Sangeet Natak Akademi Award

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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 ₹1,00,000. The awards are given in the categories of music, dance, theatre, other traditional arts and puppetry, and for contribution/scholarship in performing arts.

Award recipients

The recipients of the Sangeet Natak Akademi award in various categories of performing arts arelisted below:

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Music

Hindustani music

Vocal

1952 – Mushtaq Hussain Khan
1953 – Kesarbai Kerkar
1954 – Rajab Ali Khan
1955 – Anant Manohar Joshi
1956 – Rajabhaiyya Poonchhwale
1957 – Rasoolan Bai
1958 – Ganesh Ramachandra Behere
1959 – Krishnarao Shankar Pandit
1960 – Altaf Hussain Khan
1961 – Y. S. Mirashi Buwa
1962 – Bade Ghulam Ali Khan
1963 – Omkarnath Thakur
1964 – Rahimuddin Khan Dagar
1965 – Hirabai Barodekar
1966 – Siddheswari Devi
1967 – Amir Khan
1968 – Mogubai Kurdikar
1969 – Ramchatur Mallick
1970 – Nisar Hussain Khan
1971 – Mallikarjun Mansur
1972 – Begum Akhtar
1973 – Gangubai Hangal
1974 – Kumar Gandharva
1975 – Bhimsen Joshi
1975-76 Gavri Devi (Vocal) (Jodhpur, Rajasthan)
1976 – Narayanrao Vyas
1977 – Girija Devi
1978 – Khadim Hussain Khan
1979 – Sarachchandra Arolkar
1980 – Nivruttibua Sarnaik
1981 – Basavaraj Rajguru
1982 – Vasantrao Deshpande
1983 – Mahadev Prasad Mishra
1984 – Sharafat Hussain Khan
1985 – Kishori Amonkar, Aminuddin Dagar
1986 – Gavri Devi (Vocal) (Jodhpur, Rajasthan)
1986 – Asgari Bai, Firoz Dastur, Manik Varma
1987 – C. R. Vyas, Shobha Gurtu, Pandit Jasraj,
1988 – Padmavati Gokhale Shaligram
1989 – Jitendra Abhisheki
1990 – K. G. Ginde, Dhondutai Kulkarni
1991 – N. Zahiruddin Dagar, Prabha Atre
1992 – Ramarao V. Naik, Shiv Kumar Shukla
1993 – Bala Saheb Poochwale, Rahim Fahimuddin Dagar
1994 – Sulochana Brahaspati, Zia Fariddudin Dagar
1995 – A. Kanan
1996 – Dinkar Kaikini, Hafeez Ahmed Khan
1997 – L. K. Pandit
1998 – Puttaraj Gawaigalu, Parveen Sultana, Rajan and Sajan Mishra
1999–2000 – Ajoy Chakraborty, Rita Ganguly, Malabika Kanan
2001 – Abhay Narayan Mallick, Sangameshwar Gurav, Malini Rajurkar
2002 – Sushila Rani Patel, Sharayu Kalekar
2003 – Ghulam Mustafa Khan, Yeshwant Balkrishna Joshi
2004 – Balwant Rai Bhatt, Tejpal Singh and Surinder Singh
2005 – S. C. R. Bhat, Ramashreya Jha
2006 – Vijay Kumar Kichlu, Rashid Khan
2007 – Vidyadhar Vyas, Govardhan Mishra
2008 – Ulhas Kashalkar, M.R. Gautam
2009 – Abdul Rashid Khan, Vasundhara Komkali
2010 – Chhannulal Mishra, Yashpaul
2011 – Shruti Sadolikar, Pandit Venkatesh Kumar
2012 – Shankar Lal Mishra, Rajashekhar Mansur, Ajay Pohankar
2013 – Ritwik Sanyal, Veena Sahasrabuddhe
2014 – Ashwini Bhide-Deshpande, Iqbal Ahmad Khan, Nathrao Neralkar
2015 – Mashkoor Ali Khan
2016 – Prabhakar Karekar
2017 – Lalith J. Rao, Umakant and Ramakant Gundecha - Gundecha Brothers
2018 – Mani Prasad, Madhup Mudgal
2019 – Vinayak Torvi, Prem Kumar Mallick
2020 – Sumitra Guha, Arati Ankalikar-Tikekar
2021 – Uday Bhawalkar, Subhra Guha
2022 – Devaki Pandit, Harvinder Singh
2023 – Kalapini Komkali, Vinod Kumar Dwivedi

Instrumental

Been/Rudra Veena/Vichitra Veena

1969 – Dabir Khan
1977 – Asad Ali Khan
1981 – Zia Mohiuddin Dagar
1994 – Pandit Gopal Krishan
2012 – Bahauddin Dagar

Flute

1983 – Pt. Hari Prasad Chaurasiya
1986 – Devendra Murdeshwar
1994 – Raghunath Seth
2010 – Nityanand Haldipur
2014 – Ronu Majumdar
2017 – Pt. Rajendra Prasanna
2019 – Chetan Joshi

Guitar

2005 – Brij Bhushan Kabra

Harmonium

2000 – Appa Jalgaonkar
2005 – Tulsidas Vasant Borkar
2022 – Dharamnath Mishra

Pakhavaj

1955 – Govind Rao Burhanpurkar
1965 – Sakharam Tavde
1967 – Ayodhya Prasad
1978 – Purushottam Das
1988 – Ramshankardas Pagaldas
1991 – Chatrapati Singh
1993 – Gopaldas Panse
1995 – Ram Ashish Pathak
2003 – Bhavani Shankar
2011 – Totaram Sharma
2020 – Dal Chand Sharma

Santoor

1986 – Shivkumar Sharma
1993 – Bhajan Sopori
2018 – Tarun Bhattacharya

Sarangi

1966 – Shakoor Khan
1975 – Ram Narayan
1976 – Gopal Misra
1986 – Sabri Khan
1988 – Hanuman Prasad Mishra
1990 – Abdul Lateef Khan
1992 – Sultan Khan
1996 – Inderlal Dhandra, Ramchandra Mishra
2008 – Ramesh Mishra
2013 – Dhruba Ghosh
2023 – Moinuddin Khan

Sarod

*1952 – Allauddin Khan

1953 – Hafiz Ali Khan
1963 – Ali Akbar Khan
1971 – Radhika Mohan Maitra
1986 – Sharan Rani Backliwal
1988 – Zarin Sharma
1989 – Amjad Ali Khan
1993 – Buddhadev Das Gupta
1999–2000 – Rajeev Taranath
2004 – Aashish Khan
2018 – Tejendra Majumdar
2022 – Basant Kabra

Shehnai

1956 – Ustad Bismillah Khan
1985 – Ali Hussain Khan
1989 – Pt. Anant Lal
1996 – Pt. Raghunath Prasanna
2008 – Krishna Ram Chaudhary
2009 – Ali Ahmad Hussain
2017 – Rajendra Prasanna

Sitar

1958 – Yusuf Ali
1960 – Wahid Khan
1962 – Pt. Ravi Shankar
1968 – Mushtaq Ali Khan
1974 – Nikhil Banerjee
1987 – Abdul Halim Jaffer Khan, Imrat Khan (also Surbahar)
1989 – Balaram Pathak
1992 – Uma Shankar Mishra
1994 – Shamim Ahmed Khan
1996 – Debu Chaudhuri
2001 – Manilal Nag
2003 – Arvind Parikh
2006 – Shahid Parvez
2010 – Budhaditya Mukherjee
2015 – Karthick Kumar
2019 – Manju Mehta
2020 – Kushal Das
2023 –Harvinder Kumar Sharma

