which later expanded to cover the tailors and textile workers.<ref name="Stree Shakti" /> She joined the [[All India Trade Union Congress]], the trade union arm of the [[Communist Party of India]], and led several labour strikes which led to her arrest and solitary confinement in 1932.<ref name="Stree Shakti" /> After Formation of Congress Ministries in 1937, [[All India Trade Union Congress]] and Indian National Congress drifted apart. Maniben was member of ''Royis Party'' led by [[M. N. Roy|M N Roy.]] Royst Party Started New central Trade Union Organization named ''Indian Federation of Labour (IFL).''  She continued her activities through the days of [[Indian freedom struggle]] and was nominated to the [[Central Legislative Assembly]] in 1946, entrusted with the responsibility of the labour ministry.<ref name="Stree Shakti" /> Post Independence, After [[Partition of India|Partition]] IFL joined [[Hind Mazdoor Sabha]].<ref name="Women Pioneers In India's Renaissance"/> She was a key member when the [[Hind Mazdoor Sabha]] was formed in 1948<ref name="Labor and Politics in India">{{cite journal | title=Labor and Politics in India | author=Richard L. Park | journal=Far Eastern Review |date=August 1949  | volume=18 | issue=16 | pages=181–187| doi=10.2307/3024423 |jstor = 3024423}}</ref> and was also involved with the [[All India Railwaymen's Federation]] and was its former president.<ref name="AIRF">{{cite web | url=http://www.airfindia.com/Women%20Wing%20AIRF.html | title=AIRF | publisher=AIRF | date=2015 | access-date=15 May 2015}}</ref> She was also a founding member of the [[International Confederation of Free Trade Unions]] (ICFTU)<ref name="Stree Shakti" /> and was involved with government committees such as National Committee on the Status of Women<ref name="National Committee on the Status of Women">{{cite web | url=http://www.arvindguptatoys.com/arvindgupta/JP-59.pdf | title=National Committee on the Status of Women | publisher=ICSSR | date=2015 | access-date=15 May 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150811211828/http://arvindguptatoys.com/arvindgupta/JP-59.pdf | archive-date=11 August 2015 | url-status=dead }}</ref> and other government initiatives.<ref name="INFLIBNET">{{cite web | url=http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/bitstream/10603/812/16/16_bibliography%201.pdf | title=INFLIBNET | publisher=INFLIBNET | date=2015 | access-date=16 May 2015}}</ref>
-Maniben Kara, who never contested in a political election,<ref name="Women's Rights and World Development">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.ae/books?id=qnJ9J9UygR0C&pg=PA312&lpg=PA312&dq=Kumari+Maniben+Kara&source=bl&ots=LdPPDBGKWB&sig=GiLeIN--f_dpg42cSZZuAXwQuYg&hl=en&sa=X&ei=njVWVaerHYj9ywPvoYD4Bg&ved=0CCsQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=Kumari%20Maniben%20Kara&f=false | title=Women's Rights and World Development | publisher=Sarup and sons | author=Bela Rani Sharma | year=1998 | pages=383 | isbn=9788176250153}}</ref> was honoured by the [[Government of India]] with the civilian award of [[Padma Shri]] in 1970. Nine years later, she died, at the age of 74.<ref name="Stree Shakti" /> [[Hind Mazdoor Sabha]] honoured her by establishing an institute in her name, the Maniben Kara Institute (MKI), in 1980.<ref name="Labour Rights" /> The Western Railways Union started a trust in her honour, the Maniben Kara Foundation,<ref name="Maniben Kara Foundation">{{cite web | url=http://www.indiacom.com/mumbai/maniben-kara-foundation_mumbai_mum_1180543.html | title=Maniben Kara Foundation | publisher=Indiacom | date=2015 | accessdate=16 May 2015}}</ref> and maintains the Maniben Kara Foundation Hall, in [[Grant Road]] area in Mumbai.<ref name="Maniben Kara Foundation Hall">{{cite web | url=http://www.mojostreet.com/place/government-buildings/maniben-kara-foundation-hall-grant-road-mumbai-maharashtra-india-1661419 | title=Maniben Kara Foundation Hall | publisher=Mojo Street | date=2015 | accessdate=16 May 2015}}</ref>
