Ratan Shastri

Ratan Shastri was founder of Banasthali Vidyapith and a notable champion of women education.[1]

She was a recipient of Padma Shri in 1955, Padma Bhushan in 1975,^[1] and Jamnalal Bajaj Award for outstanding contribution in the field of uplift and welfare of women and children in 1990.^[2]

She died in 1998 at the age of 86.

References[]

^ "Padma Awards Directory (1954-2009)" (PDF). Ministry of Home Affairs. Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 May 2013.
^ "Jamnalal Bajaj Awards Archive". Jamnalal Bajaj Foundation.

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v t Padma Bhushan award recipients (1970–1979)
1970	Ramkinkar Baij Hirabai Barodekar Buddhadeb Bosu Amiya Chakravarty T. S. Avinashilingam Chettiar Lala Hansraj Gupta Ratan Lal Joshi Gurram Jashuva Narayan Sadoba Kajrolkar Kumari Kamala P. K. Kelkar M. S. Krishnan Syed Abdul Latif Bhagwantrao Mandloi Mahesh Prasad Mehray Sombhu Mitra Vivekananda Mukhopadhyaya Krishnaswami Ramiah Anant alias Annasaheb Sahasrabuddhe Surrendar Saini Viswanatha Satyanarayana Ahmed Jan Thirakwa N. M. Wagle Prem Nath Wahi Yashpal
1971	N. Ramaswami Ayyar Suraj Bhan Gokulbhai Bhatt Jaishankar Bhojak Kandathil Mammen Cherian Ramrao Deshmukh Satish Dhawan Abasaheb Garware Gangubai Hangal Musiri Subramania Iyer Palghat Mani Iyer Mungtu Ram Jaipuria Veni Shankar Jha Jainendra Kumar Raj Kapoor Dhananjay Keer Amir Khan Nissar Hussain Khan Guru Kunchu Kurup R. K. Laxman Shantilal Jamnadas Mehta Ved Rattan Mohan Bishnupada Mukhopadhyaya Kalindi Charan Panigrahi Manibhai J. Patel D. K. Pattammal Krishnarao Phulambrikar Venkatarama Ramalingam Pillai Vulimiri Ramalingaswami Suresh Chandra Roy Pandurang Vasudeo Sukhatme Pichu Sambamoorthi Bhagwati Charan Verma Parmeshwari Lal Verma
1972	Jagjit Singh Aurora Madhavrao Bagal Gopal Gurunath Bewoor Gulestan Rustom Billimoria Kunhiraman Palat Candeth Ram Narayan Chakravarti Yashodhara Dasappa Hari Chand Dewan Minoo Merwan Engineer Inderjit Singh Gill Lakhumal Hiranand Hiranandani L. A. Krishna Iyer Sourendra Nath Kohli Jai Krishna Nilakanta Krishnan Ashwini Kumar Pran Nath Luthra N. G. Krishna Murti T. A. Pai Vinayakrao Patwardhan Dattatraya Yeshwant Phadke Bhalchandra Nilkanth Purandare Tapishwar Narain Raina Bharat Ram Mohinder Singh Randhawa Adya Rangacharya M. B. Ramachandra Rao A. S. Rao Sujoy Bhushan Roy Khusro Faramurz Rustamji Shantilal C. Sheth Baldev Singh Khem Karan Singh Sartaj Singh Sagat Singh Birendranath Sircar Papanasam Sivan Chandrika Prasad Srivastava M. S. Swaminathan Bal Dattatreya Tilak Syed Husain Zaheer
1973	Om P. Bahl Chembai Harindranath Chattopadhyay Banarsidas Chaturvedi M. A. Muthiah Chettiar M. F. Husain Pothan Joseph N. R. Malkani Vinoo Mankad R. M. Muzumdar Krishnarao Shankar Pandit Pitambar Pant Vennelakanti Raghavaiah Raja Ramanna K. Sukumaran
1974	Alice Boner Camille Bulcke Ram Kumar Caroli Dhirendra Nath Ganguly D. V. Gundappa V. S. Huzurbazar Chintamoni Kar Mogubai Kurdikar Jayant Pandurang Naik Habib Rahman B. N. Reddy John Richardson Toppur Seethapathy Sadasivan Sukhlal Sanghvi Hasmukh Dhirajlal Sankalia Jaideva Singh Khushwant Singh Arunachala Sreenivasan Raman Viswanathan
1975	Begum Akhtar Dilbagh Singh Athwal Asima Chatterjee Madhav Sadashiv Gore Pratul Chandra Gupta P. K. Iyengar Darab Jehangir Jussawala Pancheti Koteswaram Vasudev Vishnu Mirashi Balai Chand Mukhopadhyay Kirpal Singh Narang Ronald Carlton Vivian Piadade Noronha Ratan Shastri
1976	Malcolm Adiseshiah Harivansh Rai Bachchan Nabakanta Barua Laxmanshastri Balaji Joshi Naoroji Pirojsha Godrej Zehra Ali Yavar Jung Mallikarjun Mansur Yash Pal Bhogilal Pandya Udupi Ramachandra Rao Krishnaswami Srinivas Sanjivi Devulapalli Krishnasastri C. Sivaramamurti E. C. George Sudarshan
1977	Gopinath Aman Prithvi Singh Azad Harish-Chandra Kumar Gandharva Phulrenu Guha Jagmohan Kailas Nath Kaul Yousuf Hussain Khan K. S. Narayanaswamy Balasubramaniam Ramamurthi Perugu Siva Reddy Annapurna Devi Yudhvir Singh M. N. Srinivas Thenpattinam Ponnusamy Meenakshi Sundaran
# Posthumous conferral 1954–1959 1960–1969 1970–1979 1980–1989 1990–1999 2000–2009 2010–2019 2020–2029

