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My pride as a Hindu, roused by the enterprise and eloquence of Swami Vivekananda, was deeply hurt by the treatment accorded to Hinduism in missionary institutions. The challenge of Christian critics impelled me to make a study of Hinduism and find out what is living and what is dead in it. According to Radhakrishnan himself, the criticism of Hogg and other Christian teachers of Indian culture "disturbed my faith and shook the traditional props on which I leaned." Radhakrishnan himself describes how, as a student, Radhakrishnan's thesis was published when he was only twenty. Alfred George Hogg, commended Radhakrishnan's dissertation. It "was intended to be a reply to the charge that the Vedanta system had no room for ethics." Two of his professors, Rev.

Sarvepalli wrote his bachelor's degree thesis on "The Ethics of the Vedanta and its Metaphysical Presuppositions". Being a financially constrained student, when a cousin who graduated from the same college passed on his philosophy textbooks to Radhakrishnan, it automatically decided his academics course.

Radhakrishnan studied philosophy by chance rather than choice. He graduated from there in 1907, and also finished his Masters from the same college. (First of Arts) class, he joined the Madras Christian College (affiliated to the University of Madras) at the age of 16. He joined Voorhees College in Vellore for his high school education. Radhakrishnan was awarded scholarships throughout his academic life. Indian President Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan with US President John F. In 1896 he moved to the Hermansburg Evangelical Lutheran Mission School in Tirupati and Government High Secondary School, Walajapet. His father was a subordinate revenue official in the service of a local zamindar (local landlord). His early years were spent in Thiruttani and Tirupati. His family hails from Sarvepalli village in Nellore district of Andhra Pradesh. He was born to Sarvepalli Veeraswami and Sita (Sitamma). Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan was born in a Telugu-speaking Niyogi Brahmin family, in Tiruttani of Chittoor district in the erstwhile Madras Presidency (later in Andhra Pradesh till 1960, now in Tiruvallur district of Tamil Nadu since 1960).

9.2 Biographies and monographs on Radhakrishnan.

5.2.2 Universalism, communalism and Hindu nationalism.

Since 1962, his birthday has been celebrated in India as Teachers' Day on 5 September every year. Radhakrishnan believed that "teachers should be the best minds in the country". He was also one of the founders of Helpage India, a non profit organisation for elderly underprivileged in India. Radhakrishnan was awarded several high awards during his life, including a knighthood in 1931, the Bharat Ratna, the highest civilian award in India, in 1954, and honorary membership of the British Royal Order of Merit in 1963. He has been influential in shaping the understanding of Hinduism, in both India and the west, and earned a reputation as a bridge-builder between India and the West. He defended Hinduism against what he called "uninformed Western criticism", contributing to the formation of contemporary Hindu identity. Radhakrishnan's philosophy was grounded in Advaita Vedanta, reinterpreting this tradition for a contemporary understanding. One of the most distinguished twentieth-century scholars of comparative religion and philosophy, Radhakrishnan held the King George V Chair of Mental and Moral Science at the University of Calcutta from 1921 to 1932 and Spalding Chair of Eastern Religion and Ethics at University of Oxford from 1936 to 1952.

info) 5 September 1888 – 17 April 1975) was an Indian philosopher and statesman who served as the second president of India from 1962 to 1967.Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (Sarvepalli Radhakrishnayya pronunciation ( help