Sarvepalli Gopal (23 April 1923 – 20 April 2002)[2] was a well-known Indian historian.[3] He was the son of Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, the second President of India and the first Vice-President. He was the author of the Radhakrishnan: A Biography and Jawaharlal Nehru: A Biography.
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Born | (1923-04-23)23 April 1923 Chennai, India |
Died | 20 April 2002(2002-04-20) (aged 78) Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India |
Occupation | Historian |
Nationality | Indian |
Subject | Indian History |
Notable awards | Padma Vibhushan, 1999 (for his contribution to Indian history)[1] |
Spouse | Kaveri/Indira Ramaswami (1949) |
Sarvepalli Gopal was born in Madras, India, on 23 April 1923 into a middle class family. He was the only son of S. Radhakrishnan, the first vice-president and second president of independent India, and Sivakamu. He had five sisters.[2]
Gopal was educated at Mill Hill School in London and at the Madras Christian College. He was an undergraduate student of history at Balliol College, Oxford, where he won the Curzon Prize. He continued as a student at Balliol earning his PhD on the viceroyalty of Lord Ripon in 1951.[2]
Subsequently, he was appointed as a Director in the Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India, in the 1950s, where he worked closely with Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. In the 1960s, he was a Reader in Indian History at St Antony's College, Oxford. When the new Jawaharlal Nehru University was founded by the then Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi, he was appointed as a Professor of History at the Centre for Historical Studies, which he helped in setting up.[4] In the 1970s, he was a Chairman of the National Book Trust, New Delhi.
Gopal died due to renal failure in Chennai on 20 April 2002, three days before his 79th birthday.
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