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Rajendra Prasad (About this sound pronunciation (helpinfo) Hindi: ) (3 December 1884 28 February 1963) was an Indian politician and educator. He was one of the architects of the Indian Republic, having drafted its first constitution and serving as the first president of independent India (26 January 1950 13 May 1962).[1] During the independence movement, he left his law work and joined the Congress Party, playing a prominent role in the Indian Independence Movement. He served as the president of the Constituent Assembly that drafted the first constitution of the Republic, which lasted from 1948 to 1950. He also became the first Minister of Food and Agriculture in the year 1946 in the Interim national Government. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, also known as Dr. S. Radhakrishnan About this sound pronunciation (helpinfo), OM, FBA (Telugu: 5 September 1888 17 April 1975) born in Tiruttani of Tamil Nadu State in India, was an Indian philosopher and statesman. He was the first Vice President of India (19521962) and subsequently the second President of India (1962 1967). One of India's most influential scholars of comparative religion and philosophy, Radhakrishnan is thought of as having built a bridge between the East and the West by showing that the philosophical systems of each tradition are comprehensible within the terms of the other. He wrote authoritative exegeses of India's religious and philosophical literature for the English speaking world. His academic appointments included the King George V Chair of Mental and Moral Science at the University of Calcutta (1921?) and Spalding Professor of Eastern Religion and Ethics at Oxford University (19361952). Among the many honours he received were a knighthood (1931), the Bharat Ratna (1954) and the Order of Merit in 1963. His birthday is celebrated in India as Teachers' Day on 5 September Dr. Zakir Hussain About this sound pronunciation (helpinfo) (8 February 1897 - 3 May 1969) (Hindi: ) (Urdu: ,) was the third President of India from 13 May 1967 until his death on 3 May 1969. He was the first elected Muslim president of India. He was awarded the highest Indian national honour, the Bharat Ratna, in 1963. Hussain, then only 23, was among the small group of students and teachers who founded a National Muslim University, first founded in Aligarh on Friday 29 October 1920 then shifted to Karol Bagh, New Delhi in 1925, then after shifted again on 1 March 1935 in Jamia Nagar, New Delhi and named it Jamia Millia Islamia (a central university). He subsequently went to Germany to obtain a PhD from the University of Berlin in Economics. While in Germany, Hussain was instrumental in bringing out the anthology of arguably the greatest Urdu poet Mirza Assadullah Khan "Ghalib" (17971868).[6] Varahagiri Venkata Giri About this sound pronunciation (helpinfo) (Telugu: ) (10 August 1894 23 June 1980), commonly known as V. V. Giri, was the fourth President of the Republic of India from 24 August 1969 to 23 August 1974.Upon returning to India, he became heavily involved in the labour movement, becoming general secretary and then president of the All-India Railwaymen's Federation and twice serving as president of the All-India Trade Union Congress. Giri became a member of the Imperial Legislative Assembly in 1934.[2] In the 1936 General Election in Madras, Giri was put up as the Congress candidate in Bobbili against the Raja of Bobbili and he won that election. He became minister of labour and industries in 1937 for the Congress Party government formed by C.Rajagopalachari in the Madras Presidency. When the Congress governments resigned in 1942, he returned to the labour

movement as part of the quit India movement and was imprisoned by the British. He was lodged in Rajahmundry jail. After India gained independence, he was first appointed high commissioner to Ceylon and then successfully ran for parliament in 1952. He was elected for 1st Lok Sabha from Pathapatnam Lok Sabha Constituency[3] and served as minister of labour until resigning in 1954. HIDAYATULLAH, SHRI M M.A., Barrister-at-law, LL.D. (Honoris Causa) (University of Philippines), D. Litt. (Honoris Causa) (Universities of Bhopal and Kakatiya); Born on: December 17, 1905 Father's Name: Khan Bahadur Hafiz M. Wilayatuallah Spouse's Name: Shrimati Pushpa Shah Positions Held: Advocate-General, Central Provinces and Berar, 1943-46; Puisne Judge, 1946-54 Chief Justice, Nagpur High Court, 1954-56; Chief Justice, Madhya Pradesh High Court, 1956-58; Puisne Judge, Supreme Court of India, 1958-68; Chief Justice of India, 1968-70; President of : (i) Indian Law Institute, 1968-70, (ii) International Law Association (Indian Branch), 1968-70, (iii) Indian Society of International law, 1968-70 and (iv) Indian Red Cross Society, 1982; Author of : (i) Democracy in India and the Judicial Process, (ii) The South-West Africa Case, (iii) Judicial Methods, (iv) A Judge's Miscellany, (v) USA and India, (vi) A Judge's Miscellany (Second Series), (vii) The Fifth and Sixth Schedules to the Constitution of India, (viii) My Own Boswell (Autobiography) and (ix) Editor, Mulla's Mahomedan Law and Constitutional Law of India; Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed About this sound pronunciation (helpinfo) (13 May 1905 - 11 February 1977) was the fifth President of India from 1974 to 1977.