Jahangir Sabawala was born in Bombay in 1922. He initially joined the University of Bombay and was a graduate student there from 1936 to 1941: studied art at the Sir J.J. School of Art, Bombay from 1942 to 1943 and then went abroad.
From 1945 to 1947, he attended the Hatherley School of Art, London: then studied various styles of art at the Académie Julien in Paris and the Académie André Lhote from 1948 to 1951, from 1953 t