Sir Dorabji Tata was educated at the Universities of Bombay and Cambridge (England), where he played cricket at both schools. He then became a prominent industrialist in India, forming the Tata Group, and becoming a very wealthy man. He personally paid for Indian athletes to compete at the 1920 Antwerpen Games and after the 1920 Olympics, helped form the Indian Olympic Association in 1927 by enlisting the support of the YMCA, at the time the only organization in India with an interest in physical education and sports. Tata is considered the father of Olympism in India. He was co-opted onto the IOC in August 1920 and resigned in May 1930, two years before his death.
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