Surbahar

1991 – Annapurna Devi
2011 – Pushparaj Koshti

Tabla

1954 – Ustad Ahmed Jan Thirakwa
1959 – Ustad Jahangir Khan
1961 – Pt. Kanthe Maharaj
1970 – Masit Khan
1976 – Karamatulla Khan
1979 – Pt. Samta Prasad
1982 – Ustad Alla Rakha
1984 – Pt. Kishan Maharaj
1990 – Ustad Zakir Hussain
1991 – Shaikh Dawood
1997 – Swapan Chaudhuri, Lalji Gokhale
1998 – Pandharinath Gangadhar Nageshkar
1999–2000 – Shankar Ghosh
2001 – Ishwar Lal Mishra
2002 – Suresh B. Gaitonde, Anindo Chatterjee
2004 – Pt. Suresh Talwalkar
2006 – Kumar Bose
2007 – Nandan Mehta
2009 – Lachman Singh Seen
2012 – Sabir Khan (Tabla)
2013 – Hashmat Ali Khan
2014 – Pt. Nayan Ghosh
2016 – Arvind Mulgaonkar
2017 – Pt. Yogesh Samsi
2021 – Ravindra Yavagal

Violin

1972 – Gajananrao Joshi
1980 – V. G. Jog
1990 – N. Rajam
1995 – D. K. Datar
1996 – Annavarapu Rama Swamy
1997 – Sisir Kana Dhar Chowdhury
2007 – Ramoo Prasad Shastri
2016 – Kala Ramnath
2021 – Sangeeta Shankar
2023- H.K Venkatram

Carnatic music

Vocal

1952 – Ariyakudi Ramanuja Iyengar
1953 – Semmangudi R. Srinivasa Iyer
1954 – Mysore K. Vasudevacharya
1955 – Maharajapuram Vishwanatha Iyer
1956 – M. S. Subbulakshmi
1957 – Musiri Subramania Iyer
1958 – Chembai Vaidyanatha Bhagavathar
1959 – G. N. Balasubramaniam
1960 – Madurai Mani Iyer
1961 – Mudikondan C. Venkatarama Iyer
1962 – D. K. Pattammal
1963 – B. Devendrappa
1964 – Chittoor S. Subramanyam
1965 – T. Brinda
1966 – Madurai Srirangam Iyengar
1967 – C. Venkata Rao
1968 – Alathur Srinivasa Iyer
1969 – Dandapani Desikar
1970 – M. L. Vasanthakumari
1971 – N. Channakeshaviah
1972 – T. Muktha
1973 – B.S. Raja Iyengar
1974 – M. D. Ramanathan
1975 – M. Balamurali Krishna
1976 – K.V.Narayanaswamy
1977 – Sripada Pinakapani
1978 – Madurai S. Somasundaram
1979 – R K Srikanthan
1980 – Seerkhazhi S. Govindarajan
1981 – Radha and Jayalakshmi
1982 – T. M. Thiagarajan
1983 – D. K. Jayaraman
1984 – Maharajapuram V. Santhanam
1985 – Voleti Venkatesvarulu
1986 – B. Rajam Iyer
1986 – Nedunuri Krishnamoorthy
1987 – Madurai N. Krishnan
1987 – Mani Krishnaswami
1988 – Nookala Chinna Satyanarayana
1989 – Titte Krishna Iyengar
1990 – T. V. Sankaranarayanan
1991 – S. Rajam
1992 – K. R. Kumaraswamy Iyer
1993 – Trichy Swaminathan Iyer
1994 – C. S. Krishna Iyer
1995 – R. Vedavalli
1996 – T. K. Govinda Rao
1997 – M. S. Balasubramanya Sarma
2000 – S. R. Janakiraman
2001 – B. V. Raman
2002 – T. R. Subramaniam
2003 – Trichur V. Ramachandran, M. A. Narasimhachar
2004 – Thiruvengadu A. Jayaraman, C. Saroja & C. Lalitha
2005 – S. V. Parthasarrathy, P. S. Narayanaswamy
2006 – D. Pasupathi, Chingleput Ranganathan
2007 – B. Krishnamoorti
2008 – Puranam Purushottama Sastri
2009 – Parassala B Ponnammal
2010 – Suguna Purushothaman, Mysore Nagamani Srinath
2011 – J. Venkataraman
2012 – O. S. Thyagarajan
2013 – Aruna Sairam, D. Seshchari & D. Raghavachari (Hyderabad Brothers)
2014 – Neyveli Santhanagopalan
2015 – R.N. Tharanathan, Suguna Varadachari, R.N. Thiagarajan
2016 – Neela Ramgopal, K. Omanakutty
2017 – M. S. Sheela
2018 – Alamelu Mani, Malladi Suribabu
2019 – Charumathi Ramachandran, Palai C.K. Ramachandran
2020 – R. K. Padmanabha, G. Balakrishna Prasad
2021 – Sudha Ragunathan, Radha Namboodiri
2022 – Maharajapuram S. Ramachandran, Manda Sudharani
2023 – Bombay Jayashri, Shankar Sastry

Instrumental

Clarinet

1994 – A. K. C. Natarajan

Flute

1954 – Palladam Sanjiva Rao
1961 – T. N. Swaminatha Pillai
1965 – T. R. Mahalingam
1984 – Natesan Ramani
1987 – T. Viswanathan
1989 – Sikkil Sisters - Kunjumani & Neela
1997 – Kesi Narayanaswamy
1999–2000 – T.S Sankaran
2004 – Prapancham Sitaram
2017 – Shashank Subramanyam
2019 – Sikkil Mala Chandrasekar

Ghatam

1988 – Thetakudi Harihara Vinayakram
1995 – Umayalpuram K. Narayanaswamy
2011 – E. M. Subramaniam
2014 – Sukanya Ramgopal
2025 – Tripunithura N. Radhakrishnan

Gottuvadhyam

1958 – Budaloor Krishnamurthy Shastri
2006 – N. Ravikiran

Kanjira

2001 – G. Harishankar

Mandolin

2009 – U. Srinivas

Mridangam

1956 – Palghat Mani Iyer
1975 – C.S. Murugabhupathy
1979 – Kolanka Venkata Raju
1983 – Palghat R. Raghu
1987 – T. K. Murthy
1990 – T. V. Gopalakrishnan
1991 – Vellore G. Ramabhadran
1992 – Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman
1994 – Dandamudi Ramamohan Rao
1996 – Guruvayur Dorai
1998 – Karaikudi Mani
1999–2000 – V. Kamalakar Rao
2002 – Yella Venkateshwara Rao
2004 – Madras A. Kannan
2006 – Thiruvarur Bakthavathsalam
2008 – Mannargudi Easwaran
2009 – Dandamudi Sumathi Ram Mohan Rao
2010 – Srimushnam V. Raja Rao
2012 – K. V. Prasad
2013 – Trichy Sankaran
2016 – J. Vaidhyanathan
2017 – Tiruvarur Vaidyanathan
2019 – Trivandrum V. Surendran
2020 – Patri Satish Kumar
2023 – Neyveli Narayanan
2025 – T. S. Nandakumar, Anoor Anantha Krishna Sharma

Nadaswaram

1955 – T. N. Rajarathinam Pillai
1962 – Thiruvengadu Subramania Pillai
1966 – P. S. Veeruswamy Pillai
1972 – T. S. Natarajasundaram Pillai
1976 – Sheik Chinna Moulana
1981 – Namagiripettai Krishnan
1995 – Domada Chittiabbayi
2005 – Ongale N. Rangaiah
2007 – S. R. D. Vaidyanathan
2011 – Seshampatti T Sivalingam
2013 – Thiruvizha Jayashankar
2017 – S.Kasim, S.Babu - Kasim-Babu Brothers

Saxophone

2003 – Kadri Gopalnath

Thavil

1985 – Valangaiman A. Shanmugasundaram Pillai
1988 – Valayapatti A. R. Subramaniam
2001 – Haridwaramangalam A. K. Palanivel
2014 – Thiruvalaputhur T A Kaliyamurthy
2021 – Thanjavur R. Govindarajan
2022 – Vinukonda Subrahmanyam

