Bharat Ratna (posthumously in 2019), Padma Vibhushan (1999)
Chandikadas Amritrao Deshmukh, better known as Nanaji Deshmukh (1916 –2010), was a social reformer and politician.
He worked in the fields of education, health, and rural self-reliance. He was a leader of the RSS, Bharatiya Jana Sangh and Member of Parliament.
When RSS launched two journals Rashtra Dharma, Panchjanya and a newspaper called Swadesh in 1947, Atal Bihari Vajpayee was the editor, Deen Dayal Upadhyaya was the Margdarshak and Nanaji was the managing director.
He established India's first Saraswati Shishu Mandir at Gorakhpur in 1950. He founded the Deendayal Research Institute (DRI) in 1969 and in 1991, established Chitrakoot Gramoday Vishwavidyalaya in Chitrakoot, India's first rural University. Nanaji implemented the philosophy of integral humanism to improve the living standards of more than 150 villages of Bundelkhand.