+Maniben Kara, who never contested in a political election,<ref name="Women's Rights and World Development">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qnJ9J9UygR0C&q=Kumari+Maniben+Kara&pg=PA312 | title=Women's Rights and World Development | publisher=Sarup and sons | author=Bela Rani Sharma | year=1998 | pages=383 | isbn=9788176250153}}</ref> was honoured by the [[Government of India]] with the civilian award of [[Padma Shri]] in 1970. Nine years later, she died, at the age of 74.<ref name="Stree Shakti" /> [[Hind Mazdoor Sabha]] honoured her by establishing an institute in her name, the Maniben Kara Institute (MKI), in 1980.<ref name="Labour Rights" /> The Western Railways Union started a trust in her honour, the Maniben Kara Foundation,<ref name="Maniben Kara Foundation">{{cite web | url=http://www.indiacom.com/mumbai/maniben-kara-foundation_mumbai_mum_1180543.html | title=Maniben Kara Foundation | publisher=Indiacom | date=2015 | access-date=16 May 2015}}</ref> and maintains the Maniben Kara Foundation Hall, in [[Grant Road (South Mumbai, India)|Grant Road]] area in Mumbai.<ref name="Maniben Kara Foundation Hall">{{cite web | url=http://www.mojostreet.com/place/government-buildings/maniben-kara-foundation-hall-grant-road-mumbai-maharashtra-india-1661419 | title=Maniben Kara Foundation Hall | publisher=Mojo Street | date=2015 | access-date=16 May 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160630042929/http://www.mojostreet.com/place/government-buildings/maniben-kara-foundation-hall-grant-road-mumbai-maharashtra-india-1661419 | archive-date=30 June 2016 | url-status=dead }}</ref>
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+[[Category:20th-century Indian women educators]]

v t e Recipients of Padma Shri in Social Work
1950s	Mary Clubwala Jadhav (1955) R. S. Subbalakshmi (1958) Sailabala Das (1959) Lakshman Singh Jangpangi (1959)
1960s	Nanabhai Bhatt (1960) Bina Das (1960) Sophia Wadia (1960) Kamalabai Hospet (1961) Mithuben Petit (1961) N. Ramaswami Ayyar (1962) Mother Teresa (1962) Brij Krishna Chandiwala (1963) Leela Sumant Moolgaokar (1963) Leela Sumant Moolgaokar (1963) Ambujammal (1964) Mona Chandravati Gupta (1965) Lakshmi Mazumdar (1965) Gordhandas Bhagwandas Narottamdas (1965) John Richardson (1965) Manibhai Desai (1968) Bhaurao Gaikwad (1968) Shalini Moghe (1968) Sis Ram Ola (1968) Kalyan Singh Gupta (1969) Mangru Ganu Uikey (1969)
1970s	Indumati Chimanlal Sheth (1970) Maniben Kara (1970) Baba Amte (1971) Robin Banerjee (1971) Lila Ramkumar Bhargava (1971) Savita Behen (1971) Pandurang Dharmaji Jadhav (1971) Yudhvir Singh (1971) Avabai Bomanji Wadia (1971) Badri Prasad Bajoria (1972) Kanta Saroop Krishen (1972) Iyyanki Venkata Ramanayya (1972) Chandraprabha Saikiani (1972) Sarojini Varadappan (1973) Queenie H. C. Captain (1974) L. Kijungluba Ao (1976) Bishambhar Nath Pande (1976) Ismail Ahmed Cachalia (1977) Dhani Prem (1977)
1980s	Kunwar Singh Negi (1981) Bhagat Puran Singh (1981) Claire Vellut (1981) Swami Kalyandev (1982) Shiv Dutt Upadhyaya (1982) M. P. Nachimuthu (1983) Omem Moyong Deori (1984) Zainulabedin Gulamhusain Rangoonwala (1984) Ela Bhatt (1985) Ratnappa Kumbhar (1985) Anutai Wagh (1985) Chandi Prasad Bhatt (1986) Mahasweta Devi (1986) Krishan Dev Dewan (1986) Tushar Kanjilal (1986) Avdhash Kaushal (1986) Narayan Singh Manaklao (1986) Bunker Roy (1986) Begum Zaffar Ali (1987) Jaya Arunachalam (1987) Darshan Singh Vohra (1988) Mithu Alur (1989) Vedaratnam Appakutti (1989) Rajmohini Devi (1989) Krishnammal Jagannathan (1989) Mag Raj Jain (1989) Edward Kutchat (1989)
1990s	Anna Hazare (1990) Renana Jhabvala (1990) Silverine Swer (1990) Silverine Swer (1991) Vimla Dang (1991) T. G. K. Menon (1991) Jagdish Kashibhai Patel (1991) D. Y. Patil (1991) Sundaram Ramakrishnan (1991) Kantilal Hastimal Sancheti (1991) Shanthi Ranganathan (1992) Vidyaben Shah (1992) Leonarda Angela Casiraghi (1998) Antony Padiyara (1998) Shantha Sinha (1998) Kanta Tyagi (1998) Acharya Ramamurti (1999) T. Sailo (1999) Natwar Thakkar (1999)
