Education
Saint Stephen"s College.
Saint Stephen"s College.
He was the first ambassador from India to the United States. He also worked as the governor of Odisha. Educated in the Saint Stephen"s College, Delhi, and called to bar from Lincoln"s Inn in England, he entered the Indian independence movement and was imprisoned many times.
He worked as Deputy Leader of the Congress Party in the Assembly.
In 1945, Ali came to be the convenor of the INA defence team established by the Congress for the defense of the officers of the INA charged with treason later in November 1945. He was the kingmaker in charge of the Railways and Transport in the interim Government of India from 2 September 1946 before serving as the first ambassador from India to the United States of America from February 1947 to mid-April, 1948.
He was appointed the governor of Odisha, but he resigned from the post in May 1952 on health grounds. His last assignment was as India"s minister to Switzerland, Austria and the Vatican.
He died in office in Bern.
He defended Shaheed Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt as a lawyer, after they threw a bomb in the Central Legislative Assembly on 8 April 1929, during the passage of a controversial ordinance.