Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship
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The Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship, also, Sangeet Natak Akademi Ratna Sadasya (Sanskrit
Sanskrit
Sanskrit , is a historical Indo-Aryan language and the primary liturgical language of Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism.Buddhism: besides Pali, see Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Today, it is listed as one of the 22 scheduled languages of India and is an official language of the state of Uttarakhand...

 ratna, "gem;" sadasya, "member") is an honour for the performing arts in India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

. Awarded by the Sangeet Natak Akademi
Sangeet Natak Akademi
Sangeet Natak Akademi is the national level academy for performing arts set up by the Government of India.-History:...

, India's National Academy for Music, Dance and Drama, and limited to thirty individuals at any given time, it is the highest honour in the performing arts conferred by the Government of India
Government of India
The Government of India, officially known as the Union Government, and also known as the Central Government, was established by the Constitution of India, and is the governing authority of the union of 28 states and seven union territories, collectively called the Republic of India...

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History

The fellowship was established in 1954 and the first elected fellows were the Carnatic music
Carnatic music
Carnatic music is a system of music commonly associated with the southern part of the Indian subcontinent, with its area roughly confined to four modern states of India: Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, and Tamil Nadu...

ians Karaikudi Sambasiva Aiyer and Ariyakudi Ramanuja Iyengar
Ariyakudi Ramanuja Iyengar
Ariyakudi Ramanuja Iyengar or more popularly simply called as Ariyakudi was born in Ariyakudi a town in the Karaikudi district of Tamil Nadu, South India in the year 1890. Ariyakudi was a Carnatic Music vocalist and is known for his unique style. He made his debut at Tyagaraja Aradhana in 1918...

, the Hindustani musicians Allauddin Khan
Allauddin Khan
Allauddin Khan , was a Bengali sarodiya and multi-instrumentalist, composer and one of the most renowned music teachers of the 20th Century in Indian classical music.In 1935, he toured Europe, along with Uday Shankar's ballet troupe, and later also worked at his...

 and Hafiz Ali Khan
Hafiz Ali Khan
Hafiz Ali Khan was an Indian Sarod player. He was a tall figure in twentieth-century sarod music. A fifth-generation descendant of the famous Bangash Gharana of sarod players, Hafiz Ali was known for the lyrical beauty of his music and the crystal-clear tone of his strokes...

, and movie and theatre actor Prithviraj Kapoor
Prithviraj Kapoor
Prithviraj Kapoor , 3 November 1906 – 29 May 1972) was a pioneer of Indian theatre and of the Hindi film industry, who started his career as an actor, in the silent era of Hindi cinema, associated with IPTA and who founded Prithvi Theatres, a travelling theatre company based in Mumbai, in...

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Living fellows

  • Ebrahim Alkazi
    Ebrahim Alkazi
    Ebrahim Alkazi is one of the most influential Indian theatre directors and Drama teachers in 20th century Indian theatre. He also remained the Director of National School of Drama, New Delhi He has also been a noted art connoisseur, collector and gallery owner, and found Art Heritage Gallery in...

     1967
  • Vedantam Satyanarayana Sarma 1967
  • Kapila Vatsyayan
    Kapila Vatsyayan
    Kapila Vatsyayan is a leading Indian scholar of classical Indian dance and Indian art and architecture.Vatsyayan received her M.A. from the University of Michigan and Ph.D. from the Banaras Hindu University. She is the author of many books including The Square and the Circle of Indian Arts,...

     1970
  • Ravi Shankar
    Ravi Shankar
    Ravi Shankar , often referred to by the title Pandit, is an Indian musician and composer who plays the plucked string instrument sitar. He has been described as the best known contemporary Indian musician by Hans Neuhoff in Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart.Shankar was born in Varanasi and spent...

     1975
  • Zubin Mehta
    Zubin Mehta
    Zubin Mehta is an Indian conductor of western classical music. He is the Music Director for Life of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra.-Biography:...

     1975
  • Lata Mangeshkar
    Lata Mangeshkar
    Lata Mangeshkar is a singer from India. She is one of the best-known and most respected playback singers in India. Mangeshkar's career started in 1942 and has spanned over six and a half decades. She has recorded songs for over a thousand Hindi films and has sung songs in over thirty-six regional...

     1989
  • Mrinalini Sarabhai
    Mrinalini Sarabhai
    Mrinalini Sarabhai is a celebrated Indian classical dancer, choreographer and instructor. She is the founder director of the Darpana Academy of Performing Arts, an institute for imparting training in dance, drama, music and puppetry, in the city of Ahmedabad...