2000s	Neidonuo Angami (2000) Jagan Nath Kaul (2000) Patricia Mukhim (2000) Janaky Athi Nahappan (2000) Hanumappa Sudarshan (2000) Rabindra Nath Upadhyay (2000) Tulasi Munda (2001) Norma Alvares (2002) Prakash Amte (2002) Kiran Martin (2002) Prema Narendra Purao (2002) Sivananda Rajaram (2002) Verna Elizabeth Watre Ingty (2003) Queenie Rynjah (2004) Hema Bharali (2005) Nana Chudasama (2005) Lalsawma (2005) Theilin Phanbuh (2005) Gladys Staines (2005) Suwalal Bafna (2006) Anil Prakash Joshi (2006) Sudha Murty (2006) Sudha Varghese (2006) Melhupra Vero (2006) Runa Banerjee (2007) S. M. Cyril (2007) M. A. Yusuff Ali (2008) Sheela Borthakur (2008) Karuna Mary Braganza (2008) V. R. Gowrishankar (2008) Kshama Metre (2008) Kutikuppala Surya Rao (2008) Madan Mohan Sabharwal (2008) Vikramjit Singh Sahney (2008) Bilkees Latif (2009) Keepu Tsering Lepcha (2009) C. K. Menon (2009) Joseph H. Pereira (2009) Sunil Kanti Roy (2009) Mitraniketan Viswanathan (2009)
2010s	Anu Aga (2010) J. R. Gangaramani (2010) Deep Joshi (2010) Sudha Kaul (2010) Ayekpam Tomba Meetei (2010) Kurian John Melamparambil (2010) Sudhir M. Parikh (2010) Kranti Shah (2010) Baba Sewa Singh (2010) Mamraj Agrawal (2011) Jockin Arputham (2011) Nomita Chandy (2011) Martha Chen (2011) Azad Moopen (2011) Sheela Patel (2011) Anita Reddy (2011) Kanubhai Hasmukhbhai Tailor (2011) Shamshad Begum (2012) Reeta Devi (2012) P. K. Gopal (2012) G. Muniratnam (2012) Niranjan Pranshankar Pandya (2012) Uma Tuli (2012) S. P. Varma (2012) Phoolbasan Bai Yadav (2012) Binny Yanga (2012) Jharna Dhara Chowdhury (2013) S. K. M. Maeilanandhan (2013) Nileema Mishra (2013) Reema Nanavati (2013) Manju Bharat Ram (2013) Narendra Dabholkar (2014) Mukul Chandra Goswami (2014) Durga Jain (2014) J. L. Kaul (2014) Mathur Savani (2014) Ashok Bhagat (2015) Janak Palta McGilligan (2015) Meetha Lal Mehta (2015) Veerendra Raj Mehta (2015) Bimla Poddar (2015) Madeleine Herman de Blic (2016) Madhu Pandit Dasa (2016) Ajoy Kumar Dutta (2016) Damal Kandalai Srinivasan (2016) Sunitha Krishnan (2016) Sundar Menon (2016) Arunachalam Muruganantham (2016) P. Gopinathan Nair (2016) Sudharak Olwe (2016) Girish Bharadwaj (2017) Appasaheb Dharmadhikari (2017) Bipin Ganatra (2017) Karimul Haque (2017) Anuradha Koirala (2017) Suhas Vitthal Mapuskar (2017) Daripalli Ramaiah (2017) Balbir Singh Seechewal (2017) Damodar Ganesh Bapat (2018) Sitavva Joddati (2018) Subhasini Mistry (2018) Sulagitti Narasamma (2018) Abdullah Bin Othman (2018) Sampat Ramteke (2018) Draupadi Ghimiray (2019) Bulu Imam (2019) Friederike Irina Bruning (2019) Chinna Pillai (2019) Shabbir Sayyad (2019) Jyoti Kumar Sinha (2019) Saalumarada Thimmakka (2019) Jamuna Tudu (2019) Muktaben Pankajkumar Dagli (2019)
2020s	Jagdish Lal Ahuja (2020) Popatrao Baguji Pawar (2020) Usha Chaumar (2020) Lia Diskin (2020) Sangkhumi Bualchhuak (2020 Tulsi Gowda (2020) Harekala Hajabba (2020) Tetsu Nakamura (2020) S. Ramakrishnan (2020) Sayed Mehboob Shah Qadri (2020) Mohammed Sharif (2020) Ramjee Singh (2020) Agus Indra Udayana (2020) Sundaram Verma (2020) Sindhutai Sapkal (2021) Girish Prabhune (2021) Prabhaben Shah (2022) Savaji Bhai Dholakia (2022) Gamit Ramilaben Raysingbhai (2022) Om Prakash Gandhi (2022) K V Rabiya (2022) Srimad Baba Balia (2022) Prem Singh (2022) Baba Iqbal Singh Ji (2022) S Damodaran (2022) Basanti Devi (2022) Bhiku Ramji Idate (2023) Bikram Bahadur Jamatia (2023) Ramkuiwangbe Jeme Newme (2023) Hirabai Lobi (2023) Moolchand Lodha (2023) Gajanan Jagannath Mane (2023) Uma Shankar Pandey (2023) V. P. Appukutta Poduval (2023) Vadivel Gopal and Masi Sadaiyan (2023) Sankurathri Chandra Sekhar (2023) Laxman Singh (2023) Palam Kalyana Sundaram (2023) Karma Wangchu (Posthumous) (2023) Sangthankima (2024)

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