This is a list of recipients of the Padma Shri award in the field of Literature & Education. The Padma Shri is the fourth-highest civilian award of the Republic of India, after the Bharat Ratna, the Padma Vibhushan and the Padma Bhushan. Instituted in 1954, the award is conferred by the President of India at ceremonial functions which are held at Rashtrapati Bhavan.
As of 2025, a total of 693 individuals have been awarded Padma Shri for their contributions to literature and education.
1950–1959 YearNameStateField1954Satyendra Nath BoseWest BengalLiterature and Education1954Arcot Lakshmanaswami MudaliarTamil NaduLiterature and Education1954Amarnath JhaUttar PradeshLiterature and Education1954Josh MalihabadiDelhiLiterature and Education1954Maithilisharan GuptUttar PradeshLiterature and Education1954Husain Ahmed MadniUttar PradeshLiterature and Education1954Vallathol Narayana MenonKeralaLiterature and Education1954Shankar PillaiDelhiLiterature and Education1955Bhagwan DasUttar PradeshLiterature and Education1955Dhondo Keshav KarveMaharashtraLiterature and Education1955Pran Krushna ParijaOdishaLiterature and Education1955Suniti Kumar ChatterjiWest BengalLiterature and Education1955Maneklal Sankalchand ThackerKarnatakaLiterature and Education1955Krishna Kanta HandiqueAssamLiterature and Education1955Laxminarayan SahuOdishaLiterature and Education1955Rattan ShastriRajasthanLiterature and Education1956Bhai Vir SinghPunjabLiterature and Education1956Kasturi SrinivasanTamil NaduLiterature and Education1956Rajshekhar BoseWest BengalLiterature and Education1956Mahadevi VarmaUttar PradeshLiterature and Education1956Surya Kumar BhuyanRajasthanLiterature and Education1956Sukhdev PandeUttarakhandLiterature and Education1957Abid HussainUttar PradeshLiterature and Education1957Bhikham Lal AtreyaUttar PradeshLiterature and Education1957Hazari Prasad DwivediUttar PradeshLiterature and Education1957Siddheshwar VarmaChandigarhLiterature and Education1957Govind Sakharam SardesaiMaharashtraLiterature and Education1957K.A. Nilakanta SastriTamil NaduLiterature and Education1957Shyam Nandan SahayBiharLiterature and Education1957Shiyali Ramamritha RanganathanKarnatakaLiterature and Education1957Nalini Bala DeviAssamLiterature and Education1958Kuppali Venkatappagowda PuttappaKarnatakaLiterature and Education1958Poola Tirupati RajuRajasthanLiterature and Education1958Surya Narayan VyasMadhya PradeshLiterature and Education1958Maganlal Tribhuvandas VyasGujaratLiterature and Education1958Ram Chandra VarmaUttar PradeshLiterature and Education1959John MatthaiKeralaLiterature and Education1959Barhgavram Vithal WarerkarMaharashtraLiterature and Education1959Nirmal Kumar SidhantaWest BengalLiterature and Education1959Ramdhari Singh DinkarBiharLiterature and Education1959Tiruppattur R. Venkatachala MurthiTamil NaduLiterature and Education1959Komaravolu S. ChandrasekharanTamil NaduLiterature and Education
1960–1969 YearNameStateField1960Kazi Nazrul IslamWest BengalLiterature and Education1960Balakrishna Sharma NaveenDelhiLiterature and Education1960Rajeshwar Shastri DravidUttar PradeshLiterature and Education1960Haridas Siddhanta BagishWest BengalLiterature and Education1960Shiv Pujan SahaiBiharLiterature and Education1960Artaballabha MohantyOdishaLiterature and Education1960Bellary Shamanna KesavanKarnatakaLiterature and Education1961Seth Govind DasMadhya PradeshLiterature and Education1961Ardeshir Ruttonji WadiaMaharashtraLiterature and