About Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan was an Indian academic, philosopher and statesman who served as the Vice President of India from 1952 to 1962 and President of India from 1962 to 1967. He was the ambassador of India to the Soviet Union from 1949 to 1952. He was also the vice-chancellor of Banaras Hindu University from 1939 to 1948 and the vice-chancellor of Andhra University from 1931 to 1936. Radhakrishnan is considered one of the most influential and distinguished 20th century scholars of comparative religion and philosophy, he 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.
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Awards & Honors
Toynbee Prize
honorary doctor of the University of Calcutta
Order of Merit
Pour le Mérite
Peace Prize of the German Publishers' and Booksellers' Association
Bharat Ratna
Templeton Prize
Knight Bachelor
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Goethe Plaque of the City of Frankfurt
Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order
Grand Cross with Collar of the Order of the White Rose of Finland
Fellow of the British Academy
Honorary doctor of the University of Zagreb
