Jawaharlal Nehru Award
Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding is an international award presented by the Government of India. It was founded 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 Rs.25 lakhs rupees.
- U Thant - 1965
- Martin Luther King, Jr. - 1966
- Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan - 1967
- Yehudi Menuhin - 1968
- Mother Teresa - 1969
- Kenneth Kaunda - 1970
- Josip Broz Tito - 1971
- André Malraux - 1972
- Julius Nyerere - 1973
- Raul Prebisch - 1974
- Jonas Salk - 1975
- Giuseppe Tucci - 1976
- Tulsi Meherji Shrestha - 1977
- Nichidatsu Fujii - 1978
- Nelson Mandela - 1980
- Barbara Ward - 1981
- Alva and Gunnar Myrdal - 1982
- Leopold Sedar Senghor - 1983
- Bruno Kreisky - 1984
- Indira Gandhi - 1985 (posthumous)
- Olof Palme - 1986 (posthumous)
- Javier Pérez de Cuéllar - 1987
- Yasser Arafat - 1988
- Robert Gabriel Mugabe - 1989
- Helmut Kohl - 1990
- Aruna Asaf Ali - 1991
- Maurice Strong - 1992
- Aung San Suu Kyi - 1993
- Mahathir Bin Mohamad - 1994
- Hosni Mubarak - 1995
- Goh Chok Tong - 2003
- Sultan Qaboos bin Said al Said - 2004 (yet to be presented)
- Wangari Maathai - 2005
- Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva - 2006
- Olafur Ragnar Grimsson - 2007
- Angela Merkel - 2009
- Prize not awarded in 1986 & from 1996 to 2002.
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