Editing Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (section)

==Academic career==
[[File:Radhakrishnan telugu signature.jpg|thumb|upright|Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan drawn by Bujjai and signed by Sarvepalli in [[Telugu language|Telugu]] as "Radhakrishnayya".|alt=hand made portrait of Mr. President.]]
In April 1909, Radhakrishnan was appointed to the Department of Philosophy at the [[Madras Presidency College]]. Thereafter, in 1918, he was selected as Professor of Philosophy by the [[University of Mysore]], where he taught at its [[Maharaja's College, Mysore]].<ref group=web name="times10">{{cite news | title = Maharaja's royal gift to Mysore  | url = https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mysore/Maharajas-royal-gift-to-Mysore-/articleshow/6216007.cms | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131203062519/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2010-07-25/mysore/28281284_1_mysore-crawford-hall-maharaja-s-college | url-status = live | archive-date = 3 December 2013 | date   =25 July 2010| newspaper = [[The Times of India]]  | access-date = 11 July 2013 }}</ref><ref name="MurtyVohra1990">{{cite book|author1=Murty, Kotta Satchidananda|author2=Vohra, Ashok|title=Radhakrishnan: His Life and Ideas|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=x6FsaptULgAC&pg=PA26|chapter=3. Professor at Mysore|year=1990|publisher=SUNY Press|isbn=978-1-4384-1401-0|pages=17–26|access-date=6 October 2016|archive-date=26 January 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240126143304/https://books.google.com/books?id=x6FsaptULgAC&pg=PA26#v=onepage&q&f=false|url-status=live}}</ref> By that time he had written many articles for journals of repute like ''The Quest'', ''Journal of Philosophy'' and the ''International Journal of Ethics''. He also completed his first book, ''The Philosophy of Rabindranath Tagore''. He believed [[Rabindranath Tagore|Tagore]]'s philosophy to be the "genuine manifestation of the Indian spirit". His second book, ''The Reign of Religion in Contemporary Philosophy'' was published in 1920.

In 1921 he was appointed as a professor in philosophy to occupy the King George V Chair of Mental and Moral Science at the [[University of Calcutta]]. He represented the University of Calcutta at the Congress of the Universities of the British Empire in June 1926 and the [[International Congress of Philosophy]] at [[Harvard University]] in September 1926. Another important academic event during this period was the invitation to deliver the [[Hibbert Lecture]] on the ideals of life which he delivered at [[Harris Manchester College, Oxford|Manchester College, Oxford]] in 1929 and which was subsequently published in book form as ''An Idealist View of Life''.

In 1929 Radhakrishnan was invited to take the post vacated by Principal J. Estlin Carpenter at Manchester College. This gave him the opportunity to lecture to the students of the University of Oxford on Comparative Religion. For his services to education he was [[Knight Bachelor|knighted]] by [[George V of the United Kingdom|George V]] in the June [[1931 Birthday Honours]],<ref group=web name="london-gazette1">{{London Gazette |issue=33722 |date=2 June 1931 |page=3624 |supp=y}}</ref> and formally invested with his honour by the [[Governor-General of India]], the [[Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon|Earl of Willingdon]], in April 1932.<ref group=web>{{London Gazette |issue=33816 |date=12 April 1932 |page=2398 |nolink=yes}}</ref> However, he ceased to use the title after Indian independence,<ref name=banerji>{{cite book |title=Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, a centenary tribute
 |last=Banerji |first=Anjan Kumar |year=1991
 |publisher=Banaras Hindu University |location=Varanasi, India 
 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bvfWAAAAMAAJ |oclc=28967355}}. Page 9 states: "In 1931.... He was knighted that year, but ceased to use the title after Independence."</ref>{{rp|9}} preferring instead his academic title of 'Doctor'.

He was the [[vice-chancellor]] of [[Andhra University]] from 1931 to 1936. During his first convocation address, he spoke about his native [[Andhra Pradesh|Andhra]] as, 
{{blockquote|We, the Andhras, are fortunately situated in some respects. I firmly believe that if any part of India is capable of developing an effective sense of unity it is in Andhra. The hold of conservatism is not strong. Our generosity of spirit and openness of mind are well -known. Our social instinct and suggestibility are still active. Our moral sense and sympathetic imagination are not much warped by dogmas. Our women are relatively more free. Love of the mother-tongue binds us all.}}
[[File:Portrait DR. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan.jpg|thumb|Portrait of Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan by [[Serge Ivanoff]] 1953.]]
In 1936 Radhakrishnan was named [[Spalding Professor of Eastern Religion and Ethics]] at the [[University of Oxford]], and was elected a Fellow of [[All Souls College, Oxford|All Souls College]]. That same year, and again in 1937, he was nominated for the [[Nobel Prize]] in Literature, although this nomination process, as for all laureates, was not public at the time. Further nominations for the awards continued steadily throughout the 1960s. In 1939 [[Madan Mohan Malaviya|Pt. Madan Mohan Malaviya]] invited him to succeed him as the Vice-Chancellor of [[Banaras Hindu University]] (BHU).{{sfn|Murty|Vohra|1990|p=90}} He served as its Vice-Chancellor till January 1948.