Veena

1952 – Karaikudi Sambasiva Iyer
1960 – L. Subramanya Sastri
1968 – K. S. Narayanaswamy
1969 – Devakottai A. Narayana Iyengar
1970 – Mysore V. Doreswamy Iyengar
1973 – Emani Sankara Sastry
1977 – S. Balachander
1980 – Thanjavur K. P. Sivanandam
1986 – Rajeswari Padmanabhan
1988 – R. Pichumani Iyer
1990 – Chitti Babu
1992 – M. K. Kalyanakrishna Bhagavathar
1993 – Kalpakam Swaminathan
2001 – R. N. Doreswamy
2002 – E. Gayathri
2007 – Vidya Shankar
2011 – Ayyagari Syamasundaram
2017 – Suma Sudhindra
2021 – D. Balakrishnan
2022 – Jayanthi Kumaresh

Violin

1953 – Dwaram Venkataswamy Naidu
1957 – Tirumakudalu Chowdiah
1959 – Kumbakonam Rajamanickam Pillai
1963 – T. K. Jayarama Iyer
1964 – K. N. Chinnaswamy Iyer
1967 – K. S. Venkataramiah 'Papa'
1971 – Madurai S. Subramanya Iyer
1974 – T. N. Krishnan
1978 – Lalgudi Jayaraman
1982 – M. S. Gopalakrishnan
1986 – M. Chandrasekaran
1988 – Chalakudy N. S. Narayanaswamy
1989 – R. K. Venkatarama Sastry
1991 – Kandadevi S. Alagiriswamy
1993 – Kunnakudi Vaidyanathan
1996 – Annavarapu Ramaswamy
1997 – T. Rukmini
1998 – M. S. Anantharaman
1999–2000 – R. R. Keshavamurthy
2003 – A. Kanyakumari
2005 – V. V. Subrahmanyam
2008 – B. Sasikumar
2010 – Nagai Muralidharan
2012 – Mysore M. Nagaraja
2014 – Dwaram Durga Prasad Rao
2015 – Lalgudi G. J. R. Krishnan
2016 – Mysore Manjunath
2018 – Ganesh and Kumaresh
2020 – M. A. Sundareswaran
2023 – H. K. Venkatram

Creative and experimental music

1973 – Vishnudas Shirali
1976 – Timir Baran Bhattacharya
1978 – Rai Chand Boral
1982 – Vijay Raghav Rao
1983 – Chidambaram S. Jayaraman
1986 – Anil Biswas
1986 – M. B. Srinivasan
1986 – Hemanta Kumar Mukhopadhyay
1988 – Bhaskar Chandavarkar
1989 – Vanraj Bhatia
1990 – L. Subramaniam
1994 – V. Balsara
1995 – Atul Desai
1997 – Satish Bhatia
1998 – Vishwa Mohan Bhatt
2001 – S. Rajaram
2002 – K. P. Udayabhanu
2007 – Khayyam
2012 – Ilaiyaraaja
2020 – Bickram Ghosh
2022 – Purushottam Upadhyay, Osman Mir
2023 – S. Shekhar, Niladri Kumar

Other major traditions of music

1986 - Chhabi Banerjee (Kirtan song of West Bengal)
1996 – Hemanta Kumar Jamatia (Folk and tribal music of Tripura)
2008 – Ningombam Ibobi Singh (Nata Sankirtana, Manipur)
2009 – L. Ibohalmacha Singh (Nata Sankirtana, Manipur)
2010 – M.V. Simhachala Sastry (Harikatha, Tirupathi)
2011 – Gopal Chandra Panda (Odissi Music)
2012 – Bhai Balbir Singh Ragi (Gurbani)
2013 – Bankim Sethi (Odissi Music)
2015 – Hridaynath Mangeshkar (Sugam Sangeet), Prafulla Kar (Sugam Sangeet), Bhupinder Singh (Sugam Sangeet)
2018 – Suresh Wadkar (Sugam Sangeet), Shanti Hiranand (Sugam Sangeet), H. Ashangbi Devi (Nata Sankirtana, Manipur)
2019 – O. S. Arun (Sugam Sangeet), Sharma Bandhu (Sugam Sangeet), D. Uma Maheshwari (Harikatha)
2020 – Anup Jalota (Sugam Sangeet), N. Irabot Singh (Nata Sankirtana)
2021 – Susmita Das (Sugam Sangeet), H. R. Leelavathi (Sugam Sangeet), Kumud Diwan (Thumri)
2022 – Sapam Kullabi Singh (Nata Pung), Sitaram Singh (Sugam Sangeet)
2023 – L. V. Gangadhara Sastry, Sangita Gosain (Oddissi Music)
2023-[Bharat Sharma Vyas(Folk Music-Bihar)

Dance

Bharatanatyam

1955 – T. Balasaraswati
1957 – Rukmini Devi Arundale
1959 – Mylapore Gowri Amma
1962 – R. Muthurathnambal
1965 – P. Chockkalingam Pillai
1966 – Vazhuvoor B. Ramiah Pillai, Swarnasaraswathi
1968 – Kamala
1969 – T. K. Swaminatha Pillai
1970 – Shanta Rao
1971 – T. Chandrakanthamma
1972 – Sikkil Ramaswami Pillai
1973 – Kumbakonam K. Bhanumathi
1974 – K. P. Kittappa Pillai
1976 – M. Muthiah Pillai
1977 – Yamini Krishnamurthy
1979 – Pandanallur Subbaraya Pillai
1981 – Indrani Rahman
1982 – Vyjayanthimala
1983 – Padma Subramanyam
1984 – Subramaniam Sarada, Sudharani Raghupathy
1985 – T. K. Mahalingam Pillai
1986 – Krishnaveni Lakshmanan
1987 – U. S. Krishna Rao and Chandrabhaga Devi, Chitra Viswaswaran
1989 – V. S. Muthuswamy Pillai
1990 – Kalanidhi Narayanan
1991 – Adyar K. Lakshman
1992 – K. J. Sarasa
1993 – Guru Kubernath Tanjorkar(Tanjavurkar), C. V. Chandrasekhar
1994 – V. P. Dhananjayan and Shanta Dhananjayan
1995 – M. K. Saroja, Indira Rajan
1996 – Sarada Hoffman
1997 – Kanaka Srinivasan
1998 – Lakshmi Viswanathan
1999–2000 – K. Kalyanasundaram Pillai, Leela Samson, H. R. Keshava Murthy
2001 – Alarmel Valli, Pratibha Prahlad
2002 – Malavika Sarukkai
2003 – C.K. Balagopalan
2004 – Nirmala Ramachandran
2005 – R. Rhadha
2006 – S. Narmada
2007 – Sucheta Bhide Chapekar
2008 – Saroja Vaidyanathan
2009 – Ananda Shankar Jayant
2011 – Narthaki Nataraj (First Transgender to receive SN Akademi Award)
2012 – Priyadarsini Govind
2013 – Jamuna Krishnan, B. Herabhanathan
2014 – Adayar Janardanan
2015 – Ranganayaki Jayaraman
2016 – Geeta Chandran
2017 – Rama Vaidyanathan
2018 – Radha Sridhar
2019 – Vasundhara Doraswamy
2020 – Meenakshi Chitharanjan
2021 – Jayalakshmi Eshwar
2022 – Manjula Ramaswamy
2023 – Urmila Satyanarayana

