Mr. Abdul Latif Azmi of Jamia Millia, a writer and researcher, with a knack for documentation, assisted me unsparingly and made available certain rare documents, throwing light on Zakir Saheb’s brilliant achievements in different areas of knowledge and learning.

In this discovery of the Indian President’s ideas on education, economics and political thought, an attempt has been made to go to the original sources and present to the readers a clear exposition of his views on diverse subjects, from Basic Education to writing for children, from Capital was greatly helped by my wife, a young economist, and my mother, a lover of Urdu literature.