

In 1991 he was awarded the Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship, the highest honour conferred by Sangeet Natak Akademi, India's National Academy for Music, Dance and Drama. Gods of Love and Ecstasy: The Traditions of Shiva and Dionysus (1979) Īlain Daniélou (4 October 1907 – 27 January 1994) was a French historian, Indologist, intellectual, musicologist, translator, writer, and notable Western convert to and expert on the Shaivite sect of Hinduism.The Myths and Gods of India: The Classic Work on Hindu Polytheism (1964).Introduction to the Study of Musical Scales (1943).Historian, Indologist, musicologist, translator, writerĬulture of India, Hindu studies, Indian classical music, Indian philosophy, Shaivite Hinduism
