Sangeet Natak Akademi Award (2024 Updated)

Sangeet Natak Akademi Award

Last Updated: 23 December 2023

Sangeet Natak Akademi Award is given by the Sangeet Natak Akademi, India’s National Academy of Music, Dance & Drama. It is the highest Indian recognition given to people in the field of performing arts.

Sangeet Natak Akademi Award is also known as the Akademi Puraskar. It was first awarded in 1952 to 4 recipients.

In 2003, the award consisted of ₹50,000, a citation, an angavastram (a shawl), and a tamrapatra (a brass plaque). Since 2009, the cash prize has been increased to ₹1,000,000 (10 Lakh).

The awards are given in the categories of Music, Dance, Theatre, other Traditional Arts, and Puppetry, and for Contribution/Scholarship in Performing Arts.

The recipients of the Sangeet Natak Akademi award in various categories of performing arts are listed below

Sangeet Natak Akademi Award


1952


FieldHindustani MusicCarnatic Music
VocalMushtaq Hussain KhanAriyakudi Ramanuja Iyengar
InstrumentalAllauddin Khan (Sarod)Karaikudi Sambasiva Iyer (Veena)

1953


FieldHindustani MusicCarnatic Music
VocalKesarbai KerkarSemmangudi R. Srinivasa Iyer
InstrumentalHafiz Ali Khan (Sarod)Dwaram Venkataswamy Naidu (Violin)

1954


FieldHindustani MusicCarnatic Music
VocalRajab Ali KhanMysore K. Vasudevacharya
InstrumentalUstad Ahmed Jan Thirakwa (Tabla)Palladam Sanjiva Rao (Flute)

1955


FieldRecipient
Vocal
Hindustani Music
Anant Manohar Joshi
Instrumental
Hindustani Music
Govind Rao Burhanpurkar (Pakhavaj)
Vocal
Carnatic Music
Maharajapuram Vishwanatha Iyer
Instrumental
Carnatic Music
T. N. Rajarathinam Pillai (Nagaswaram)
Dance1) T. Balasaraswati (Bharatanatyam)
2) Shambhu Maharaj (Kathak)
Theatre
Acting
1) Gubbi Veeranna (Kannada)
2) Narayan Rao Rajhans ‘Bal Gandharva’ (Marathi Theatre)

1956


FieldRecipient
Vocal
Hindustani Music
Rajabhaiyya Poonchhwale
Instrumental
Hindustani Music
Ustad Bismillah Khan (Shehnai)
Vocal
Carnatic Music
M. S. Subbulakshmi
Instrumental
Carnatic Music
Palghat Mani Iyer (Mridangam)
Dance1) Guru Kunchu Kurup (Kathakali)
2) Maisnam Amubi Singh (Manipuri)
Theatre
Acting
Ganesh Govind Bodas (Marathi Theatre)

1957


FieldRecipient
Vocal
Hindustani Music
Rasoolan Bai
Vocal
Carnatic Music
Musiri Subramania Iyer
Instrumental
Carnatic Music
Tirumakudalu Chowdiah (Violin)
Dance1) Rukmini Devi Arundale (Bharatanatyam)
2) Baijnath Prasad “Lacchu Maharaj” (Kathak)
Theatre
Acting
Chintaman Ganesh Kolhatkar (Marathi Theatre)
Theatre
Direction
Jaishankar Bhojak ‘Sundari’
Films1) Debaki Bose (Direction)
2) Gajanan Digambar Madgulkar (Screenplay)

1958


FieldRecipient
Vocal
Hindustani Music
Ganesh Ramachandra Behere
Instrumental
Hindustani Music
Yusuf Ali (Sitar)
Vocal
Carnatic Music
Chembai Vaidyanatha Bhagavathar
Instrumental
Carnatic Music
Budaloor Krishnamurthy Shastri (Gottuvadhyam)
Dance1) Thotton K. Chandu Panikkar (Kathakali)
2) Haobam Atomba Singh (Manipuri)
Theatre
Acting
Ahindra Choudhury (Bengali Theatre)
Theatre
Playwriting
B.V. ‘Mama’ Warerkar (Marathi)
Films1) Sachin Dev Burman (Music Direction)
2) Durga Khote (Acting)

1959


FieldRecipient
Vocal
Hindustani Music
Krishnarao Shankar Pandit
Instrumental
Hindustani Music
Ustad Jahangir Khan (Tabla)
Vocal
Carnatic Music
G. N. Balasubramaniam
Instrumental
Carnatic Music
Kumbakonam Rajamanickam Pillai (Violin)
Dance1) Mylapore Gouri Amma (Bharatanatyam)
2) Sunder Prasad (Kathak)
Theatre
Acting
Pammal Sambandha Mudaliar (Tamil)
Theatre
Direction
Sombhu Mitra
Films1) Ashok Kumar (Acting)
2) Satyajit Ray (Direction)

1960


FieldRecipient
Vocal
Hindustani Music
Altaf Hussain Khan
Instrumental
Hindustani Music
Wahid Khan (Sitar)
Vocal
Carnatic Music
Madurai Mani Iyer
Instrumental
Carnatic Music
L. Subramanya Sastri (Veena)
DanceUday Shankar (Creative Dance/Choreography)
Theatre
Acting
1) Ashraf Khan (Gujarati Theatre)
2) C. I. Parameswaran Pillai (Malayalam)
3) Gopal Govind Pathak (Marathi Theatre)
FilmsChhabi Biswas (Acting)

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1961


FieldRecipient
Vocal
Hindustani Music
Y. S. Mirashi Buwa
Instrumental
Hindustani Music
Pt. Kanthe Maharaj (Tabla)
Vocal
Carnatic Music
Mudikondan C. Venkatarama Iyer
Instrumental
Carnatic Music
T. N. Swaminatha Pillai (Flute)
Dance1) Thekinkatti Ramunni Nair (Kathakali)
2) Vedantam Satyanarayana Sarma ‘Satyam’ (Kuchipudi)
3) T. Amudon Sharma (Manipuri)
Theatre
Acting
1) Mitradev Mahanta Adhikari (Assamese)
2) Subbaiah Naidu (Kannada)
3) Samuel Sahu (Oriya)
4) Sthanam Narasimha Rao (Telugu Theatre)
Theatre
Direction
Kasambhai Nathubhai Mir
Theatre
Playwriting
Prabhulal Dayaram Dwivedi (Gujarati)
Films1) Lalita Pawar (Acting)
2) Kavi Pradeep (Lyricist)
3) Mukhram Sharma (Screenplay)

1962


FieldRecipient
Vocal
Hindustani Music
Bade Ghulam Ali Khan
Instrumental
Hindustani Music
Pt. Ravi Shankar (Sitar)
Vocal
Carnatic Music
D. K. Pattammal
Instrumental
Carnatic Music
Dr. Thiruvengadu Subramania Pillai (Nagaswaram)
Dance1) R. Muthurathnambal (Bharatanatyam)
2) Mohanrao Kallianpurkar (Kathak)
Theatre
Acting
1) Tripti Mitra (Bengali Theatre)
2) T. K. Shanmugam (Tamil)
Theatre
Direction
Ebrahim Alkazi

1963


FieldRecipient
Vocal
Hindustani Music
Omkarnath Thakur
Instrumental
Hindustani Music
Ali Akbar Khan (Sarod)
Vocal
Carnatic Music
B. Devendrappa
Instrumental
Carnatic Music
T. K. Jayarama Iyer (Violin)
Dance1) Sudhendra Narayan Singh Deo (Chhau)
2) Chenganoor Raman Pillai (Kathakali)
3) Atombapu Sharma (Manipuri)
4) Maniram Datta Moktar (Sattriya)
Theatre
Acting
1) Banda Kanakalingeswara Rao (Telugu Theatre)
2) Zohra Sehgal (Urdu)
Theatre
Playwriting
Adya Rangacharya ‘Shriranga’ (Kannada)

1964


FieldRecipient
Vocal
Hindustani Music
Rahimuddin Khan Dagar
Vocal
Carnatic Music
Chittoor S. Subramanyam
Instrumental
Carnatic Music
K. N. Chinnaswamy Iyer (Violin)
DanceBirju Maharaj (Kathak)
Theatre
Acting
Keshav Trimbak Date (Marathi Theatre)
Theatre
Direction
T. S. Rajamanikkam
Theatre
Others
Mani Madhava Chakyar (Kutiyattam)

1965


FieldRecipient
Vocal
Hindustani Music
Hirabai Barodekar
Instrumental
Hindustani Music
Sakharam Tavde (Pakhavaj)
Vocal
Carnatic Music
T. Brinda
Instrumental
Carnatic Music
T. R. Mahalingam (Flute)
Dance1) P. Chockkalingam Pillai (Bharatanatyam)
2) Guru Gopinath (Kathakali)
3) Guru Bipin Singh (Manipuri)
Theatre
Acting
1) Muljibhai Khushalbhai Nayak (Gujarati Theatre)
2) V. T. Aravindaksha Menon (Malayalam)
3) Krishnachandra Moreshwar “Daji Bhatawadekar” (Sanskrit)
Theatre
Playwriting
Upendra Nath Ashk (Hindi)

1966


FieldRecipient
Vocal
Hindustani Music
Siddheswari Devi
Instrumental
Hindustani Music
Shakoor Khan (Sarangi)
Vocal
Carnatic Music
Madurai Srirangam Iyengar
Instrumental
Carnatic Music
P. S. Veeruswamy Pillai (Nagaswaram)
Dance1) Vazhuvoor B. Ramiah Pillai (Bharatanatyam)
2) Kelucharan Mohapatra (Odissi)

1967


FieldRecipient
Vocal
Hindustani Music
Amir Khan
Instrumental
Hindustani Music
Ayodhya Prasad (Pakhavaj)
Vocal
Carnatic Music
C. Venkata Rao
Instrumental
Carnatic Music
K. S. Venkataramiah ‘Papa’ (Violin)
DanceKalamandalam Krishnan Nair (Kathakali)
Theatre
Acting
1) Sabitabrata Dutta (Bengali Theatre)
2) S. V. Sahasranamam (Tamil)
Theatre
Playwriting
P. L. Deshpande (Marathi)

