3rd President of India (1897-1969)
India's first Muslim president, an educator who built universities rather than campaigned for office, and the only sitting president to die mid-term — a scholar who spent decades shaping national education policy before the office found him.
Born in Hyderabad in 1897 to an Afridi Pashtun family, Husain earned a doctorate in economics from the University of Berlin and returned to help found Jamia Millia Islamia in the 1920s as a national university born from the Non-cooperation movement. He led it as vice-chancellor for over two decades, then in 1937 chaired the committee that designed Nai Talim — a new educational framework calling for free, compulsory schooling in the child's first language. He opposed separate electorates for Muslims, a stance that cost him a seat in the 1946 Interim Government when Jinnah's Muslim League vetoed…
Sourced, dated quotes from Zakir Husain
I have pledged loyalty to the Constitution of India...it is the constitution of a new state, enacted by independent citizens for the first time in the history of the country.
For God’s sake, reform and improve the politics of our country.
I may be forgiven the assumption that my choice to the highest office is mainly, if not entirely, made on account of my long association with the education of my people.
The aim of a student’s life should be to overcome any illusions or prejudices he may have and to give up mean habits.
Such an environment of love and affection (at school) had not as yet allowed my life to be exposed to hardships. Depending on others was my habit.
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