Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan was born into a poor family in the Telugu Brahmin Tiruttani, a city, then Madras Presidency, British India, currently in Thiruvallur District, Tamil Nadu, 84 km northwest of Madras (now Chennai). His mother tongue was Telugu. His father Sarvepalli Veeraswami and his mother's name was Sitamma. [1] His early years were spent in Tirutani and Tirupati. His father was a junior official of Revenue in the service of a local zamindar (landlord). His primary education was in elementary school High Tirutani advice. In 1896 he moved to the School Hermansburg Lutheral Evangelical Mission in Tirupati.
Radhakrishnan awarded scholarships throughout his academic life. He joined Voorhees College in Vellore, but made in Madras Christian College at the age of 17. He graduated from there in 1906 with an MA in philosophy, as one of its most distinguished alumni. [3] Radhakrishnan wrote his thesis for the master's degree on "The Ethics of Vedanta and its metaphysical presuppositions.He was afraid that this master's thesis offend his philosophy professor, Dr. AG Hogg. Instead, Hogg commended Radhakrishnan on doing an excellent job.Radhakrishnan MA thesis was published when he was only 20 years.
Radhakrishnan studied philosophy of chance rather than choice. Being a student financially constrained at the time when a cousin, after having obtained the same college, sent its books of philosophy at the Radhakrishnan, he decided his academic course automatically. Later, he felt a deep interest in his subject and has written many acclaimed books on philosophy, both Eastern and Western.
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Radhakrishnan was married to Sivakamu , a distant cousin at the age of 16.As is the tradition of marriage has been arranged by the family. The couple had five daughters and one son, Sarvepalli Gopal. Sarvepalli Gopal rose to a distinguished career as a historian. Sivakami died in 1956. They were married for over 51 years 


Career
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan Bujjai designed by and signed by Radhakrishnan in Telugu as "Radhakrishnaiah".In April 1909, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan was appointed to the Department of Philosophy at the College Madras Presidency. Subsequently, in 1918, Radhakrishnan was selected as professor of philosophy at the University of Mysore. Right now, he had written numerous articles for magazines such as The Quest for Fame, Journal of Philosophy and the International Journal of Ethics. He also completed his first book, The Philosophy of Rabindranath Tagore. He believed Tagore's philosophy to "genuine manifestation of the Indian mind." Radhakrishnan second book, The Reign of Religion in Contemporary Philosophy was published in 1920.


In 1921 he was appointed as professor of philosophy at assume the presidency of King George V of the mental and moral science at the University of Calcutta. Radhakrishnan represented the University of Calcutta Congress of Universities of the British Empire in June 1926 and the International Congress of Philosophy at Harvard University in September 1926. Another important event at the university during this period was the invitation to deliver the conference Hibbert on the ideals of life he gave to Harris Manchester College, Oxford in 1929 and was subsequently published in book form as an idealistic point of view of life.
In 1929, Radhakrishnan was invited to take the vacancy left by the main J. Carpenter Estlin at Harris Manchester College. This gave conferences to students at the University of Oxford on Comparative Religion. For his services to education, he was knighted by George V in June 1931 with a specialization in the anniversary [10], and formally sworn in his honor by the Governor General of India, the Earl of Willingdon, in April 1932 . [11] However, it does not use the title in personal life, preferring the academic title "Doctor".


He was the Vice-Chancellor of Andhra University from 1931 to 1936. In 1936, Radhakrishnan was named Spalding Professor of Eastern Religions and Ethics at the University of Oxford, and was elected a Fellow of All Souls College. In 1939, pt. Madan Mohan Malaviya was invited to succeed him as Vice-Chancellor of Banaras Hindu University (BHU). He served as Vice-Chancellor until January 1948.When India became independent in 1947, Radhakrishnan represented India at UNESCO (1946-1952) and was later Ambassador of India to the Soviet Union from 1949 to 1952. He was also elected to the Constituent Assembly of India.
Radhakrishnan was elected first Vice-President of India in 1952. 
He was elected second President of India (1962-1967). When he became president, some of his students and friends requested him to allow them to celebrate his birthday, September 5. He replied:
"Instead of celebrating my birthday, it would be my proud privilege if September 5 is observed as Teachers' Day."His birthday has since been celebrated as Teachers' Day in India .Ghanshyam Das Birla and with a few other social workers in the pre-independence, Radhakrishnan formed Krishnarpan Charity Trust.