Chhau

1963 – Sudhendra Narayan Singh Deo (Seraikella)
1971 – Ananta Charan Sai (Mayurbhanj)
1975 – Krishna Chandra Naik (Mayurbhanj)
1981 – Kedar Nath Sahoo (Seraikella)
1982 – Gambhir Singh Mura (Purulia)
1987 – Madan Mohan Lenka (Mayurbhanj)
1988 – Srihari Nayak (Mayurbhanj)
1990 – Bikram Kumbhakar (Seraikella)
1991 – Chandra Sekhar Bhanj (Mayurbhanj)
2004 – Shashadhar Acharya
2012 – Jai Narayan Samal
2014 – Jagru Mahato
2015 – Sadashiva Pradhan
2016 – Gopal Prasad Dubey
2017 – Janmajay Saibabu
2018 – Tapan Kumar Pattanayak (Seraikella)
2019 – Brajendra Kumar Pattnaik
2020 – Trilochan Mohanta
2021 – Bhuvan Kumar
2022 – Sadhucharan Mahato
2023 – Parikshit Mahato

Creative dance/Choreography

1960 – Uday Shankar
1970 – Mrinalini Sarabhai
1976 – Narendra Sharma
1979 – Prabhat Ganguli
1980 – R. K. Priyagopal Sana
1981 – Parvati Kumar
1984 – Rajkumar Singhajit Singh
1989 – Maya Rao
1991 – Chandralekha
1992 – Sachin Shankar
1993 – Manjusri Chaki Sircar
1995 – Astad Deboo
1999–2000 Mallika Sarabhai
2001 – Gul Bardhan
2002 – Sambhu Bhattacharya
2005 – Th. Chaotombi Singh
2006 – Gorima Hazarika
2008 – Yog Sunder Desai
2009 – Daksha Sheth
2010 – Uttara Asha Coorlawala
2011 – Tanushree Shankar
2014 – Navtej Singh Johar
2015 – W. Lokendrajit Singh
2016 – Anita Ratnam
2018 – Deepak Mazumdar
2019 – Mamata Shankar
2020 – Bhushan Lakhandri
2022 – Bharat Sharma
2023 – Nirupama Rajendra

Kathak

1955 – Shambhu Maharaj
1957 – Baijnath Prasad "Lacchu Maharaj"
1959 – Sunder Prasad
1962 – Mohanrao Kallianpurkar
1964 – Birju Maharaj
1968 – Damayanti Joshi
1969 – Sitara Devi
1974 – Gauri Shankar Devilal Kathak
1975 – Roshan Kumari
1979 – Rohini Bhate
1982 – Kartik Ram, Kumudini Lakhia
1984 – Durga Lal
1987 – Uma Sharma
1991 – Reba Vidyarthi
1995 – Ramlal Bareth
1996 – Rani Karnaa
1998 – Sunderlal Sathyanarayan Gangani
1999–2000 – Shovana Narayan
2000 – Surendra Saikia
2002 – Rajendra Gangani
2003 – Sunayana Hazarilal Agarwal, Urmila Nagar
2004 – Saswati Sen
2005 – Tirath Ram Azad
2006 – Munna Shukla
2007 – Geetanjali Lal
2008 – Shashi Sankhla
2009 – Prerana Shrimali
2010 – Malabika Mitra
2011 – Manjushree Chatterjee
2012 – Vijay Shankar
2013 – Rajashree Shirke
2014 – Uma Dogra
2016 – Jitendra Maharaj
2017 – Shobha Koser
2018 – Maulik Shah, Ishira Parikh
2019 – Raghav Raj Bhatt & Mangala Bhatt
2020 – Kumkum Dhar
2021 – Shama Bhate
2022 – Kamalini Asthana and Nalini Asthana
2023 – Jagdish Gangani
2024 - Bipul Chandra Das
2025 - Ram Mohan Maharaj, Krishna Mohan Mishra Maharaj, Bhaswati Mishra

Kathakali

1956 – Guru Kunchu Kurup
1958 – Thotton K. Chandu Panikkar
1961 – Thekkinkattil Ravunni Nair
1963 – Chenganoor Raman Pillai
1965 – Guru Gopinath
1967 – Kalamandalam Krishnan Nair
1968 – Kurichi Kunjan Panickar
1969 – Vazhenkada Kunchu Nair
1970 – Mankulam Vishnu Namboothiri
1971 – Kudamaloor Karunakaran Nair
1972 – M. Madhava Panicker
1973 – Vellinezhi K. Nanu Nayar
1973 – Kavungal Chathunni Panicker
1974 – Kalamandalam Ramankutty Nair
1975 – K. Sankarankutty Panicker
1983 – Champakulam Pachu Pillai
1985 – Mankompu Sivasankara Pillai
1987 – Kalamandalam Gopi
1988 – Keezhpadam Kumaran Nair
1989 – Oyoor Kochugovinda Pillai
1991 – Chennithala Chellappan Pillai
1993 – Kalamandalam Padmanabhan Nair
1996 – Kottakkal Krishnan Kutty Nair
1997 – Madavoor Vasudevan Nair
1998 – Kottakkal Sivaraman
1999–2000 – Nelliyode Vasudevan Namboodiri
2003 – Sadanam P. V. Balakrishnan
2004 – Kalamandalam Vasu Pisharody
2005 – Mathoor Govindan Kutty
2006 – Kottakkal Chandrasekharan
2007 – Sadanam Krishnankutty
2008 – Kalamandalam Kuttan
2009 – Kalamandalam Rajan
2010 – Kalamandalam K. G. Vasudevan Nair
2011 – Thonnakkal Peethambaran
2012 – Vazhengada Vijayan
2013 – Kalamandalam M. P. S. Namboodiri
2015 – Parassini Kunhiraman Nair
2016 – Kalamandalam Ramachandran Unnithan
2017 – Madambi Subramanian Namboodiri
2019 – Kottakkal Nandakumaran Nair
2021 – Inchakkattu Ramachandran Pillai
2022 – Kalamandalam Balasubramanian
2023 – Margi Vijayakumar

Kuchipudi

1961 – Vedantam Satyanarayana Sarma ‘Satyam’
1968 – Chinta Krishnamurthy
1978 – C. Ramacharyalu
1981 – Vempati Chinna Satyam
1983 – Nataraja Ramakrishna (also Bharatanatyam)
1985 – Vedantam Prahlada Sarma
1987 – Pasumarthi Venugopala Krishna Sarma
1990 – Sobha Naidu
1991 – Raja Reddy and Radha Reddy
1993 – Josyula Seetharamaiah
1994 – Vedantam Parvateesam
1998 – Veernala Jayarama Rao and Banashree Rao
1999–2000 – Swapnasundari
2003 – K. Uma Rama Rao
2004 – Pasumarthi Seetha Ramiah
2005 – Korada Narasimha Rao
2006 – Pasumarthi Rathiah Sarma
2007 – Yelesarapu Nageswara Sarma
2008 – Vasanta Lakshmi and Narasimhachari
2009 – Vyjayanthi Kashi
2010 – Ratna Kumar
2011 – Alekhya Punjala
2012 – Vedantam Ramalinga Sastry
2013 – Chinta Seetha Ramanjaneyulu
2014 – Vedantam Radhesyam
2015 – Gaddam Padmaja Reddy
2016 – A B Bala Kondala Rao
2017 – Deepika Reddy
2018 – Pasumarthy Ramalinga Sastry
2019 – Manju Barggavee
2020 – Pasumarthy Vithal and Bharathi Vithal
2021 – N. Sailaja
2022 – Bhagavatula Sethuram
2023 – Maddali Usha Gayatri