[1][2] He met Jawaharlal Nehru in England in 1925. He joined the Indian National Congress and actively participated in the Indian freedom movement. In 1942 he was arrested in the Quit India movement and sentenced to 3 1/2 years' imprisonment.[2] He was a member of the Assam Pradesh Congress Committee from 1936 and of AICC from 1947 to 74, and remained the Minister of Finance, Revenue and labour in the 1938 Gopinath Bordoloi Ministry. Basappa Danappa Jatti About this sound pronunciation (helpinfo) (Kannada: )(10 September 1912June 7, 2002) was born to Kannada Lingayat family at Savalgi, Bijapur district of Karnataka state. Jatti graduated as a lawyer from Sykes Law College, Kolhapur and became a pleader in Jamakhandi. He was President of India (acting) from 11 February 1977 to 25 July 1977. Soft-spoken Jatti rose from a humble beginning as a Municipality member to Indias second-

highest office during a five-decade-long chequered political career. Born in Savalgi in Jamakhandi Taluk of Bijapur district, Mr Jatti entered politics as a Municipality member at Jamakhandi in 1940 and later became its President. He was eventually elected to the Jamakhandi State Legislature. A graduate in law from Rajaram College, in Kolhapur when it was affiliated with the then University of Bombay, he practised for a brief period as a pleader in Jamakhandi. He was appointed minister of Jamakhandi state, and subsequently became its Chief Minister. On 8 March 1948 after Jamakhandi was merged with Bombay state, he returned to legal practice and continued it for 20 months. Jatti was also nominated as member of the Bombay State Legislative Assembly to represent the merged area, and, within a week of his nomination, he was appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the then Bombay Chief Minister, B G Kher. He worked in that capacity for a couple of years. Giani Zail Singh About this sound pronunciation (helpinfo) (Punjabi: , 5 May 1916 25 December 1994) was an Indian politician and member of the Congress Party. He served as the seventh President of India. He was the President of India during Operation Blue Star, the assassination of Indira Gandhi, and the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.[1] Sardar Zail Singh, a Sikh by religion, was given the title of Giani, as he was educated and learned about Guru Granth Sahib at Shaheed Sikh Missionary College in Amritsar. However, he did not have formal secular education. He had a humble start in life and his father was a Sikh Tarkhan Ramgarhia who was killed in an automobile acciden Ramaswamy Venkataraman About this sound pronunciation (helpinfo) (Tamil: ; 4 December 1910 27 January 2009)[1] was an Indian lawyer, Indian independence activist and politician who served as a Union minister and as the eighth President of India.[2] Venkataraman was born in Rajamadam village in Tanjore district, Madras Presidency. He studied law and practised in the Madras High Court and the Supreme Court of India. In his young age, he was an activist of the Indian independence movement and participated in the Quit India Movement. He was appointed member of the Constituent Assembly and the provisional cabinet. He was elected to Lok Sabha four times and served as Union Finance Minister and Defence Minister. In 1984, he was elected the seventh Vice-President of India and in 1987, he became the 8th President of India and served from 1987 to 1992. He also served as a State minister under K. Kamaraj and M. Bhaktavatsalam. See website http://www.presidentvenkataraman.in maintained by RV Foundation, a Trust founded by him and administered by the family Shankar Dayal Sharma About this sound pronunciation (helpinfo) (Hindi: ) (19 August 1918 - 26 December 1999) was the ninth President of India serving from 1992 to 1997. Prior to his presidency, Dr Sharma had been the eighth Vice President of India, serving under President Ramaswamy Venkataraman. He was also Chief Minister (19521956), and Cabinet Minister (19561967), holding the portfolios of Education, Law, Public Works, Industry and Commerce, National Resources and Separate Revenue. He was the President of the Indian National Congress in 1972-1974 and returned to government as Union Minister for Communications from 1974 to 1977. The International Bar Association presented Dr. Sharma with the 'Living Legends of Law Award of Recognition' for his outstanding contribution to the legal profession internationally and for commitment to the rule of law.[1] Dr. Sharma was born in Bhopal, then the capital of the princely state of Bhopal.

