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The Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding
International Civilian award for contributions to the promotion of international understanding, goodwill and friendship among people of the world
Sponsored byGovernment of India
Reward(s)₹ 2.5 million
First awarded1965
Highlights
Total awarded36
First winnerU Thant
Websitehttp://iccr.gov.in/content/nehru-award-recipients Edit this on Wikidata

The Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding is an international award presented by the Government of India in honour of Jawaharlal Nehru, the country's first prime minister.

History

It was established 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 2.5 million rupees.[1]

Recipients

The following people have received this award. No prize was awarded in 1986 and between 1995 and 2003; the last award was in 2009.[2]

Year Recipient Country
1965 U Thant Burma
1966 Martin Luther King Jr.  United States
1967 Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan  Pakistan
1968 Yehudi Menuhin  United States
1969 Mother Teresa  India
1970 Kenneth Kaunda  Zambia
1971 Josip Broz Tito Yugoslavia
1972 André Malraux  France
1973 Julius Nyerere  Tanzania
1974 Raúl Prebisch  Argentina
1975 Jonas Salk  United States
1976 Giuseppe Tucci  Italy
1977 Tulsi Mehar Shrestha  Nepal
1978 Nichidatsu Fujii  Japan
1979 Nelson Mandela  South Africa
1980 Barbara Ward  United Kingdom
1981 Alva Myrdal
Gunnar Myrdal		  Sweden
1982 Léopold Sédar Senghor  Senegal
1983 Bruno Kreisky  Austria
1984 Indira Gandhi (posthumous)  India
1985 Olof Palme (posthumous)[3]  Sweden
1987 Javier Pérez de Cuéllar  Peru
1988 Yasser Arafat  Palestine
1989 Robert Mugabe  Zimbabwe
1990 Helmut Kohl  Germany
1991 Aruna Asaf Ali  India
1992 Maurice Strong  Canada
1993 Aung San Suu Kyi  Myanmar
1994 Mahathir Mohamad  Malaysia
1995 Hosni Mubarak  Egypt
2003 Goh Chok Tong  Singapore
2004 Sultan Qaboos  Oman
2005 Wangari Maathai  Kenya
2006 Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva  Brazil
2007 Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson  Iceland
2009 Angela Merkel  Germany

References

  1. ^ "Nehru Award". Indian Council for Cultural Relations. Archived from the original on 4 April 2013. Retrieved 2 April 2013.
  2. ^ "Nehru Award Recipients". Indian Council for Cultural Relations. Government of India. Archived from the original on 15 August 2016. Retrieved 8 October 2017.
  3. ^ According to Bhagavathi Vivekanandan: Global Visions of Olof Palme, Bruno Kreisky and Willy Brandt. International Peace and Security, Co-operation, and Development. Springer International Publishing, Cham 2016, ISBN 978-3-319-33710-4, p. 16, Palme received the award in 1987 (he died in 1986).



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