Draft:Vasudev Anant Sukhtankar

Vasudev Anant Sukhtankar, son of Anant Abaji Sukhtankar, was born at Islampur, India on 22 June 1877. His schooling was in Kolhapur, at the Private English School and the Mission High School. He passed the Matriculation examination of Bombay University in 1896 after which he studied for the B.A. degree at Fergusson College, Pune.

From 1899 to 1903 he taught at the Parsee Girls' High School, after which he went to Oxford. There he studied Philosophy and Comparative Religion at the Harris Manchester College. With the generous help of the Hibbert Trustees he was able to go to Germany for further studies, first at the University of Kiel and then at the University of Bonn where he studied Sanskrit, Philosophy, and Economics. He was awarded the doctorate on 29 January 1908, and the title of his thesis was TEACHINGS OF VEDANTA ACCORDING TO RAMANUJA which he completed under the supervision of PROFESSOR DR. H. JACOBI.

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