P. Mansaram was born in 1934 in Mount Abu, Rajasthan, India. He studied at the Sir. J. J. School of Art in Mumbai from 1954 to 1959, and later attended the Rijks Akademie in Amsterdam on a Dutch government scholarship from 1963 to 1964. He immigrated to Canada in 1966 with his wife Tarunika and his daughter Mila, where the family hoped that their art would sell better than in India. They made acquaintance with noted philosopher Marshall McLuhan while in Toronto, which began a friendship between P. Mansaram and McLuhan that would lead to a collaborative art work that can be found in the Royal Ontario Museum.