He participated in the anti-British independence movement as an underground activist and revolutionary,[2] as a part of the Dhaka Mukti Sangha organisation.
[3] Ahmed rose to prominence after the organisation was absorbed into Subhas Chandra Bose's Bengal Volunteers during the mayorship of Chittaranjan Das in Calcutta.
[4] Syed Alimuddin Ahmad was born in 1884 to a Bengali Muslim family in Ashiq Jamadar Lane, Dhaka.
[7] During World War I, many revolutionaries and activists were arrested by the British Army though others such as Ahmad continued to keep the organisation alive underground.
[citation needed] Alimuddin Ahmad died of tuberculosis in his early thirties in 1920,[9] which was a major setback for the Mukti Sangha.