1968


FieldRecipient
Vocal
Hindustani Music
Mogubai Kurdikar
Instrumental
Hindustani Music
Mushtaq Ali Khan (Sitar)
Vocal
Carnatic Music
Alathur Srinivasa Iyer
Instrumental
Carnatic Music
K. S. Narayanaswamy (Veena)
Dance1) Kamala (Bharatanatyam)
2) Damayanti Joshi (Kathak)
3) Kurichi Kunjan Panickar (Kathakali)
4) Chinta Krishnamurthy (Kuchipudi)
Theatre
Acting
Jashwant Thaker (Gujarati Theatre)
Theatre
Playwriting
1) Badal Sircar (Bengali)
2) Mohan Rakesh (Hindi)

1969


FieldRecipient
Vocal
Hindustani Music
Ramchatur Mallick
Instrumental
Hindustani Music
Dabir Khan (Veena)
Vocal
Carnatic Music
Dandapani Desikar
Instrumental
Carnatic Music
Devakottai A. Narayana Iyengar (Veena)
Dance1) T. K. Swaminatha Pillai (Bharatanatyam)
2) Sitara Devi (Kathak)
3) Vazhenkada Kunchu Nair (Kathakali)
4) Ojha Thangjam Chaoba Singh (Manipuri)
Theatre
Acting
N. N. Pillai (Malayalam)
Theatre
Direction
Habib Tanvir
Theatre
Playwriting
Manmatha Ray (Bengali)
Theatre
Others
Gahan Chandra Goswami (Ankia Nat)

1970


FieldRecipient
Vocal
Hindustani Music
Nisar Hussain Khan
Instrumental
Hindustani Music
Masit Khan (Tabla)
Vocal
Carnatic Music
M. L. Vasanthakumari
Instrumental
Carnatic Music
Mysore V. Doreswamy Iyengar (Veena)
Dance1) Shanta Rao (Bharatanatyam)
2) Mrinalini Sarabhai (Creative Dance/Choreography)
3) M. Vishnu Namboodiri (Kathakali)
4) Pankaj Charan Das (Odissi)
Theatre
Acting
Saraju Bala Devi (Bengali Theatre)
Theatre
Direction
Adi Ferozeshah Marzban
Theatre
Playwriting
Vijay Tendulkar (Marathi)

Related: Dhyan Chand Award (2024 Updated)


1971


FieldRecipient
Vocal
Hindustani Music
Mallikarjun Mansur
Instrumental
Hindustani Music
Radhika Mohan Maitra (Sarod)
Vocal
Carnatic Music
N. Channakeshaviah
Instrumental
Carnatic Music
Madurai S. Subramanya Iyer (Violin)
Dance1) T. Chandrakanthamma (Bharatanatyam)
2) Ananta Charan Sai (Chhau)
3) Kudamaloor Karunakaran Nair (Kathakali)
Theatre
Acting
Shreeram Lagoo (Marathi Theatre)
Theatre
Direction
Satyadev Dubey
Theatre
Playwriting
1) C. C. Mehta
2) Pragji Dossa

1972


FieldRecipient
Vocal
Hindustani Music
Begum Akhtar
Instrumental
Hindustani Music
Gajananrao Joshi (Violin)
Vocal
Carnatic Music
T. Muktha
Instrumental
Carnatic Music
T. S. Natarajasundaram Pillai (Nagaswaram)
Dance1) Sikkil Ramaswami Pillai (Bharatanatyam)
2) M. Madhava Panicker (Kathakali)
3) Kshetri Tombi Devi (Manipuri)
4) T. Chinnammu Amma (Mohiniattam)
Theatre
Direction
Shyamanand Jalan
Theatre
Playwriting
Girish Karnad (Kannada)
Theatre
Others
Kudamaloor Karunakaran Nair (Kathakali)

1973


FieldRecipient
Vocal
Hindustani Music
Gangubai Hangal
Vocal
Carnatic Music
B.S. Raja Iyengar
Instrumental
Carnatic Music
1) Emani Sankara Sastry (Veena)
2) Vishnudas Shirali (Creative & Experimental)
Dance1) Kumbakonam K. Bhanumathi (Bharatanatyam)
2) Velinezhi K. Nanu Nayar (Kathakali)
3) Kavungal Chathunni Panicker (Kathakali)
4) L. Koireng Singh (Manipuri)
Theatre
Acting
1) Shobha Sen (Bengali Theatre)
2) Kalyanam Raghuramaiah (Telugu Theatre)
Theatre
Direction
Ajitesh Bandopadhyay

1974


FieldRecipient
Vocal
Hindustani Music
Kumar Gandharva
Instrumental
Hindustani Music
Nikhil Banerjee (Sitar)
Vocal
Carnatic Music
M. D. Ramanathan
Instrumental
Carnatic Music
T. N. Krishnan (Violin)
Dance1) K. P. Kittappa Pillai (Bharatanatyam)
2) Gauri Shankar Devilal Kathak (Kathak)
3) Kalamandalam Ramankutty Nair (Kathakali)
4) L. Ibemhal Devi (Manipuri)
Theatre
Acting
Pransukh Manilal Nayak (Gujarati Theatre)
Theatre
Direction
Damodar Kashinath Kenkre
Theatre
Playwriting
S.D. Sundaram (Tamil)
Theatre
Allied Theatre Arts
Tapas Sen (Lighting)

1975


FieldRecipient
Vocal
Hindustani Music
1) Bhimsen Joshi
2) Gavri Devi
Instrumental
Hindustani Music
Ram Narayan (Sarangi)
Vocal
Carnatic Music
M. Balamurali Krishna
Instrumental
Carnatic Music
C.S. Murugabhupathy (Mridangam)
Dance1) Krishna Chandra Naik (Chhau)
2) Roshan Kumari (Kathak)
3) K. Sankarankutty Panicker (Kathakali)
4) Rajani Maibi (Manipuri)
Theatre
Acting
Molina Devi (Bengali Theatre)
Theatre
Direction
Vijaya Mehta
Theatre
Playwriting
Bijon Bhattacharya

1976


FieldRecipient
Vocal
Hindustani Music
Narayanrao Vyas
Instrumental
Hindustani Music
1) Gopal Misra (Sarangi)
2) Karamatulla Khan (Tabla)
Vocal
Carnatic Music
K.V. Narayanaswamy
Instrumental
Carnatic Music
1) Sheik Chinna Moulana (Nagaswaram)
2) Timir Baran Bhattacharya (Creative & Experimental)
Dance1) M. Muthiah Pillai (Bharatanatyam)
2) Narendra Sharma (Creative Dance)
3) Ojha Maibam Ibungohal Singh (Manipuri)
4) Sanjukta Panigrahi (Odissi)
5) Raghunath Panigrahi (Odissi)
Theatre
Acting
Jyotsna Bhole (Marathi Theatre)
Theatre
Direction
B. V. Karanth
Theatre
Playwriting
C. T. Khanolkar (Marathi)
Theatre
Others
Raghunath Panigrahi (Odissi Music)

1977


FieldRecipient
Vocal
Hindustani Music
Girija Devi
Instrumental
Hindustani Music
Asad Ali Khan (Veena)
Vocal
Carnatic Music
Sripada Pinakapani
Instrumental
Carnatic Music
S. Balachander (Veena)
Dance1) Yamini Krishnamurthy (Bharatanatyam)
2) Nayana Susheel Jhaveri (Manipuri)
3) Deba Prasad Das (Odissi)
Theatre
Acting
Krishna Roy (Bengali Theatre)
Theatre
Direction
Rajinder Nath
Theatre
Playwriting
Lakshmi Narain Lal (Hindi)
Theatre
Allied Theatre Arts
V. Ramamurthy (Lighting)

1978


FieldRecipient
Vocal
Hindustani Music
Khadim Hussain Khan
Instrumental
Hindustani Music
Purushottam Das (Pakhavaj)
Vocal
Carnatic Music
Madurai S. Somasundaram
Instrumental
Carnatic Music
1) Lalgudi Jayaraman (Violin)
2) Rai Chand Boral (Creative & Experimental)
Dance1) C. Ramacharyalu (Kuchipudi)
2) Kalamandalam Kalyanikutty Amma (Mohiniattam)
3) Bapuram Bayan Attai (Sattriya)
Theatre
Acting
Dattaram N. Walwaikar (Marathi Theatre)
Theatre
Direction
Jabbar Patel
Theatre
Puppetry
Kathinanada Das 

1979


FieldRecipient
Vocal
Hindustani Music
Sarachchandra Arolkar
Instrumental
Hindustani Music
Pt. Samta Prasad (Tabla)
Vocal
Carnatic Music
R K Srikanthan
Instrumental
Carnatic Music
Kolanka Venkata Raju (Mridangam)
Dance1) Pandanallur Subbaraya Pillai (Bharatanatyam)
2) Prabhat Ganguli (Creative Dance)
3) Rohini Bhate (Kathak)
Theatre
Acting
Amrish Puri (Hindi Theatre)
Theatre
Direction
B. M. Shah
Theatre
Playwriting
G. Sankara Pillai (Malayalam)
Theatre
Puppetry
U. Kogga Devanna Kamath

1980


FieldRecipient
Vocal
Hindustani Music
Nivruttibua Sarnaik
Instrumental
Hindustani Music
V. G. Jog (Violin)
Vocal
Carnatic Music
Seerkhazhi S. Govindarajan
Instrumental
Carnatic Music
Thanjavur K.P. Sivanandam (Veena)
Dance1) R. K. Priyagopal Sana (Creative Dance)
2) L. Thouranishabi Devi (Manipuri)
3) Roseshwar Saikia Bayan Moktar (Sattriya)
Theatre
Acting
Dina Pathak (Gujarati Theatre)
Theatre
Direction
Rudraprasad Sengupta
Theatre
Playwriting
Narasinga Rao Parwathavani (Kannada)
Theatre
Puppetry
K.L. Krishnan Kutty Pulavar

