List of Rajyotsava Award recipients (1971–1976)

The Rajyotsava Prashasti or Rajyotsava Awards, the second highest civilian honor of the Karnataka state of India are conferred annually by the Karnataka Government on the occasion of the establishment of the state on 1 November celebrated as the Kannada Rajyotsava.

The awards are presented in Bengaluru by the Chief Minister of Karnataka on 1 November of every year. Each award carries an amount of 100,000, a 20-gram gold medal and a citation. In addition to that, the government has in the past, allotted commercial land for eligible awardees.

Recipients Between 1971 and 1976 the award was given to—

Year Recipients Field 1971 B. L. S. Murthy Social Work 1971B. V. Nagesha Shetty Social Work 1971 D. Govinda Das Social Work 1971 Sheru N. Pillai Social Work 1971 A. C. Devegowda Education 1971 L. Monteiro Education 1971 J. S. Jeergi Education 1971 Iftikhar Ahmed Engineering 1971 Mohammed Hayaz Engineering 1971M. Chinnaswamy Sports 1971 N. Channakeshavaiah Music 1971 Girish Karnad Drama / Cinema 1971 N. Hanumaiah Fine Arts 1971 Annappa Gomanna Agriculture 1971 R. Narasimhaiah Agriculture 1972 K. Shama Iyer Social Work 1972 M. Siddalingaiah Education 1972 Thitte Krishna Iyengar Music 1972 N. Srinivasa Murthy Music 1972 Y. Subramanya Raju Fine Arts 1972 H. T. Sasnur Home guards 1972 K. S. Shadaksharappa Medicine 1972 K. S. Narasimhaswamy Literature 1972 G. Narayana Social Work 1972 Honnaiah Social Work 1972 T. Linganna Gowda Agriculture 1972 B. T. Lakshminarayana Shetty Religious Work 1972 G. Raghunath Agriculture 1972 Lakshmi Balasubramaniam Social Work 1972 Masti Venkatesha Iyengar Literature 1973 K. Ananthasubba Rao Research 1973 Yenagi Balappa Drama 1973 Kusthi Basappa Social Work 1973 Chikkahanumanthaiah Social Work 1973 Narendra Singh Social Work 1973 V. R. Naidu Social Work 1973 R. S. Naidu Fine Arts 1973 M. Nanjundaiah Fine Arts 1973 P. L. Bankapur Social Work 1973 Basavaraj Kattimani Literature 1973 Benjamin Isaac Medicine 1973 Manikyam Medicine 1973 B. P. Mallaraj Urs Education 1973 M. Muddubhyrappa Social Work 1973 Rajkumar Cinema 1973 M. G. Vijayasarathy Social Work 1973 S. R. Ganiger Social Work 1973 G. P. Shivaram Education 1973 H. Srikantaiah Social Work 1973 Sattar Abbashet Social Work 1973 Neelamma Kadambi Music 1974 Agram Rangayya Journalism 1974 M. R. Acharya Engineering 1974 K. C. Nayak Agriculture 1974 G. V. Narayana Reddy Social Work 1974 S. V. Parameshwara Bhatta Education 1974 B. P. Radhakrishna Geology 1974 M. Shivaram Literature 1974 Padmavathi Bai Social Work 1974 Rahamat Baig Social Work 1974 M. N. Varadarajulu Social Work 1974 Suleiman Quasim Social Work 1975 T. Anantarama Shetty Social Work 1975 B. N. Gupta Literature 1975 M. Gopal Journalism 1975 H. M. Gangadharaiah Social Work 1975 P. R. Thippeswamy Fine Arts 1975 K. S. Narendran Social Work 1975 N. Bhadraiah Education 1975 B. S. Ramappa Medicine 1975 U. R. Rao Science 1975 V. L. D'souza Education 1975 G. Channamma Music 1975 N. Chokkamma Music 1975 Mirza S. Moghul Social Work 1976 K. S. Ramaswamy Social Work 1976 K. R. Lingappa Social Work 1976 K. Balasubramaniam Education 1976 V. Ambla Medicine 1976 Shankara Deva Social Work 1976 Mir Iqbal Hussain Social Work 1976 G. N. Reddy Social Work 1976 Patil Puttappa Literature 1976 A. S. Lakshman Journalism 1976 S. S. Kukke Fine Arts 1976 R. Muniratnam Music 1976 R. K. Suryanarayana Music

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