     1993
  • Girish Karnad
    Girish Karnad
    Girish Raghunath Karnad is a contemporary writer, playwright, screenwriter, actor and movie director in Kannada language...

     1993
  • Birju Maharaj
    Birju Maharaj
    Brijmo Mishra popularly known as Pandit Birju Maharaj is currently the leading exponent of the Varanasi Kalka-Bindadin gharana of Kathak dance in India.He is a descendant of the legendary Maharaj family of Kathak dancers, including his two uncles, Shambhu Maharaj and Lachhu Maharaj, and his father...

     1998
  • M. Balamuralikrishna 2001
  • Vempati Chinna Satyam
    Vempati Chinna Satyam
    Dr. Vempati Chinna Satyam was born on October 25, 1929 in Kuchipudi, Andhra Pradesh. He is a legendary dancer and a guru of Kuchipudi dance form. Vedantam Lakshmi Narayana Sastry, a great master in the field, initiated Young Vempati into this great art...

     2001
  • Shanno Khurana 2002
  • Kavalam Narayana Panicker
    Kavalam Narayana Panicker
    Kavalam Narayana Panicker is an Indian dramatist, theatre director and poet. He has written over 26 Malayalam plays, many adapted from classical Sanskrit drama and Shakespeare, notably Madhyamavyayogam...

     2002
  • Zohra Segal 2004
  • Ramankutty Nair 2004
  • Annapurna Devi 2004
  • Gursharan Singh 2006
  • T. N. Krishnan 2006
  • Sushil Kumar Saxena 2007
  • Sitara Devi
    Sitara Devi
    Sitara Devi is an eminent Indian dancer of the classical Kathak style of dancing. When she was in her teens, Rabindranath Tagore, after watching a performance by her described her as Nritya Samragini, meaning, the empress of dance...

     2008
  • Khaled Choudhury
    Khaled Choudhury
    Khaled Choudhury is a renowned theatre personality and artist of Bengal. He worked for various Directors of both Bengali and Hindi plays, including Shambhu Mitra, Tripti Mitra, and Shyamanand Jalan in various capacities - creating the Stage, sets and costumes and later as Music Director. He is a...

     2008
  • R. C. Mehta
    R. C. Mehta
    Ramanlal C. Mehta was born on October 31, 1918 at Surat in the state of Gujarat. An eminent musician and musicologist, he retired in 1978, from the MS University of Baroda, after serving as Principal of the College of Indian Music, Dance & Dramatics / Faculty of Performing Arts ), for several...

     2008
  • Lalgudi Jayaraman
    Lalgudi Jayaraman
    Lalgudi Jayarama Iyer is a well-known Carnatic violinist, vocalist and composer.-Early life and background:...

     2009
  • Shriram Lagoo
    Shriram Lagoo
    Dr. Shreeram Lagoo is an Indian film and theatre actor, in Hindi and Marathi. He is known for his character roles in films. He has acted in over 100 Hindi and Marathi films, over 40 Marathi, Hindi and Gujarati plays, and has directed over 20 Marathi plays. He is considered one of the greatest...

     2009
  • Yamini Krishnamurthy
    Yamini Krishnamurthy
    Mungara Yamini Krishnamurthy is an eminent Indian dancer of Bharatnatyam and Kuchipudi styles of dancing.-Early life: Yamini Krishnamurthy was born in Madanapalli, Andhra Pradesh...

     2009
  • Kamlesh Dutt Tripathi
    Kamlesh Dutt Tripathi
    Kamlesh Dutt Tripathi is an eminent theatre personality and Professor emeritus of BHU Varanasi.The name of Tripathi is synonymous with the Sanskrit theatre tradition and aesthetics of India...

     2009
  • Pandit Jasraj
    Pandit Jasraj
    Pandit Jasraj is an Indian classical vocalist. He is the foremost exponent of the Mewati Gharana of Hindustani classical music.-Early life:Jasraj was born in Hisar, Haryana in an orthodox brahmin family to Pandit Motiramji, a classical exponent. His family is well known for singing in the Mewati...

     2009
  • Kishori Amonkar
    Kishori Amonkar
    Kishori AmonkarN- is an Indian singer who performs in the classical genre khyal and the light classical genres thumri and bhajan. Amonkar trained under her mother, classical singer Mogubai Kurdikar of the Jaipur gharana , but experimented with a variety of vocal styles in her career...