Manipuri

1956 – Maisnam Amubi Singh
1958 – Haobam Atomba Singh
1961 – T. Amudon Sharma
1963 – Atombapu Sharma
1965 – Guru Bipin Singh
1969 – Ojha Thangjam Chaoba Singh
1972 – Kshetri Tombi Devi
1973 – L. Koireng Singh
1974 – L. Ibemhal Devi
1975 – Rajani Maibi
1976 – Ojha Maibam Ibungohal Singh
1977 – Nayana Susheel Jhaveri
1980 – L. Thouranishabi Devi
1982 – L. Tombi Devi
1985 – Khaidem Lokeshwar Singh
1987 – Tarun Kumar Singh
1988 – Ibopishak Sharma
1990 – Th. Babu Singh
1993 – H. Ngangbi Devi
1994 – T. Nadia Singh
1995 – L. Thambalngoubi Devi
1996 – Darshana Jhaveri
1997 – Samanduram Tondon Devi
1998 – N. Madhabi Devi
1999–2000 – Sorokhaibam Naran Singh
2001 – Charu Sija Mathur
2002 – K. Ongbi Leipaklotpi Devi
2003 – Thiyam Suryamukhi Devi, Kalavati Devi
2005 – K. Radhamohon Sharma
2009 – L. Bino Devi
2010 – Phanjoubam Iboton Singh
2011 – Priti Patel
2014 – N. Amusana Devi
2016 – Maisnam Kaminikumar Singh
2017 – L.N. Oinam Ongdi Doni Devi
2018 – Akham Lakshmi Devi
2020 – Sruti Bandopadhay
2021 – Thokchom Ibemubi Devi
2022 – S. Noyonshakhi Devi
2023 – Latasana Devi

Mohiniattam

1972 – T. Chinnammu Amma
1978 – Kalamandalam Kalyanikutty Amma
1994 – Kalamandalam Satyabhama
1998 – Kalamandalam Kshemavathy
1999–2000 – Bharati Shivaji
2004 – Kalamandalam Sugandhi
2006 – Kalamandalam Vimala Menon
2007 – Deepti Omchery Bhalla
2008 – Kalamandalam Leelamma
2011 – V. K. Hymavathy
2015 – Mandakini Trivedi
2018 – Gopika Varma
2019 – Nirmala Paniker
2021 – Neena Prasad
2022 – Kala Vijayan
2023 – Pallavi Krishnan

Odissi

1966 – Kelucharan Mohapatra
1970 – Pankaj Charan Das
1976 – Sanjukta Panigrahi (joint award with Raghunath Panigrahi for Odissi music)
1977 – Deba Prasad Das
1985 – Mayadhar Raut
1986 – Priyambada Mohanty Hejmadi
1987 – Sonal Mansingh
1992 – D. N. Pattnaik
1994 – Kumkum Mohanty
1995 – Raghunath Dutta
1997 – Gangadhar Pradhan
1999–2000 – Minati Mishra, Madhavi Mudgal
2002 – Kiran Segal
2003 – Hare Krishna Behera
2004 – Durllav Chandra Singh
2005 – Durga Charan Ranbir
2006 – Surendra Nath Jena
2007 – Ranjana Gauhar
2008 – Ramani Ranjan Jena
2009 – Geeta Mahalik
2010 – Aruna Mohanty
2011 – Ramli Ibrahim
2012 – Sharmila Biswas
2013 – Sangeeta Dash
2014 – Sudhakar Sahoo
2015 – Aloka Kanungo
2016 – Ratikant Mohapatra
2017 – Sujata Mohapatra
2018 – Surupa Sen
2019 – Sutapa Talukdar
2020 – Rabindra Atibudhi
2022 – Niranjan Rout
2023 – Snehaprava Samantaray

Sattriya

1963 – Maniram Datta Moktar
1978 – Bapuram Bayan Attai
1980 – Roseshwar Saikia Bayan Moktar
1996 – Indira P. P. Bora
1998 – Pradip Chaliha
1999–2000 – Parmanand Borbayan
2001 – Ghanakanta Bora
2004 – Jatin Goswami
2007 – Ganakanta Dutta Borbayan
2010 – Manik Borbayan
2013 – Jogen Dutta Bayan
2014 – Anita Sharma
2015 – Sarodi Saikia
2016 – Haricharan Bhuyan Borbayan
2017 – Ramkrishna Talukdar
2018 – Tankeswar Hazarika Borbayan
2019 – Ranjumoni Saikia
2022 – Gobinda Saikia
2023 – Bhaben Borbayan

Other major traditions of dance and dance theatre

2007 – Kalamandalam Sivan Namboodiri (Kutiyattam)
2009 – Kala Krishna (Andhranatyam)
2010 – Painkulam Rama Chakyar (Kutiyattam)
2012 – Painkulam Damodara Chakyar (Kutiyattam)
2013 – Srinivasa Rangachariar (Arayer Sevai)
2021 – Kalamandalam Girija (Kutiyattam)
2022 – Karuna Borah (Ankiya Bhaona)
2023 – Perini Prakash (Periniattam)

Music for dance

2005 – Josyula Krishna Murthy (Kuchipudi Bhagavatha Maddalla)
2006 – Kalamandalam Gangadharan (Kathakali Pattu)
2008 – Ramhari Das (Odissi)
2010 – S. Rajeswari (Bharatanatyam)
2011 – Karaikudi Krishnamurthi
2012 – Jwala Prasad
2013 – Dhaneshwar Swain
2014 – Varanasi Vishnu Namboothiri (Kathakali)
2015 – Rajkumar Bharathi
2017 – Ashit Desai
2020 – Prema Ramamurthy, Arambam Tombinou Devi
2021 – Bijay Kumar Jena
2022 – Pusthakam Ramaa
2023 – Kalinath Mishra

Folk and Tribal dance

2019 – Mukund Nayak

Theatre

Acting

From 1952–2003 (language-wise)

Assamese

1961 – Mitradev Mahanta Adhikari
2001 – Girish Chowdhury
2019 - Pranjal Saikia

Bengali theatre

1958 – Ahindra Choudhury
1962 – Tripti Mitra
1967 – Sabitabrata Dutta
1970 – Saraju Bala Devi
1973 – Shobha Sen
1975 – Molina Devi
1977 – Krishna Roy
1983 – Kumar Roy
1989 – Sekhar Chatterjee
1995 – Satya Bandopadhyay
1998 – Soumitra Chatterjee
1999–2000 – Ketaki Dutta Sabitri Chatterjee
2003 – Shaoli Mitra

Gujarati theatre

1960 – Ashraf Khan
1965 – Muljibhai Khushalbhai Nayak
1968 – Jashwant Thaker
1974 – Pransukh Manilal Nayak
1980 – Dina Pathak (Gandhi)
1988 – Sarita Joshi

Hindi theatre

1979 – Amrish Puri
1982 – Manohar Singh
1984 – Uttara Baokar
1985 – Fida Hussain
1989 – Surekha Sikri
1990– Naseeruddin Shah (also Urdu)
1999–2000 – Seema Biswas

Kannada

1955 – Gubbi Veeranna
1961 – Subbaiah Naidu
1985 – B. Jayamma
1992 – R. Nagarathnamma
1994 – Balappa Yenagi
1996 – B. Jayashree
2003 – C. R. Simha

Malayalam

1960 – C. I. Parameswaran Pillai
1965 – V. T. Aravindaksha Menon
1969 – N. N. Pillai

Manipuri

1991 – Sabitri Heisnam
1997 – R. K. Bhogen

Marathi theatre

1955 – Narayan Rao Rajhans 'Bal Gandharva'
1956 – Ganesh Govind Bodas
1957 – Chintaman Ganesh Kolhatkar
1960 – Gopal Govind Pathak
1964 – Keshav Trimbak Date
1971 – Shreeram Lagoo
1976 – Jyotsna Bhole
1978 – Dattaram Walwaikar
1981 – Chintamani Govind Pendse
1983 – Dattatray Ramachandra Bhat
1986 – Prabhakar V. Panshikar
1987 – Sulabha Deshpande (also Hindi)
1988 – Saudagar Nagnath Gore 'Chhota Gandharva'
1990 – Bhakti Barve Inamdar
1991 – Neelu Phule
1996 – Mohan Agashe