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1981


FieldRecipient
Vocal
Hindustani Music
Basavaraj Rajguru
Instrumental
Hindustani Music
Zia Mohiuddin Dagar (Veena)
Vocal
Carnatic Music
1) Radha
2) Jayalakshmi
Instrumental
Carnatic Music
Namagiripettai Krishnan (Nagaswaram)
Dance1) Indrani Rahman (Bharatanatyam)
2) Kedar Nath Sahoo (Chhau)
3) Parvati Kumar (Creative Dance)
4) Vempati Chinna Satyam (Kuchipudi)
Theatre
Acting
Chintamani Govind Pendse (Marathi Theatre)
Theatre
Direction
R. S. Manohar
Theatre
Playwriting
Manoranjan Das (Oriya)
Theatre
Allied Theatre Arts
Ashok Srivastava (Costumes/Make-up)
Theatre
Others
Kamini Kumar Narzary (Bodo Tribal Dance)
Theatre
Puppetry
M.R. Ranganatha Rao

1982


FieldRecipient
Vocal
Hindustani Music
Vasantrao Deshpande
Instrumental
Hindustani Music
Ustad Alla Rakha (Tabla)
Vocal
Carnatic Music
T. M. Thiagarajan
Instrumental
Carnatic Music
1) M. S. Gopalakrishnan (Violin)
2) Vijay Raghav Rao (Creative & Experimental)
Dance1) Vyjayanthimala (Bharatanatyam)
2) Gambhir Singh Mura (Chhau)
3) Kartik Ram (Kathak)
4) Kumudini Lakhia (Kathak)
5) L. Tombi Devi (Manipuri)
Theatre
Acting
Manohar Singh (Hindi Theatre)
Theatre
Direction
Sheila Bhatia
Theatre
Playwriting
M.G. Rangnekar (Marathi)
Biswajit Das (Oriya)

1983


FieldRecipient
Vocal
Hindustani Music
Mahadev Prasad Mishra
Instrumental
Hindustani Music
Pt. Hari Prasad Chaurasiya (Flute)
Vocal
Carnatic Music
D. K. Jayaraman
Instrumental
Carnatic Music
1) Palghat R. Raghu (Mridangam)
2) Chidambaram S. Jayaraman (Creative & Experimental)
Dance1) Padma Subramanyam (Bharatanatyam)
2) Champakulam Pachu Pillai (Kathakali)
3) Nataraja Ramakrishna (Kuchipudi & Bharatanatyam)
Theatre
Acting
1) Kumar Roy (Bengali Theatre)
2) Dattatray Ramachandra Bhat (Marathi Theatre)
Theatre
Direction
Kavalam Narayana Panikkar
Theatre
Playwriting
1) Chandrashekhara Kambara (kannada)
2) Kavalam Narayana Panikkar (Malayalam)
Theatre
Others
1) Dharmiklal Chunilal Pandya (Akhyana)
2) Lalit Chandra Ojha (Ojapali & Deodhani Dances)
Theatre
Puppetry
Meher Rustom Contractor

1984


FieldRecipient
Vocal
Hindustani Music
Sharafat Hussain Khan
Instrumental
Hindustani Music
Pt. Kishan Maharaj (Tabla)
Vocal
Carnatic Music
Maharajapuram V. Santhanam
Instrumental
Carnatic Music
Natesan Ramani (Flute)
Dance1) Subramaniam Sarada (Bharatanatyam)
2) Sudharani Raghupathy (Bharatanatyam)
3) Rajkumar Singhajit Singh (Creative Dance)
4) Durga Lal (Kathak)
Theatre
Acting
Uttara Baokar (Hindi Theatre)
Theatre
Playwriting
Vasant Shankar Kanetkar (Marathi)
Theatre
Others
1) Balakrushna Dash (Odissi Music)
2) Bhubaneswar Mishra (Odissi Music)

1985


FieldRecipient
Vocal
Hindustani Music
1) Kishori Amonkar
2) Aminuddin Dagar
Instrumental
Hindustani Music
Ali Hussain Khan (Shehnai)
Vocal
Carnatic Music
Voleti Venkatesvarulu
Instrumental
Carnatic Music
Valangaiman A. Shanmugasundaram Pillai (Thavil)
Dance1) T. K. Mahalingam Pillai (Bharatanatyam)
2) Mankompu Sivasankara Pillai (Kathakali)
3) Vedantam Prahlada Sarma (Kuchipudi)
4) Khaidem Lokeshwar Singh (Manipuri)
5) Mayadhar Raut (Odissi)
Theatre
Acting
1) Fida Hussain (Hindi Theatre)
2) B. Jayamma (Kannada)
Theatre
Direction
Heisnam Kanhailal
Theatre
Playwriting
Manoj Mitra (Bengali)
Theatre
Allied Theatre Arts
Goverdhan Panchal (Scenic Design)
Theatre
Others
Mohan Chandra Barma (Bhaona)

1986


FieldRecipient
Vocal
Hindustani Music
1) Gavri Devi
2) Asgari Bai
3) Firoz Dastur
4) Manik Varma
Instrumental
Hindustani Music
1) Devendra Murdeshwar (Flute)
2) Shivkumar Sharma (Santoor)
3) Sabri Khan (Sarangi)
4) Sharan Rani Backliwal (Sarod)
Vocal
Carnatic Music
1) B. Rajam Iyer
2) Nedunuri Krishnamoorthy
Instrumental
Carnatic Music
1) Rajeswari Padmanabhan (Veena)
2) M. Chandrasekaran (Violin)
3) Anil Biswas (Creative & Experimental)
4) M. B. Srinivasan (Creative & Experimental)
5) Hemanta Kumar Mukhopadhyay (Creative & Experimental)
Dance1) Krishnaveni Lakshmanan (Bharatanatyam)
2) Priyambada Mohanty Hejmadi (Odissi)
Theatre
Acting
1) Prabhakar V. Panshikar (Marathi Theatre)
2) Peesapati Narasimha Murty (Telugu Theatre)
Theatre
Direction
Alyque Padamsee
Theatre
Playwriting
1) Satya Prasad Barua (Assamese)
2) K. T. Muhammed (Malayalam)
Theatre
Allied Theatre Arts
Khaled Choudhury (Scenic Design)

1987


FieldRecipient
Vocal
Hindustani Music
1) C. R. Vyas
2) Shobha Gurtu
3) Pandit Jasraj
Instrumental
Hindustani Music
1) Abdul Halim Jaffer Khan (Sitar)
2) Imrat Khan (Sitar)
Vocal
Carnatic Music
1) Madurai N. Krishnan
2) Mani Krishnaswami
Instrumental
Carnatic Music
T. Viswanathan (Flute)
T. K. Murthy (Mridangam)
Dance1) U. S. Krishna Rao (Bharatanatyam)
2) Chandrabhaga Devi (Bharatanatyam)
3) Chitra Viswaswaran (Bharatanatyam)
4) Madan Mohan Lenka (Chhau)
5) Uma Sharma (Kathak)
6) Kalamandalam Gopi (Kathakali)
7) Pasumarthi Venugopala Krishna Sarma (Kuchipudi)
8) Tarun Kumar Singh (Manipuri)
9) Sonal Mansingh (Odissi)
Theatre
Acting
Sulabha Deshpande (Marathi Theatre)
Theatre
Direction
1) Tarun Roy
2) Ratan Thiyam
Theatre
Playwriting
1) V.V. Shirwadkar (Marathi)
2) Gopal Chhotray (Oriya)
Theatre
Others
Bhupen Hazarika (Folk Music)
Theatre
Puppetry
Suresh Dutta

1988


FieldRecipient
Vocal
Hindustani Music
Padmavati Gokhale Shaligram
Instrumental
Hindustani Music
1) Ramshankardas Pagaldas (Pakhavaj)
2) Hanuman Prasad Mishra (Sarangi)
3) Zarin Sharma (Sarod)
Vocal
Carnatic Music
Nookala Chinna Satyanarayana (1988)
Instrumental
Carnatic Music
1) Thetakudi Harihara Vinayakram (Ghatam)
2) Valayapatti A. R. Subramaniam (Thavil)
3) R. Pichumani Iyer (Veena)
4) Chalakudy N. S. Narayanaswamy (Violin)
5) Bhaskar Chandavarkar (Creative & Experimental)
Dance1) Srihari Nayak (Chhau)
2) Keezhpadam Kumaran Nair (Kathakali)
3) Ibopishak Sharma (Manipuri)
Theatre
Acting
1) Sarita Joshi (Gujarati Theatre)
2) Saudagar Nagnath Gore ‘Chhota Gandharva’ (Marathi Theatre)
Theatre
Playwriting
Dharamvir Bharati (Hindi)
Theatre
Allied Theatre Arts
Dattatraya Ganesh Godse (Scenic Design)
Theatre
Others
Pratima Barua Pandey (Folk Music)
FilmsSalil Chowdhury (Music)

1989


FieldRecipient
Vocal
Hindustani Music
Jitendra Abhisheki
Instrumental
Hindustani Music
1) Amjad Ali Khan (Sarod)
2) Pt. Anant Lal (Shehnai)
3) Balaram Pathak (Sitar)
Vocal
Carnatic Music
Titte Krishna Iyengar
Instrumental
Carnatic Music
1) Sikkil Kunjumani (Flute)
2) Sikkil Neela (Flute)
3) R. K. Venkatarama Sastry (Violin)
4) Vanraj Bhatia (Creative & Experimental)
Dance1) V. S. Muthuswamy Pillai (Bharatanatyam)
2) Maya Rao (Creative Dance)
3) Oyoor Kochugovinda Pillai (Kathakali)
Theatre
Acting
1) Sekhar Chatterjee (Bengali Theatre)
2) Surekha Sikri (Hindi Theatre)
Theatre
Direction
Bibhash Chakraborty
Theatre
Playwriting
1) G. B. Joshi (Kannada)
2) Mahesh Elkunchwar (Marathi)
Theatre
Allied Theatre Arts
G.N. Dasgupta (Lighting)
Theatre
Others
Rajen Pam (Tribal Music)