     2009
  • Girija Devi
    Girija Devi
    Girija Devi is an Indian classical singer of the Banaras gharana. She performs classical and light classical music and has helped elevate the profile of thumri.-Early life:Girija Devi was born in Varanasi, India in 1929...

     2010

Deceased fellows

  • Allauddin Khan
    Allauddin Khan
    Allauddin Khan , was a Bengali sarodiya and multi-instrumentalist, composer and one of the most renowned music teachers of the 20th Century in Indian classical music.In 1935, he toured Europe, along with Uday Shankar's ballet troupe, and later also worked at his...

     1954
  • Hafiz Ali Khan
    Hafiz Ali Khan
    Hafiz Ali Khan was an Indian Sarod player. He was a tall figure in twentieth-century sarod music. A fifth-generation descendant of the famous Bangash Gharana of sarod players, Hafiz Ali was known for the lyrical beauty of his music and the crystal-clear tone of his strokes...

     1954
  • Prithviraj Kapoor
    Prithviraj Kapoor
    Prithviraj Kapoor , 3 November 1906 – 29 May 1972) was a pioneer of Indian theatre and of the Hindi film industry, who started his career as an actor, in the silent era of Hindi cinema, associated with IPTA and who founded Prithvi Theatres, a travelling theatre company based in Mumbai, in...

     1954
  • Karaikudi Sambasiva Aiyer 1954
  • Ariyakudi Ramanuja Iyengar
    Ariyakudi Ramanuja Iyengar
    Ariyakudi Ramanuja Iyengar or more popularly simply called as Ariyakudi was born in Ariyakudi a town in the Karaikudi district of Tamil Nadu, South India in the year 1890. Ariyakudi was a Carnatic Music vocalist and is known for his unique style. He made his debut at Tyagaraja Aradhana in 1918...

     1954
  • Anjani Bai Malpekar 1958
  • Gopeswar Bandopadhyay 1962
  • Papanasam R. Sivan 1962
  • D. Annaswami Bhagavathar 1962
  • Uday Shankar
    Uday Shankar
    Uday Shankar , the pioneer of modern dance in India, and a world renowned Indian dancer and choreographer, was most known for adapting Western theatrical techniques to traditional Indian classical dance, imbued with elements of Indian classical, folk, and tribal dance, thus laying the roots of...

     1962
  • B. V. 'Mama' Warerkar 1963
  • Swami Prajnanananda 1963
  • S. N. Ratanjankar 1963
  • P. Sambamoorthy 1963
  • B. R. Deodhar 1964
  • P. V. Rajamannar
    P. V. Rajamannar
    Pakala Venkataramana Rao Rajamannar was an Indian politician who served as the acting Governor of Madras State from 1957 to 1958. He was the former Chief Justice of Madras High Court from 1948 to 1961.-References:...

     1964
  • T. L. Venkatarama Aiyer 1964
  • V. Raghavan
    V. Raghavan
    Venkataraman Raghavan was a Sanskrit scholar and musicologist. He was the recipient of numerous awards, including the Padma Bhushan and the Sahitya Akademi Award for Sanskrit, and authored over 120 books and 1200 articles.-Sanskrit:...

     1964
  • Birendra Kishore Roy Choudhury 1964
  • C. Saraswathi Bai 1964
  • Thakur Jaidev Singh 1965
  • D. G. Vyas 1965
  • Dilip Kumar Roy 1965
  • Ganesh Hari Ranade 1965
  • Vinayak Narayan Patwardhan 1965
  • Sombhu Mitra
    Sombhu Mitra
    Sombhu Mitra was an Indian film and stage actor, director, playwright and one of the pre-eminent Indian theatre personalities, especially Bengali theatre, where he is considered a pioneer. He remained associated with Indian People’s Theatre Association for a few years before founding Bohurupree...

     1966
  • Asutosh Bhattacharya 1966
  • Jaya Chamaraja Wadiyar 1966
  • E. Krishna Iyer
    E. Krishna Iyer
    E. Krishna Iyer was an Indian lawyer, freedom-fighter, classical artist and activist who was responsible for popularizing the dying art of Bharatanatyam in South India.- Early life :...

     1966
  • Rukmini Devi Arundale
    Rukmini Devi Arundale
    Rukmini Devi Arundale was an Indian theosophist, dancer and choreographer of the Indian classical dance form of Bharatnatyam, and also an activist for animal rights and welfare....

