Ahmed, Fakhruddin Ali

Ahmed, Fakhruddin Ali

▪ president of India
born May 13, 1905, Delhi, India
died Feb. 11, 1977, New Delhi

      statesman who was president of India from 1974 to 1977.

      The son of an army doctor from Assam, Ahmed was educated in India and studied history at the University of Cambridge, graduating in 1927. After returning to India, he was elected to the Assam legislature (1935). As Assam's minister of finance and revenue in 1938, he was responsible for some radical taxation measures. On the outbreak of World War II in 1939, the Indian National Congress party had a confrontation with British power, and Ahmed was jailed for a year. Soon after release he was again imprisoned for another three and a half years, being released in April 1945. In 1946 he was appointed advocate general of Assam and held the post for six years.

      After a term in the national Parliament, he returned to Assam politics until Prime Minister Indira Gandhi (Gandhi, Indira) included him in her first cabinet in January 1966. He held a variety of portfolios—irrigation and power, education, industrial development, and agriculture. Ahmed became India's fifth president in 1974. He died of a heart attack in February 1977.

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