ভারতরত্ন: সংশোধিত সংস্করণের মধ্যে পার্থক্য

! scope="row" | [[আবুল কালাম আজাদ]]{{efn|name=Azad|Earlier, Abul Kalam Azad had refused the Bharat Ratna while he was Education Minister of India (1947–58) citing that the selection committee members should not themselves be recipients.<ref name="aticon">{{cite web|title=India's top award misses congeniality|url=http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/JA24Df01.html|newspaper=Asia Times Online|author=Ramachandran, Sudha|location=Bangalore|date=24 January 2008|accessdate=14 May 2014|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20141016085705/http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/JA24Df01.html|archivedate=16 October 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/specials/Those-who-said-no-to-top-awards/articleshow/2714615.cms|title=

Those who said no to top awards|newspaper=The Times of India|date=20 January 2008|accessdate=14 May 2014|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20131124063906/http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/specials/Those-who-said-no-to-top-awards/articleshow/2714615.cms?|archivedate=24 November 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://hrm.mhrd.gov.in/ministers|title=List of former Ministers in charge of Education/HRD|publisher=[[Ministry of Human Resource Development (India)|Ministry of Human Resource Development]]|accessdate=12 May 2014|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20141018042458/http://hrm.mhrd.gov.in/ministers|archivedate=18 October 2014}}</ref><ref name="aticon">{{cite web|title=India's top award misses congeniality|url=http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/JA24Df01.html|newspaper=Asia Times Online|author=Ramachandran, Sudha|location=Bangalore|date=24 January 2008|accessdate=14 May 2014|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20141016085705/http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/JA24Df01.html|archivedate=16 October 2014}}</ref>}}