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'''Koneru Ramakrishna Rao''' (born 1932) is a philosopher, psychologist, parapsychologist, educationist, teacher, researcher and administrator. The Government of India awarded him the civilian honour of [[Padma Shri]] in 2011.<ref name="Padma Awards">{{cite web|url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |title=Padma Awards |publisher=Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India |date=2015 |access-date=21 July 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://www.webcitation.org/6U68ulwpb?url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |archive-date=15 November 2014 }}</ref><br />
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==Biography==<br />
Rao was born on 4 October 1932, in the Delta region of Coastal Andhra, [[Madras Presidency]], India. He did his college and graduate work at [[Andhra University]], Waltair, India (B.A. hons., philosophy 1953; M.A. hons., psychology 1955; PhD, 1962). He was a lecturer in the Departments of Philosophy and Psychology at Andhra University from 1953–58 under the tutelage of professors Saileswar Sen and Satchidananda Murthy. He left in 1958 to come to the United States as a [[Fulbright Program|Fulbright scholar]]. His stay at the University of Chicago was extended a year with a [[Rockefeller Fellowship]] with [[Richard McKeon]] at the [[University of Chicago]] and received PhD and [[D.Litt.]] degrees. He returned to India in 1960 as chief librarian at Andhra University (1960–61), but then moved to North Carolina to work with [[J. B. Rhine]] at the Parapsychology Laboratory at [[Duke University]], North Carolina and later headed his Foundation for Research on the Nature of Man as its executive director. <br />
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He returned to Andhra University in the mid-1960s and in 1967 established the Department of Parapsychology, the only such university department of its kind in the world. In the meantime he had become a charter member of the Parapsychology Association and was elected as its secretary in 1963 and its president in 1965. (He was again elected president in 1978). In 1977 he became the director of the Institute for Parapsychology, but again in 1984 went back to Andhra to become the university's vice-chancellor. The following year he established the Institute for Yoga and Consciousness at Andhra and became its director. In 1987 he again became head of the Institute for Parapsychology, where he has remained to the present. Most recently, he has served as the Chairman of the Indian Council of Philosophical Research for the Indian Government. He visited and lectured at universities in USA, Canada, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Greece, Sweden, the Netherlands, Denmark, Iceland, Italy, Japan, Pakistan, Thailand, Singapore and Sri Lanka. <br />
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In a 2002 [[festschrift]], one of his former students described Rao as "a man of many interests... cross-cultural and cosmopolitan.... His writings are a blend of Eastern and Western traditions. They are an attempt to bring about, to use his own expression, the ''sangaman'' (confluence) of East-West streams of thought. Dr. K. Ramakrishna Rao is to [[Indian psychology]] what [[Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan|Dr. S. Radhakrishnan]] is to [[Indian philosophy]]".<ref name=rammohan2002>Rammohan, V. Gowri (2002). "K. R. Rao: The man and his mission". In {{cite book |last1=Rammohan |first1=V. Gowri (Ed.)|title=New Frontiers of Human Science: a Festschrift for K. Ramakrishna Rao |date=2002 |publisher=McFarland & Co. |location=Jefferson, NC |isbn=9780786414536 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sb-HuOtqaPYC&q=koneru+ramakrishna+rao&pg=PA3 |oclc=50192023 |pages=3–18}}</ref>{{rp|3}}<br />
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Rao was profiled in the book ''Eminent Indian Psychologists: 100 years of Psychology in India'' (2017).<ref name=marwaha17>{{cite book |last1=Marwaha |first1=Sonali Bhatt |editor1-last=Bhushan |editor1-first=Braj |title=Eminent Indian Psychologists: 100 years of Psychology in India |date=2017 |publisher=SAGE Publishing India |isbn=978-93-86446-43-5 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1xtBDwAAQBAJ |language=en |chapter=Koneru Ramakrishna Rao (chapter 33) }}</ref><br />
