His accessible writings underscored his country's religious heritage and sought to convey a universal reality of God that embraced love and wisdom for all people. *Our Digital Subscription plans do not currently include the e-paper ,crossword, iPhone, iPad mobile applications and print. He stated that Western philosophers, despite all claims to Sarvepalli's appointment, as a southerner, to "the most important chair of philosophy in India" in the north, was resented by a number of people from the Bengali intellectual elite, and Responding to this "systematic effort [...] to destroy Radhakrishnan's reputation as a scholar and a public figure,"Sarvepalli was one of India's best and most influential twentieth-century scholars of comparative religion and philosophy.Sarvepalli's defence of the Hindu traditions has been highly influential,In figures such as Vivekananda and Radhakrishnan we witness Vedanta traveling to the West, where it nourished the spiritual hunger of Europeans and Americans in the early decades of the twentieth century.Sarvepalli has been highly appraised.
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Here he stressed Nehru's commitment to the emancipation of women and untouchables, to communal harmony and the maintenance of a united and plural India, and to the fostering of a socialist economics. His Nehru trilogy, majestic as it is, had two flaws. For who could have added anything to Gopal's own book on his father?Ramachandra Guha's books include Savaging the Civilized and Environmentalism: A Global History.Subscribe to The Hindu digital to get unlimited access to Today's paperFind mobile-friendly version of articles from the day's newspaper in one easy-to-read list.Enjoy reading as many articles as you wish without any limitations.A select list of articles that match your interests and tastes.Move smoothly between articles as our pages load instantly.A one-stop-shop for seeing the latest updates, and managing your preferences.We brief you on the latest and most important developments, three times a day. Indians needed English to participate in the modern economy and to undertake advanced research. Steeped, as Radhakrishnan has been since his childhood, in the life, traditions, and philosophical heritage of his native India, he has also struck deep roots in Western philosophy, which he has been studying tirelessly ever since his undergraduate college-days in Madras Christian College, and in which he is as thoroughly at home as any Western philosopher.Radhakrishnan's concern for experience and his extensive knowledge of the Western philosophical and literary traditions has earned him the reputation of being a bridge-builder between India and the West. East and West, vol. Being a financially constrained student, when a cousin who graduated from the same college passed on his philosophy textbooks to Sarvepalli, it automatically decided his academics course.
He had evidently not heard of, or read, Sarvepalli Gopal.Third, Gopal chose to write mostly about individuals, whereas other historians prefer to focus on themes and processes.
Gopal published as many as seven; three volumes on Nehru, one on his father, a book on British imperial policy, and separate books on the viceroyalties of Ripon and Irwin. To Sarvepalli, Advaita Vedanta was the best representative of Hinduism, as being grounded in intuition, in contrast to the "intellectually mediated interpretations"The Vedanta is not a religion, but religion itself in its most universal and deepest significance.Sarvepalli saw other religions, "including what Sarvepalli understands as lower forms of Hinduism,"Although Sarvepalli was well-acquainted with western culture and philosophy, he was also critical of them. 11, no.
As we walked I told him about an anthology I was planning, which would contain commissioned essays on the greatest Indians of the 20th Century — whether politicians, scientists, scholars, sportsmen or musicians. Build your family tree online ; Share photos and videos ; Smart Matching™ technology ; Free! However, when he came to write the life of his father, Gopal was completely candid about his extra-marital affairs. With only the rare exception, professors of history in our universities — even the most influential ones, the kind who become Presidents of the Indian History Congress — do not publish more than one or two serious books over the course of their professional career.
Get Started. Among these are a 1984 lecture on the "Legacy of Nehru" which, in gentle and undogmatic fashion, reiterates what Gopal saw as his hero's continuing relevance. He commanded me to join him. According to Paul Artur Schillp: We began our meal by drinking to the memory of the historian and biographer Sarvepalli Gopal, who had passed away the previous week in Madras. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan was born in a Telugu-speaking Niyogi Brahmin family, in Tiruttani of Chittoor District in the erstwhile Madras Presidency (Later in Andhra Pradesh till 1960, now in Tiruvallur district of Tamil Nadu since 1960). The man of action finds his God in fire, the man of feeling in the heart, and the feeble minded in the idol, but the strong in spirit find God everywhere". The hold of conservatism is not strong. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan's Geni Profile. Because of this, Radhakrishnan has been held up in academic circles as a representative of Hinduism to the West. Accessed 22 Mar.
The seers see the supreme in the self, and not the images."