Recently Jeffrey Armstrong has been awarded the Indian

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• A Canadian scholar Jeffrey Armstrong has been awarded the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) Distinguished Indologist for 2021. • Jeffrey Armstrong is described as “a relationship expert, philosopher, practitioner and teacher of the Vedas for over 40 years”. • About The Award • The annual award was instituted in 2015 during the First World Indology Conference hosted by the then President of India bringing prominent Indologists from world over to a single platform with Indian scholars to deliberate upon the scope of promoting Indian studies abroad. • The award is conferred upon a foreign scholar for “their outstanding contribution in study, teaching and research in any of the fields of Indian Studies. • The first recipient of the award in 2015 was Professor Heinrich Freiherr Von Stietencron from Germany. • The award comprises a citation, a gold-plated medallion, and US$ 20,000 (approximately ₹1.6 million). About ICCR • ICCR was founded in 1950 by Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, independent India’s first education minister.