Dr. Radhakrishnan had plagiarized the work of his student Jadunath Sinha in his work 'Indian Philosophy Vol. II'. As one can see below, he had literally reproduced passages from Sinha's work with some paraphrasing. Radhakrishnan ultimately accepted an outside court settlement.
In this article alone, Sinha has pointed out 70 such parallel passages. In the January 1929 edition of Modern Review, Sinha had also published other instances of plagiarism. Radhakrishnan in his response accused Modern Review of being biased against him.
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In the January 1929 issue of Modern Review, Jadunath Sinha made this sensational claim that his own thesis was copied by his teacher Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan in Indian Philosophy book. That Radhakrishnan plagiarised from him. The controversy spilled over up to February, March and April issues of the magazine too.]
In August 1929, Sinha sued Radhakrishnan on this issue. Radhakrishnan also counter-sued both Jadunath Sinha and the editor of Modern Review, Ramananda Chattopadhyay. But latter on when Sinha showed the Postal Registry as proof of despatch and delivery of his thesis, Radhakrishnan requested for a compromise. Dr. Shyamaprasad Mukherjee, who was VC of Calcutta University, arranged for this compromise according to which the court cases"
Sarvepalli Gopal in the biography of his father also records his extra marital flings..
He was quite dear to young damsels - Philosopher in day predator at night.
"What if I told you that the philosopher wasn't the son of his own father and for that he hated his mom his whole life.. His son has documented all of that!"
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Vishvas /विश्वासः