Zakir Hussain (politician)

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Zakir Hussain Khan
Zakir Hussain Library in the National Islamic University ( Jamia Millia Islamia )

Zakir Hussain ( Urdu ذاکِر حسین, Telugu జాకీర్ హుస్సైన్ ; * February 8, 1897 in Farrukhabad , Hyderabad State , today Andhra Pradesh ; † May 3, 1969 in New Delhi ) was an Indian educator and politician . He was President of the Republic of India from 1967 to 1969.

Life

The son of Muslim parents came from a Pashtun family from Farrukhabad . He studied education and economics in Aligarh and received his doctorate in 1926 at the University of Berlin with a thesis on the pedagogue Georg Kerschensteiner . During this time he also published The Message of Mahatma Gandhi in a German publisher.

Zakir Hussain had been one of the initiators of the establishment of the Islamic University Jamia Millia Islamia since 1923 , of which he was rector from 1926 to 1948. From 1948 to 1956 he was Vice Chancellor of Aligarh Muslim University .

From 1957 to 1962, Sakir Hussain was governor of Bihar . In 1962 he took over the office of Vice President of India . The Congress Party nominated Zakir Hussain as its candidate for the presidential election in India in 1967 . Zakir Hussain was the first Muslim candidate for this office. He was elected President of India on May 6, 1967. He died after only two years in office.

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SURNAME Hussain, Zakir
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zakir Hussain Khan; Zakir Husain
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indian politician and president
DATE OF BIRTH February 8, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Farrukhabad , Hyderabad State
DATE OF DEATH 3rd May 1969
Place of death New Delhi