Raghunath Vithal Khedkar
Raghunath Vithal Khedkar (Yadava) (born in Bombay on 16 October 1873 in the family of the Yadavas of Devagiri) was an Indian surgeon. In 1959, he revised, enlarged, and published a historical work written by his father, Vithal Krishnaji Khedkar: The Divine Heritage of the Yadavas.[1]
Khedkar studied medicine and surgery in the United Kingdom, at Edinburgh and Glasgow. He practised medicine in Newcastle-on-Tyne before returning to India at the start of World War I, and serving as a surgeon in Bombay, Kolhapur, and Nepal.[2] Among the younger Khedkar's honors were membership in London's Society of Tropical Medicine, and Hygiene and the Royal Sanitary Institute.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ Rao, M. S. A. (1987). Social Movements and Social Transformation: A Study of Two Backward Classes Movements in India. Manohar. p. 148. ISBN 978-0-8364-2133-0.
- ^ M. S. A. Rao (1972). Tradition, rationality, and change: essays in sociology of economic development and social change. Popular Prakashan. p. 77. Retrieved 8 September 2011.
- ^ Ralph Louis Woods (1947). The world of dreams, an anthology: the mystery, grandeur, terror, meaning and psychology of dreams. Random House. p. 94. Retrieved 8 September 2011.
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