Bharat Ratna Posthumous Award Winners

List of Bharat Ratna Posthumous Award Winners. Till now, India’s highest civilian award, Bharat Ratna has been awarded to twelve civilians posthumously. This includes Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose in 1992, which was later withdrawn due to some legal technicality. Below is the list of persons who have been presented Bharat Ratna award posthumously.

Bharat Ratna Posthumous Award Winners

1) Lal Bahadur Shastri in 1966

2) K. Kamaraj in 1976

3) Vinoba Bhave in 1983

4) M. G. Ramachandran in 1988

5) B. R. Ambedkar in 1990

6) Rajiv Gandhi in 1990

7) Vallabhbhai Patel in 1991

8) Abul Kalam Azad in 1992

9) Aruna Asaf Ali in 1997

10) Jayaprakash Narayan in 1999

11) Gopinath Bordoloi in 1999