H-ASIA: NEWS Sheldon Pollock and Hermann Kulke awarded Padma Shri

[Frank Conlon]

H-ASIA
January 26, 2010

Sheldon Pollock and Hermann Kulke awarded Padma Shri by Government of 
India
************************************************************************
From: Ananya Vajpeyi <ananya.vajpeyi at gmail.com>

The Government of India has announced, among its Republic Day (today) 
honors, the award of Padma Shri to Professor Sheldon Pollock and Professor 
Hermann Kulke.

  http://news.outlookindia.com/item.aspx?673485

"German Indologist Professor Hermann Kulke who is a regular 
visiting faculty to various Indian universities and Sanskrit 
scholar at Columbia University Sheldon I Pollock have been 
selected for Padma Shree in the Literature and Education category."

Congratulations to Shelly and Hermann! [And thanks to Ananya Vajpeyi for 
bringing this to our attention.  FFC]

--
Ananya Vajpeyi, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of History
University of Massachusetts, Boston
McCormack Building, M-4-626
100, Morrissey Boulevard
Boston MA 02125-3393
V: 617 287 6877
F: 617 287 6899
E: ananya.vajpeyi at umb.edu
http://www.umb.edu/academics/cla/dept/history/faculty/vajpeyi.html
******************************************************************
         To post to  H-ASIA  simply send your message to:
                         <H-ASIA at h-net.msu.edu>
           For holidays or short absences send post to:
                 <listserv at h-net.msu.edu> with message:
                         SET H-ASIA NOMAIL
        Upon return, send post with message SET H-ASIA MAIL
        H-ASIA WEB HOMEPAGE URL:    http://h-net.msu.edu/~asia/