Thursday, April 20, 2017

Sarvepalli Gopal

Today is the death anniversary of Sarvepalli Gopal , an eminent historian . Educated in England, he was an undergraduate student at Oxford and also obtained D.Phil there. The subject of his thesis was Lord Ripon and his times. He authored and co authored many books of value some of which were published in London. He wrote book on British Policy and biography of Jawaharlal Nehru and S. Radhakrishnan, his father.
He was awarded Padma Vibhushan in 1999. He was also for once a Chairman of the National Book Trust.
Our humble tributes to the great historian who gave a new perspective to the writing of History !

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