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1990


FieldRecipient
Vocal
Hindustani Music
1) K. G. Ginde
2) Dhondutai Kulkarni
Instrumental
Hindustani Music
1) Abdul Lateef Khan (Sarangi)
2) Ustad Zakir Hussain (Tabla)
3) N. Rajam (Violin)
Vocal
Carnatic Music
T. V. Sankaranarayanan
Instrumental
Carnatic Music
1) T. V. Gopalakrishnan (Mridangam)
2) Chitti Babu (Veena)
3) L. Subramaniam (Creative & Experimental)
Dance1) Kalanidhi Narayanan (Bharatanatyam)
2) Bikram Kumbhakar (Chhau)
3) Shobha Naidu (Kuchipudi)
4) Th. Babu Singh (Manipuri)
Theatre
Acting
1) Naseeruddin Shah (Hindi Theatre)
2) Bhakti Barve Inamdar (Marathi Theatre)
Theatre
Direction
1) Geoffrey Kendal
2) Laura Kendal
Theatre
Allied Theatre Arts
Roshan Alkazi (Costumes/Make-up)
Theatre
Others
Rameshwar Pathak (Folk Music)

1991


FieldRecipient
Vocal
Hindustani Music
1) N. Zahiruddin Dagar
2) Prabha Atre
Instrumental
Hindustani Music
1) Chatrapati Singh (Pakhavaj)
2) Annapurna Devi (Surbahar)
3) Shaikh Dawood (Tabla)
Vocal
Carnatic Music
S. Rajam
Instrumental
Carnatic Music
1) Vellore G. Ramabhadran (Mridangam)
2) Kandadevi S. Alagiriswamy (Violin)
Dance1) Adyar K. Lakshman (Bharatanatyam)
2) Chandra Sekhar Bhanj (Chhau)
3) Chandralekha (Creative Dance)
4) Reba Vidyarthi (Kathak)
5) Chennithala Chellapan Pillai (Kathakali)
6) Raja Reddy (Kuchipudi)
7) Radha Reddy (Kuchipudi)
Theatre
Acting
1) Sabitri Heisnam (Manipuri)
2) Neelu Phule (Marathi Theatre)
Theatre
Direction
Fritz Bennewitz
Theatre
Playwriting
Mohit Chattopadhyaya (Bengali)
Theatre
Others
1) Puranchand Wadali (Folk Music)
2) Pyarelal Wadali (Folk Music)
FilmsSudhir Phadke (Music)

1992


FieldRecipient
Vocal
Hindustani Music
1) Ramarao V. Naik
2) Shiv Kumar Shukla
Instrumental
Hindustani Music
1) Sultan Khan (Sarangi)
2) Uma Shankar Mishra (Sitar)
Vocal
Carnatic Music
K. R. Kumaraswamy Iyer
Instrumental
Carnatic Music
1) Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman (Mridangam)
2) M. K. Kalyanakrishna Bhagavathar (Veena)
Dance1) K. J. Sarasa (Bharatanatyam)
2) Sachin Shankar (Creative Dance)
3) D. N. Pattnaik (Odissi)
Theatre
Acting
1) R. Nagarathnamma (Kannada)
2) Poornam Viswanathan (Tamil)
Theatre
Direction
Mohan Maharishi
Theatre
Playwriting
Surendra Verma (Hindi)
Theatre
Others
Khagen Mahanta (Folk Music)
Theatre
Puppetry
Dadi Dorab Pudumjee
Films1) Naushad (Music)
2) K. J. Yesudas (Music)

1993


FieldRecipient
Vocal
Hindustani Music
1) Bala Saheb Poochwale
2) Rahim Fahimuddin Dagar
Instrumental
Hindustani Music
1) Gopaldas Panse (Pakhavaj)
2) Bhajan Sopori (Santoor)
3) Buddhadev Das Gupta (Sarod)
Vocal
Carnatic Music
Trichy Swaminathan Iyer
Instrumental
Carnatic Music
1) Kalpakam Swaminathan (Veena)
2) Kunnakudi Vaidyanathan (Violin)
Dance1) Guru Kubernath Tanjorkar (Bharatanatyam)
2) C. V. Chandrasekhar (Bharatanatyam)
3) Manjusri Chaki Sircar (Creative Dance)
4) Kalamandalam Padmanabhan Nair (Kathakali)
5) Josyula Seetharamaiah (Kuchipudi)
6) H. Ngangbi Devi (Manipuri)
Theatre
Mime
Jogesh Dutta
Theatre
Direction
1) Kailash Pandya
2) Barry John
Theatre
Playwriting
Gursharan Singh (Punjabi)
Theatre
Allied Theatre Arts
M.S. Sathyu (Stagecraft)

1994


FieldRecipient
Vocal
Hindustani Music
1) Sulochana Brahaspati
2) Zia Fariddudin Dagar
Instrumental
Hindustani Music
1) Pandit Gopal Krishan (Veena)
2) Raghunath Seth (Flute)
3) Shamim Ahmed Khan (Sitar)
Vocal
Carnatic Music
C. S. Krishna Iyer
Instrumental
Carnatic Music
1) A. K. C. Natarajan (Clarionet)
2) Dandamudi Ram Mohan Rao (Mridangam)
3) V. Balsara (Creative & Experimental)
Dance1) V. P. Dhananjayan (Bharatanatyam)
2) Shanta Dhananjayan (Bharatanatyam)
3) Vedantam Parvateesam (Kuchipudi)
4) T. Nadia Singh (Kuchipudi)
5) Kalamandalam Satyabhama (Mohiniattam)
6) Kumkum Mohanty (Odissi)
Theatre
Acting
1) Balappa Yenagi (Kannada)
2) Uzra Butt (Urdu)
Theatre
Playwriting
Satish Alekar (Marathi)
Theatre
Allied Theatre Arts
Kanishka Sen (Lighting)
Theatre
Others
M. Boyer (Tiatr)
Overall Contribution1) Kanak Rele (Dance)
2) K. V. Subbanna (Theatre)

1995


FieldRecipient
Vocal
Hindustani Music
A. Kanan
Instrumental
Hindustani Music
1) Ram Ashish Pathak (Pakhavaj)
2) D. K. Datar (Violin)
Vocal
Carnatic Music
R. Vedavalli
Instrumental
Carnatic Music
1) Umayalpuram K. Narayanaswamy (Ghatam)
2) Domada Chittiabbayi (Nagaswaram)
3) Atul Desai (Creative & Experimental)
Dance1) M. K. Saroja (Bharatanatyam)
2) Indira Rajan (Bharatanatyam)
3) Astad Deboo (Creative Dance)
4) Ramlal Bareth (Kathak)
5) L. Thambalngoubi Devi (Manipuri)
6) Raghunath Dutta (Odissi)
Theatre
Acting
Satya Bandopadhyay (Bengali theatre)
Theatre
Direction
1) M. K. Raina
2) Bansi Kaul
Theatre
Allied Theatre Arts
N. Krishnamoorthy (Stagecraft)
Theatre
Others
Teejan Bai (Pandavani)
Theatre
Puppetry
T. Hombiah
Overall ContributionSunil Kothari (Dance)

1996


FieldRecipient
Vocal
Hindustani Music
1) Dinkar Kaikini
2) Hafeez Ahmed Khan
Instrumental
Hindustani Music
1) Inderlal Dhandra (Sarangi)
2) Ramchandra Mishra (Sarangi)
3) Pt. Raghunath Prasanna (Shehnai)
4) Debu Chaudhuri (Sitar)
5) Annavarapu Rama Swamy (Violin)
Vocal
Carnatic Music
T. K. Govinda Rao
Instrumental
Carnatic Music
1) Guruvayur Dorai (Mridangam)
2) Annavarapu Ramaswamy (Violin)
Dance1) Sarada Hoffman (Bharatanatyam)
2) Rani Karnaa (Kathak)
3) Kottakkal Krishnan Kutty Nair (Kathakali)
4) Darshana Jhaveri (Manipuri)
5) Indira P. P. Bora (Sattriya)
Theatre
Acting
1) B. Jayashree (Kannada)
2) Mohan Agashe (Marathi Theatre)
Theatre
Direction
Purushottam Darwhekar
Theatre
Playwriting
G.P. Deshpande (Marathi)
Overall ContributionRam Gopal Bajaj (Theatre)

1997


FieldRecipient
Vocal
Hindustani Music
L. K. Pandit
Instrumental
Hindustani Music
1) Swapan Chaudhuri (Tabla)
2) Lalji Gokhale (Tabla)
3) Sisir Kana Dhar Chowdhury (Violin)
Vocal
Carnatic Music
M. S. Balasubramanya Sarma
Instrumental
Carnatic Music
1) Kesi Narayanaswamy (Flute)
2) T. Rukmini (Violin)
3) Satish Bhatia (Creative & Experimental)
Dance1) Kanaka Srinivasan (Bharatanatyam)
2) Madavoor Vasudevan Nair (Kathakali)
3) Samanduram Tondon Devi (Manipuri)
4) Gangadhar Pradhan (Odissi)
Theatre
Acting
 R. K. Bhogen (Manipuri)
Theatre
Direction
Bhanu Bharti
Theatre
Playwriting
1) H. S. Shivaprakash (Kannada)
2) Moti Lal Kemmu (Kashmiri)
3) N. Krishna Pillai (Malayalam)
Theatre
Allied Theatre Arts
Mansukh Joshi (Lighting & Scenic Design
Theatre
Others
1) Arghya sen (Rabindra Sangeet)
2) P. R. Thilagam (Kuravanji Performer)

