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Far from being a stern and severe intellectual remote from the world, Dr. Radhakrishnan was a very humane person. Exceedingly popular among his students right from his early days as a professor at Presidency College, Madras he was an evocative teacher. He was offered the professorship at Calcutta University when he was less than 30 years old. He served as Vice-Chancellor of Andhra University from 1931-1936. In 1939 he was appointed the Vice-Chancellor of Banaras Hindu University. Two years later he took over the Sir Sayaji Rao chair of Indian culture and civilization in Banaras.
His mastery of his subject and his clarity of thought and expression made him even a much sought-after teacher. But what made him even more popular was his warmheartedness and his ability to draw out people. This aspect of his personality continued to win him, countless admirers, throughout his long and illustrious life. In the last decades of British rule, his was the most sophisticated and exalted analysis of Gandhi's work and thought, and in free India, he provided the ideological armor for Nehru's foreign policy.
From which college he started his career?
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Download Solution PDFThe correct answer is Presidency College, Madras
Key Points
The passage talks about the life of Dr. Radhakrishnan.
- In the second line of the first paragraph, it is stated that:
- "Exceedingly popular among his students right from his early days as a professor at Presidency College, Madras he was an evocative teacher"
- From this line, it is clear that he started his career in Presidency College, Madras.
Thus the correct answer is Presidency College, Madras.
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