[1][2][3] Kundan Lal was born in the year 1893 in Ludhiana, Punjab, to a Patwari father.

He completed his BSc degree from Government College, Punjab University, Lahore, in pre-partition India.

He was directly admitted to the Provincial Civil Service in 1915 and appointed as a Sub Divisional Magistrate in Nagpur.

In 1920, he met Jawaharlal Nehru during the non-cooperation movement was launched by the Congress Party.

[4] With India's independence in 1947, Kundan Lal turned his attention to educating a generation of Indians.