Alagappa Chettiar
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Sir Alagappa Chettiar was an Indian businessman and philanthropist. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan, the third-highest civilian award in India, in 1956.
Chettiar on a 2007 stamp of India
Dr. Alagappa Chettiar
Chettinad palace in Karaikudi
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
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Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan was an Indian academic, philosopher and statesman who served as the Vice President of India from 1952 to 1962 and President of India from 1962 to 1967. He was the ambassador o
Alagappa Chettiar
…Kumaraswamy Valayapalayam Aiyah Lakshmana Ramanathan Chettiar and Umayal Achi in India. He attended Presidency College in Chennai, where he befriended Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, a teacher who later became the President of India. In 1930, at the age of 21, he was the first person from the Nattukottai Nagarathar community to…
Official portrait, 1962
Indian President Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan with US President John F. Kennedy in the Oval Office, 1963
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan drawn by Bujjai and signed by Sarvepalli in Telugu as "Radhakrishnayya".
Portrait of Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan by Serge Ivanoff 1953.