The first foreigner (a person who was not a citizen of India) to be honoured with the Bharat Ratna was:
Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, the "Frontier Gandhi", a citizen of Pakistan, received the Bharat Ratna in 1987 and was the first non-Indian citizen to get it; Nelson Mandela…
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The first foreigner (a person who was not a citizen of India) to be honoured with the Bharat Ratna was:
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Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, the "Frontier Gandhi", a citizen of Pakistan, received the Bharat Ratna in 1987 and was the first non-Indian citizen to get it; Nelson Mandela followed in 1990. Mother Teresa, honoured in 1980, had become a naturalised Indian citizen, so she does not count as a foreigner here. Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Benazir Bhutto and Sirimavo Bandaranaike never received the award.
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