Early Life and Education
Born in Qila, Najibabad, in the Bijnor district of Uttar Pradesh in 1915.
He gained his initial education at Bijnor, where he came in contact with poet and scholar Khurshid ul Islam — who taught at Aligarh Muslim University — and developed a long association with Ralph Russell. He graduated from the (Zakir Husain College) in Delhi.
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