Guru Dutt Sondhi was born on 10 December 1890 in the city of Lahore, then in British India now in Pakistan, to a Punjabi family.
During his study years in the Government College he was the half-mile and cross-country sports champion of University of the Punjab in 1911.
Guru Dutt Sondhi served in several positions: The idea for Asian sports, going back to the Western Asiatic Games (1934) and the Far Eastern Championship Games (1913-1934), was reborn shortly before the end of the Second World War and discussed during the Asian Relations Conference held under the leadership of Jawaharlal Nehru shortly before India's Independence in 1947.
This could not be realized due to the Chinese Civil War, meaning that Sondhi later agreed to host the event in India.
The charter members forming the federation were Afghanistan, Burma, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia), India, Nepal, Pakistan, the Philippines, and Thailand, while the Iranian nominee could not attend.