Early Life and Background
Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed was born on 13 May 1905, in the Hauz Qazi area of Old Delhi, India. His father was Col. Zalnur Ali and his mother a daughter of the Nawab of Loharu. Ahmed's grandfather, Khaliluddin Ali Ahmed, was from of Kacharighat near Golaghat, Assam and part of a well known Assamese Muslim family.
Ahmed was educated at the Government High School in Gonda district, Uttar Pradesh and matriculated from the Delhi Government High School. He attended St. Stephen's College, Delhi and St Catharine's College, Cambridge. He was called to the Bar from the Inner Temple of London and began legal practice in the Lahore High Court in 1928.
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