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Zakir Husain (politician)

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Zakir Husain
ज़ाकिर हुसैन
ذاکر حسین
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3rd President of India
In office
13 May 1967 – 3 May 1969
Prime MinisterIndira Gandhi
Vice PresidentVarahagiri Venkata Giri
Preceded bySarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Succeeded byVarahagiri Venkata Giri (Acting)
Vice President of India
In office
13 May 1962 – 12 May 1967
PresidentSarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Prime MinisterJawaharlal Nehru
Lal Bahadur Shastri
Indira Gandhi
Preceded bySarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Succeeded byVarahagiri Venkata Giri
Governor of Bihar
In office
6 July 1957 – 11 May 1962
Chief MinisterKrishna Sinha
Deep Narayan Singh
Preceded byR. R. Diwakar
Succeeded byMadabhushi Ananthasayanam Ayyangar
Personal details
Born8 February 1897
Hyderabad, Hyderabad State,[1]
(now in Telangana, India)
Died3 May 1969 (aged 72)
New Delhi, Delhi, India
Political partyIndependent
Spouse(s)Shahjehan Begum
Alma materAligarh Muslim University
University of Delhi
Humboldt University of Berlin
ReligionIslam[2]
Zakir Husain About this sound pronunciation (help·info) (8 February 1897 – 3 May 1969) was the 3rd President of India, from 13 May 1967 until his death on 3 May 1969. An educator and intellectual, Husain was the country's first Muslimpresident, and also the first to die in office. He was also the shortest serving President of India. He previously served as Governor of Bihar from 1957 to 1962 and as Vice President of India from 1962 to 1967.
Zakir Husain was also co-founder of Jamia Milia Islamia, serving as its Vice Chancellor from 1928. Under Husain, Jamia became closely associated with the Indian freedom movement. He was awarded the Bharat Ratna,India's highest national honour, in 1963.

Family and early life[edit]

Left to right: Imtiaz Husain,Mahmud Hussain, Zakir Husain, Yousuf Husain and Masud Husain
Husain was born in Hyderabad, Telangana, into a Pashtun family of the Kheshgi tribe,[3] which came to be more closely associated with Kaimganj, Uttar Pradesh, and education and academia.[1][4][5] After Husain was born, his family migrated from Hyderabad to Kaimganj, where he grew up. He was the second of seven sons: the elder brother of fellow educationistsYousuf Husain and Mahmud Hussain. He was also the uncle of academic Masud Husain and Anwar Husain eminent anchorperson and former Managing Director of Pakistan State Television. His grandson Salman Khurshid, a Congress politician, is the former Foreign Minister of India.[6]
Husain's father, Fida Husain Khan, died when he was ten years old; his mother died in 1911 when he was fourteen. Zakir Husain attended Islamia High School, Etawah, and was then educated at the Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental College, now Aligarh Muslim University, where he was a prominent student leader.[7] He received his doctorate in economics from the University of Berlin in 1926.[2] In 1915, at the age of 18, he married Shah Jahan Begum and had two daughters, Sayeeda Khan and Safia Rahman.[8]

Career[edit]

Husain, then only 23, was among the small group of students and teachers who founded a National Muslim University, first founded in Aligarh on Friday 29 October 1920 then shifted toKarol Bagh, New Delhi in 1925, then after shifted again on 1 March 1935 in Jamia Nagar, New Delhi and named it Jamia Millia Islamia (a central university). He subsequently went to Germany to obtain a PhD from the Frederick William University of Berlin in Economics. While in Germany, Husain was instrumental in bringing out the anthology of arguably the greatestUrdu poet Mirza Assadullah Khan "Ghalib" (1797–1868).[9]
He returned to India to head the Jamia Millia Islamia which was facing closure in 1927. He continued in that position for the next twenty-one years providing academic and managerial leadership to an institution that was intimately involved with India's struggle for freedom from the British Rule and experimented with value-based education on the lines advocated byMahatma Gandhi and Hakim Ajmal Khan.[10] During this period he continued to engage himself with movements for educational reforms in India and was particularly active in the affairs of his old alma mater the MAO College, now the Aligarh Muslim University. During this period Husain emerged as one of the most prominent educational thinkers and practitioners of modern India. His personal sacrifice and untiring efforts to keep the Jamia afloat in very adverse circumstances won him appreciation of even his arch political rivals like Mohammed Ali Jinnah.
Soon after India attained independence, Husain agreed to be the Vice chancellor of the Aligarh Muslim University which was facing trying times in post partition India because of active involvement of a section of its teachers and students in the movement for creation of Pakistan. Dr Husain, again, provided leadership during a critical phase of the history of the University at Aligarh from 1948–1956. Soon after completing his term as Vice Chancellor he was nominated as a member of the Upper House of Indian Parliament in 1956, a position he vacated in 1957 to become Governor of the State of Bihar.
After serving as the Governor of Bihar from 1957 to 1962, and as the second Vice President of India from 1962 to 1967, Husain was elected President of India on 13 May 1967. In his inaugural speech he said that the whole of India was his home and all its people were his family.[11] During his last days, the issue of nationalization of banks was being hotly debated. The bill, in the end, received presidential consent from Sh M Hidayatullah, (acting president) on 9 August 1969.[12]
During his presidential tenure Zakir Husain led four state visits to Hungary, Yugoslavia, USSR and Nepal.[13]
Husain died on 3 May 1969, the first Indian President to die in office. He is buried along with his wife (who died some years later) on the campus of Jamia Millia Islamia in New Delhi.
With the main objective of providing facility for higher education in Ilayangudi, a College was started after the great educationist and the III President of India, Dr. Zakir Husain, in 1970.[14]
The Engineering College of Aligarh Muslim University is named after him.[15]
  • Zakir Husain's Mausoleum in Jamia Millia Islamia
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  • The grave of Zakir Husain
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  • Interior view of the Mausoleum of Zakir Husain and His wife, ShahJahan Begum
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  • Angle view of the Mausoleum through which the Grave of Zakir Husain can be seen
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  • interior view with an angle of the mausoleum of zakir husain


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