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1955

Laureates

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C. Rajagopalachari

Independence activist, last and only Indian Governor-General of India

C. V. Raman

Nobel laureate physicist (1930)

Sarvepalli

Philosopher, India's first Vice-President (195262), and

Radhakrishnan

secondPresident (196267)

Bhagwan Das

Visvesvaraya

Independence activist, theosophist, and founder of Mahatma Gandhi

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Kashi Vidyapith

Civil engineer, statesman and Diwan of Mysore (191218)

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Jawaharlal Nehru

Independence activist, author, and first Prime Minister of India (1947

1957

Govind Ballabh Pant

1958

Dhondo Keshav Karve Social reformer

Bidhan Chandra Roy

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Independence activist, first Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh(195054)

Physician-Surgeon and second Chief Minister of West Bengal(1948

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1961

1962

Purushottam Das
Tandon

Rajendra Prasad

Zakir Hussain

Independence activist, educator

Independence activist, lawyer, first President of India (195062)

Independence activist, second Vice-President of India (196267), and

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third President of India (196769)

1963

Pandurang Vaman
Kane

Indologist and Sanskrit scholar

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1971

Lal Bahadur
Shastri

Indira Gandhi

Independence activist and third Prime Minister of India (196466)

Former Prime Minister of India (196677, 198084)

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