Oriya

1961 – Samuel Sahu

Sanskrit

1965 – Krishnachandra Moreshwar "Daji Bhatawadekar"

Tamil

1959 – Pammal Sambandha Mudaliar
1962 – T. K. Shanmugam
1967 – S. V. Sahasranamam
1992 – Poornam Viswanathan

Telugu theatre

1961 – Sthanam Narasimha Rao
1963 – Banda Kanakalingeswara Rao
1973 – Kalyanam Raghuramaiah
1986 – Peesapati Narasimha Murty

Urdu

1963 – Zohra Sehgal
1994 – Uzra Butt

From 2004 onwards

2004 – Rohini Hattangady, Ramcharan Nirmalkar
2005 – Chindodi Leela
2006 – Dharani Barman, Gita Dey, K. Kaladharan Nair
2007 – Ramesh Mehta
2008 – Markand Bhatt, Arundhati Nag
2009 – Sudha Shivpuri, Neeta Mohindra
2010 – Dilip Prabhavalkar, Banwari Taneja, Maya Krishna Rao, Swatilekha Sengupta
2012 – Parvesh Seth, Nirmal Rishi, Purisai Kannappa Sambandan
2013 – Vasant Josalkar, Kusum Haidar
2014 – Debshankar Haldar, Ramdas Kamat
2017 – Anil Tickoo
2018 – Suhas Joshi, Teekam Joshi
2019 – Alok Chatterjee, Pranjal Saikia
2020 – Prashant Damle, Bhupesh Joshi, Amit Banerjee
2021 – Neeleshwar Mishra, Y. G. Mahendran
2022 – Ashok Saraf, Prem Lata Mishra
2023 – Anil Kumar Rastogi, Rajeev Verma

Mime

1993 – Jogesh Dutta
2002 – Niranjan Goswami
2009 – Moinul Haque
2018 – Swapan Nandy
2021 – Vilas Janve
2022 – Yumnam Sadananda Singh

Direction

1957 – Jaishankar Bhojak 'Sundari'
1959 – Sombhu Mitra
1961 – Kasambhai Nathubhai Mir
1962 – Ebrahim Alkazi
1964 – T. S. Rajamanikkam
1969 – Habib Tanvir
1970 – Adi Ferozeshah Marzban
1971 – Satyadev Dubey
1972 – Shyamanand Jalan
1973 – Ajitesh Bandopadhyay
1974 – Damodar Kashinath Kenkre
1975 – Vijaya Mehta
1976 – B. V. Karanth
1977 – Rajinder Nath
1978 – Jabbar Patel
1979 – B. M. Shah
1980 – Rudraprasad Sengupta
1981 – R. S. Manohar
1982 – Sheila Bhatia
1983 – Kavalam Narayana Panikkar
1985 – Heisnam Kanhailal
1986 – Alyque Padamsee
1987 – Tarun Roy
1987 – Ratan Thiyam
1989 – Bibhash Chakraborty
1990 – Geoffrey Kendal & Laura Kendal (Joint Award)
1991 – Fritz Bennewitz
1992 – Mohan Maharishi
1993 – Kailash Pandya
1993 – Barry John
1995 – M. K. Raina
1995 – Bansi Kaul
1996 – Purushottam Darwhekar
1997 – Bhanu Bharti
1998 – Amal Allana
1998 – Dulal Roy
1998 – Usha Ganguly
1999–2000 – Balwant Thakur
1999–2000 – Nadira Zaheer Babbar
1999–2000 – Prasanna
2001 – Shanta Gandhi
2002 – Arun Mukherjee, Satish Anand
2003 – Devendra Raj Ankur, Neelam Mansingh Chowdhry
2004 – Anuradha Kapur, Arambam Lokendra Singh, Raj Besaria
2005 – Ranjit Kapoor, V K Sharma
2006 – E. Joychandra Singh, R. Nagesh, Amitava Dasgupta
2007 – Hari Madhab Mukherjee, N.C. Thakur
2008 – S. Ramanujam, Probir Guha
2009 – Joy Michael, Dinesh Thakur
2010 – Veenapani Chawla, Urmil Kumar Thapliyal
2011 – Alakhnandan, Kirti Jain
2012 – Tripurari Sharma, Waman Kendre
2013 – Kamalkar Muralidhar Sontakke, Kewal Dhaliwal, Prasanna Ramaswamy
2014 – Surya Mohan Kulshreshtha, Chidambar Rao Jambe
2015 – Parvez Akhtar, Mushtaq Kak
2016 – Satyabrata Rout, Rajkamal Nayak
2018 – Sanjay Upadhyay, S. Raghunandana
2019 – Bharti Sharma, Kumar Sohoni, Abinash Sarma
2020 – Lokendra Trivedi, Mithilesh Rai
2021 – R. Venugopal Rao (Surabhi), Lalit Singh Pokharia, Sudesh Sharma, Ajay Malkani, Manoj Pattnaik
2022 – Gunakar Dev Goswami, Suresh Sharma, Susairaj A
2023 – Surinder Sharma, Zahoor Alam

Playwriting

Assamese
- 1986 – Satya Prasad Barua
- 2003 – Aruna Sarma
Bengali
- 1968 – Badal Sircar
- 1969 – Manmatha Ray
- 1975 – Bijon Bhattacharya
- 1985 – Manoj Mitra
- 1991 – Mohit Chattopadhyaya
Dogri
- 2008 – Narsingh Dev Jamwal
Gujarati
- 1961 – Prabhulal Dayaram Dwivedi
- 1971 – C. C. Mehta, Pragji Dossa
Hindi
- 1965 – Upendra Nath Ashk
- 1968 – Mohan Rakesh
- 1977 – Lakshmi Narain Lal
- 1988 – Dharamvir Bharati
- 1992 – Surendra Verma
- 2001 – Bhisham Sahni, D.P. Sinha
- 2006 – Prabhat Kumar Bhattacharya
- 2004 – Swadesh Deepak
- 2007 – Reoti Sharan Sharna
- 2008 – Mudra Rakshasa
Kannada
- 1963 – Adya Rangacharya 'Shriranga'
- 1972 – Girish Karnad
- 1983 – Chandrashekhara Kambara
- 1980 – Narasinga Rao Parwathavani
- 1989 – G. B. Joshi
- 1997 – H. S. Shivaprakash
Kashmiri
- 1997 – Moti Lal Kemmu
Malayalam
- 1979 – G. Sankara Pillai
- 1983 – Kavalam Narayana Panikkar
- 1986 – K. T. Muhammed
- 1997 – N. Krishna Pillai
- 2009 – Vayala Vasudevan Pillai
Manipuri
- 2007 – Yumnam Rajendra Singh
Marathi
- 1958 – B.V. 'Mama' Warerkar
- 1967 – P. L. Deshpande
- 1970 – Vijay Tendulkar
- 1976 – C. T. Khanolkar
- 1982 – M.G. Rangnekar
- 1984 – Vasant Shankar Kanetkar
- 1987 – V.V. Shirwadkar
- 1989 – Mahesh Elkunchwar
- 1994 – Satish Alekar
- 1996 – G.P. Deshpande
- 2003 – Ratnakar Ramkrishna Matkari
- 2009 – Shankar Narayan Navre
- 2017 – Abhiram Bhadkamkar
Mizo
- 2007 – Lathangfala Sailo
Oriya
- 1981 – Manoranjan Das
- 1982 – Biswajit Das
- 1987 – Gopal Chhotray
Punjabi
- 1993 – Gursharan Singh
- 1998 – Balwant Gargi
- 2010 – Atamjeet Singh
Tamil
- 1974 – S.D. Sundaram
- 1999–2000 – Na. Muthuswamy
- 2004 – Indira Parthasarathy
Telugu
- 2010 – D. Vizai Bhaskar

