page_title: List of Kathak exponents
section_title: Sangeet Natak Akademi Awardees
hierarchical_section_title: List of Kathak exponents / Sangeet Natak Akademi Awardees
caption_attribution_description: Shovana Narayan, noted Kathak dancer.
context_page_description: This is a list of the Sangeet Natak Akademi awards for the Indian classical dance form of Kathak, as well as gurus and well-known performers.
context_section_description: Shambhu Maharaj 1955
  Baijnath Prasad "Lacchu Maharaj" 1957
  Sunder Prasad 1959
  Mohanrao Kallianpurkar 1962
  Birju Maharaj 1964
  Damayanti Joshi 1968
  Sitara Devi 1969
  Gauri Shankar Devilal 1974
  Roshan Kumari 1975
  Rohini Bhate 1979
  Kartik Ram 1982
  Kumudini Lakhia 1982
  Durga Lal 1984
  Uma Sharma 1987
  Maya Rao 1989
  Reba Vidyarthi 1991
  Ramlal Bareth 1995
  Rani Karnaa 1996
  Sunderlal Sathyanarayan Gangani 1998
  Shovana Narayan 1999-2000
  Surendra Saikia 2000
  Rajendra Gangani 2002
  Sunayana Hazarilal Agarwal 2003
  Urmila Nagar 2003
  Saswati Sen 2004
  Tirath Ram Azad 2005
  Munna Shukla 2006
  Geetanjali Lal 2007
  Shashi Sankhla 2008
  Prerana Shrimali 2009
  Malabika Mitra 2010
  Manjushree Chatterjee 2011
  Vijay Shankar 2012
  Rajashree Shirke 2013
  Uma Dogra 2014
  Jitendra Maharaj 2016
  Shobha Koser 2017
  Puru Dadheech 2018
caption: Noted Kathak dancer Shovana Narayan, recipient of the Padma Shri
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