1998


FieldRecipient
Vocal
Hindustani Music
1) Puttaraj Gawaigalu
2) Parveen Sultana
3) Rajan Mishra
4) Sajan Mishra
Instrumental
Hindustani Music
Pandharinath Gangadhar Nageshkar (Tabla)
Instrumental
Carnatic Music
1) Karaikudi Mani (Mridangam)
2) M. S. Anantharaman (Violin)
3) Vishwa Mohan Bhatt (Creative & Experimental)
Dance1) Lakshmi Viswanathan (Bharatanatyam)
2) Sunderlal Sathyanarayan Gangani (Kathak)
3) Kottakkal Sivaraman (Kathakali)
4) Veernala Jayarama Rao (Kuchipudi)
5) Banashree Rao (Kuchipudi)
6) N. Madhabi Devi (Manipuri)
7) Kalamandalam Kshemavathy (Mohiniattam)
8) Pradip Chaliha (Sattriya)
Theatre
Acting
Soumitra Chatterjee (Bengali Theatre)
Theatre
Direction
1) Amal Allana
2) Dulal Roy
3) Usha Ganguly
Theatre
Playwriting
Balwant Gargi (Punjabi)
Theatre
Others
Ghulam Mohammad Saznawaz
Theatre
Puppetry
 Kolhacharan Sahu (Ravanchhaya Puppetry)

1999-2000


FieldRecipient
Vocal
Hindustani Music
1) Ajoy Chakraborty
2) Rita Ganguly
3) Malabika Kanan
Instrumental
Hindustani Music
1) Rajeev Taranath (Sarod)
2) Shankar Ghosh (Tabla)
Instrumental
Carnatic Music
1) T.S Sankaran (Flute)
2) V. Kamalakar Rao (Mridangam)
3) R. R. Keshavamurthy (Violin)
Dance1) K. Kalyanasundaram Pillai (Bharatanatyam)
2) Leela Samson (Bharatanatyam)
3) H. R. Keshava Murthy (Bharatanatyam)
4) Mallika Sarabhai (Creative Dance)
5) Shovana Narayan (Kathak)
6) Nelliyode Vasudevan Namboodiri (Kathakali)
7) Swapnasundari Rao (Kuchipudi)
8) Sorokhaibam Naran Singh (Manipuri)
9) Bharati Shivaji (Mohiniattam)
10) Minati Mishra (Odissi)
11) Madhavi Mudgal (Odissi)
12) Parmanand Borbayan (Sattriya)
Theatre
Acting
1) Ketaki Dutta Sabitri Chatterjee (Bengali Theatre)
2) Seema Biswas (Hindi Theatre)
Theatre
Direction
1) Balwant Thakur
2) Nadira Zaheer Babbar
3) Prasanna
Theatre
Playwriting
Na. Muthuswamy (Tamil)
Theatre
Allied Theatre Arts
1) R.K. Dhingra (Lighting)
2) Robin Das (Scenic Design)
3) Shakti Sen (Make-up)
4) Kajal Ghosh (Music for Theatre)
5) Kamal Tewari (Music for Theatre)
Theatre
Puppetry
B.H. Puttashamachar

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2000


FieldRecipient
Instrumental
Hindustani Music
Appa Jalgaonkar (Harmonium)
Vocal
Carnatic Music
S. R. Janakiraman
DanceSurendra Saikia (Kathak)
Overall Contribution1) B. V. K. Sastry (Performing Arts)
2) Nemi Chandra Jain (Performing Arts)
3) Shanta Serbjeet Singh (Performing Arts)

2001


FieldRecipient
Vocal
Hindustani Music
1) Abhay Narayan Mallick
2) Sangameshwar Gurav
3) Malini Rajurkar
Instrumental
Hindustani Music
1) Manilal Nag (Sitar)
2) Ishwar Lal Mishra (Tabla)
Vocal
Carnatic Music
B. V. Raman
Instrumental
Carnatic Music
1) G. Harishankar (Kanjira)
2) Haridwaramangalam A. K. Palanivel (Thavil)
3) R. N. Doreswamy (Veena)
4) S. Rajaram (Creative & Experimental)
Dance1) Alarmel Valli (Bharatanatyam)
2) Pratibha Prahlad (Bharatanatyam)
3) Gul Bardhan (Creative Dance)
4) Charu Sija Mathur (Manipuri)
5) Ghanakanta Bora (Sattriya)
Theatre
Acting
Girish Chowdhury (Assamese)
Theatre
Direction
Shanta Gandhi
Theatre
Playwriting
1) Bhisham Sahni (Hindi)
2) D.P. Sinha (Hindi)
Theatre
Allied Theatre Arts
Dolly Ahluwalia (Costume Design)
Theatre
Puppetry
Hiren Bhattacharya
Theatre
Films
Prem Matiyani (Theatre)
Overall ContributionSuresh Awasthi (Performing Arts)

2002


FieldRecipient
Vocal
Hindustani Music
1) Sushila Rani Patel
2) Sharayu Kalekar
Instrumental
Hindustani Music
1) Suresh B. Gaitonde (Tabla)
2) Anindo Chatterjee (Tabla)
Vocal
Carnatic Music
T. R. Subramaniam
Instrumental
Carnatic Music
1) Yella Venkateshwara Rao (Mridangam)
2) E. Gayathri (Veena)
3) K. P. Udayabhanu (Creative & Experimental)
Dance1) Malavika Sarukkai (Bharatanatyam)
2) Sambhu Bhattacharya (Creative Dance)
3) Rajendra Gangani (Kathak)
4) K. Ongbi Leipaklotpi Devi (Manipuri)
5) Kiran Segal (Odissi)
Theatre
Mime
Niranjan Goswami
Theatre
Direction
1) Arun Mukherjee
2) Satish Anand
Theatre
Allied Theatre Arts
1) Ashok Sagar Bhagat (Lighting)
2) Nissar Allana (Stagecraft)
Theatre
Others
1) Dilip Sarma (Jyoti Sangeet)
2) Sudakshina Sarma (Jyoti Sangeet)
Overall Contribution1) Romesh Chander (Theatre)
2) J. N. Kaushal (Theatre)

2003


FieldRecipient
Vocal
Hindustani Music
1) Ghulam Mustafa Khan
2) Yeshwant Balkrishna Joshi
Instrumental
Hindustani Music
1) Bhavani Shankar (Pakhavaj)
2) Arvind Parikh (Sitar)
Vocal
Carnatic Music
1) Trichur V. Ramachandran
2) M. A. Narasimhachar
Instrumental
Carnatic Music
1) Kadri Gopalnath (Saxophone)
2) A. Kanyakumari (Violin)
Dance1) C. K. Balagopalan (Bharatanatyam)
2) Sunayana Hazarilal Agarwal (Kathak)
3) Urmila Nagar (Kathak)
4) Sadanam P. V. Balakrishnan (Kathakali)
5) K. Uma Rama Rao (Kuchipudi)
6) Thiyam Suryamukhi Devi (Manipuri)
7) Kalavati Devi (Manipuri)
8) Hare Krishna Behera (Odissi)
Theatre
Acting
1) Shaoli Mitra (Bengali Theatre)
2) C. R. Simha (Kannada)
Theatre
Direction
1) Devendra Raj Ankur
2) Neelam Mansingh Chowdhry
Theatre
Playwriting
1) Aruna Sarma (Assamese)
2) Ratnakar Ramkrishna Matkari (Marathi)
Theatre
Allied Theatre Arts
1) Sreenivas G. Kappanna (Lighting)
2) Anant Gopal Shinde (Make-up)
Theatre
Others
1) Prabhat Sarma (Traditional & Folk Music)
2) Kosha Kanta Deva Goswami (Mask Making Bhaona)
3) Banamali Maharana (Odissi Music)
Theatre
Puppetry
Puran Bhatt
Overall ContributionP. V. Subramanium ‘Subbudu’ (Performing Arts)

2004


FieldRecipient
Vocal
Hindustani Music
1) Balwant Rai Bhatt
2) Tejpal Singh
3) Surinder Singh
Instrumental
Hindustani Music
1) Aashish Khan (Sarod)
2) Pt. Suresh Talwalkar (Tabla)
Vocal
Carnatic Music
1) Thiruvengadu A. Jayaraman
2) C. Saroja
3) C. Lalitha
Instrumental
Carnatic Music
1) Prapancham Sitaram (Flute)
2) Madras A. Kannan (Mridangam)
Dance1) Nirmala Ramachandran (Bharatanatyam)
2) Shashadhar Acharya (Chhau)
3) Saswati Sen (Kathak)
4) Kalamandalam Vasu Pisharody (Kathakali)
5) Pasumarthi Seetha Ramiah (Kuchipudi)
6) Kalamandalam Sugandhi (Mohiniattam)
7) Durllav Chandra Singh (Odissi)
8) Jatin Goswami (Sattriya)
Theatre
Acting
1) Rohini Hattangady
2) Ramcharan Nirmalkar
Theatre
Direction
1) Anuradha Kapur
2) Arambam Lokendra Singh
3) Raj Besaria
Theatre
Playwriting
1) Swadesh Deepak (Hindi)
2) Indira Parthasarathy (Tamil)
Theatre
Allied Theatre Arts
Prema Karanth (Costume Design)
Overall ContributionSushil Kumar Saxena (Performing Arts)

2005


FieldRecipient
Vocal
Hindustani Music
1) S. C. R. Bhat
2) Ramashreya Jha
Instrumental
Hindustani Music
1) Brij Bhushan Kabra (Guitar)
2) Tulsidas Vasant Borkar (Harmonium)
Vocal
Carnatic Music
1) S. V. Parthasarrathy
2) P. S. Narayanaswamy
Instrumental
Carnatic Music
1) Ongale N. Rangaiah (Nagaswaram)
2) V. V. Subrahmanyam (Violin)
Dance1) R. Rhadha (Bharatanatyam)
2) Th. Chaotombi Singh (Creative Dance)
3) Tirath Ram Azad (Kathak)
4) Mathoor Govindan Kutty (Kathakali)
5) Korada Narasimha Rao (Kuchipudi)
6) K. Radhamohon Sharma (Manipuri)
7) Durga Charan Ranbir (Odissi)
8) Josyula Krishna Murthy (Kuchipudi Bhagavatha Maddalla)
Theatre
Acting
Chindodi Leela
Theatre
Direction
1) Ranjit Kapoor
2) V K Sharma
Theatre
Allied Theatre Arts
1) Suresh Bhardwaj (Lighting)
2) R. Paramashivan (Music for Theatre)
3) H. V. Sharma (Stagecraft)
Theatre
Others
1) Khirod Khakhlari (Bodo Dance & Music)
2) Kashinath Pujapanda (Odissi Music)
3) Mathoor Govindan Kutty (Kathakali)
Theatre
Puppetry
Ganpat Sakharam Masge
Overall ContributionPratibha Agrawal (Theatre)

