Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship

Infobox Indian Awards
awardname = Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship


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category = Performing Arts (Individual)
instituted = 1954
firstawarded = 1954
lastawarded = 2006
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awardedby = Sangeet Natak Akademi, Government of India
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description = Award for the performing arts in India
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firstawardees = Karaikudi Sambasiva Aiyer, Ariyakudi Ramanuja Iyengar, Allauddin Khan, Hafiz Ali Khan, and Prithviraj Kapoor.

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followedby = The Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship, also, Sangeet Natak Akademi "Ratna Sadasya" (Sanskrit "ratna", "gem;" "sadasya", "member") is an honour for the performing arts in India. Awarded by the Sangeet Natak Akademi, India's National Academy for Music, Drama, and Dance, and limited to thirty individuals at any given time, [ [http://www.sangeetnatak.org/aboutsna_theintroduction.html Sangeet Natak Akademi: The Introduction] ] it is the highest honour in the performing arts conferred by the Government of India.

History

The fellowship was established in 1954 and the first elected fellows were the Carnatic musicians Karaikudi Sambasiva Aiyer and Ariyakudi Ramanuja Iyengar, the Hindustani musicians Allauddin Khan and Hafiz Ali Khan, [ [http://www.sarod.com/sarod/hafiz.htm Hafiz Ali Khan] ] and movie and theatre actor Prithviraj Kapoor [ [http://www.sangeetnatak.com/aboutsna_ratnasadsya.html Ratna Sadsya official list] ] .

List of Fellows

Living Fellows

* Ebrahim Alkazi 1967

* Vedantam Satyanarayana Sarma 'Satyam' 1967

* Kapila Vatsyayan 1970

*Ravi Shankar 1975

*Zubin Mehta 1975

*Lata Mangeshkar 1989

* D. K. Pattammal 1992

*Ali Akbar Khan 1992

*Mrinalini Vikram Sarabhai 1993

*Girish Karnad 1993

*Gangubai Hangal 1996

*Ammannur Madhava Chakyar 1996

*Habib Tanvir 1996

*Badal Sircar 1997

*Bhimsen Joshi 1998

*Birju Maharaj 1998

*Vijay Tendulkar 1998

*M. Balamurali Krishna 2001

*Vempati Chinna Satyam 2001

*Shanno Khurana 2002

*Kavalam Narayana Panikkar 2002

*Zohra Segal 2004

*Kalamandalam Ramankutty Nair 2004

*Annapurna Devi 2004

*Kishan Maharaj 2006

*T. N. Krishnan 2006

*Rohini Bhate 2006

*Gursharan Singh 2006

*N. Khelchandra Singh 2006

Deceased Fellows

** Allauddin Khan 1954
** Hafiz Ali Khan 1954
** Prithviraj Kapoor 1954
** Karaikudi Sambasiva Aiyer 1954
** Ariyakudi Ramanuja Iyengar 1954
** Anjani Bai Malpekar 1958
** Gopeswar Bandopadhyay 1962
** Papanasam R. Sivan 1962
** D. Annaswami Bhagavathar 1962
** Uday Shankar 1962
** B. V. 'Mama' Warerkar 1963
** Swami Prajnanananda 1963
** S. N. Ratanjankar 1963
** P. Sambamoorthy 1963
** B. R. Deodhar 1964
** P. V. Rajamannar 1964
** T. L. Venkatarama Aiyer 1964
** V. Raghavan 1964
** Birendra Kishore Roy Choudhury 1964
** C. Saraswathi Bai 1964
** Thakur Jaidev Singh 1965
** D. G. Vyas 1965
** Dilip Kumar Roy 1965
** Ganesh Hari Ranade 1965
** Vinayak Narayan Patwardhan 1965
** Sombhu Mitra 1966
** Asutosh Bhattacharya 1966
** Jaya Chamaraja Wadiyar 1966
** E. Krishna Iyer 1966
** Rukmini Devi Arundale 1967
** Bade Ghulam Ali Khan 1967
** P. K. Kunju Kurup 1967
** Musiri Subramania Iyer 1967
** Adya Rangacharya 'Shriranga' 1967
** Shambhu Maharaj 1967
** Kali Charan Patnaik 1968
** Dilip Chandra Vedi 1970
** K. C. D. Brahaspati 1970
** Ananth Krishna Sarma 1972
** Tarapada Chakravarty 1972
** Krishnarao Ganesh Phulambrikar 1972
** Kota Shivarama Karanth 1973
** Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay 1974
** Jnan Prakash Ghosh 1974
** M. S. Subbulakshmi 1974
** Embar S. Vijayaraghavachariar 1975
** T. Balasarswati 1975
** Rasiklal Chhotalal Parikh 1975
** Semmangudi R. Srinivasa Iyer 1976
** Santidev Ghosh 1976
** Hirjibhai Rustomji Doctor 1977
** B. Puttasamaya 1978
** Tinuvengadu Subramania Pillai 1978
** P. L. Deshpande 1979
** D. T. Joshi 1979
** Sumati Mutatkar 1979
** T. P. Kuppiah Pillai 1979
** V. K. Narayana Menon 1980
** Mani Madhava Chakiar 1982
** Mallikarjun Mansoor 1982
** Chandravadan C. Mehta 1984
** M. Kirupanandawari 1984
** Siya Ram Tewari 1984
** Satyajit Ray 1986
** Komal Kothari 1986
** S. Ramanathan 1986
** V. V. Swarna Venkatesa Deekshithar 1986
** Shivaputra Siddaramayya Komkali 'Kumar Gandharva' 1988
** Ram Gopal 1990
** Utpal Dutt 1990
** Kelucharan Mohapatra 1991
** Alain Danielou 1991
** T. S. Parthasarathy 1991
** Prem Lata Sharma 1992
** Yehudi Menuhin 1994
** Maheswar Neog 1994
** Bismillah Khan 1994
** Vilayat Khan 1995
** K. P. Kittappa Pillai 1998
** B. V. Karanth 2001
** Tapas Sen 2004
** Chandralekha 2004
** Bindhyabasini Devi 2004

References

ee also

*Sangeet Natak Akademi
*Lalit Kala Akademi
*Sahitya Akademi

External links

* [http://www.sangeetnatak.org/home.html Sangeet Natak Akademi Home Page]
* [http://www.sangeetnatak.org/aboutsna_ratnasadsya.html Sangeet Natak Akademi "Ratna Sadasya" (Fellows)]