     1967
  • Bade Ghulam Ali Khan 1967
  • P. K. Kunju Kurup 1967
  • Musiri Subramania Iyer
    Musiri Subramania Iyer
    Musiri Subramania Iyer was a Carnatic vocalist who's stage performing career spanned the 1920s to the 1940s. After retirement from the stage, he remained an iconic figure in Carnatic music as a dedicated teacher and leader in the Carnatic community...

     1967
  • Adya Rangacharya 'Shriranga' 1967
  • Shambhu Maharaj
    Shambhu Maharaj
    Pandit Shambhu Maharaj was a celebrated Guru of the Lucknow Gharana of the Indian classical dance form, Kathak. -Early life and training:...

     1967
  • Kali Charan Patnaik 1968
  • Dilip Chandra Vedi 1970
  • K. C. D. Brahaspati 1970
  • Ananth Krishna Sarma 1972
  • Tarapada Chakravarty 1972
  • Krishnarao Ganesh Phulambrikar 1972
  • Kota Shivarama Karanth 1973
  • Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay
    Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay
    Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay was an Indian social reformer, freedom fighter, and most remembered for her contribution to Indian independence movement, for being the driving force behind the renaissance of Indian handicrafts, handlooms, and theatre in post-Independence India, and for upliftment of the...

     1974
  • Jnan Prakash Ghosh 1974
  • M. S. Subbulakshmi
    M. S. Subbulakshmi
    Madurai Shanmukhavadivu Subbulakshmi , also known as M.S., was a renowned Carnatic vocalist. She was the first musician ever to be awarded the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian honor. She is the first Indian musician to receive...

     1974
  • Embar S. Vijayaraghavachariar 1975
  • T. Balasarswati
    Balasaraswati
    Balasaraswati was a celebrated Indian dancer, and her rendering of Bharatanatyam, a classical dance style, made this style of dancing of south India well known in different parts of India, as also many parts of the world....

     1975
  • Rasiklal Chhotalal Parikh 1975
  • Semmangudi R. Srinivasa Iyer 1976
  • Santidev Ghosh 1976
  • Hirjibhai Rustomji Doctor 1977
  • B. Puttasamaya 1978
  • Tinuvengadu Subramania Pillai 1978
  • P. L. Deshpande
    P. L. Deshpande
    Purushottam Laxman Deshpande was a Marathi writer from Maharashtra, India. He was popularly known by his initials पु. ल. Purushottam Laxman Deshpande (8 November 1919 – 12 June 2000) was a Marathi writer from Maharashtra, India. He was popularly known by his initials पु. ल. Purushottam Laxman...

     1979
  • D. T. Joshi 1979
  • Sumati Mutatkar
    Sumati Mutatkar
    Sumati Mutatkar was an Indian classical music vocalist and musicologist from the Agra gharana of Hindustani classical music, and a Professor of Department of Music in University of Delhi....

     1979
  • T. P. Kuppiah Pillai 1979
  • V. K. Narayana Menon
    V. K. Narayana Menon
    Dr. V. K. Narayana Menon was a scholar of classical Indian dance and Indian classical music. He was one of the prominent art critic of India and a Fellow of the Sangeet Natak Akademi....

     1980
  • Mani Madhava Chakiar 1982
  • Mallikarjun Mansur
    Mallikarjun Mansur
    Mallikarjun Bheemarayappa Mansur was an Indian classical singer of the khyal style in the Jaipur-Atrauli gharana. He received the three national Padma Awards: Padma Shri in 1970, Padma Bhushan in 1976, and Padma Vibhushan in 1992.-Early life:...

     1982
  • Chandravadan C. Mehta 1984
  • M. Kirupanandawari 1984
  • Siya Ram Tewari 1984
  • Satyajit Ray
    Satyajit Ray
    Satyajit Ray was an Indian Bengali filmmaker. He is regarded as one of the greatest auteurs of 20th century cinema. Ray was born in the city of Kolkata into a Bengali family prominent in the world of arts and literature...

     1986
  • Komal Kothari
    Komal Kothari
    Komal Kothari , commonly known as Komalda, was an Indian folklorist and ethnomusicologist from Jodhpur, Rajasthan. A pioneer in the study of Indian folkore, he is most known for his work on the folklore of Rajasthan and its links to Music of Rajasthan and its instruments...

     1986
  • S. Ramanathan
    S. Ramanathan
    S. Ramanathan was a Carnatic music singer and musicologist.He learned music from Tiger Varadachariar, Sabesa Iyer, Ponniah Pillai, and Sathur Krishna Iyengar. He received a Ph.D. in ethnomusicology from Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, where he also taught.He had disciples who have...

