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Rafiq Zakaria
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Rafiq Zakaria
Born 5 April 1920
Nala Sopara,
British India
Died 9 July 2005 (aged 85)
Mumbai,
Maharashtra,
India
Nationality Indian
Occupation Indian politician and Islamic religious cleric
Known for
- Served in Indian Parliament
- Founded schools and colleges
- Former President of Maharashtra College in Mumbai
Notable work
- A Study of Nehru (ed.)
- The Struggle Within Islam
- Muhammed and the Quran
- The Price of Partition
- Communal Rage in Secular India
Rafiq Zakaria (5 April 1920 – 9 July 2005) was an Indian politician and Islamic religious cleric. He was closely associated with the
Indian independence movement and the
Indian National Congress party. He was known for his advocacy of conservative Islam.
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Public service[edit]
Zakaria, a
Konkani Muslim from
Maharashtra, spent over 25 years in public service, including some time as a cabinet minister in state government of Maharashtra and later as a Member of the Indian parliament. He served as deputy to
Indira Gandhi, the leader of the Congress Party, in the
Lok Sabha. Zakaria represented India abroad, including at the United Nations in 1965, 1990 and 1996.
Zakaria founded a number of schools and colleges in his constituency of
Aurangabad. These included a women's college of arts and sciences and the Indian Institute of Hotel Management, which is now known as the
Institute of Hotel Management, Aurangabad (IHM-A).
The Maulana Azad Education Trust Aurangabad is a mini university in itself. He was Chancellor of the
Jamia Urdu, Aligarh (Uttar Pradesh), and President of Maharashtra College in Mumbai.
Education and professional life[edit]
Zakaria was an alumnus of
Ismail Yusuf College,
Mumbai. He won the Chancellor's Gold Medal in the
MA examination of
University of Mumbai and in 1948 received a PhD from the
School of Oriental and African Studies,
University of London.
[1] His doctoral thesis was titled
Muslims in India: a political analysis (from 1885–1906). He was called to the bar from
Lincoln's Inn in England and practised law in Mumbai, where he was appointed Chief Public Prosecutor. Zakaria was a close associate of the administration of Jamiaurdu (Hind).
Aurangabad[edit]
Zakaria contested the first election of the newly created
Maharashtra state in 1962, from Aurangabad, and was elected to
Maharashtra assembly. He was made Minister for Urban Development in the new ministry. It was under his guidance that planning for
New Aurangabad was initiated. The responsibility for the new city was given to
CIDCO which started development in the 1970s.
Works[edit]
His many books include
A Study of Nehru (ed.),
The Struggle Within Islam,
Muhammed and the Quran,
The Price of Partition, and
Communal Rage in Secular India.
Zakaria mostly wrote on Indian affairs, Islam and British imperialism. His works include:
Tomb of Rafiq Zakaria in
Aurangabad
- A Study of Nehru
- The Man Who Divided India
- Razia: Queen of India
- The Widening Divide
- Discovery of God
- Muhammad and the Quran
- Rise of Muslims in Indian Politics
- The Struggle Within Islam
- Conflict Between Religion and Politics
- Iqbal, the Poet and the Politician (1993)
- The Price of Partition
- Gandhi and the Break-up of India
- Indian Muslims: Where Have They Gone Wrong?
- Sardar Patel and Indian Muslims
- Communal Rage in Secular India (On the aftermath of the Godhra Riots)
- The Trial of Benazir (1989)
He had earlier worked for the
News Chronicle and
The Observer in London, United Kingdom. Zakaria also penned a bi-weekly column for the
Times of India newspaper.
Personal life[edit]
Zakaria was married twice. He was the father of four children by his two wives:
- Mansoor Zakaria and Tasneem Zakaria Mehta, the art historian who works with INTACH in Mumbai, by his first wife, Shehnaz Khan, the daughter of a Bhopali aristocrat.
- Arshad Zakaria and Fareed Zakaria, the American journalist, by his second wife, Fatima Zakaria, who was for a time the editor of the Sunday Times of India and was in 2008 the editor of the Taj magazine of the Taj Hotels.[2]
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