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Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

1888–1975

Also known as: S. Radhakrishnan, Professor S. Radhakrishnan, Dr. Radhakrishnan

How Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan is discussed in this archive

Referenced in 3 other works — including INDIA REQUIRES INDICATIVE PLANNING , A NEW ECONOMIC POLICY FOR INDIA , and The Light of the Constitution .

In A NEW ECONOMIC POLICY FOR INDIA : Radhakrishnan is listed among the prominent voices registering disenchantment with centralised planning, lending moral and intellectual weight to Vaidya's call for a new economic policy.

In INDIA REQUIRES INDICATIVE PLANNING : Khatau enlists Radhakrishnan's Republic Day broadcast on 'widespread incompetence and gross mismanagement' to indict Public Sector performance, citing him alongside the Planning Commission's own figures.

In The Light of the Constitution : Radhakrishnan is quoted on safeguarding the liberty of the human spirit against state encroachment, reinforcing Palkhivala's argument that the 44th Amendment violates foundational constitutional commitments.

Mentioned in (3)

Primary works (2)

  • A NEW ECONOMIC POLICY FOR INDIA · 1967
    • "Vaidya opens by registering the disenchantment with planning that has reached even Indira Gandhi, Dr. S. Radhakrishnan, G. L. Nanda, Jayaprakash Narayan and Planning Commission Deputy Chairman D. R. Gadgil" — Radhakrishnan's scepticism about planning is one of the cross-partisan voices Vaidya marshals to show that disillusion has spread well beyond the right
  • INDIA REQUIRES INDICATIVE PLANNING · 1967
    • "quoting Dr. Radhakrishnan's Republic Day broadcast on 'widespread incompetence and gross mismanagement'" — Radhakrishnan is invoked as a head-of-state witness to Public Sector failure
    • "Dr. Radhakrishnan's Republic Day rebuke of incompetence and mismanagement of national resources." — key-points restatement of Khatau's use of Radhakrishnan as moral authority

Excerpts (1)

  • The Light of the Constitution
    • "Dr S. Radhakrishnan said: “We must safeguard the liberty of the human spirit against the encroachments of the State." — Radhakrishnan's presidential voice invoked as authoritative testament to the constitutional value being violated