2006


FieldRecipient
Vocal
Hindustani Music
1) Vijay Kumar Kichlu
2) Rashid Khan
Instrumental
Hindustani Music
1) Shahid Parvez (Sitar)
2) Kumar Bose (Tabla)
Vocal
Carnatic Music
1) D. Pasupathi
2) Chingleput Ranganathan
Instrumental
Carnatic Music
1) N. Ravikiran (Gottuvadhyam)
2) Thiruvarur Bakthavathsalam (Mridangam)
Dance1) S. Narmada (Bharatanatyam)
2) Gorima Hazarika (Creative Dance)
3) Munna Shukla (Kathak)
4) Kottakkal Chandrasekharan (Kathakali)
5) Pasumarthi Rathiah Sarma (Kuchipudi)
6) Kalamandalam Vimala Menon (Mohiniattam)
7) Surendra Nath Jena (Odissi)
8) Kalamandalam Gangadharan (Kathakali Pattu)
Theatre
Acting
1) Dharani Barman
2) Gita Dey
3) K. Kaladharan Nair
Theatre
Direction
1) E. Joychandra Singh
2) R. Nagesh
3) Amitava Dasgupta
Theatre
Playwriting
Prabhat Kumar Bhattacharya (Hindi)
Theatre
Allied Theatre Arts
Gautam Bhattacharya (Lighting)
Overall ContributionRekha Jain (Performing Arts)

2007


FieldRecipient
Vocal
Hindustani Music
1) Vidyadhar Vyas
2) Govardhan Mishra
Instrumental
Hindustani Music
1) Nandan Mehta (Tabla)
2) Ramoo Prasad Shastri (Violin)
Vocal
Carnatic Music
B. Krishnamoorti
Instrumental
Carnatic Music
1) S. R. D. Vaidyanathan (Nagaswaram)
2) Vidya Shankar (Veena)
3) Khayyam (Creative & Experimental)
Dance1) Sucheta Bhide Chapekar (Bharatanatyam)
2) Geetanjali Lal (Kathak)
3) Sadanam Krishnankutty (Kathakali)
4) Yelesarapu Nageswara Sarma (Kuchipudi)
5) Deepti Omchery Bhalla (Mohiniattam)
6) Ranjana Gauhar (Odissi)
7) Ganakanta Dutta Borbayan (Sattriya)
8) Kalamandalam Sivan Namboodiri (Kutiyattam)
Theatre
Acting
Ramesh Mehta
Theatre
Direction
1) Hari Madhab Mukherjee
2) N.C. Thakur
Theatre
Playwriting
1) Reoti Sharan Sharna (Hindi)
2) Yumnam Rajendra Singh (Manipuri)
3) Lathangfala Sailo (Mizo)
Theatre
Allied Theatre Arts
Mahendra Kumar (Scenic Design)
Theatre
Major Traditions
Kolyur Ramachandra Rao (Yakshagana)
Theatre
Others
1) Subodh Debbarma (Folk Dance)
2) Amar Pal (Folk Song)
Overall ContributionMukund Lath (Performing Arts)

2008


FieldRecipient
Vocal
Hindustani Music
1) Ulhas Kashalkar
2) M.R. Gautam
Instrumental
Hindustani Music
1) Ramesh Mishra (Sarangi)
2) Krishna Ram Chaudhary (Shehnai)
Vocal
Carnatic Music
Puranam Purushottama Sastri
Instrumental
Carnatic Music
1) Mannargudi Easwaran (Mridangam)
2) B. Sasikumar (Violin)
3) Ningombam Ibobi Singh (Nata Sankirtana)
Dance1) Saroja Vaidyanathan (Bharatanatyam)
2) Yogsunder Desai (Creative Dance)
3) Shashi Sankhla (Kathak)
4) Kalamandalam Kuttan (Kathakali)
5) Vasanta Lakshmi and Narasimhachari (Kuchipudi)
6) Kalamandalam Leelamma (Mohiniattam)
7) Ramani Ranjan Jena (Odissi)
8) Ramhari Das (Odissi)
Theatre
Acting
1) Markand Bhatt
2) Arundhati Nag
Theatre
Direction
1) S. Ramanujam
2) Probir Guha
Theatre
Playwriting
1) Narsingh Dev Jamwal (Dogri)
2) Mudra Rakshasa (Hindi)
Theatre
Allied Theatre Arts
Amba Sanyal (Costume Designing)
Theatre
Major Traditions
Bansi Lal Khiladi (Khayal)
Theatre
Others
1) Kartar Singh (Gurbani)
2) Mangi Bai Arya (Mand)
3) Lakha Khan Mangniyar (Folk Music)
4) Bansi Lal Khilari (Khayal)
Overall ContributionR. Sathyanarayana (Performing Arts)

2009


FieldRecipient
Vocal
Hindustani Music
1) Abdul Rashid Khan
2) Vasundhara Komkali
Instrumental
Hindustani Music
1) Ali Ahmad Hussain (Shehnai)
2) Lachman Singh Seen (Tabla)
Vocal
Carnatic Music
Parassala B Ponnammal
Instrumental
Carnatic Music
1) U. Srinivas (Mandolin)
2) Dandamudi Sumathi Ram Mohan Rao (Mridangam)
3) L. Ibohalmacha Singh (Nata Sankirtana)
Dance1) Ananda Shankar Jayant (Bharatanatyam)
2) Daksha Sheth (Creative Dance)
3) Prerana Shrimali (Kathak)
4) Kalamandalam Rajan (Kathakali)
5) Vyjayanthi Kashi (Kuchipudi)
6) L. Bino Devi (Manipuri)
7) Geeta Mahalik (Odissi)
8) Kala Krishna (Andhranatyam)
Theatre
Acting
1) Sudha Shivpuri
2) Neeta Mohindra
Theatre
Mime
Moinul Haque
Theatre
Direction
1) Joy Michael
2) Dinesh Thakur
Theatre
Playwriting
1) Vayala Vasudevan Pillai (Malayalam)
2) Shankar Narayan Navre (Marathi)
Theatre
Allied Theatre Arts
1) Kamal Arora (Make-up)
2) Kuldeep Singh (Music for Theatre)
Theatre
Others
Bhikhudan Gadhvi (Folk music)
Overall ContributionLeela Venkataraman (Performing Arts)

2010


FieldRecipient
Vocal
Hindustani Music
1) Chhannulal Mishra
2) Yashpaul
Instrumental
Hindustani Music
1) Nityanand Haldipur (Flute)
2) Budhaditya Mukherjee (Sitar)
Vocal
Carnatic Music
1) Suguna Purushothaman
2) Mysore Nagamani Srinath
Instrumental
Carnatic Music
1) Srimushnam V. Raja Rao (Mridangam)
2) Nagai Muralidharan (Violin)
3) M.V. Simhachala Sastry (Harikatha)
Dance1) Uttara Asha Coorlawala (Creative Dance)
2) Malabika Mitra (Kathak)
3) Kalamandalam K. G. Vasudevan (Kathakali)
4) Ratna Kumar (Kuchipudi)
5) Phanjoubam Iboton Singh (Manipuri)
6) Aruna Mohanty (Odissi)
7) Manik Borbayan (Sattriya)
8) Painkulam Rama Chakyar (Kutiyattam)
9) S. Rajeswari (Bharatanatyam)
Theatre
Acting
1) Dilip Prabhavalkar
2) Banwari Taneja
3) Maya Krishna Rao
4) Swatilekha Sengupta
Theatre
Direction
1) Veenapani Chawla
2) Urmil Kumar Thapliyal
Theatre
Playwriting
1) Atamjeet Singh (Punjabi)
2) D. Vizai Bhaskar (Telegu)
Theatre
Others
1) Harbhajan Singh Namdhari (Gurbani Kirtan)
2) Nazeer Ahmed Khan Warsi (Qawwali)
3) Naseer Ahmed Khan Warsi (Qawwali)
4) Dwijen Mukherjee (Rabindra Sangeet)
5) Chandabai Tiwadi (Bharud)
6) T. Somasundaram (Folk Dance)
7) Krishna Kumari (Folk Music: Bhakha)
8) Chand Jagdish Tiwadi (Folk theatre: Bharud)
Theatre
Puppetry
1) K. Chinna Anjannamma (Shadow Puppetry: Tolu Bommalata)
2) K.V. Ramakrishnan (Glove Puppetry: Pava Kathakali)
3) K.C. Ramakrishnan (Glove Puppetry: Pava Kathakali)
Overall Contribution1) Ashok Ranade (Music)
2) Jaidev Taneja (Theatre)

