Rai Chand Boral 1982 – Vijay Raghav Rao 1983 – Chidambaram S. Jayaraman 1986 – Anil Biswas 1986 – M. B. Srinivasan 1986 – Hemanta Kumar Mukhopadhyay 1988 – Bhaskar Chandavarkar 1989 – Vanraj Bhatia 1990 – L. Subramaniam 1994 – V. Balsara 1995 – Atul Desai 1997 – Satish Bhatia 1998 – Vishwa Mohan Bhatt 2001 – S. Rajaram 2002 – K. P. Udayabhanu 2007 – Khayyam 2012 – Ilaiyaraaja 2020 – Bickram Ghosh Folk music 2022 – Mahavir Nayak Other major traditions of music 2008 – Ningombam Ibobi Singh (Nata Sankirtana, Manipur) 2009 – L. Ibohalmacha Singh (Nata Sankirtana, Manipur) 2010 – M.V. Simhachala Sastry (Harikatha, Tirupathi) 2011 – Gopal Chandra Panda (Odissi Music) 2012 – Bhai Balbir Singh Ragi (Gurbani) 2013 – Bankim Sethi (Odissi Music) 2018 – Suresh Wadkar (Sugam Sangeet), Shanti Hiranand (Sugam Sangeet), H. Ashangbi Devi (Nata Sankirtana, Manipur) 2019 – O. S. Arun (Sugam Sangeet), Sharma Bandhu (Sugam Sangeet), D. Uma Maheshwari (Harikatha) 2020 – Anup Jalota (Sugam Sangeet), N. Irabot Singh (Nata Sankirtana) 2021 – Susmita Das (Sugam Sangeet), H. R. Leelavathi (Sugam Sangeet), Kumud Diwan (Thumri) Dance Bharatanatyam 1955 – T. Balasaraswati 1957 – Rukmini Devi Arundale 1959 – Mylapore Gouri Amma 1962 – R. Muthurathnambal 1965 – P. Chockkalingam Pillai 1966 – Vazhuvoor B. Ramiah Pillai, Swarnasaraswathi 1968 – Kamala 1969 – T. K. Swaminatha Pillai 1970 – Shanta Rao 1971 – T. Chandrakanthamma 1972 – Sikkil Ramaswami Pillai 1973 – Kumbakonam K. Bhanumathi 1974 – K. P. Kittappa Pillai 1976 – M. Muthiah Pillai 1977 – Yamini Krishnamurthy 1979 – Pandanallur Subbaraya Pillai 1981 – Indrani Rahman 1982 – Vyjayanthimala 1983 – Padma Subramanyam 1984 – Subramaniam Sarada, Sudharani Raghupathy 1985 – T. K. Mahalingam Pillai 1986 – Krishnaveni Lakshmanan 1987 – U. S. Krishna Rao and Chandrabhaga Devi, Chitra Viswaswaran 1989 – V. S. Muthuswamy Pillai 1990 – Kalanidhi Narayanan 1991 – Adyar K. Lakshman 1992 – K. J. Sarasa 1993 – Guru Kubernath Tanjorkar(Tanjavurkar), C. V. Chandrasekhar 1994 – V. P. Dhananjayan and Shanta Dhananjayan 1995 – M. K. Saroja, Indira Rajan 1996 – Sarada Hoffman 1997 – Kanaka Srinivasan 1998 – Lakshmi Viswanathan 1999–2000 – K. Kalyanasundaram Pillai, Leela Samson, H. R. Keshava Murthy 2001 – Alarmel Valli, Pratibha Prahlad 2002 – Malavika Sarukkai 2003 – C. K. Balagopalan 2004 – Nirmala Ramachandran 2005 – R. Rhadha 2006 – S. Narmada 2007 – Sucheta Bhide Chapekar