v t Jamnalal Bajaj Award winners
Constructive work	Jugatram Dave (1978) Sarla Devi and Baba Amte (1979) Gandhi Niketan Ashram (1980) Amalprava Das (1981) Gokulbhai Daulatram Bhatt (1982) Tagaduru Ramachandra Rao (1983) (1984) T. S. Avinashilingam Chettiar (1985) Sunderlal Bahuguna (1986) Natwar Thakkar (1987) Krishnammal Jagannathan (1988) (1989) (1990) (1991) Thakurdas Bang (1992) (1993) (1994) (1995) Manubhai Pancholi (1996) R. K. Patil (1997) Acharya Ramamurti (1998) Narayan Desai (1999) (2000) (2001) (2002) Rabindra Nath Upadhyay (2003) (2004) P. Gopinathan Nair (2005) Salem Nanjundaiah Subba Rao (2006) (2007) Biswanath Pattnaik (2008) Lavanam (2009) Chunilal Vaidya (2010) and (2011) (2012) (2013) (2014) (2015) (2016)
Science and Technology	(1978) (1979) Anil Sadgopal (1980) A. M. M. Murugappa Chettiar (1981) (1982) Manibhai Desai (1983) (1984) Sanjit Roy (1985) (1986) (1987) (1988) T. G. K. Menon (1989) Shripad Dabholkar (1990) (1991) K. Vishwanathan (1992) (1993) (1994) G. Muniratnam (1995) (1996) (1997) (1998) (1999) Bhaskar Save (2000) Anil K. Rajvanshi (2001) (2002) (2003) (2004) Rajendra Singh (2005) Anil Prakash Joshi (2006) (2007) Tushar Kanjilal (2008) Ayyappa Masagi (2009) Chewang Norphel (2010) Anupam Mishra (2011) (2012) Snehlata Nath (2013) (2014) (2015) B. V. Nimbkar (2016)
Women and child welfare	Kamalabai Hospet (1980) Ramadevi Choudhury (1981) (1982) (1983) Gaura Devi (1984) Anutai Wagh (1985) (1986) (1987) Malati Choudhury (1988) (1989) Ratan Shastri (1990) (1991) Shalini Moghe (1992) and (1993) Shanti Devi (1994) (1995) (1996) (1997) Rajammal P. Devadas (1998) Saraswathi Gora (1999) (2000) (2001) Chitra Naik (2002) Alice Garg (2003) Sarojini Varadappan (2004) (2005) Rani Bang (2006) Ashoka Gupta (2007) Phoolbasan Bai Yadav (2008) Jaya Arunachalam (2009) (2010) Shobhana Ranade (2011) Glenn D. Paige (2012) (2013) (2014) (2015) (2016)
International	(1988) Danilo Dolci (1989) A. T. Ariyaratne (1990) Charles Walker (1991) Homer A. Jack (1992) Johan Galtung (1993) Gedong Bagus Oka (1994) Kamala (1995) (1996) (1997) Jharna Dhara Chowdhury (1998) Joseph Rotblat (1999) Desmond Tutu (2000) Satish Kumar (2001) (2002) Mary E. King (2003) (2004) Daisaku Ikeda (2005) Ismail Serageldin (2006) Michael Nagler (2007) (2008) (2009) Lia Diskin (2010) Agus Indra Udayana (2011) (2012) (2013) Sulak Sivaraksa (2014) (2015) Rached Ghannouchi (2016)
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