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2011


FieldRecipient
Vocal
Hindustani Music
1) Shruti Sadolikar
2) Pandit Venkatesh Kumar
Instrumental
Hindustani Music
1) Totaram Sharma (Pakhavaj)
2) Pushparaj Koshti (Surbahar)
Vocal
Carnatic Music
J. Venkataraman
Instrumental
Carnatic Music
1) E. M. Subramaniam (Ghatam)
2) Seshampatti T Sivalingam (Nagaswaram)
3) Ayyagari Syamasundaram (Veena)
4) Gopal Chandra Panda (Odissi Music)
Dance1) Narthaki Nataraj (Bharatanatyam)
2) Tanushree Shankar (Creative Dance)
3) Manjushree Chatterjee (Kathak)
4) Thonnakkal Peethambaran (Kathakali)
5) Alekhya Punjala (Kuchipudi)
6) Priti Patel (Manipuri)
7) V. K. Hymavathy (Mohiniattam)
8) Ramli Ibrahim (Odissi)
Dance
Music for Dance
Karaikudi Krishnamurthi
Theatre
Direction
1) Alakhnandan
2) Kirti Jain
Theatre
Allied Theatre Arts
Kamal Jain (Lighting)
Theatre
Others
1) Trippekulam Achuta Marar
2) Hemant Chauhan (Folk Music)
3) Gurmeet Bawa (Folk Music)
4) Kashiram Sahu (Folk Theatre)
5) Mipham Otsal (Traditional Theatre)
6) Bellagallu Veeranna (Togalu Gombeyatta, Puppetry)
7) Gopal Chandra Das (Putul Nach)
8) Kasmi Khan Niyazi (Making of Musical Instrument)
Overall Contribution1) Shrivatsa Goswami
2) Sundari K. Shridharani

2012


FieldRecipient
Vocal
Hindustani Music
1) Shankar Lal Mishra
2) Rajashekhar Mansur
3) Ajay Pohankar
Instrumental
Hindustani Music
1) Bahauddin Dagar (Veena)
2) Sabir Khan (Tabla)
Vocal
Carnatic Music
O. S. Thyagarajan
Instrumental
Carnatic Music
1) K. V. Prasad (Mridangam)
2) Mysore M. Nagaraja (Violin)
3) Ilaiyaraaja (Creative & Experimental)
4) Bhai Balbir Singh Ragi (Gurbani)
Dance1) Priyadarsini Govind (Bharatanatyam)
2) Jai Narayan Samal (Chhau)
3) Vijay Shankar (Kathak)
4) Vazhengada Vijayan (Kathakali)
5) Vedantam Ramalinga Sastry (Kuchipudi)
6) Sharmila Biswas (Odissi)
7) Painkulam Damodara Chakyar (Kutiyattam)
Dance
Music for Dance
Jwala Prasad
Theatre
Acting
1) Parvesh Seth
2) Nirmal Rishi
3) Purisai Kannappa Sambandan
Theatre
Direction
1) Tripurari Sharma
2) Waman Kendre
Theatre
Playwriting
Arjun Deo Charan
Theatre
Allied Theatre Arts
Murari Roychoudhury (Music for Theatre)
Theatre
Major Traditions
Ghulam Rasool Bhagat (Bhand Pather)
Theatre
Others
1) Go Ru Channabasappa (Folk Music)
2) Kinaram Nath Oja (Suknani Ojapali)
3) Prem Singh Dehati (Folk Music)
4) Sulochana Chavan (Lavani)
5) Mattannur Sankaran Kutty Marar (Thayambaka)
6) Govind Ram Nirmalkar (Nacha)
7) Heera Das Negi (Mask Making)
Theatre
Puppetry
Prafulla Karmakar (Traditional Puppetry)
Overall Contribution1) Arun Kakade
2) Nandini Ramani

2013


FieldRecipient
Vocal
Hindustani Music
1) Ritwik Sanyal
2) Veena Sahasrabuddhe
Instrumental
Hindustani Music
1) Dhruba Ghosh (Sarangi)
2) Hashmat Ali Khan (Tabla)
Vocal
Carnatic Music
1) Aruna Sairam
2) D. Seshchari
3) D. Raghavachari
Instrumental
Carnatic Music
1) Trichy Sankaran (Mridangam)
2) Thiruvizha Jayashankar (Nagaswaram)
3) Bankim Sethi (Odissi Music)
Dance1) Jamuna Krishnan (Bharatanatyam)
2) B. Herabhanathan (Bharatanatyam)
3) Rajashree Shirke (Kathak)
4) Kalamandalam M. P. S. Namboodiri (Kathakali)
5) Chinta Seetha Ramanjaneyulu (Kuchipudi)
6) Sangeeta Dash (Odissi)
7) Jogen Dutta Bayan (Sattriya)
8) Srinivasa Rangachariar (Arayer Sevai)
Dance
Music for Dance
Dhaneshwar Swain
Theatre
Acting
1) Vasant Josalkar
2) Kusum Haidar
Theatre
Direction
1) Kamalkar Muralidhar Sontakke
2) Kewal Dhaliwal
3) Prasanna Ramaswamy
Theatre
Playwriting
1) Rameshwar Prem
2) Pundalik Narayan Naik
Theatre
Allied Theatre Arts
Krishna Borkar (Make-up)
Theatre
Others
1) Meeenakshi K. (Instrument Making )
2) Raj Begum (Folk Music/Dance & Theatre)
3) T.A.R. Nadi Rao (Folk Music)
4) N Jeeva Rao (Folk Music)
5) Gurdial Singh (Instrument Making)
6) Mohan Singh Khangura (Rabindra Sangeet)
7) Umakanta Gogoi (Tokari Geet & Dehbichar Geet)
8) Sheikh Riyajuddin alias Rajubaba (Folk Theatre)
Theatre
Puppetry
Lilavati M Kavi (Bajaj)
Overall Contribution1) N. Ramanathan
2) Mysore V. Subramanya

2014


FieldRecipient
Vocal
Hindustani Music
1) Ashwini Bhide-Deshpande
2) Iqbal Ahmad Khan
3) Nathrao Neralkar
Instrumental
Hindustani Music
1) Ronu Majumdar (Flute)
2) Pt. Nayan Ghosh (Tabla)
Vocal
Carnatic Music
Neyveli Santhanagopalan
Instrumental
Carnatic Music
1) Sukanya Ramgopal (Ghatam)
2) Thiruvalaputhur T A Kaliyamurthy (Thavil)
3) Dwaram Durga Prasad Rao (Violin)
Dance1) Adayar Janardanan (Bharatanatyam)
2) Jagru Mahato (Chhau)
3) Navtej Singh Johar (Creative Dance)
4) Uma Dogra (Kathak)
5) Vedantam Radhesyam (Kuchipudi)
6) N. Amusana Devi (Manipuri)
7) Sudhakar Sahoo (Odissi)
8) Anita Sharma (Sattriya)
Dance
Music for Dance
Varanasi Vishnu Namboothiri (Kathakali)
Theatre
Acting
1) Debshankar Haldar
2) Ramdas Kamat
Theatre
Direction
1) Surya Mohan Kulshreshtha
2) Chidambar Rao Jambe
Theatre
Playwriting
Asgar Wajahat
Theatre
Allied Theatre Arts
1) Amod Bhatt
2) Amardas Manikpuri 
Theatre
Major Traditions
 Manjunath Bhagwat Hostota (Yakshagana)
Theatre
Others
1) Puran Shah Koti (Traditional Music)
2) Kalamandalam Ram Mohan (Makeup/Costume for Kathakali)
3) Reba Kanta Mohanta (Mask Making)
4) Abdul Rashid Hafiz (Folk Music)
5) K.Shanathoiba Sharma (Thang-Ta)
6) Ramdayal Sharma (Nautanki)
7) Thanga Darlong (Folk Music)
Theatre
Puppetry
K. Kesavasamy
Overall Contribution1) Indudhar Nirody
2) Akshara K. V.

2015


FieldRecipient
Vocal
Hindustani Music
Mashkoor Ali Khan
Instrumental
Hindustani Music
Karthick Kumar (Sitar)
Vocal
Carnatic Music
1) R.N. Tharanathan
2) Suguna Varadachari
3) R.N. Thiagarajan
Instrumental
Carnatic Music
Lalgudi G. J. R. Krishnan (Violin)
Dance1) Ranganayaki Jayaraman (Bharatanatyam)
2) Sadashiva Pradhan (Chhau)
3) W. Lokendrajit Singh (Creative Dance)
4) K. Kunhiraman Nair (Kathakali)
5) Gaddam Padmaja Reddy (Kuchipudi)
6) Mandakini Trivedi (Mohiniattam)
7) Aloka Kanungo (Odissi)
8) Sarodi Saikia (Sattriya)
Dance
Music for Dance
Rajkumar Bharathi
Theatre
Direction
1) Parvez Akhtar
2) Mushtaq Kak
Theatre
Others
Ramchandra Singh (Folk Theater)
Overall Contribution1) Chaman Lal Ahuja (Performing Arts)
2) Shanta Gokhale (Performing Arts)
3) Rani Balbir Kaur (Theatre)

2016


FieldRecipient
Vocal
Hindustani Music
Prabhakar Karekar
Instrumental
Hindustani Music
1) Arvind Mulgaonkar (Tabla)
2) Kala Ramnath (Violin)
Vocal
Carnatic Music
1) Neela Ramgopal
2) K. Omanakutty
Instrumental
Carnatic Music
1) J. Vaidhyanathan (Mridangam)
2) Mysore Manjunath (Violin)
Dance1) Geeta Chandran (Bharatanatyam)
2) Gopal Prasad Dubey (Chhau)
3) Anita Ratnam (Creative Dance)
4) Jitendra Maharaj (Kathak)
5) Kalamandalam Ramachandran Unnithan (Kathakali)
6) A B Bala Kondala Rao (Kuchipudi)
7) Maisnam Kaminikumar Singh (Manipuri)
8) Ratikant Mohapatra (Odissi)
9) Haricharan Bhuyan Borbaya (Sattriya)
Theatre
Direction
1) Satyabrata Rout
2) Rajkamal Nayak
Theatre
Puppetry
Prabhitangsu Das

