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. His education began 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

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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 in 1961.

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 served as General President of the 46th

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held in 1959.

Textbooks

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

References

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

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

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