Jawaharlal Nehru Award

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The Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding
International Civilian award for contributions to the promotion of international understanding, goodwill and friendship among people of the world
Sponsored by Government of India
Reward(s)₹ 2.5 million
First award1965
Highlights
Total awarded36
First winner U Thant
Website http://iccr.gov.in/content/nehru-award-recipients   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

The Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding is an international award presented by the Government of India in honour of Jawaharlal Nehru, the country's first prime minister.

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History

It was established in 1965 and is administered by the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) to people "for their outstanding contribution to the promotion of international understanding, goodwill and friendship among people of the world". The money constituent of this award is 2.5 million rupees. [1]

Recipients

The following people have received this award. No prize was awarded in 1986 and between 1995 and 2003; the last award was in 2009. [2]

YearRecipientCountry
1965 U Thant Flag of Burma (1948-1974).svg Burma
1966 Martin Luther King Jr. Flag of the United States (23px).png United States
1967 Abdul Ghaffar Khan Flag of Pakistan.svg Pakistan
1968 Yehudi Menuhin Flag of the United States (23px).png United States
1969 Mother Teresa Flag of India.svg India
1970 Kenneth Kaunda Flag of Zambia.svg Zambia
1971 Josip Broz Tito Flag of SFR Yugoslavia.svg Yugoslavia
1972 André Malraux Flag of France.svg France
1973 Julius Nyerere Flag of Tanzania.svg Tanzania
1974 Raúl Prebisch Flag of Argentina.svg Argentina
1975 Jonas Salk Flag of the United States (23px).png United States
1976 Giuseppe Tucci Flag of Italy.svg Italy
1977 Tulsi Mehar Shrestha Flag of Nepal.svg Nepal
1978 Nichidatsu Fujii Flag of Japan.svg Japan
1979 Nelson Mandela Flag of South Africa.svg South Africa
1980 Barbara Ward Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom
1981 Alva Myrdal and Gunnar Myrdal Flag of Sweden.svg Sweden
1982 Léopold Sédar Senghor Flag of Senegal.svg Senegal
1983 Bruno Kreisky Flag of Austria.svg Austria
1984 Indira Gandhi (posthumous)Flag of India.svg India
1985 Olof Palme (posthumous) [3] Flag of Sweden.svg Sweden
1987 Javier Pérez de Cuéllar Flag of Peru.svg Peru
1988 Yasser Arafat Flag of Palestine.svg Palestine
1989 Robert Mugabe Flag of Zimbabwe.svg Zimbabwe
1990 Helmut Kohl Flag of Germany.svg Germany
1991 Aruna Asaf Ali Flag of India.svg India
1992 Maurice Strong Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Canada
1993 Aung San Suu Kyi Flag of Myanmar.svg Myanmar
1994 Mahathir Mohamad Flag of Malaysia 23px.svg Malaysia
1995 Hosni Mubarak Flag of Egypt.svg Egypt
2003 Goh Chok Tong Flag of Singapore.svg Singapore
2004 Qaboos bin Said Flag of Oman.svg Oman
2005 Wangari Maathai Flag of Kenya.svg Kenya
2006 Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva Flag of Brazil.svg Brazil
2007 Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson Flag of Iceland.svg Iceland
2009 Angela Merkel Flag of Germany.svg Germany

References

  1. ↑ "Nehru Award". Indian Council for Cultural Relations. Archived from the original on 4 April 2013. Retrieved 2 April 2013.
  2. ↑ "Nehru Award Recipients". Indian Council for Cultural Relations. Government of India. Archived from the original on 15 August 2016. Retrieved 8 October 2017.
  3. ↑ According to Bhagavathi Vivekanandan: Global Visions of Olof Palme, Bruno Kreisky and Willy Brandt. International Peace and Security, Co-operation, and Development. Springer International Publishing, Cham 2016, ISBN   978-3-319-33710-4, p. 16, Palme received the award in 1987 (he died in 1986).



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