Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan was born on September 5, 1888 at Tiruttani, which was part of erstwhile Madras Presidency and current Tamil Nadu in a ...

He was a great advocate of the religion of Hinduism. He was a proponent of Advaita philosophy, a branch of Vedanta Philosophy, which is based on the Upanishads. He was a member of the Intellectual Cooperation of The League of Nations. He was the President of India between 1962 and 1967. He was elected the Vice-President of India (between 1952 and 1956 and between 1957-1962). He was the first chairman of the Rajya Sabha. He was the author of multiple books on religion and philosophy. He became the Vice-Chancellor of Andhra University in 1931 and that of Banaras Hindu University in 1939. In 1926, he was invited to the Great Britain to deliver the talk, ‘The Hindu View of Life’, which he delivered exceptionally well and was well received by the whole world. He was the leader of the Indian delegation to UNESCO from 1946-50. He became a famous teacher, philosopher and later the President of India. In 1918, he left Madras Presidency College to teach as Professor of Philosophy at the Mysore Maharaja’s College, which was part of Mysore University.