Nori was awarded his PhD in mathematics in 1981 from the University of Mumbai.
Nori received the INSA Medal for Young Scientists in 1980 and is an elected Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore.
[citation needed] Under the direction of Conjeerveram S. Seshadri Nori proved the existence of the fundamental group scheme
during his PhD work, using the theory of essentially finite vector bundles that he defined.
There is a special family of vector bundles called Nori-semistable vector bundles in Nori's honor as he had the first intuition for their existence and properties.