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Zakir Husain Khan was the third President of India, from 13 May 1967 until his death on 3 May 1969. He previously served as Governor of Bihar from 1957 to 1962 and as Vice President of India from 1962 to 1967. He was also the co-founder of Jamia Milia Islamia, serving as its Vice-chancellor from 1928.
Born: 8 February 1897, Hyderabad
Died: 3 May 1969, New Delhi
Education: Lucknow Christian College, Humboldt University of Berlin, Aligarh Muslim University, Islamia High School
Parents: Naznin Begum, Fida Husain Khan
Awards: Bharat Ratna
Dr Zakir Husain's early primary education was completed in Hyderabad. He completed High school from Islamia High School, Etawah, and was then educated at the Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental College, then affiliated with the University of Allahabad, where he was a prominent student leader.
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 by Mahatma Gandhi and Hakim Ajmal Khan.
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 Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental College (now the Aligarh Muslim University).
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 the creation of Pakistan.
(Information collected from various sources; compiled by Namaste India)
Born: 8 February 1897, Hyderabad
Died: 3 May 1969, New Delhi
Education: Lucknow Christian College, Humboldt University of Berlin, Aligarh Muslim University, Islamia High School
Parents: Naznin Begum, Fida Husain Khan
Awards: Bharat Ratna
Dr Zakir Husain's early primary education was completed in Hyderabad. He completed High school from Islamia High School, Etawah, and was then educated at the Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental College, then affiliated with the University of Allahabad, where he was a prominent student leader.
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 by Mahatma Gandhi and Hakim Ajmal Khan.
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 Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental College (now the Aligarh Muslim University).
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 the creation of Pakistan.
(Information collected from various sources; compiled by Namaste India)
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