  We investigate the texture of fermion mass matrices in theories with partial
unification (for example $ SU(2)_L\times SU(2)_R\times SU(4)_c$) at a scale
$\sim 10^{12}$ GeV. Starting with the low energy values of the masses and the
mixing angles, we find only two viable textures with atmost four texture zeros.
One of these corresponds to a somewhat modified Fritzsch textures. A
theoretical derivataion of these textures leads to new interesting relations
among the masses and the mixing angles.
