Sir Arcot Lakshmanaswami Mudaliar , FRCOG, FACS (14 October 1887 – 15 April 1974) was an Indian

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and

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. He was the identical younger twin brother of Sir A. R. Mudaliar. Initial education was in

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and they moved to Chennai in 1903. He pursued his education from the

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. He later went on to become the longest serving

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(for 27 years) and principal of

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. He was also the Deputy Leader of the Indian delegation to the First World Health Assembly in Geneva in 1948. He was elected as the chairman of the

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(WHO) Executive Board in 1949 and 1950, was Vice-President of the Eighth World Health Assembly in 1955 and President of the Fourteenth World Health Assembly.

Awards and honors

* He was knighted in the

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, * Awarded the

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in 1954 and the

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in 1963. * He was the General president of 46th

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held in 1959.

Textbooks

* ''Clinical Obstetrics'' first edition 1938; later revised as Mudaliar and Menon, 10th edition,

References

* S. Muthiah, ''Achievements in double'' The Hindu, 13 October 2003 accessed a

3 August 2006 * ''The Second Decade, 50 years of WHO in SE Asia'', accessed a

3 August 2006 * Dr. Vedagiri Shanmugasundaram, ''Life and Times of the Great Twins: Dr. Sir. A. Ramasamy and Dr. Sir. A. Lakshmanasamy'', The Modern Rationalist, November 2004, accessed a

3 August 2006 * Bio details from honorary degree at Hong Kong Universit

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