2017


FieldRecipient
Vocal
Hindustani Music
1) Lalith J. Rao
2) Umakant Gundecha
3) Ramakant Gundecha
Instrumental
Hindustani Music
1) Rajendra Prasanna (Sitar)
2) Pt. Yogesh Samsi (Tabla)
Vocal
Carnatic Music
M. S. Sheela
Instrumental
Carnatic Music
1) Shashank Subramanyam (Flute)
2) Tiruvarur Vaidyanathan (Mridangam)
3) S.Kasim (Nagaswaram)
4) S.Babu (Nagaswaram)
5) Suma Sudhindra (Veena)
6) Rama Vaidyanathan (Bharatanatyam)
7) Janmajay Saibabu (Chhau)
Dance1) Shobha Koser (Kathak)
2) Madambi Subramanian Namboodiri (Kathakali)
3) Deepika Reddy (Kuchipudi)
4) L.N. Oinam Ongdi Doni Devi (Manipuri)
5) Sujata Mohapatra (Odissi)
6) Ramkrishna Talukdar (Sattriya)
Dance
Music for Dance
Ashit Desai
Dance
Folk & Tribal Dance
Mukund Nayak
Theatre
Acting
Anil Tickoo
Theatre
Others
1) Mukund Nayak (Folk Music)
2) Prakash Khandge (Folk Arts)
Overall ContributionSandhya Purecha (Dance)

2018


FieldRecipient
Vocal
Hindustani Music
1) Mani Prasad
2) Madhup Mudgal
Instrumental
Hindustani Music
1) Tarun Bhattacharya (Santoor)
2) Tejendra Majumdar (Sarod)
Vocal
Carnatic Music
1) Alamelu Mani
2) Malladi Suribabu
Instrumental
Carnatic Music
1) Ganesh (Violin)
2) Kumaresh (Violin)
3) Suresh Wadkar (Sugam Sangeet)
4) Shanti Hiranand (Sugam Sangeet)
5) H. Ashangbi Devi (Nata Sankirtana)
Dance1) Radha Sridhar (Bharatanatyam)
2) Tapan Kumar Pattanayak (Chhau)
3) Deepak Mazumdar (Creative Dance)
4) Maulik Shah (Kathak)
5) Ishira Parikh (Kathak)
6) Pasumurthy Ramalinga Sastry (Kuchipudi)
7) Akham Lakshmi Devi (Manipuri)
8) Gopika Varma (Mohiniattam)
9) Surupa Sen (Odissi)
10) Tankeswar Hazarika Borbayan (Sattriya)
Theatre
Acting
1) Suhas Joshi
2) Teekam Joshi
Theatre
Mime
Swapan Nandy
Theatre
Direction
1) Sanjay Upadhyay
2) S. Raghunandana
Theatre
Playwriting
1) Rajiv Naik
2) Laltluangliana Khiangte
Theatre
Major Traditions
1) Bhagawat A. S. Nanjappa (Yakshagana)
2) A. M. Parameswaran Kuttan Chakkiyar (Kutiyattam)
Theatre
Others
1) Malini Awasthi (Folk Music)
2) Gazi Khan Barna (Folk Music)
3) Narendra Singh Negi (Folk Songs)
4) Niranjan Rajyaguru (Folk Music)
5) Mohd. Sadiq Bhagat (Folk Theatre)
6) Kota Sachidanand Shastry (Harikatha)
7) Arjun Singh Dhurve (Folk Dance)
8) Somnath Battu (Folk Music)
9) Hem Chandra Goswami (Mask Making)
Theatre
Puppetry
Anupama Hoskere
Overall Contribution1) Diwan Singh Bajeli (Theatre)
2) Puru Dadheech (Dance)

2019


FieldRecipient
Vocal
Hindustani Music
1) Vinayak Torvi
2) Prem Kumar Mallick
Instrumental
Hindustani Music
1) Chetan Joshi (Flute)
2) Manju Mehta (Sitar)
Vocal
Carnatic Music
1) Charumathi Ramachandran
2) Pala C. K. Ramachandran
Instrumental
Carnatic Music
1) Sikkil Mala Chandrasekar (Flute)
2) Trivandrum V Surendran (Mridangam)
3) O. S. Arun (Sugam Sangeet)
4) Sharma Bandhu (Sugam Sangeet)
5) D. Uma Maheshwari (Harikatha)
Dance1) Vasundhara Doraswamy (Bharatanatyam)
2) Brajendra Kumar Pattnaik (Chhau)
3) Mamata Shankar (Creative Dance)
4) Raghav Raj Bhatt (Kathak)
5) Mangala Bhatt (Kathak)
6) Kottakkal Nandakumaran Nair (Kathakali)
7) Manju Barggavee (Kuchipudi)
8) Nirmala Paniker (Mohiniattam)
9) Sutapa Talukdar (Odissi)
10) Ranjumoni Saikia (Sattriya)
Theatre
Acting
1) Alok Chatterjee
2) Pranjal Saikia
Theatre
Direction
1) Bharti Sharma
2) Kumar Sohoni
3) Abinash Sarma
Theatre
Playwriting
Hrishikesh Sulabh
Theatre
Allied Theatre Arts
1) Souti Chakraborty (Lighting)
2) N.K. Ramakrishna (Make-up)
Theatre
Major Traditions
K. S. Krishanappa (Isai Natakam)
1) Mamta Chandrakar (Folk Music)
2) Ram Lal (Folk Music)
3) Shankarbhai Hakabhai Dharjiya (Folk Music & Dance)
4) Nathulal Solanki (Folk Music)
5) Pandurang Ghotkar (Folk Music)
6) Peruvanam Kuttan Marar (Thayambaka)
7) Urmila Pandey (Folk Music)
8) Sayed Mohmmed P.P. (Folk Music & Dance)
9) Majid Gulabsaheb Sitarmaker (Instrument Making)
10) Dulal Kanji (Instrument Making)
Overall Contribution1) Utpal K. Banerjee
2) Ritha Rajan

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2020


FieldRecipient
Vocal
Hindustani Music
1) Sumitra Guha
2) Arati Ankalikar-Tikekar
Instrumental
Hindustani Music
1) Dal Chand Sharma (Pakhavaj)
2) Kushal Das (Sitar)
Vocal
Carnatic Music
1) R. K. Padmanabha
2) G. Balakrishna Prasad
Instrumental
Carnatic Music
1) Patri Satish Kumar (Mridangam)
2) M. A. Sundareswaran (Violin)
3) Bickram Ghosh (Creative & Experimental)
4) Anup Jalota (Sugam Sangeet)
5) N. Irabot Singh (Nata Sankirtana)
Dance1) Meenakshi Chitharanjan (Bharatanatyam)
2) Trilochan Mohanta (Chhau)
3) Bhushan Lakhandri (Creative Dance)
4) Kumkum Dhar (Kathak)
5) Pasumarthy Vithal Manipuri
6) Bharathi Vithal (Kuchipudi)
7) Sruti Bandopadhay (Manipuri)
8) Rabindra Atibudhi (Odissi)
Dance
Music for Dance
1) Prema Ramamurthy
2) Arambam Tombinou Devi
Theatre
Acting
1) Prashant Damle
2) Bhupesh Joshi
3) Amit Banerjee
Theatre
Direction
1) Lokendra Trivedi
2) Mithilesh Rai
Theatre
Allied Theatre Arts
1) Raghav Prakash (Lighting)
2) M. Purushottam (Costume Design)
3) N. Jadumani Singh (Stagecraft)
Theatre
Major Traditions
P. P. Kandaswami (Therukoothu)
1) Balkar Sidhu (Folk Dance)
2) Nandlal Garg (Folk Music)
3) B. Lalthlengliana (Folk Theatre)
4) Ranjana Kumri Jha (Folk Music)
5) S. G. Lakshmidevamma (Folk Music)
6) Tarubala Debbarma (Folk Music & Dance)
7) Sang Jangmu (Folk Dance)
8) Gafoor Khan Manganiar (Folk Music)
9) Zachunu Keyho (Folk Music)
Theatre
Puppetry
Meena Nayak
Overall Contribution1) Mahesh Champaklal (Theatre)
2) Nandkishore Kapote (Dance)

2021


FieldRecipient
Vocal
Hindustani Music
1) Uday Bhawalkar
2) Subhra Guha
Instrumental
Hindustani Music
1) Ravindra Yavagal (Tabla)
2) Sangeeta Shankar (Violin)
Vocal
Carnatic Music
1) Sudha Ragunathan
2) Radha Namboodiri
Instrumental
Carnatic Music
1) Thanjavur R. Govindarajan (Thavil)
2) D. Balakrishnan (Veena)
3) Susmita Das (Sugam Sangeet)
4) H. R. Leelavathi (Sugam Sangeet)
5) Kumud Diwan (Thumri)
Dance1) Jayalakshmi Eshwar (Bharatanatyam)
2) Bhuvan Kumar (Chhau)
3) Shama Bhate (Kathak)
4) Inchakkattu Ramachandran Pillai (Kathakali)
5) N. Sailaja (Kuchipudi)
6) Thokchom Ibemubi Devi (Manipuri)
7) Neena Prasad (Mohiniattam)
8) Kalamandalam Girija (Kutiyattam)
Dance
Music for Dance
Bijay Kumar Jena
Theatre
Acting
1) Neeleshwar Mishra
2) Y. G. Mahendran
Theatre
Mime
Vilas Janve
Theatre
Direction
1) R. Venugopal Rao (Surabhi)
2) Lalit Singh Pokharia
3) Sudesh Sharma
4) Ajay Malkani
5) Manoj Pattnaik
Theatre
Major Traditions
Gunindra Nath Ojah
Theatre
Others
1) Silbi Passah (Folk Music)
2) Durga Prasad Murmu (Folk Music & Dance)
3) Prashanna Gogoi (Folk Music & Dance)
4) Gartigere Raghanna (Folk Music)
5) S Samundaram (Folk Music)
6) Data Ram Purohit (Folk Music & Theatre)
7) Mahavir Singh Guddu (Folk Music & Dance)
8) N Tiken Singh (Folk Music)
9) N. Sekar (Folk Music)
10) R. Murugan (Instrument Making)
Overall Contribution1) Vibha Dadheech (Dance)
2) Premchand Hombal (Dance)

2022


FieldRecipient
Folk Music
Carnatic Music
Mahavir Nayak
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