Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan was born into a poor Telugu Brahmin family at Tiruttani in the Tamil Nadu state, a town in Madras Presidency, British India, 64 km to the northwest of Madras (now Chennai).
His mother tongue was Telugu.[1] His mother’s name was Sitamma. His early years were spent in Tirutani and Tirupati. His father was a subordinate revenue official in the service of a local Zamindar (landlord).
His primary education was at Primary Board High School at Tirutani. In 1896 he moved to the Hermansburg Evangelical Lutheral Mission School in Tirupati.[2]
Dr. Radhakrishnan was awarded scholarships throughout his academic life. He joined the Voorhee’s College in Vellore but switched to the Madras Christian College at the age of 17. He graduated with a Master’s degree in Philosophy from the Madras Christian College in 1906, being one of its most distinguished alumni.[3] Radhakrishnan wrote his thesis for the M.A. degree on “The Ethics of the Vedanta and its Metaphysical Presuppositions”.[4] He was afraid that his M.A. thesis, “The Ethics of the Vedanta” would offend his philosophy professor, Dr. A.G. Hogg. Instead, Dr. Hogg commended Radhakrishnan on doing an excellent job.[citation needed] Radhakrishnan’s M.A. thesis was published when he was only 20.
Dr. Radhakrishnan studied philosophy by chance rather than by choice. Being a financially constrained student at the time, when a cousin, after graduating from the same college, passed on his textbooks in philosophy to Radhakrishnan, it automatically decided his academic course. [5][6] Later on he felt deep interest in his subject and wrote many acclaimed works on philosophy, both eastern and western.
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Literary Patterns of European Developement Trinity College The Consolation of Philosophy was written in the early 6th century by Boethius. A statesman and intellectual, well educated in liberal arts, Boethius fell from the favor of the Gothic emperor Theodoric, under false charges of treason by his enemies. He was imprisoned in Pavia, and while there used his time to reflect on his situation and ...
