Indian Honours and Awards

Ashoka Chakra is India's highest peacetime gallantry award, awarded for the most conspicuous bravery or some daring or pre-eminent act of valour or self-sacrifice away from the battlefield. Param Vir Chakra and Mahavir Chakra are wartime gallantry awards.

The Rajiv Gandhi Sadbhavana Award was instituted in 1992 to mark the golden jubilee of the Quit India Movement (1942). The award is given for outstanding contribution towards promoting national integration, communal harmony, and peace.

Vinobha Bhave was the first Indian to receive the Ramon Magsaysay Award in 1958 for Community Leadership. The award, often called Asia's Nobel Prize, recognizes outstanding contributions in various fields including public service, journalism, and peace.

The Kabir Award is a prestigious literary award instituted by the Government of Madhya Pradesh, named after the 15th-century mystic poet Kabir. The Dhanvantari Award is typically related to medicine, Saraswati Samman is given by the K.K. Birla Foundation, and Arjuna Awards are national sports honors given by the Government of India.

The Gandhi Peace Prize carries the highest prize money among all Indian government awards at ₹1 crore. The Bharat Ratna is India's highest civilian award but does not have a cash prize attached to it. Arjuna Awards are for sporting excellence and Jnanpith Award is for literature, both with lower monetary value.

Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan, also known as Frontier Gandhi, was the first foreigner to receive the Bharat Ratna in 1987. He was a Pashtun independence activist from Pakistan. Winston Churchill, Nelson Mandela, and Benazir Bhutto never received this award.

Nelson Mandela was awarded the Bharat Ratna in 1990 for his anti-apartheid struggle and close ties to India. Bernard Shaw and Kofi Annan never received this honor. Mujib-ur-Rahman (Bangladesh founder) is sometimes confused but did not receive Bharat Ratna.

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Koneru Humpy is a well-known Indian chess grandmaster who received the Padma Shri award in 2007 for her achievements in chess. This is a factual recall question requiring general knowledge.

The Shankar Puraskar is specifically awarded by the KK Birla Foundation for exceptional contributions to Indian philosophy, culture and art. The foundation also gives Saraswathy Samman and Vyas Samman for literature, while Kalidas Samman (a different award by Madhya Pradesh government) recognizes classical arts. Shankar Puraskar is the correct match for philosophy/culture/art.

The Dhanvantari Award is specifically given for outstanding contributions in the field of Medicine and healthcare. It is named after Dhanvantari, the physician of the gods in Hindu mythology. The other options - Physics, Space Research, and Literature - have their own dedicated awards.

The Chameli Devi Award is specifically awarded for excellence in journalism. It was instituted in 1990 by the Chameli Devi Jain Trust and recognizes women journalists for their outstanding work. Literature, Medicine, and Cinema have their own dedicated awards in India.

The Saraswathy Samman carries the highest prize money among Indian literary awards at Rs 15 lakh. While the Jnanpith Award is the most prestigious literary award in India, its prize money is lower. Vyas Samman and Kalidas Samman have comparatively lower prize money than Saraswathy Samman.