The Kural Peedam Award ( ta, குறள் பீடம் விருது) is a lifetime achievement presidential award given to eminent scholars of

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. The award was instituted in 2005 by the Central Institute of Classical Tamil under the aegis of the

Ministry of Human Resource Development The Ministry of Education ( MoE; formerly the Ministry of Human Resource Development from 1985 to 2020) is a ministry of the Government of India, responsible for the implementation of the National Policy on Education. The Ministry is further di ...

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. Two awards are presented annually, one for a person of Indian origin and another for a scholar of non-Indian origin. the award includes of a cash prize of 500,000 (just over $8,000 USD), a citation, and a shawl.

Recipients

* Dr.

George L. Hart George Luzerne Hart, III (born c. 1942) is Professor Emeritus of Tamil language at the University of California, Berkeley. His work focuses on the classical Tamil language, Tamil literature and on identifying the relationships between the Tamil ...

(2005–2006) * Dr. Jaroslav Vacek * Dr. John Ralston Marr * Professor Francois Gros (2008–2009) * Dr. Eva WildenGazette_of_India (21–27 Feb 2015, page 102)

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