ZAKIR HUSAIN, DR.: M.A., Ph.D. (Berlin), D. Litt. (Honoris Causa) (Universities of Delhi, Aligarh, Allahabad, Calcutta and Cairo); s. of Shri Fida Husain; b. February 8,1897; m. Shrimati Shahjehan Begum; 2 d.; Vice-Chancellor, (i) Jamia Millia lslamia, Delhi, 1926—48 and (ii) Aligarh Muslim University, 1948—56; President, Hindustani Talimi Sangh Sevagram, 1938—50; Chairman, (i) Basic National Education Committee, 1937, (ii) International Students Service, India Committee, 1955, (iii) World University Service, Geneva, 1955—57 and (iv) Central Board of Secondary Education, 1957; Author of, (i) Shiksha (Hindi), (ii) Capitalism: an essay in understanding, Urdu translations of—(a) Plato's Republic, (b) Fredrich List's National System of Economics and (c) Edwin Cannan's Elements of Economics, (iv) Lectures on the Scope and Method Economics (Hindustani Academy, U.P.), (v) Educational Discourses (Urdu), (vi) Principles of Educational Reconstruction Patel Memorial Lectures, (vii) Ethics and the State (Mavalankar wnorial Lecture) and (viii) The Dynamic University and Abbokhan Ki Bakri (Urdu); Recipient of, (i) Padma Vibhushan, l4 and (ii) Bharat Ratna, 1963; Member, Rajya Sabha, -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; President of India, 13-5-1967 to 3-5-1969; Died. Obit. on 5-5-1969.