Dr.Zakir Hussain

• Father’s Name: Shri Fida Husain
• Date of Birth: February 8,1897
• Marital Status: Married
• Spouse’s Name: Shrimati Shahjehan Begum
• Educational Qualifications: M.A., Ph.D. (Berlin), D. Litt. (Honoris Causa) (Universities of Delhi, Aligarh, Allahabad, Calcutta and Cairo)

Positions Held

Vice-Chancellor of

• Jamia Millia lslamia, Delhi, 1926-48; and
• Aligarh Muslim University, 1948-56

President of

• Hindustani Talimi Sangh Sevagram, 1938-50

Chairman of

• Basic National Education Committee, 1937
• International Students Service, India Committee, 1955
• World University Service, Geneva, 1955-57 and
• Central Board of Secondary Education, 1957

Author of

• Shiksha (Hindi)
• Capitalism: an essay in understanding
• Urdu translations of : Plato’s Republic, Fredrich List’s National System of Economics and Edwin Cannan’s Elements of Economics
• Lectures on the Scope and Method Economics (Hindustani Academy, U.P.)
• Educational Discourses (Urdu)
• Principles of Educational Reconstruction Patel Memorial Lectures
• Ethics and the State (Mavalankar Memorial Lecture)
• The Dynamic University; and
• Abbokhan Ki Bakri (Urdu)

Recipient of

Padma Vibhushan, l954; and Bharat Ratna, 1963

Member of

• Member, Rajya Sabha, 3-4-1952 to 2-4-1956 and 3-4-1956 to 6-7-1957
• Governor of Bihar, 1957-62
• Vice-President of India and ex-officio Chairman, Rajya Sabha, 13-5-1962 to 12-5-1967
• Later become President of India, 13-5-1967 to 3-5-1969

Died on

3 May, 1969