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{{Short description|Indian historian}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2019}}
{{Use Indian English|date=January 2019}}
{{Infobox writer
| name = Sarvepalli Gopal
| image = Sarvepalli Gopal.jpg
| imagesize =
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1923|4|23|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Madras]], [[Madras Presidency]], [[British India]]
| death_date = {{death date and age|2002|4|20|1923|4|23|df=y}}
| death_place = [[Chennai]], [[Tamil Nadu]], [[India]]
| occupation = Historian
| nationality = India
| period = [[British India]]
| subject = [[Indian History]]
| awards = [[Padma Vibhushan]], 1999 (for his contribution to Indian history)<ref name="ministryofhomeaffairscivilianawardsannounced">{{cite web|url=http://mha.nic.in/awar1999.htm|title=Ministry of Home Affairs—Civilian Awards announced on January 26, 1999|access-date=2006-11-03 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20060908024348/http://mha.nic.in/awar1999.htm  |archive-date = 2006-09-08}}</ref>
| influences =
| influenced =
| spouse = Kaveri/Indira Ramaswami (1949)
}}

'''Sarvepalli Gopal''' (23 April 1923 – 20 April 2002)<ref name=odnb>{{cite ODNB|last1=Raychaudhuri|first1=Tapan|author-link1=Tapan Raychaudhuri|title=Gopal, Sarvepalli (1923–2002)|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/94961|access-date=25 November 2015|date=Oct 2008}}</ref> was a well-known [[India]]n historian.<ref name="rememberingsarvapalligopal">{{cite news|url=http://www.hindu.com/mag/2003/04/27/stories/2003042700220300.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120430084004/http://www.hindu.com/mag/2003/04/27/stories/2003042700220300.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=30 April 2012|title=Remembering Sarvepalli Gopal|author=Ramachandra Guha|author-link=Ramachandra Guha|date=27 April 2003|work=[[The Hindu]]|access-date=2006-11-03}}</ref> The son of [[Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan|S. Radhakrishnan]], he is the author of his father's biography ''Radhakrishnan: A Biography'' and ''Jawaharlal Nehru: A Biography''.

==Early life and education==
Sarvepalli Gopal was born in [[Madras]], India, on 23 April 1923 into a middle class family. He was the only son of [[Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan|S. Radhakrishnan]], the first vice-president and second president of independent India, and Sivakamu. He had five sisters.<ref name=odnb />

Gopal was educated at [[Mill Hill School]] in London and at the [[Madras Christian College]]. He was an undergraduate student of history at [[Balliol College, Oxford]], where he won the Curzon Prize. He continued as a student at Balliol earning his [[Doctor of Philosophy|PhD]] on the viceroyalty of [[Lord Ripon]] in 1951.<ref name=odnb />

==Career==
Subsequently, he was appointed as a Director in the [[Ministry of External Affairs (India)|Ministry of External Affairs]], Government of India, in the 1950s, where he worked closely with [[Prime Minister]] [[Jawaharlal Nehru]]. In the 1960s, he was a [[Reader (academic rank)|Reader]] in Indian History at [[St Antony's College, Oxford]]. When the new [[Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi|Jawaharlal Nehru University]] was founded by the then [[Prime Minister]], [[Indira Gandhi]], he was appointed as a [[Professor]] of History at the Centre for Historical Studies, which he helped in setting up.<ref name="panikkar">{{cite journal|url=http://www.frontline.in/static/html/fl1909/19091220.htm|title=A great historian: Sarvepalli Gopal, 1923-2002|author=K. N. Panikkar|author-link=K. N. Panikkar|journal=[[Frontline (magazine)|Frontline]]|volume=19|issue=9|date=27 April – 12 May 2002|access-date=2006-11-03}}</ref> In the 1970s, he was a [[Chairman]] of the [[National Book Trust]], [[New Delhi]].

==Death==
Gopal died due to [[renal failure]] in [[Chennai]] on 20 April 2002, just 3 days before his 79th birthday.

==Publications==

===Books===

*''History of Humanity: Scientific and Cultural Development, Vol. 7: The Twentieth Century'', (Paris: UNESCO, Routledge, 2008) (co-author Tichvinskii, Sergei Leonidovich)
*''Jawaharlal Nehru: A Biography'', (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2004)
*''The Essential Writings of Jawaharlal Nehru'', (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2003) (co-author Uma Iyengar)
*''Anatomy of Confrontation: The Babri Masjid Ramjanmabhumi Issue'', (New Delhi: Viking, 1991)
*''Radhakrishnan: A Biography'', (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1992)
*''Economy, Society and Development: Essays and Reflections in Honour of Malcolm Adesheshiah'', (New Delhi: Sage, 1991) (co-authors [[C.T. Kurien|Kurien, C.T.]], E.R. Prabhakar)
*''Jawaharlal Nehru: An Anthology'', (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1983)
*''Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru'', (New Delhi: Orient Longman, 1972–82) (co-authors Chalapatti Rau, M., Sharada Prasad, H.Y., Nanda, B.R.)
*''British Policy in India, 1858-1905'', (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1965)
*''Modern India'', (London: Historical Association, 1967)
*''The Viceroyalty of Lord Irwin, 1926-1931'', (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957)
*''The Viceroyalty of Lord Ripon, 1880-1884'', (London: Oxford University Press, 1957)
*''The Permanent Settlement in Bengal and its Result'', (London, G.Allen and Unwin, 1949)

==References==
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