Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, author, scholar, Bharat Ratna recipient and the first Vice President and second President of independent India, was born on September 5, 1888. Born into a Telegu family, a stark record in academics ever since he was young, Dr Radhakrishnan played into almost all fields of social sciences.
He was a philosophy academic, very respected in his field; and was responsible for garnering worldwide attention towards Indian Philosophy. His teaching career spanned for many years, teaching at Chennai’s Presidency College and Calcutta University; then the Vice Chancellor of Andhra Pradesh University from 1931-36. He was then called by Oxford to teach the subject “Eastern Religions and Ethics” in 1936. He taught there for about 16 years.
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