{{Short description|Indian businessman}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2018}} {{Use Indian English|date=July 2018}} '''Sir Hormasji Pherozeshah Mody''' [[Order of the British Empire|KBE]] (23 September 1881 – 9 March 1969), generally known as '''Sir Homi Mody''' was a noted [[Parsi]] businessman associated with the [[Tata Group]] and an administrator of India.<ref name=z/>
==Business career== He started his career as a lawyer at [[Mumbai]] and in 1913 became chairman of the [[Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation|Bombay Municipal Corporation]]. In 1920 he joined business and became member of Textile Mill owners' Association of which he became chairman in 1927. His signing of Lees-Mody pact as its chairman was subject of debate in Indian nationalist circle.<ref name=z>{{cite book|title=Business and Politics in India By Stanley A. Kochanek|year=1974|pages=145|isbn=9780520023772|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0v0KFAAQCLkC&q=SIR+HOMI+MODY&pg=PA145|last1=Kochanek|first1=Stanley A.|publisher=University of California Press }}</ref><ref>[http://2ndlook.wordpress.com/tag/homi-mody/ Lees-Mody pact]</ref> He joined the [[Tata Group]] as director in 1939 and served the group till 1959. He also served as director in various companies like – [[ACC Limited|ACC]], [[Tata Power|Tata Hydro]], [[Indian Hotels Company|Indian Hotels]].<ref name=a/>
He was director of the [[Central Bank of India]] till 1968.<ref name=a>{{Cite web |url=http://upgovernor.gov.in/modibio.htm |title=About Homi Modi |access-date=19 June 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110122041550/http://upgovernor.gov.in/modibio.htm |archive-date=22 January 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name=x>{{Cite web |url=http://www.tatacentralarchives.com/history/biographies/08%20homimody.htm |title=Untitled Document |access-date=19 June 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120317181901/http://www.tatacentralarchives.com/history/biographies/08%20homimody.htm |archive-date=17 March 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref> He with other leaders like [[Pranlal Devkaran Nanjee]] played crucial role in the formation of the [[Indian Banks' Association]], which came into existence on 26 September 1946.<ref>[http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/bitstream/10603/142437/8/08_chapter%203.pdf Chapter 3. Profile of the IBA]. Retrieved 14 November 2024.</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Ray|first1=Abhik|title=The evolution of the State Bank of India: The era from 1995 to 1980|date=2009|publisher=Penguin Books India|isbn=9780670999064|pages=593|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6sknWQvz3MIC&q=PRANLAL+DEVKARAN+NANJEE&pg=PA593|accessdate=26 August 2017|language=en}}</ref>
==Political career== He was a member of the [[Central Legislative Assembly|Indian legislative Assembly]] for fourteen years, from the years 1929 to 1943. In 1941 to 1943 he was appointed to the [[Viceroy's Executive Council]] with the key portfolio of Supply. He was a member of the [[Constituent Assembly of India]] for the years 1948–1949. After the [[Indian independence movement|independence of India]], he was appointed Governor of the [[United Provinces (1937-1950)|United Provinces]] and, later, [[Uttar Pradesh]] for the years 1949–52.<ref name=a/>
==Personal life== He was the father of [[Russi Mody]], [[Piloo Mody]] and Kali Mody. He died on 9 March 1969, aged 87.
==Honours== Mody was knighted as a Knight Commander of the [[Order of the British Empire]] (KBE) in the 1935 Birthday and Silver Jubilee Honours List.<ref>{{cite web |title=Page 3612 {{!}} Supplement 34166, 31 May 1935 {{!}} London Gazette {{!}} The Gazette |url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/34166/supplement/3612 |website=www.thegazette.co.uk |access-date=30 May 2024}}</ref> In 1946, he was appointed a Grand Commander of the [[Order of George I]] by [[George II of Greece|George II]], the [[King of Greece]] for services during the [[Second World War]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Page 3887 {{!}} Issue 37670, 30 July 1946 {{!}} London Gazette {{!}} The Gazette |url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/37670/page/3887 |website=www.thegazette.co.uk |access-date=30 May 2024}}</ref> A road in [[Mumbai]] is named after him as ''Sir Homi Mody Street''.
==Bibliography== As an author he wrote books including:<ref name=a/> * The Political Future of India ; Reflections (1908) * Biography of Feroz Shah Mehta<ref>Sir Pherozeshah Mehta: a political biography, by Homi Mody (1963)</ref> * Wise and Otherwise.<ref>Homi Mody, a many splendoured life: a political biography by D. R. Manekar, 1968</ref> ==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * {{Internet Archive author |sname=Homi Mody}}
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