Recipient of ‘Bharat Ke Anmol Award’ by the Media House, THE NEWS YOU LIKE (A National Monthly English Periodical), held at Ambedkar International Center, New Delhi on July 31, 2023. 2023
Recipient of International Scientist Award 2020 on 26-27 September, 2020 Hyderabad, India by VDGOOD. (For her contribution in Social Sciences). 2020
Awarded Abdul Kalam Azad Award in the National Programme ‘I am India’, organized by ‘Youth Parliament at Jodhpur for Contribution to Higher Education’. 2017
Recipient of ‘Higher Education Leadership Award’ in the ‘7th World Education Summit’ held at Le Meridian Hotel, New Delhi on 5-6 August, 2016. 2016
Recipient of “Women Achiever Award” by Amity University, Noida. 2016
Recipient of US Government Award for “Women in Higher Administration in South Asia”. 2016
Awarded Honorary Citizenship of Nebraska, U.S.A. by John A. Gale, Nebraska Secretary of State, U.S.A. 2016
UGC Major Project Fellowship Award to work on ‘Eurocentrism in Political Theory: Explorations in Indian Political Thought’. 2012
International Rotary Award for contribution to Academics. 2012
UGC Major Project Fellowship Award on ‘Feminist Theory and its Challenges to Social Sciences: A Cross-Cultural Explorations’2001
Indo-French Fellowship Award under Indo-French Programme of Co-operation in Social Sciences under Indo-French CEP to work on ‘Post-Modernism and French Feminist Thinkers’ at Maison des Sciences de I’ Homme, Paris, France. 2000
D. P. Mukherjee Award, ISSA India Award being conferred to Prof. Padia for her contribution to Political Theory and Feminist Theory. This prestigious award is given to the scholars who have richly contributed in any of the disciplines of Social Sciences every year. 1997
Shastri Indo-Canadian Fellowship Award1997
To study Bertrand Russell’s unpublished works preserved at Bertrand Russell Archives, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada.
Indian Council of Social Science Research, New Delhi.
Research Subject: Indian Feminist Perspective:
Salzburg Fellowship Award, USA
Awarded to visit Salzburg, Austria for a week from July 2-9, 1994 to interact with a group of scholars from 19 countries in a Seminar, Session 316 entitled, “Religion, Ethnicity and Self-identity”. 1994
McMaster Visiting Scholar Fellowship Award1989
To study Russell’s unpublished works and correspondence with Mahatma Gandhi, Dr. Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan, Shree Lal Bahadur Shastri and other Indian leaders, preserved at Russell Archive, McMaster University, Canada.
ICSSR Fellowship Award1989
To visit and interact with members of Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation, Nottingham, England; to interact with members Bertrand Russell Society, Pennsylvania, USA; and also, to interact with Russellian scholars at Russell Archives, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
United States Fulbright Award1987
To study Russell-Ottoline Papers preserved at Humanities Research Centre, Austin, Texas.
UGC Career Award1986
To work on a project entitled ‘Socialism: A Study in Bertrand Russell’.
UGC Major Research Project to work on ‘Eurocentrism in Political Theory: Explorations in Indian Political Thought’; the second on ‘Feminist Challenges to Modern Social Sciences: A Cross Cultural Exploration’
UGC Major Research Project to work on ‘Feminist Challenges to Social’
Karan Singh Gold Medal & B.H.U. Gold Medal
Received for procuring First Position in M.A. Political Science, BHU. 1974