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Awards received by Rao include Padma Shri (Literature and Education category) from Indian Government in 2011, Doctor of Letters (Honoris Causa) degrees from Andhra and Kakatiya Universities, and a Doctor of Science (Honoris Causa) degree from Acharya Nagarjuna University.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.icpr.in/pRamakrishna_Rao.html |title=Indian Council of Philosophical Research, ICPR, New Delhi |publisher=Icpr.in |access-date=2016-12-01}}</ref><br />
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He is currently serving as chancellor at [[GITAM University]], Vishakaptnam, India.<ref>http://www.educationinsight.in/2012/education-news/appointments/koneru-ramakrishna-rao-chancellor-of-aps-gitam-university/</ref><br />
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==Main publications==<br />
===Books (sole author)===<br />
*{{cite book |last1=Rao |first1=Koneru Ramakrishna |title=A Child of Destiny |date=2020 |isbn=978-8124610305 }}<ref name=mustrespect20>{{cite news |last1=Express News Service |title=Politicians must respect people's mandate, says Venkaiah Naidu |url=https://www.newindianexpress.com/states/andhra-pradesh/2020/feb/09/politicians-must-respect-peoples-mandate-says-venkaiah-2101070.html |access-date=24 April 2020 |work=The New Indian Express |date=9 February 2020}} [https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/8124610304 Additional information ]</ref> - an autobiography.<ref name="youtuberelease">{{cite web |title=A Child of Destiny पुस्तक का विमोचन - M. Venkaiah Naidu - K. Ramakrishna Rao - भाग्य का बच्चा |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91vmCjURVik |website=[[YouTube]] |access-date=24 April 2020}}</ref><br />
*{{cite book |last1=Rao |first1=Koneru Ramakrishna |title=Gandhi's Dharma |date=2017 |location=New Delhi |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=9780199477548 |oclc=1019894276}}<br />
**Reviewed<ref name=thakkar18>{{cite journal |last1=Thakkar |first1=Chirayu |title=Gandhi's Dharma by Koneru Ramakrishna Rao |journal=Journal of Dharma Studies |date=2018 |volume=1 |issue=1 |pages=183–184 |doi=10.1007/s42240-018-0009-1|s2cid=165282318 }}</ref><br />
*K. Ramakrishna Rao. Foundations of Yoga Psychology. Singapore: Springer Nature, 2017. {{ISBN|9789811054099}} {{doi|10.1007/978-981-10-5409-9}}<br />
*K. Ramakrishna Rao. Consciousness studies: Cross-cultural perspectives. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2002. {{ISBN|0-7864-1382-4}}<br />
*K. Ramakrishna Rao. The Basic Experiments in Parapsychology. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 1984.<br />
*K. Ramakrishna Rao. Mystic Awareness. Mysore, India, 1972.<br />
*K. Ramakrishna Rao. Gandhi and Pragmatism. Calcutta & Oxford, N.p., 1968.<br />
*K. Ramakrishna Rao. Experimental Parapsychology. Springfield, Ill.: Charles C. Thomas, 1966.<br />
*K. Ramakrishna Rao. Psi Cognition. India: Tagore Publishing House, 1957.<br />
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===Books (jointly authored or edited)===<br />
*{{cite book |last1=Rao |first1=K. Ramakrishna |last2=Paranjpe |first2=Anand C. |title=Psychology in the Indian Tradition |date=2016 |publisher=Springer |location=New Delhi; Heidelberg |isbn=978-8132224396 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=y4KBCgAAQBAJ}}<br />
*K. Ramakrishna Rao, Anand C. Paranjpe, & Ajit K. Dalal (Eds.). Handbook of Indian psychology. New Delhi, India: Cambridge University Press India/Foundation Books, 2008. {{ISBN|978-81-7596-602-4}}<br />
*K. Ramakrishna Rao. J. B. Rhine: On the Frontiers of Science. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 1982. {{ISBN|0-89950-053-6}}<br />
*K. Ramakrishna Rao and K. S. Murty. Current Trends in Indian Thought. New Delhi, 1972.<br />
*K. Ramakrishna Rao and P. Sailaja. Experimental Studies of the Differential Effect in Life Setting. N.p., 1972.<br />
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===Journal articles===<br />
*K. Ramakrishna Rao (2005). "Perception, cognition and consciousness in classical Hindu psychology." ''[[Journal of Consciousness Studies]]'', 12, 3–30. (abstract)<br />
*K. Ramakrishna Rao (1961). "A Consideration of Some Theories in Parapsychology." ''[[Journal of Parapsychology]]'', 25, 32–54.<br />
*K. Ramakrishna Rao (1955). "Vedanta and the Modus Operandi of Paranormal Cognition." ''[[The Philosophical Quarterly]]'', Vol. 5.<br />
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==See also==<br />
* [[Indian psychology]]<br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
* [http://www.icpr.in/pRamakrishna_Rao.html Rao's profile at Indian Council of Philosophical Research]<br />
* [http://www.icpr.in/pdf/boigraphy_writing_chairman.pdf Rao's publication list at Indian Council of Philosophical Research]<br />
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