     1986
  • V. V. Swarna Venkatesa Deekshithar 1986
  • Shivaputra Siddaramayya Komkali 'Kumar Gandharva'
    Kumar Gandharva
    Kumar Gandharva or Shivaputra Siddharamayya Komkallimath was a Hindustani classical singer, famous for his unique vocal style, refusal to be bound by the tradition of any gharana, and his innovative genius...

     1988
  • Ram Gopal
    Ram Gopal
    Ram Gopal may refer to:* Ram Gopal - Author, Freedom Fighter * Ram Gopal Varma - Indian screenwriter, film director/producer* Ram Gopal - late Bangalore-born British dancer...

     1990
  • Utpal Dutt
    Utpal Dutt
    Utpal Dutt was an Indian actor, director, and writer-playwright. He was primarily an actor in Bengali Theatre, where he became a pioneering figure in Modern Indian theatre, when he founded the 'Little Theater Group' in 1947, which enacted many English, Shakespearean and Brecht plays, in a period...

     1990
  • Kelucharan Mohapatra
    Kelucharan Mohapatra
    Guru Kelucharan Mohapatra was an Indian classical dancer, guru and proponent of Odissi dance, who is credited for the revival of the classical dance form in the 20th century....

     1991
  • Alain Danielou
    Alain Daniélou
    Alain Daniélou was a French historian, intellectual, musicologist, Indologist, and a noted Western convert to and expert on Shaivite Hinduism.-Life:...

     1991
  • T. S. Parthasarathy 1991
  • Prem Lata Sharma
    Prem Lata Sharma
    Prem Lata Sharma was a musicologist, scholar and educator. She was born in Punjab and completed her doctorate in the Banaras Hindu University....

     1992
  • Yehudi Menuhin
    Yehudi Menuhin
    Yehudi Menuhin, Baron Menuhin, OM, KBE was a Russian Jewish American violinist and conductor who spent most of his performing career in the United Kingdom. He was born to Russian Jewish parents in the United States, but became a citizen of Switzerland in 1970, and of the United Kingdom in 1985...

     1994
  • Maheswar Neog 1994
  • Bismillah Khan
    Bismillah Khan
    Ustad Bismillah Khan was an Indian shehnai maestro. He was the third classical musician to be awarded the Bharat Ratna , the highest civilian honour in India and gained worldwide acclaim for playing the shehnai for more than eight decades....

     1994
  • Vilayat Khan
    Vilayat Khan
    Ustad Vilayat Khan was one of India's well known sitar maestros, born in Gauripur in Mymensingh, Bengal...

     1995
  • Habib Tanvir
    Habib Tanvir
    Habib Tanvir was one of the most popular Indian Urdu, Hindi playwrights, a theatre director, poet and actor. He is the writer of plays such as, Agra Bazar and Charandas Chor...

     1996
  • Badal Sarkar
    Badal Sarkar
    Badal Sarkar , also known as Badal Sircar, was an influential Indian dramatist and theatre director, most known for his anti-establishment plays during the Naxalite movement in the 1970s and taking theatre out of the proscenium and into public arena, when he founded his own theatre company,...

     1997
  • Bhimsen Joshi
    Bhimsen Joshi
    Pandit Bhimsen Gururaj Joshi ; February 4, 1922 - January 24, 2011) was an Indian vocalist in the Hindustani classical tradition. A member of the Kirana Gharana , he is renowned for the khayal form of singing, as well as for his popular renditions of devotional music...

     1998
  • K. P. Kittappa Pillai 1998
  • B. V. Karanth
    B. V. Karanth
    Babukodi Venkataramana Karanth was a renowned film and theatre personality from India...

     2001
  • Tapas Sen  2004
  • Chandralekha
    Chandralekha (dancer)
    Chandralekha Prabhudas Patel , commonly known as just Chandralekha, was a dancer and choreographer from India...

     2004
  • Bindhyabasini Devi 2004
  • N. Khelchandra Singh 2006
  • Bhupen Hazarika
    Bhupen Hazarika
    Bhupen Hazarika was an Indian lyricist, musician, singer, poet and film-maker from Assam. His songs,written and sung mainly in Assamese by the legend himself, are infused with humanity and universalism, and have been translated and sung in many languages, most notable being Bengali ,Hindi and...

     2008
  • Nataraj Ramakrishna 2010

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