TNPSC Thervupettagam

Distinguished Indologist for 2021

August 4 , 2022 820 days 657 0
  • Canadian scholar, Jeffrey Armstrong has been awarded the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) Distinguished Indologist for 2021 award. 
  • “In recognition of his outstanding contribution to the study/teaching/research in India’s philosophy, thought, history, art, culture, Indian languages, literature, civilisation, society, etc” this is awarded. 
  • He becomes the seventh recipient of this award and joins the earlier recipients from Germany, China, Japan, the UK, South Korea and the USA.
  • The annual award was instituted in 2015 during the First World Indology Conference, held at Delhi.
  • The first recipient of the award in 2015 was Professor Heinrich Freiherr Von Stietencron from Germany.

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