260px, The house of T. M. A. Pai located in Manipal; it has since been converted to a museum. Tonse Madhava Ananth Pai (30 April 1898 – 29 May 1979), was an Indian

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, educationist,

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and

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, most well-known for building the university town of Manipal,

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. He was the first to start a private, self-financing medical college offering

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in India. Pai established the Kasturba Medical College in 1953 and Manipal Institute of Technology in 1957, which was followed by a string of other education institutions including Manipal College of Dental Sciences, Manipal College of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Manipal Pre-University College. He, along with his brother Upendra Ananth Pai, also established

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originally in

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, Karnataka, which has its headquarters now in Manipal and Bangalore. He was responsible for its popular

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Early life

Born in 1898, Tonse Madhava Ananta Pai belonged to a lower-middle-class household of Gowd Saraswath Brahmins of Kallianpur, a village in

Awards

Pai was conferred the

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by the Indian government in 1972. He was awarded the degree of D.Litt. by the Karnataka University, Dharwad in 1973 and the Andhra University, Visakhapatnam in 1975. TMA Pai 1999 stamp of India

The

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brought out a stamp commemorating Pai on 9 October 1999. Pai has also been recognized by Ripley's Believe It or Not as the person who has established the most number of educational institutions in his lifetime.

Early life

Awards

References

See also