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Zakir Husain Khan (8 February 1897 – 3 May 1969) was an Indian educationist and politician who served as the 2nd Vice President of India from 1962 to 1967 and 3rd president of India from 13 May 1967 until his death on 3 May 1969.
He was awarded a Ph.D. in Ancient Indian history from Calcutta University in 1921. In 1928 he acted as Reader in the Department of History of the University of Dacca . In 1936 he succeeded D. R. Bhandarkar as the Carmichael Professor of Ancient Indian History and Culture at Calcutta University from where he retired in 1952.
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Chandra was a sectional president and then the general president of the Indian History Congress in 1985. [6] He was chairperson of the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. [7] He became a member of the University Grants Commission in 1993. [5] He was the chairman of the National Book Trust, New Delhi from 2004 ...
Ram Sharan Sharma (26 November 1919 – 20 August 2011 [1]) was an Indian Marxist historian and Indologist [2] who specialised in the history of Ancient and early Medieval India. [3]
The Vedic period, or the Vedic age (c. 1500 – c. 500 BCE), is the period in the late Bronze Age and early Iron Age of the history of India when the Vedic literature, including the Vedas (c. 1500 –900 BCE), was composed in the northern Indian subcontinent, between the end of the urban Indus Valley Civilisation and a second urbanisation, which began in the central Indo-Gangetic Plain c. 600 BCE.
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President K. R. Narayanan's address to the nation [51] on the golden jubilee of the Indian Republic (26 January 2000) is considered a landmark: [52] it was the first time [53] a president attempted to analyse, with due concern for growing disparities, the several ways in which the country had failed [54] to provide economic justice to the ...