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'''[[Sayyid]] Bashir Hussain [[Zaidi (surname)|Zaidi]]''', [[Order of the Indian Empire|CIE]], [[Member of parliament|MP]] (30 July 1898 &ndash; 29 March 1992) was a member of the first [[Lok Sabha]] and the Vice-Chancellor of [[Aligarh Muslim University]] from 1956 to 1962.<br />
He also served as a member of the [[Constituent Assembly of India]] from [[United Provinces of Agra and Oudh|United Provinces]] (later [[Uttar Pradesh]]).<ref>[http://parliamentofindia.nic.in/ls/debates/members.htm List of Membars of the Constituent Assembly (as in November, 1949)] ''[[Parliament of India]]''</ref> He was awarded [[Padma Vibhushan]], the second highest civilian honour, by [[Government of India]] in 1976.<ref>{{cite web|title=Padma Awards|publisher=[[Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (India)|Ministry of Communications and Information Technology]]|url=http://india.gov.in/myindia/padma_awards.php}}</ref><br />
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== Biography ==<br />
Zaidi was born on 30 July 1898 in Kakrauli, a town of [[Muzaffarnagar district]].<ref>[[Malik Ram]]:Col. B.H. Zaidi Felicitation Volume, New Delhi, 1980.</ref> After his schooling in [[Sonepat]] and Delhi, he was educated at [[St. Stephen's College, Delhi]], and at [[Fitzwilliam College]], [[Cambridge University|Cambridge]]. After Cambridge, he was in chambers at [[Lincoln's Inn]], where he was called to the Bar in 1923.<ref>[[Malik Ram]]:Col. B.H.Zaidi Felicitation Volume, New Delhi, 1980.</ref><br />
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Zaidi returned to India in 1923. He taught at [[Aligarh Muslim University]] from 1923 to 1930, when he entered the service of the [[Nawab of Rampur]], subsequently becoming the state's [[vizier]] or chief minister in 1936 and holding this position until Rampur merged with the [[Dominion of India]] in 1949.<br />
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A member of the Indian Constituent Assembly from 1947 to 1949, he became a member of the new Parliament in 1950 and a member of the [[Lok Sabha]] in 1952. He left Parliament in 1956 to become Vice-Chancellor of [[Aligarh Muslim University]], returning as a member of the [[Rajya Sabha]] in 1964. From 1967 to 1969, he served on the [[Indian Committee of Inquiry on Communal Disturbances]]; also leading a goodwill mission to nine African and Asian nations in 1964 and heading the Indian cultural delegation to Afghanistan in 1965 for its Independence Week celebrations.<ref>[[Who's Who]], 1992</ref><br />
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Zaidi retired from politics in 1970, continuing to serve as director of several industrial concerns and a publishing house until 1977.<br />
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==Awards and honours==<br />
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Zaidi was appointed a CIE (Companion of the [[Order of the Indian Empire]] in 1941.<br />
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He served as a member of the governing committees of [[Zakir Husain College]] from 1974 and Aligarh from 1983.<br />
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He was awarded an honorary D.Litt. from [[Aligarh Muslim University]] in 1964 and from [[Kanpur University]] in 1974.<br />
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In 1976, he received the [[Padma Vibhushan]], India's second highest civilian honour.[2]<br />
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==Personal life==<br />
In 1937, Zaidi married Qudsia Abdullah (d. 1960). They had two sons and a daughter, the screenwriter and costume designer [[Shama Zaidi]].<br />
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Zaidi died at his secondary home, Zaidi Villa, at Jamia Nagar, New Delhi on 29 March 1992, aged 93.<ref>Who's Who, 1993.</ref><br />
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