1972
* Released two albums
1973
* Degree of Doctor of Literature – Rabindra Bharati University, Calcutta, India
* Released two albums
1974
* Degree of Doctor of Literature – University of Dacca, Bangladesh
* Released threee albums
1977
* Released one album
1979
* Released one album
1980
* Released six albums
1981
* Released three albums
1982
* Released four albums
1983
* GRAMMY Nomination for Misra Piloo
* Released two albums
1984
* Degree of Doctor of Letters – University of Delhi, India
* Released four albums
1985
* Released three albums
1986
* Released six albums
1988
* Padma Vibhusan award – the highest honor presented to a civilian in India
* Released one video
1990
* Released five albums
1991
* Kalidas Sanman award – by the Madya Pradesh Academy of Music and Fine Arts
* Honorary Doctorate Degree in Arts from the California Institute of the Arts
* First Indian musician to receive MacArthur Foundation Fellowship (“genius grant”)
* Released one album
1992
* The Mahatma Gandhi Cultural Award in London
1993
* The Bill Graham Lifetime Achievement Award from the Bay Area Music Awards Foundation (Bammies)
* Titles: Hathi Saropao and Dowari Tajeem, from Maharaja of Jodhpur
1994
* Founded the Ali Akbar Khan Foundation and Baba Allauddin Khan Institute
1995
* Released one album
1996
* GRAMMY Nomination for Then and Now
* Released two albums
1997
* GRAMMY Nomination for Legacy for
1998
* GRAMMY Nomination for Passing on the Tradition
* Doctorate Degree – Viswa Bharati University in Shantiniketan, India (pioneered and founded by Tagore)
* Governor’s Award for Outstanding Achievement from NARAS (National Academy
of Recording Arts and Science)
* Indira Gandhi Gold Plaque from the Asiatic Society of Calcutta
* Compositions commissioned – Meet the Composer / Arts Endowment Commissioning Music / USA – and performed by Khansahib’s new AACM Orchestra (made up of 40 senior students and guest artists–vocalists and instrumentalists on a variety of Indian and Western instruments), conducted by Khansahib
* October 18th “Ustad Ali Akbar Khan Day” as proclaimed by Willie L. Brown Jr., Mayor of San Francisco
1999
* “Sangeet Samman” title from the Dover Lane Music Conference in Calcutta
* Appointment: Adjunct Professor to the Department of Music at the University of
California at Santa Cruz
2000
* Degree of Doctor of Musical Arts, Honoris Causa from the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston (in May)
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