Zakir Husain — English Wikipedia

English Wikipedia article on Zakir Husain (1897–1969); used for entity facts only. It recounts his Hyderabad birth into an Afridi Pashtun family, his studies at Aligarh and Berlin, his founding membership and 1926–1948 vice-chancellorship of Jamia Millia Islamia, his Aligarh Muslim University vice-chancellorship, the Bihar governorship, and his vice-presidency and presidency of India from 1967 until his death in office.