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SECTION I
Section A
Answer any four · 40 Marks
Q1Explain the early life of Dr. S. Radhakrishnan.[10]
Answer
For full marks, cover: birth (5 September 1888, Tirutani), family and circumstances; the first twelve years in Tirutani and Tirupati; his early faith and temperament; schooling at Tirupati and Vellore; Madras Christian College; the missionaries' criticism and its effect; the M.A. thesis (1908) and Professor Hogg; his first appointment (1909).
Introduction
Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan describes his early life in the opening sections of his autobiographical essay, My Search for Truth (1937). The account runs from his birth in a small South Indian town to his first post as a teacher of philosophy. It shows a shy, thoughtful boy whose education in Christian schools turned him towards a lifelong study of Indian thought.
1. Birth and family
Radhakrishnan was born on 5 September 1888 at Tirutani, a small place about forty miles north-west of Madras. He was the second child of Hindu parents. He describes them as conventional in their religious outlook. He says he had no advantages of birth or of wealth.
2. Childhood in the pilgrim towns
He spent the first twelve years of his life in Tirutani and Tirupati. Both were famous pilgrim centres. Temples, festivals and pilgrims were part of his everyday world.
3. An early faith and a quiet nature
From the time he could remember, he had firm faith in an unseen world behind the changing things of the senses. He could not say where this faith came from, but it never left him. As a boy he was meditative and loved being alone. Books were his constant companions from the beginning. He was shy and sensitive, though people often thought him cold.
4. Schooling in mission institutions
His entire school and college education was in Christian missionary institutions. From 1896 to 1900 he studied at the mission high school at Tirupati. From 1901 to 1904 he was at Voorhees College, Vellore. These years made him familiar with the New Testament and with Christian teaching.
5. Madras Christian College
From 1905 to 1909 he studied at Madras Christian College. Here he took up philosophy. Here too he heard Christian missionaries criticise Hindu beliefs and practices. Swami Vivekananda had already stirred his pride as a Hindu, so this criticism hurt him deeply. He could not accept that Hindu saints and teachers, or even the faithful village pilgrims, lacked true religion.
6. The thesis on the Ethics of the Vedanta
The missionaries' challenge made him study Hinduism closely, to find out what in it was living and what was dead. His university course did not even require Indian philosophy. Yet for his M.A. he wrote a thesis on the Ethics of the Vedanta, answering the charge that the Vedanta had no room for ethics. It was published in 1908, when he was only twenty. He was thrilled to see his name on a book, though later he called it a juvenile work. His teacher, Professor A. G. Hogg, gave him a testimonial praising his understanding of philosophy, his skill with complex argument and his command of English. Radhakrishnan treasured it all his life.
7. The start of his career
In April 1909 he was appointed to the Department of Philosophy at the Madras Presidency College. From then on, he says, he was a teacher of philosophy and a serious student of Indian philosophy and religion. His early life thus led directly to the work of his whole career.
What his early life shows
Three threads run through these years. The first is inward: faith, solitude and books. The second is the religious world of the pilgrim towns and of his home. The third is the challenge of his Christian education, which turned private faith into scholarship. Radhakrishnan himself felt that a kind of guidance had steered him through these choices. He gave credit to luck for his successes and took the blame for his own mistakes.
Conclusion. Radhakrishnan's early life began humbly at Tirutani in 1888. It passed through the pilgrim town of Tirupati and the mission schools of Tirupati, Vellore and Madras. The missionaries' criticism of Hinduism led him to write his thesis on the Ethics of the Vedanta at twenty. Then, in 1909, he became a teacher of philosophy. The quiet, bookish boy had already found the work of his life: explaining Indian thought to the world.
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