Lal Bahadur Shastri was an Indian politician and statesman who served as the second Prime Minister of India from 1964 to 1966.
Lal Bahadur Shastri : A Brief Biography in English
Birth | October 2, 1904 |
Birth place | Mughalsarai, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh |
Parents | Sharda Prasad Srivastava (father) and Ramdulari Devi (mother) |
Wife | Lalita Devi |
Children | Kusum, Hari Krishna, Suman, Anil, Sunil and Ashok |
Political party | Indian National Congress |
Death | January 11, 1966 |
Memorial | Vijay Ghat, New Delhi |
Bharat Ratna Award List
Year | Recipients | About |
Bharat Ratna 1954 | C. Rajagopalachari | Activist, statesman, and lawyer |
Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan | India’s first Vice-President and second President | |
C. V. Raman | Physicists, mathematicians, and scientists | |
Bharat Ratna 1955 | Bhagwan Das | Activist, philosopher, and educationist |
M. Visvesvaraya | Civil engineer, statesman, and Diwan of Mysore | |
Jawaharlal Nehru | Activist and author served as the Prime Minister of India | |
Bharat Ratna 1957 | Govind Ballabh Pant | Activist and first Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh |
Bharat Ratna 1958 | Dhondo Keshav Karve | Social reformer and educator |
Bharat Ratna 1961 | Bidhan Chandra Roy | Physician, political leader, philanthropist, educationist, and social worker |
Purushottam Das Tandon | Activist and speaker of the United Provinces Legislative Assembly | |
Bharat Ratna 1962 | Rajendra Prasad | Activist, lawyer, statesman, and scholar |
Bharat Ratna 1963 | Zakir Husain | Activist, economist, and education philosopher served as a Vice-Chancellor of Aligarh Muslim University and the Governor of Bihar |
Pandurang Vaman Kane | Indologist and Sanskrit scholar, known for his five-volume literary work | |
Bharat Ratna 1966 | Lal Bahadur Shastri | Activist and served as the second Prime Minister of India |
Bharat Ratna 1971 | Indira Gandhi | First women Prime Minister of India |
Bharat Ratna 1975 | V. V. Giri | Trade Unionist |
Bharat Ratna 1976 | K. Kamaraj | Independence activist and statesman, former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu |
Bharat Ratna 1980 | Mother Teresa | Catholic nun and the founder of the Missionaries of Charity. |
1983 | Vinoba Bhave | Activist, social reformer, and a close associate of Mahatma Gandhi |
Bharat Ratna 1987 | Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan | First noncitizen, independence activist |
Bharat Ratna 1988 | M. G. Ramachandran | Actor turned politician, Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu |
Bharat Ratna 1990 | B.R. Ambedkar | Social reformer and leader of the Dalits |
Nelson Mandela | Leader of the Anti-Apartheid Movement in South Africa, President of South Africa | |
Bharat Ratna 1991 | Rajiv Gandhi | Gandhi was the ninth Prime Minister of India serving from 1984 to 1989. |
Vallabhbhai Patel | Activist and first Deputy Prime Minister of India | |
Morarji Desai | Activist, and Prime Minister of India | |
Bharat Ratna 1992 | Abul Kalam Azad | Activist and first Minister of education |
J. R. D. Tata | Industrialist, philanthropist, and aviation pioneer | |
Satyajit Ray | Director, filmmaker, writer, novelist | |
Bharat Ratna 1997 | Gulzarilal Nanda | Activist, and interim Prime Minister of India. |
Aruna Asaf Ali | Activist | |
A.P.J Abdul Kalam | Aerospace and defense scientist | |
Bharat Ratna 1998 | M. S. Subbulakshmi | Carnatic classical vocalist |
Chidambaram Subramaniam | Activist and former Minister of Agriculture of India | |
Bharat Ratna 1999 | Jayaprakash Narayan | Activist, and social reformer |
Amartya Sen | Economist | |
Gopinath Bordoloi | Activist | |
Ravi Shankar | Musician, sitar player | |
Bharat Ratna 2001 | Lata Mangeshkar | Singer |
Bismillah Khan | Hindustani classical shehnai player | |
Bharat Ratna 2009 | Bhimsen Joshi | Hindustani classical vocalist |
Bharat Ratna 2014 | C. N. R. Rao | Chemist and professor, author |
Sachin Tendulkar | Cricketer | |
Bharat Ratna 2015 | Madan Mohan Malaviya | Scholar and educational reformer. |
Atal Bihari Bajpayee | Elected nine times to the Lok Sabha, twice to the Rajya Sabha, and served as the Prime Minister of India for three terms. | |
Bharat Ratna 2019 | Pranab Mukherjee | Indian politician, and senior leader in the Indian National Congress. |
Nanaji Deshmukh | A social activist from India, education, health, and rural self-reliance. | |
Bhupen Hazarika | Indian playback singer, lyricist, musician, singer, poet, and filmmaker from Assam. |
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