Jawaharlal Nehru Award
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 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.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.| Year | Recipient | Country |
| 1965 | U Thant | Burma |
| 1966 | Martin Luther King, Jr. | |
| 1967 | Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan | |
| 1968 | Yehudi Menuhin | |
| 1969 | Mother Teresa | |
| 1970 | Kenneth Kaunda | |
| 1971 | Josip Broz Tito | Yugoslavia |
| 1972 | André Malraux | |
| 1973 | Julius Nyerere | |
| 1974 | Raúl Prebisch | |
| 1975 | Jonas Salk | |
| 1976 | Giuseppe Tucci | |
| 1977 | Tulsi Mehar Shrestha | |
| 1978 | Nichidatsu Fujii | |
| 1979 | Nelson Mandela | |
| 1980 | Barbara Ward | |
| 1981 | Alva Myrdal Gunnar Myrdal | |
| 1982 | Léopold Sédar Senghor | |
| 1983 | Bruno Kreisky | |
| 1984 | Indira Gandhi | |
| 1985 | Olof Palme | |
| 1987 | Javier Pérez de Cuéllar | |
| 1988 | Yasser Arafat | |
| 1989 | Robert Mugabe | |
| 1990 | Helmut Kohl | |
| 1991 | Aruna Asaf Ali | |
| 1992 | Maurice Strong | |
| 1993 | Aung San Suu Kyi | |
| 1994 | Mahathir Mohamad | |
| 1995 | Hosni Mubarak | |
| 2003 | Goh Chok Tong | |
| 2004 | Sultan Qaboos | |
| 2005 | Wangari Maathai | |
| 2006 | Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva | |
| 2007 | Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson | |
| 2009 | Angela Merkel |