Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

Trivia

• He was a philosopher and a National Leader.
• He was one of the leading scholars of comparative religion and philosophy in his days, he built a bridge between Eastern and Western thought showing each to be knowable within the terms of the other.
• He introduced Western idealism into Indian philosophy.
• He was the first scholar of importance to provide a comprehensive interpretation of India`s religious and philosophical literature to English speaking peoples.
• He became Vice President of India in 1952 and was elected President in 1962, he held the office until 1967. In India, his birthday is celebrated as Teacher`s Day in his honour.
• Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan was born at Tiruttani, a town in Tamil Nadu, South India. His mother tongue was Telugu.
• His early years were spent in Tiruttani, Tiruvallur and Tirupati.
• His primary education was in Gowdie School,Tiruvallur,and higher school education in P.M.High School, Gajulamandyam, Renigunta.
• He graduated with a Master`s Degree in Arts from the University of Madras. In 1921, he was appointed to the most important philosophy chair in India, the King George V Chair of Mental and Moral Science at the University of Calcutta.
• Radhakrishnan represented the University of Calcutta at the Congress of the Universities of the British Empire in June 1926 and the International Congress of Philosophy at Harvard University in September 1926. In 1929, Radhakrishnan was invited to take the post vacated by Principal J. Estlin Carpenter in Manchester College, Oxford.