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List of Kathak dancers

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionJul 25, 2026
Entity authorityQ6575809 ↗
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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.

Sangeet Natak Akademi awardees

Shambhu Maharaj 1955

Lacchu Maharaj 1957

Sunder Prasad 1959

Mohanrao Kallianpurkar 1962

Birju Maharaj 1964

Damayanti Joshi 1968

Sitara Devi 1969

Devilal 1974

Roshan Kumari 1975

Rohini Bhate 1979

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This entry incorporates text from “List of Kathak dancers” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.