Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
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Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

Personal data
Date of birth5 September 1888
Place of birthThiruttani, Madras Presidency, British India
Date of death17 April 1975(age 86)
Place of deathChennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Political partyIndependent
SpouseSivakamu
ChildrenFive daughters and a son
OccupationPolitician, Philosopher, Professor
ReligionHinduism
2nd President of India
In office13 May 1962 - 13 May 1967
PresidentZakir Hussain
Prime ministerGulzarilal Nanda (1st term)
Lal Bahadur Shastri
Gulzarilal Nanda (2nd term)
Vice PresidentZakir Hussain
Succeeded byZakir Hussain
Preceded byRajendra Prasad
1st Vice President of India
In office13 May 1952 - 12 May 1962
PresidentRajendra Prasad
Succeeded byZakir Hussain
Preceded byOffice created

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Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (Telugu: సర్వేపల్లి రాధాకృష్ణ)OM, FBA 5 September 1888 - 17 April 1975) was an Indian philosopher and statesman. He was the first Vice-President of India (1952 � 1962) and subsequently the second President of India (1962 � 1967).

One of India's most influential scholars of comparative religion and philosophy, Radhakrishnan is considered through his efforts to have built a bridge between the East and the West by showing that the philosophical systems of each tradition are comprehensible within the terms of the other. He wrote authoritative exegeses of India's religious and philosophical literature for the English speaking world. His academic appointments included the King George V Chair of Mental and Moral Science at the University of Calcutta (1921-?) and Spalding Professor of Eastern Religions and Ethics at Oxford University (1936 � 1952).

Among the many honours he received were a knighthood (1931), the Bharat Ratna (1954) and the Order of Merit in 1963. His birthday is celebrated in India as Teacher's Day on 5 September.

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Education News Hyderabad---...- DEO P. Parvati and others were present. Earlier, Mr. Vara Prasad garlanded a portrait of -Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan- and felicitated 37 headmasters/teachers.--- - Date : Wed, 04 Aug 2010 11:23:50 GMT+00:00
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Arkansas Times--As a man named -Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan- said, "The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from it." I was shocked to hear that lion ... - Date : Wed, 14 Jul 2010 21:54:33 GMT+00:00
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Deccan Chronicle---...- been nurtured by visionaries like Dr -Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan- and Sir CR Reddy, who bequeathed a tradition of academic excellence among their students. ... - Date : Mon, 17 May 2010 05:36:25 GMT+00:00
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Organiser--In that same volume, Dr -Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan-, one time President of India wrote that he, along with Sir Michael Gwyer were deputed by the University of ... - Date : Tue, 01 Jun 2010 09:58:52 GMT+00:00
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Bar & Bench---...- gathering after inaugurating the two day conference that concluded yesterday, the Prime Minister quoted former President, Dr. -Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan-, ... - Date : Mon, 03 May 2010 11:14:26 GMT+00:00
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Dekhlo India (blog)--Former President of India Dr. -Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan- was one of its Vice-Chancellors who succeed Dr. CR Reddy in 1931. For more information and details ... - Date : Thu, 15 Apr 2010 05:53:37 GMT+00:00
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Hotcurrentnews.com--Former President of India Dr. -Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan- was one of its Vice-Chancellors who succeed Dr. CR Reddy in 1931. The University College of Arts was ... - Date : Wed, 14 Apr 2010 18:14:51 GMT+00:00

Political offices
Preceded by
Position created		Vice President of India
13 May 1952 - 13 May 1962		Succeeded by
Zakir Hussain
Preceded by
Rajendra Prasad		President of India
13 May 1962 - 13 May 1967		Succeeded by
Zakir Hussain


IN Presidents of India

Rajendra Prasad * Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan * Zakir Hussain * V.V. Giri � * Muhammad Hidayatullah � * V.V. Giri * Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed * Basappa Danappa Jatti � * Neelam Sanjiva Reddy * Zail Singh * R. Venkataraman * Shankar Dayal Sharma * K.R. Narayanan * Abdul Kalam * Pratibha Patil |

IN Vice Presidents of India

Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan * Zakir Hussain * V. V. Giri * Gopal Swarup Pathak * Basappa Danappa Jatti * Muhammad Hidayatullah * R. Venkataraman * Shankar Dayal Sharma * K. R. Narayanan * Krishan Kant * Bhairon Singh Shekhawat * Mohammad Hamid Ansari |

Bharat Ratna laureates

Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1954) * C. Rajagopalachari (1954) * C. V. Raman (1954) * Bhagwan Das (1955) * Mokshagundam Visvesvarayya (1955) * Jawaharlal Nehru (1955) * Govind Ballabh Pant (1957) * Dhondo Keshav Karve (1958) * Bidhan Chandra Roy (1961) * Purushottam Das Tandon (1961) * Dr. Rajendra Prasad (1962) * Dr. Zakir Hussain (1963) * Pandurang Vaman Kane (1963) * Lal Bahadur Shastri (1966) * Indira Gandhi (1971) * V. V. Giri (1975) * K. Kamaraj (1976) * Mother Teresa (1980) * Acharya Vinoba Bhave (1983) * Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan (1987) * M. G. Ramachandran (1988) * B. R. Ambedkar (1990) * Nelson Mandela (1990) * Rajiv Gandhi (1991) * Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel (1991) * Morarji Desai (1991) * Abul Kalam Azad (1992) * J. R. D. Tata (1992) * Satyajit Ray (1992) * A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (1997) * Gulzarilal Nanda (1997) * Aruna Asaf Ali (1997) * M. S. Subbulakshmi (1998) * Chidambaram Subramaniam (1998) * Jayaprakash Narayan (1998) * Ravi Shankar (1999) * Amartya Sen (1999) * Gopinath Bordoloi (1999) * Lata Mangeshkar (2001) * Bismillah Khan (2001) * Bhimsen Joshi (2008)

Templeton Prize laureates

Mother Teresa (1973) * Frère Roger (1974) * Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1975) * Leo Joseph Suenens (1976) * Chiara Lubich (1977) * Thomas Torrance (1978) * Nikkyo Niwano (1979) * Ralph Wendell Burhoe (1980) * Cicely Saunders (1981) * Billy Graham (1982) * Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1983) * Michael Bourdeaux (1984) * Alister Hardy (1985) * James I. McCord (1986) * Stanley Jaki (1987) * Inamullah Khan (1988) * Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker & George MacLeod (1989) * Baba Amte & Charles Birch (1990) * Immanuel Jakobovits (1991) * Kyung-Chik Han (1992) * Charles Colson (1993) * Michael Novak (1994) * Paul Davies (1995) * Bill Bright (1996) * Pandurang Shastri Athavale (1997) * Sigmund Sternberg (1998) * Ian Barbour (1999) * Freeman Dyson (2000) * Arthur Peacocke (2001) * John Polkinghorne (2002) * Holmes Rolston III (2003) * George Ellis (2004) * Charles Townes (2005) * John D. Barrow (2006) * Charles Taylor (2007) * Michał Heller (2008) * Bernard d'Espagnat (2009) * Francisco J. Ayala (2010)



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