Jawaharlal Nehru Award

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Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding is an international award presented by the Government of India founded in 1965. Award is presented "for their outstanding contribution to the promotion of international understanding, goodwill and friendship among peoples of the world". The money constituent of this award is 2.5 million rupees.

[edit] Recipients

  1. U Thant, 1965
  2. Martin Luther King Jr, 1966 (posthumous)
  3. Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan, 1967
  4. Yehudi Menuhin, 1968
  5. Mother Teresa, 1969
  6. Kenneth Kaunda, 1970
  7. Josip Broz Tito, 1971
  8. Andre Malraux, 1972
  9. Julius Nyerere, 1973
  10. Raul Prebisch, 1974
  11. Jonas Salk, 1975
  12. Giuseppe Tucci, 1976
  13. Tulsi Meherji Shrestha, 1977
  14. Nichidatsu Fujii, 1978
  15. Nelson Mandela, 1979
  16. Barbara Ward, 1980
  17. Alva and Gunnar Myrdal, 1981
  18. Leopold Sedar Senghor, 1982
  19. Bruno Kreisky, 1983
  20. Indira Gandhi, 1984 (posthumous)
  21. Olof Palme, 1985 (posthumous)
  22. Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, 1987
  23. Yasser Arafat, 1988
  24. Robert Gabriel Mugabe, 1989
  25. Helmut Kohl, 1990
  26. Aruna Asaf Ali, 1991
  27. Maurice Strong, 1992
  28. Aung San Suu Kyi, 1993
  29. Mahathir Bin Mohamad, 1994
  30. Hosni Mubarak, 1995
  31. Goh Chok Tong, 2003
  32. (yet to be presented) Sultan Qaboos Bin Said al Said, 2004
  33. Wangari Maathai, 2005
  34. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, 2006
  • prize was not awarded in 1986
  • prize was not awarded in 1996-2002
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