In the early 1920s, after the death of his father, Feroze and his mother moved to Allahabad to live with his unmarried maternal aunt, Shirin Commissariat, a surgeon at the city's Lady Dufferin Hospital (biographer Katherine Frank has speculated that Feroze was in fact the biological son of Shirin Commissariat.[10]) He attended the Vidya Mandir High School and then graduated from the British-staffed Ewing Christian College.[11]