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Poola Tirupati Raju

Poolla Tirupati Raju (3 September 1904 – 8 December 1992) was an Indian writer, philosopher, academic and a former professor of Jaswant College, Jodhpur (present day Jai Narain Vyas University.^[1] He was the author of several books, both in English and Telugu, on Indian philosophy and literature.^[2][3] His publications include Structural Depths of Indian Thought^[4] Telugu Literature,^[5] The Philosophical Traditions of India^[6] Introduction to Comparative Philosophy^[7] and Idealistic Thought of India.^[8] He was the editor of The Concept of Man: A Study in Comparative Philosophy, written by Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan.^[9] The Government of India awarded him the third highest civilian honour of the Padma Bhushan, in 1958, for his contributions to Literature and education.^[10]

He played an important part in the modern development of comparative philosophy and brought out Indian philosophy to the attention of the American academy.^[11]

Selected bibliography[edit]

• Poolla Tirupati Raju (1953). Idealistic Thought of India. Harvard University Press. p. 454. OCLC 3615962.
• Poolla Tirupati Raju (1944). Telugu Literature. Internat. Book House. p. 154.
• Poolla Tirupati Raju (1962). Introduction to Comparative Philosophy. University of Nebraska Press. pp. 364. OCLC 372601.
• Poolla Tirupati Raju (1972). The Philosophical Traditions of India. University of Pittsburgh Press. p. 256. ISBN 9780822911050.
• Poolla Tirupati Raju (1985). Structural Depths of Indian Thought. State University of New York Press. pp. 599. ISBN 9780887061394.
• Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (Author), Poolla Tirupati Raju (Editor) (2011). The Concept of Man: A Study in Comparative Philosophy. Literary Licensing. p. 382. ISBN 9781258007546. {{cite book}}: |author= has generic name (help)

See also[edit]

• Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
• M. Hiriyanna

References[edit]

^ Nalini Bhushan; Jay L. Garfield (2011). Indian Philosophy in English: From Renaissance to Independence. Oxford University Press. p. 426. doi:10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199769261.003.0023. ISBN 9780199769261 – via Oxford Scholarship Online.

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