2012 onwards

2012 – Arjun Deo Charan
2013 – Rameshwar Prem, Pundalik Narayan Naik
2014 – Asgar Wajahat
2018 – Rajiv Naik, Laltluangliana Khiangte
2019 – Hrishikesh Sulabh
2022 – Sohan Lal Kaul
2023 – Asif Ali Haider Khan, Pali Bhupinder Singh

Allied Theatre Arts

Lighting
- 1974 – Tapas Sen
- 1977 – V, Ramamurthy
- 1989 – G.N. Dasgupta
- 1994 – Kanishka Sen
- 1997 – Mansukh Joshi (for scenic design also)
- 1999–2000 – R.K. Dhingra
- 2002 – Ashok Sagar Bhagat
- 2003 – Sreenivas G. Kappanna
- 2005 – Suresh Bhardwaj
- 2006 - Gautam Bhattacharya
- 2011 – Kamal Jain
- 2019 – Souti Chakraborty
- 2020 – Raghav Prakash
- 2022 – Daulat Ram Vaid
- 2023 – Anoop Joshi, Sandeep Dutta
Scenic Design
- 1985 – Goverdhan Panchal
- 1986 – Khaled Choudhury
- 1988 – Dattatraya Ganesh Godse
- 1997 – Mansukh Joshi
- 1999–2000 – Robin Das
- 2007 – Mahendra Kumar
Costumes/Make-up
- 1981 – Ashok Srivastava (Make-up)
- 1990 – Roshan Alkazi (Costume Design)
- 1999–2000 – Shakti Sen (Make-up)
- 2001 – Dolly Ahluwalia (Costume Design)
- 2003 – Anant Gopal Shinde (Make-up)
- 2004 – Prema Karanth (Costume Design)
- 2008 – Amba Sanyal (Costume Designing)
- 2009 – Kamal Arora (Make-up)
- 2013 – Krishna Borkar (Make-up)
- 2019 – N.K. Ramakrishna (Make-up)
- 2020 – M. Purushottam (Costume Design)
Music for Theatre
- 1999–2000 – Kajal Ghosh, Kamal Tewari
- 2005 - R. Paramashivan
- 2009 – Kuldeep Singh
- 2012 - Murari Roychoudhury
- 2014 - Amod Bhatt, Amardas Manikpuri (Chhattisgarh)
Stagecraft
- 1993 – M.S. Sathyu
- 1995 – N. Krishnamoorthy
- 2002 – Nissar Allana
- 2005 – H. V. Sharma
- 2020 – N. Jadumani Singh

Major traditions of theatre

2007 – Kolyur Ramachandra Rao (Yakshagana)
2008 – Bansi Lal Khiladi, Khayal (Rajasthan)
2012 – Ghulam Rasool Bhagat (Bhand Pather)
2014 – Manjunath Bhagwat Hostota (Yakshagana)
2015 – Sarojini Nangiaramma (Koodiyattam)
2018 – Bhagawat A. S. Nanjappa (Yakshagana), A. M. Parameswaran Kuttan Chakkiyar (Kutiyattam)
2019 – K. S. Krishanappa (Isai Natakam)
2020 – P. P. Kandaswami (Therukoothu)
2021 – Gunindra Nath Ojah (Music and Direction in Ankiya Bhaona)
2022 – Margi Madhu Chakyar (Kutiyattam)
2023 – Piyal Bhattacharya (Sanskrit Theatre)

