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List of Desikottamas

Special Convocation, 1952
Elinor Roosvah

Annual Convocation, 1952
Kshitimohon Sen
Nandalal Bose

Annual Convocation, 1957
Indiradevi Choudhurani
Haricharan Bandyopadhyay
Bidhusekhar Bhattacharya

Annual Convocation, 1957
Mr. Chou En-Lai

Annual Convocation, 1960
Dr. Dhirendramohan Datta December 23,1960
Dr. Leonard K. Elmhirst
Mr. Paul Geheeb ( in Absentia)

Special Convocation, 1961
Sri Gopeswar Banerjee
Dr. Debendramohan Bose
Dr. PrasantachandraMahalanabis
Prof. Satyendranath Bose
Humayun Kabir
Dr. S. Radhakrishnan
UStad Alauddin Khan

Annual Convocation, 1963
Sri Amiyachandra Chakraborty

Special Convocation, 1965
Dr. B. Yusuf

Annual Convocation, 1965
Sri Nityanandabinod Goswami
Prabhatkumar Mukherjee
Sri Dhirendranath Mitra

Annual Convocation, 1966
Sri Sudhiranjan Das
Sri Suniti Kumar Chattopadhyay
Prof. Charles A. Moore ( in absentia)

Annual Convocation, 1967
Smt. Padmaja Naidu
Sri Nilratan Dhar
Sri Mohammad Taghi Moqtadeiry
Sri Hafiz Ali Khan
Smt. Victoria Ocampo ( in absentia)

Annual Convocation, 1970
Smt. Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay
Sri Kalidas Ray ( in absentia)
Sri Jamini Ray ( in absentia)

Annual Convocation, 1971
Sri Surendranath Kar

Special Convocation, 1972
Mr. Abu Sayeed Chowdhury
(President of the Peoples Republic of Bangladesh)

Annual Convocation, 1971
Smt. Rukmini Devi Arundale
Dr. Rameshchandra Majumder
Sri Ralph Lilley Turner ( in absentia)
Madam Mirdza Kempe ( in absentia)

Annual Convocation, 1972
Prof. Stella Kramrisch ( in absentia)

Annual Convocation, 1973
Mother Teresa
Sri Udaysankar
Mahamohapadhyay Gopinath Kabiraj ( in absentia)

Annual Convocation, 1974 & 1975
Sri Ramkinkar Baij
Sri Benodebehari Mukhopadhyay ( in absentia)

Annual Convocation, 1976
Smt. Thanjavur Balasaraswati
Sri Satyajit Ray
Prof. Noam Chomsky (in absentia)

Annual Convocation, 1977 & 1978
Prof. Hajime Nakamura
Prof. Tan Yun Shan
Prof. Glaude Levi Strauss ( in absentia)
Ustad Bismillah Khan (in absentia)
Prof. Raj Chandra Bose ( in absentia)

Annual Convocation, 1979
Prof. Prabodhchandra Sen
Prof. Daulat Singh Kothari ( in absentia)
Prof. Abu Sayeed Ayyub ( in absentia)

Annual Convocation, 1979
Smt. M. S. Subbulakshmi
Sri Annadasankar Roy
Prof. Sukumar Sen (in absentia)

Annual Convocation, 1981
Prof. Umashankar Joshi
Pandit Ravishankar
Prof. Karl Gunnar Myrdal ( in absentia)

Annual Convocation, 1982
Prof. Kalidas Bhattacharyya
Prof. Subrahmanyan
Chandrasekhar ( in absentia)
Ustad Ali Akbar Khan (in absentia)
Smt. Amrita Pritam
Prof. Amartya Sen

Annual Convocation, 1983
Late Smt. Indira Gandhi
Sri G. Ramachandran
Sri Monsieur Leopold Sedar Senghor (in sbsentia )
Prof. Wu Bai - Hui (in absentia)

Annual Convocation, 1984
Prof. Sailajaranjan Majumdar
Sri Santidev Ghosh
Prof. A. L. Basham
Mr. Javier Perez De Cuellar ( in absentia)
Dr. Mulk Raj Anand (in absentia)

Annual Convocation, 1985
Sri Bibhutibhusan Mukhopadhyay
Sri K. R. Kripalini
Smt. Mrinalini Sarabhai ( in absentia)
Sri Sagarmoy Ghosh
Prof. Miloslav Krasa

Annual Convocation, 1986
Sri Muralidhar Devidas Amte
Sri Premendra Mitra
Pandit Mallikarjun Mansur
Smt. Lila Majumdar
Mr. Masanobu Fukuoka

Annual Convocation, 1987
Smt. Ashapurna Devi
Pandit Srijiva Nyayatirtha ( in absentia)
Sri Jnan Prokas Ghosh
Prof. Wu Xiao-ling ( in absentia)

Annual Convocation, 1988 & 1989
Sri Asheschandra Banerjee
Prof. Edward Dimock
Smt. Marjorie Sykes (in absentia)
Prof. Mushirul Haq ( Posthumously)
Sri Sambhu Mitra

Annual Convocation, 1990& 1991
Sri Alex Aronson ( in absentia)
Pandit Bhimsen Joshi (in absentia)
Sri Kaifi Azmi
Dr. Raja Ramanna
Sri Subhas Mukhopadhyay

Special Convocation, 1993
Prof. (Dr.) Federico Mayor Zaragoza

Annual Convocation, 1992& 1993
Dr. Triguna Sen
Prof. Chintamani Kar
Ustad Vilayat Khan
Smt. Sushila Nayar
Prof. Bhabatosh Datta

Annual Convocation, 1994& 1995
Smt. Elizabeth Brunner
Sri Kota Shivarama Karanth
Pandit Sukhomay Bhattachrya
Smt. Kanika Bandyopadhyaya
Smt. Lata Mangeshkar
Sri Nirad C. Chaudhuri
Prof. E.C.G. Sudarshan

Annual Convocation, 1996
Smt. Savitri Govinda Krishnan
Smt. Suchitra Mitra
Smt. Mahasweta Devi
Smt. Malati Chaudhuri
Smt. Annapuma Devi
Smt. Gauri Bhanja
Sir Roger Penrose

Special Convocation, 1999
Smt. Sheikh Hasina
(Prime Minister of Bangla Desh)

Annual Convocation, 1997& 1998
Sri J. J. Bhaba
Sri Sankho Chaudhuri
Smt. Chitrita Devi
Sri. Subinoy Roy
Sri. V. Balsara
Sri. Tapan Sinha
Sri. Satish Gujral
Dr. A. P. J. Abdulkalam
Sri. Sankha Ghosh
Sri. Kazuo Azuma

Special Convocation, 2000
Mr. Bulent Ecevit
(Prime Minister of Turkey)

Annual Convocation, 1999& 2000
Prof. C. Radhakrishna Rao
Ustad Amjad Ali Khan

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