Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, an Indian philosopher, educator, and statesman who served as India's first Vice President and second President, died in 1975.
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan was an Indian academic, politician, philosopher, and statesman. He was India's first Vice President and then its second President. Radhakrishnan devoted his life and career as a writer striving to define, defend, and spread his faith, which he alternately referred to as Hinduism, Vedanta, and the religion of the Spirit. He intended to demonstrate that his Hinduism was both intellectually coherent and ethically feasible. On November 26, 1956, Radha Krishnan's Sivakamu died. He never remarried and lived as a widower till the day he died. Radhakrishnan died on April 17, 1975.
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