Education1961Rai KrishnadasaUttar PradeshLiterature and Education1961Sumitranandan PantUttar PradeshLiterature and Education1961Parsuram MisraOdishaLiterature and Education1961Evangeline LazarusTamil NaduLiterature and Education1961Muni Shri Jin VijayjiRajasthanLiterature and Education1961Neyyadupakkam Duraiswami SundaravadiveluTamil NaduLiterature and Education1961Premendra MitraWest BengalLiterature and Education1961Vinayak Krishna GokakKarnatakaLiterature and Education1961Vishnukant JhaBiharLiterature and Education1962Ramchandra Narayan DandekarMaharashtraLiterature and Education1962Sisir Kumar MitraWest BengalLiterature and Education1962Venkataraman RaghavanTamil NaduLiterature and Education1962Asaf Ali Asghar FyzeeJammu and KashmirLiterature and Education1962Gyanesh Chandra ChatterjiDelhiLiterature and Education1962Jafar Ali KhanUttar PradeshLiterature and Education1962Niaz Mohd. Khan (Niaz Fatehpuri)Uttar PradeshLiterature and Education1962Narayan Sitaram PhadkeMaharashtraLiterature and Education1962Radhika Raman Prasad SinhaBiharLiterature and Education1962Channapatna Krishnappa VenkataramayyaKarnatakaLiterature and Education1962Dula Bhaya KagGujaratLiterature and Education1962Sochi Raut RoyOdishaLiterature and Education1962Tarashankar BandyopadhyayWest BengalLiterature and Education1963Suniti Kumar ChatterjiWest BengalLiterature and Education1963Badri Nath PrasadUttar PradeshLiterature and Education1963Ram Kumar VermaUttar PradeshLiterature and Education1963Makhanlal ChaturvediMadhya PradeshLiterature and Education1963Rahul SankritayanUttar PradeshLiterature and Education1963Trivenkata Rajendra SeshadriTamil NaduLiterature and Education1963Rashid Ahmed SiddiqiDelhiLiterature and Education1963Ahindra ChowdhuryWest BengalLiterature and Education1964Gopinath KavirajUttar PradeshLiterature and Education1964Acharya Kakasaheb (Dattatreya Balkrishna) KalelkarMaharashtraLiterature and Education1964Sheikh AbdullahUttar PradeshLiterature and Education1964Anukul Chandra MukerjiUttar PradeshLiterature and Education1964Rasipuram Krishnaswami NarayanKarnatakaLiterature and Education1964Tushar Kanti GhoshWest BengalLiterature and Education1964Krishna Chandra ShuklaRajasthanLiterature and Education1965Triguna SenWest BengalLiterature and Education1965Mohd MujeebDelhiLiterature and Education1965Vrindavanlal VermaUttar PradeshLiterature and Education1965Narasinh Narayan GodboleMaharashtraLiterature and Education1965Tonse Madhava Anantha PaiKarnatakaLiterature and Education1965Anant Atmaram KanekarMaharashtraLiterature and Education1965Vishnu Namdeo AdarkarMaharashtraLiterature and Education1965Rev Panavelil Thomas ChandiUttar PradeshLiterature and Education1965Gopal Prasad VyasDelhiLiterature and Education1965John Travere Mends GibsonRajasthanLiterature and Education1965Kandathil Mammen CherianKeralaLiterature and Education1966Bhai Jodh SinghPunjabLiterature and Education1966Haribhau UpadhyayaUttar PradeshLiterature and Education1966Vinayak Sitaram SarwateMadhya PradeshLiterature and Education1966Nirmal Kumar BoseWest BengalLiterature and Education1966B. Sivamurthy SastryKarnatakaLiterature and Education1966Harishankar SharmaUttar PradeshLiterature and Education1966Inderjit Singh TulsiDelhiLiterature and Education1966Poddar Ramavtar ArunMaharashtraLiterature and Education1966Purushottam Laxman DeshpandeMaharashtraLiterature and Education1966Rajeshwar Nath ZutshiMadhya PradeshLiterature and Education1966Sayyid Ahmadullah