 He was brought up in Salar Jung.He received his early education in his native land in Madrasa-i-Aliya which was affiliated with Hyderabad School (Noble School) to form Nizam College.He graduated from University of Bombay, followed by study at the University of Chicago in Education and Sociology at graduate level (1927–28) and mainly at Cornell University, where he received his Ph.D. in Rural Sociology (1929), his thesis was