Other Traditional/ Folk/ Tribal/ Dance/ Music/ Theatre and Puppetry

1964 – Mani Madhava Chakyar (Kutiyattam), Kerala
1969 – Gahan Chandra Goswami (Ankia Nat, Assam)
1972 – Kudamaloor Karunakaran Nair (Kathakali), Kerala
1976 – Raghunath Panigrahi (Joint Award with Sanjukta Panigrahi for Odissi Music, Orissa)
1981 – Kamini Kumar Narzary (Bodo Tribal Dance, Assam)
1983 – Dharmiklal Chunilal Pandya (Akhyana), Gujarat
1983 – Lalit Chandra Ojha (Ojapali and Deodhani Dances, Assam)
1984 – Balakrushna Dash (Odissi Music, Orissa)
1985 – Mohan Chandra Barman (Bhaona, Assam)
1984 – Bhubaneswar Mishra (Odissi Music, Orissa)
1987 – Bhupen Hazarika (Folk Music, Assam)
1988 – Pratima Barua Pandey (Folk Music, Assam)
1989 – Rajen Pam (Tribal Music, Assam)
1990 – Rameshwar Pathak (Folk Music, Assam)
1991 – Puranchand Wadali & Pyarelal Wadali (Folk Music), Punjab
1992 – Khagen Mahanta (Folk Music, Assam)
1994 – M. Boyer (Tiatr), Goa
1995 – Teejan Bai (Pandavani), Madhya Pradesh
1997 – Arghya sen [(Rabindra Sangeet), West Bengal
1997 – P. R. Thilagam, Kuravanji performer, Tamil Nadu
1998 – Ghulam Mohammad Saznawaz, Jammu and Kashmir
2002 – Dilip Sarma & Sudakshina Sarma (Jyoti Sangeet, Assam - Joint Award)
2003 – Prabhat Sarma (traditional & Folk Music, Assam)
2003 – Kosha Kanta Deva Goswami (Mask Making Bhaona, Assam)
2003 – Banamali Maharana (Odissi Music, Orissa)
2005 – Khirod Khakhlari (Bodo Dance & Music, Assam)
2005 – Kashinath Pujapanda (Odissi Music, Orissa)
2005 – Mathoor Govindan Kutty (Kathakali), Kerala
2007 – Subodh Debbarma (Folk dance), Tripura
2007 – Amar Pal (Folk Song), West Bengal
2008 – Kartar Singh (Gurbani), Punjab
2008 – Mangi Bai Arya (Mand), Rajasthan
2008 – Lakha Khan Mangniyar, (Folk Music), Rajasthan
2008 – Bansi Lal Khilari (Khayal), Rajasthan
2009 – Bhikhudan Gadhvi (Folk music), Gujarat
2010 – Harbhajan Singh Namdhari (Gurbani Kirtan), Punjab
2010 – Nazeer Ahmed Khan Warsi and Naseer Ahmed Khan Warsi (Qawwali), Andhra Pradesh
2010 – Dwijen Mukherjee (Rabindra Sangeet), West Bengal
2010 – Chandabai Tiwadi (Bharud), Maharashtra
2010 – T. Somasundaram (Folk dance), Tamil Nadu
2010 – Krishna Kumari (Folk music: Bhakha), Jammu and Kashmir
2010 – Chand Jagdish Tiwadi (Folk theatre: Bharud), Maharashtra
2011 – Thrippekulam Achuta Marar, Kerala
2011 – Hemant Chauhan (Folk Music), Gujarat
2011 – Gurmeet Bawa (Folk Music), Punjab
2011 – Kashiram Sahu (Folk Theatre), Chhattisgarh
2011 – Mipham Otsal (Traditional Theatre), Jammu & Kashmir
2011 – Bellagallu Veeranna (Togalu Gombeyatta, Puppetry), Karnataka
2011 – Gopal Chandra Das (Putul Nach), Tripura
2011 – Kasmi Khan Niyazi (Making of musical Instrument), DeIhi
2012 – Go Ru Channabasappa (Folk Music - Karnataka)
2012 – Kinaram Nath Oja (Suknani Ojapali - Assam)
2012 – Prem Singh Dehati (Folk Music - Haryana)
2012 – Sulochana Chavan (Lavani - Maharashtra)
2012 – Mattannur Sankaran Kutty Marar (Thayambaka - Kerala)
2012 – Govind Ram Nirmalkar (Nacha - Chhattisgarh)
2012 – Heera Das Negi (Mask Making - Himachal Pradesh)
2013 – Meeenakshi K. (Instrument Making - Ghatam - Tamil Nadu)
2013 – Raj Begum, Traditional, Folk Music/Dance & Theatre (Jammu & Kashmir)
2013 – T.A.R. Nadi Rao & N Jeeva Rao (Joint Award), Folk Music (Tamil Nadu)
2013 – Gurdial Singh, Instrument Making (Punjab)
2013 – Mohan Singh Khangura, Rabindra Sangeet (West Bengal)
2013 – Umakanta Gogoi (Bairagi), Tokari Geet and Dehbichar Geet, (Assam)
2013 – Sheikh Riyajuddin alias Rajubaba, Folk Theatre (Maharashtra)
2014 – Puran Shah Koti (Traditional Music - Punjab)
2014 – Kalamandalam Ram Mohan (Makeup/Costume for Kathakali)
2014 – Reba Kanta Mohanta (Mask Making - Assam)
2014 – Abdul Rashid Hafiz (Folk Music - Jammu & Kashmir )
2014 – K.Shanathoiba Sharma (Thang-Ta - Manipur)
2014 – Ramdayal Sharma (Nautanki - U.P.)
2014 – Thanga Darlong (Folk Music - Tripura)
2015 - K. K. Ramachandra Pulavar (Tholpavakoothu)
2015 – Ramchandra Singh (Folk Theater - Bihar)
2017 – Mukund Nayak (Folk Music - Jharkhand)
2017 – Prakash Khandge (Folk Arts - Maharashtra)
2018 – Malini Awasthi (Folk Music - Uttar Pradesh)
2018 – Gazi Khan Barna (Folk Music - Khartal, Rajasthan)
2018 – Narendra Singh Negi (Folk Songs - Uttarakhand)
2018 – Niranjan Rajyaguru (Folk Music - Gujarat)
2018 – Mohd. Sadiq Bhagat (Folk Theatre - Bhand Pather, J&K)
2018 – Kota Sachidanand Shastry (Harikatha - Andhra Pradesh)
2018 – Arjun Singh Dhurve (Folk Dance - Madhya Pradesh)
2018 – Somnath Battu (Folk Music - Himachal Pradesh)
2018 – Hem Chandra Goswami (Mask Making - Assam)
2019 – Mamta Chandrakar (Folk Music Chhattisgarh)
2019 – Ram Lal (Folk Music, Uttarakhand)
2019 – Shankarbhai Hakabhai Dharjiya (Folk Music & Dance - Gujarat)
2019 – Nathulal Solanki (Folk Music - Rajasthan)
2019 – Pandurang Ghotkar (Folk Music - Maharashtra)
2019 – Peruvanam Kuttan Marar (Thayambaka - Kerala)
2019 – Urmila Pandey (Folk Music - Madhya Pradesh)
2019 – Sayed Mohmmed P.P. (Folk Music & Dance - Lakshadweep)
2019 – Majid Gulabsaheb Sitarmaker (Instrument Making - Maharashtra)
2019 – Dulal Kanji (Instrument Making - West Bengal)
2020 – Balkar Sidhu (Folk Dance - Punjab)
2020 – Nandlal Garg (Folk Music - Himachal Pradesh)
2020 – B. Lalthlengliana (Folk Theatre - Mizoram)
2020 – Ranjana Kumri Jha (Folk Music - Bihar)
2020 – S. G. Lakshmidevamma (Folk Music - Karnataka)
2020 – Tarubala Debbarma (Folk Music and Dance - Tripura)
2020 – Sang Jangmu (Folk Dance - Arunachal Pradesh)
2020 – Gafoor Khan Manganiar (Folk Music - Rajasthan)
2020 – Zachunu Keyho (Folk Music - Nagaland)
2021 – Silbi Passah (Folk Music - Meghalaya)
2021 – Durga Prasad Murmu (Folk Music and Dance - Jharkhand)
2021 – Prashanna Gogoi (Folk Music & Dance - Assam)
2021 – Gartigere Raghanna (H. N Raghavenda) (Folk Music - Karnataka)
2021 – S Samundaram (Folk Music - Tamil Nadu)
2021 – Data Ram Purohit (Folk Music & Theatre - Uttarakhand)
2021 – Mahavir Singh Guddu (Folk Music & Dance - Haryana)
2021 – N Tiken Singh (Folk Music - Manipur)
2021 – N. Sekar (Folk Music - Puducherry)
2021 – R. Murugan (Instrument Making - Tamil Nadu)
2022 – Shailesh Shrivastava (Folk Music - Uttar Pradesh)
2022 – Vijay Shamrao Chavan (Folk Music - Dholak, Maharashtra)
2022 – Tsering Jorgais (Folk Music - Ladakh)
2022 – Olen Megu Damin (Folk &Traditional Music & Dance - Arunachal Pradesh)
2022 – Nitu Kumari Nootan (Folk Music - Bihar)
2022 – Gaffruddin Mewati Jogi (Folk/Traditional Music – Bhapang, Rajasthan)
2022 – Tarawati Bori (Folk /Traditional Music - Assam)
2022 – K. Vishwanatha Pulavar (Puppetry - Tholpavakoothu)
2022 – Mahendrakumar Karsandas Andani (Folk Dance - Gujarat)
2022 – Chingtham Ranjeet Khuman (Thang Ta - Manipur)
2022 – Poonam Tivari (Folk Music - Chhattisgarh)
2023 – Kanta Kashinath Gaude (Folk Music, Goa)
2023 – Swapan Mukhopadhyay (Folk Music, West Bengal)
2023 – Rakesh Bhatt (Folk Theatre/Music, Uttarakhand)
2023 – Krishna Lal Sehgal (Folk Song- Himachal Pradesh)
2023 – Bharat Sharma Vyas (Folk Music, Bihar)
2023 – Helen Giri Syiem (Folk & traditional Music, Meghalaya)
2023 – Cheruthazham Kunhiraman Marar (Traditional Music - Chenda, Kerala)
2023 – Abdul Gaffar Das Kanihami (Folk Music, Jammu & Kashmir)
2023 – Jayantibhai Maganbhai Sharma (Instrument Making, Gujarat)
2023 – K. Pajanivel (Martial Arts, Puducherry)
2023 – Gurpreet Singh Khalsa (Martial Arts, Punjab)

Puppetry/ Mime/ Allied arts of traditional forms

1978 – Kathinanada Das (Ravanchhaya puppetry), Orissa
1979 – U. Kogga Devanna Kamath (Gombeatta puppetry), Karnataka
1980 – K.L. Krishnan Kutty Pulavar (Tholpava Koothu), Kerala
1981 – M.R. Ranganatha Rao, Karnataka
1983 – Meher Rustom Contractor, Gujarat
1987 – Suresh Dutta, West Bengal
1992 – Dadi Dorab Pudumjee, Delhi
1995 – T. Hombiah, Karnataka
1998 – Kolhacharan Sahu (Ravanchhaya puppetry), Orissa
1999 – B.H. Puttashamachar, Karanataka
2001 – Hiren Bhattacharya, Assam
2003 – Puran Bhatt, Rajasthan
2004 – Maguni Charan Kuanr, Odisha
2005 – Ganpat Sakharam Masge, Maharashtra
2010 – K. Chinna Anjannamma (Shadow puppetry: Tolu Bommalata), Andhra Pradesh
2010 – K.V. Ramakrishnan and K.C. Ramakrishnan (Glove puppetry: Pava Kathakali), Kerala
2012 – Prafulla Karmakar (Traditional Puppetry - West Bengal)
2013 – Lilavati M Kavi (Bajaj), Puppetry
2014 – K. Kesavasamy (Puppetry - Puducherry)
2016 – Prabhitangsu Das (Contemporary Puppetry - Tripura)
2018 – Anupama Hoskere (Classical String Puppetry of Karnataka, Bengaluru)
2020 – Meena Naik (Puppetry - Maharashtra)

Films

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