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.