Early Life & Education
Born in Mumbai of Goan descent, the commercial-capital of India then known as Bombay in 1907, Moraes was the son of Anthony Xavier Moraes, a Goan civil engineer. There has been considerable migration of Goans to Bombay for many decades. He spent his childhood in Poona, a city in western Indian state of Maharashtra (now called Pune) and studied at Catholic schools in both the cities.
From 1923, he was at St Xavier's College where he studied History under Henry Heras and Economics, later moving to the University of Oxford where he read History. He was active in student politics, and edited the student newspaper Bharat. He also studied law at Lincoln's Inn in London, and was called to the Bar. In all, he spent seven years in England from 1927 to 1934.
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