- Jawaharlal Nehru Award
Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding is an international award presented by theGovernment of India founded in1965 . 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.Recipients
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U Thant , 1965
#Martin Luther King Jr , 1966 (posthumous)
#Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan , 1967
#Yehudi Menuhin , 1968
#Mother Teresa , 1969
#Kenneth Kaunda , 1970
#Josip Broz Tito , 1971
#Andre Malraux , 1972
#Julius Nyerere , 1973
#Raul Prebisch , 1974
#Jonas Salk , 1975
#Giuseppe Tucci , 1976
#Tulsi Meherji Shrestha , 1977
#Nichidatsu Fujii , 1978
#Nelson Mandela , 1979
#Barbara Ward , 1980
# Alva andGunnar Myrdal , 1981
#Leopold Sedar Senghor , 1982
#Bruno Kreisky , 1983
#Indira Gandhi , 1984 (posthumous)
#Olof Palme , 1985 (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
# "(yet to be presented)" SultanQaboos Bin Said al Said , 2004
#Wangari Maathai , 2005
#Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva , 2006
#Olafur Ragnar Grimsson ,2007
* prize was not awarded in 1986
* prize was not awarded in 1996-2002External links
* [http://www.iccrindia.org/awards.htm Award description page] at
Indian Council for Cultural Relations website
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