Education
He was educated at Deccan College, Pune, and King"s College London.
He was educated at Deccan College, Pune, and King"s College London.
He was generally known as the Moulvi. In 1892, he became a barrister-at-law in the Middle Temple. Victoria was instrumental in involving Ahmed in diplomatic approaches to Sultan Abdul Hamid II of the Ottoman Empire in the late 1890s, and unsuccessfully suggested that he be appointed to the British embassy in Constantinople.
In 1928, he was appointed Minister of Agriculture and then as Minister of Education where he served till 1934.
Foreign his work in government, he was knighted in 1932. He died in his native Pune, where he had lived for the last 20 years of his life.