Kocheril Raman Narayanan About this sound pronunciation (helpinfo) (Malayalam: ; 27 October 1920 9 November 2005), also known as K. R. Narayanan, was the tenth President of India. He was the first Dalit, and the first Malayali, to have been President. Born in Perumthanam, Uzhavoor village, in the princely state of Travancore (present day Kottayam district, Kerala), and after a brief stint with journalism and then studying political science at the London School of Economics with the assistance of a scholarship, Narayanan began his career in India as a member of the Indian Foreign Service under the Nehru administration. He served as ambassador to Japan, United Kingdom, Thailand, Turkey, People's Republic of China and United States of America and was referred by Nehru as "the best diplomat of the country".[1] He entered politics at Indira Gandhi's request and won three successive general elections to the Lok Sabha and served as a Minister of State in the Union Cabinet under former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. Elected as the ninth Vice-President in 1992, Narayanan went on to become the President of India in 1997. Narayanan is regarded as an independent and assertive President who set several precedents and enlarged the scope of the highest constitutional office. He described himself as a "working President" who worked "within the four corners of the Constitution"; something midway between an "executive President" who has direct power and a "rubber-stamp President" who endorses government decisions without question or deliberation.[2] He used his discretionary powers as a President and deviated from convention and precedent in many situations, including - but not limited to the appointment of the Prime Minister in a hung Parliament, in dismissing a state government and imposing President's rule there at the suggestion of the Union Cabinet, and during the Kargil conflict. He presided over the golden jubilee celebrations of Indian independence and in the country's general election of 1998 became the first Indian President to vote when in office, setting another new precedent. Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam About this sound pronunciation (helpinfo) (Tamil: ; born 15 October 1931) usually referred to as A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, is an Aerospace engineer, professor, and chancellor of the Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IIST), who served as the 11th President of India from 2002 to 2007.[1] During his term as President, he was popularly known as the People's President.[2][3] He was awarded the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian honor in 1997. Before his term as India's president, he worked as an aeronautical engineer with DRDO and ISRO. He is popularly known as the Missile Man of India for his work on development of ballistic missile and space rocket technology.[4] Kalam played a pivotal organizational, technical and political role in India's Pokhran-II nuclear test in 1998, the first since the original nuclear test by India in 1974.[5] He is currently the chancellor of Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology, a professor at Anna University (Chennai), a visiting professor at Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, Indian Institute of Management Indore, and an adjunct/visiting faculty at many other academic and research institutions across India. In May 2011, Dr. Kalam launched his mission for the youth of the nation called the What Can I Give Movement.[6] Dr. Kalam better known as a scientist, also has special interest in the field of arts like writing Tamil poems, and also playing the music instrument Veena.[7] Pratibha Devisingh Patil About this sound pronunciation (helpinfo) (Marathi: ) (born 19 December 1934) is the 12th and current President of the Republic of India and first woman to hold the office. She was sworn in as President of India on 25 July 2007, succeeding Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam and after beating her rival Bhairon Singh Shekhawat.[1][2][3] She is a member of the Indian National Congress (INC), was nominated for the presidency by the

ruling United Progressive Alliance and Indian Left. Pratibha Patil started her professional career[when?] as a practising lawyer at the Jalgaon District Court and worked on various social activities, especially, for the upliftment of poor women. [citation needed] She was elected for the Jalgaon Assembly constituency when aged 27.[citation needed] She was elected four times consecutively for Muktainagar (formerly Edlabad), Maharashtra, as a member of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly between 1962 and 1985. Thereafter, she served as a Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha from 1985 to 1990. In 1991 she was elected as a Member of Parliament in the tenth Lok Sabha, representing the Amravati constituency and stayed in the role until 1996. She has the distinction of not having lost a single election that she contested to date.[citation needed] She was the 24th Governor of Rajasthan between 20042007, and the first woman to hold that office.[citation needed] [edit] Presidential Election 2007