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'''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 [[Tata Group]] and an administrator of India.<ref name=z/>

He started his career as a lawyer at [[Bombay]] and in 1913 became chairman of 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.}}</ref><ref>[http://2ndlook.wordpress.com/tag/homi-mody/ Lees-Mody pact]</ref> He joined 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 [[Central Bank of India]] till 1968.<ref name=a>{{Cite web |url=http://upgovernor.gov.in/modibio.htm |title=Archived copy |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=Archived copy |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 {{Bare URL PDF|date=March 2022}}</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>

He was a member of [[Central Legislative Assembly|Indian legislative Assembly]] for fourteen years from 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 member of [[Constituent Assembly of India]] for years 1948–1949. After independence of India, he was appointed Governor of [[United Provinces (1937-1950)|United Provinces]] and [[Uttar Pradesh]] for the years 1949–52.<ref name=a/>

He died on 9 March 1969, aged 87.

As an author he wrote books including:<ref name=a/>- (1) The Political Future of India ; Reflections (1908) (2) Biography of Feroz Shah Mehta<ref>Sir Pherozeshah Mehta: a political biography, by Homi Mody (1963)</ref>(3) Wise and Otherwise.<ref>Homi Mody, a many splendoured life: a political biography by D. R. Manekar, 1968</ref>

He was the father of [[Russi Mody]], [[Piloo Mody]] and Kali Mody.

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>[http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/34166/supplements/3612 London Gazette, 3 June 1935]</ref> and was appointed a Grand Commander of the [[Order of George I]] by [[George II of Greece|George II]], the [[King of Greece]] in 1946 for services during the Second World War.<ref>[http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/37670/pages/3887 London Gazette, 30 July 1946]</ref> A road in [[Mumbai]] is named after him as ''Sir Homi Mody Street''.

==References==
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==External links==
* {{Internet Archive author |sname=Homi Mody}}

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