QadriTelanganaLiterature and Education1967Dadasaheb Chintamani PavateKarnatakaLiterature and Education1967Khwaja Ghulam SaiyidainUttar PradeshLiterature and Education1967Telliavaram Mahadevan Ponnambalam MahadevanTamil NaduLiterature and Education1967Akshay Kumar JainDelhiLiterature and Education1967Asoke Kumar SarkarWest BengalLiterature and Education1967Benegal Shiva RaoDelhiLiterature and Education1967Datto Vaman PotdarMaharashtraLiterature and Education1967Kalyanji Vithalbhai MehtaGujaratLiterature and Education1967Krishna Kanta HandiqueAssamLiterature and Education1967Mulk Raj AnandMaharashtraLiterature and Education1967Puthenpurayil Mathew JosephKeralaLiterature and Education1967Ali Sardar JafriMaharashtraLiterature and Education1967Balkrishna Bhagwant BorkarGoaLiterature and Education1967Chandravadan Chimanlal MehtaGujaratLiterature and Education1967Mayadhar MansinhaOdishaLiterature and Education1967Prabhjot KaurDelhiLiterature and Education1968Prasanta Chandra MahalanobisDelhiLiterature and Education1968Acharya Vishva BandhuUttar PradeshLiterature and Education1968Kota Shivaram KaranthKarnatakaLiterature and Education1968Mariadas RuthnaswamyTamil NaduLiterature and Education1968Sudhir Ranjan Sen GuptaWest BengalLiterature and Education1968Gopalan NarasimhanTamil NaduLiterature and Education1968Govinda Kurup Shankara KurupKeralaLiterature and Education1968Mamidipudi VenkatarangayyaAndhra PradeshLiterature and Education1968Manchakkattuvalasu Palanivelappa Gounder Periaswamy ThooranTamil NaduLiterature and Education1968Manukonda Cholapathi RaoAndhra PradeshLiterature and Education1968Radhanath RathOdishaLiterature and Education1968Raghupati Sahai 'Firaq'Uttar PradeshLiterature and Education1968Shripad Damodar SatwalekarMaharashtraLiterature and Education1968Vishnu Sakharam KhandekarMaharashtraLiterature and Education1968Akhtar MohiuddinJammu and KashmirLiterature and Education1968Balasaheb Amgonda PatilMaharashtraLiterature and Education1968Dattetreya Ramachandra BendreKarnatakaLiterature and Education1968Kedar GhoshWest BengalLiterature and Education1969Narayan Bhikaji ParulekarMaharashtraLiterature and Education1969Niharranjan RayWest BengalLiterature and Education1969Tarasankar BandyopadhyayWest BengalLiterature and Education1969Haroon Khan SherwaniAndhra PradeshLiterature and Education1969Gobind Behari LalUnited States of AmericaLiterature and Education1969Krishna ChanderMaharashtraLiterature and Education1969Krishna Ramchand KriplaniDelhiLiterature and Education1969Raja RaoUnited States of AmericaLiterature and Education1969Raman Madhavan NairChandigarhLiterature and Education1969Samad Yar Khan Saghar NizamiUttar PradeshLiterature and Education1969Vithalbhai JhaveriMaharashtraLiterature and Education1969Yeshwant Dinkar PendharkarMaharashtraLiterature and Education1969Tarapada BasuUnited KingdomLiterature and Education1969Brahm Nath Datta 'Qasir'West BengalLiterature and Education1969Gajanan Digambar MadgulkarMaharashtraLiterature and Education1969Mahendra Nath KapurPunjabLiterature and Education1969Pandurang Vasudeo GadgilMaharashtraLiterature and Education1969Shyam Lal GuptaDelhiLiterature and Education1969Srinivasa NatarajanTamil NaduLiterature and Education1969Surendra Nath GhoshUttar PradeshLiterature and Education1969Thiagarajan MuthianTamil NaduLiterature and Education1969Vairamuthu Pillai Subbiah PillaiTamil NaduLiterature and Education1969Amrita PritamDelhiLiterature and Education
1970–1979