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Raghunath Vithal Khedkar (Yadava) (born in Bombay on 16 October 1873 in the family of the
Yadavas of Devagiri The Seuna, Sevuna, or Yadavas of Devagiri (IAST: Seuṇa, –1317) was a medieval Indian dynasty, which at its peak ruled a realm stretching from the Narmada river in the north to the Tungabhadra river in the south, in the western part of the D ...
) 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 Yadavs are a grouping of non-elite, peasant-pastoral Quote: "The Yadavs were traditionally a low-to-middle-ranking cluster of pastoral-peasant castes that have become a significant political force in Uttar Pradesh (and other northern states l ...
''. Khedkar studied medicine and surgery in the United Kingdom, at Edinburgh and Glasgow. He practised medicine in
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before returning to India at the start of World War I, and serving as a surgeon in
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,
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, and
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. Among the younger Khedkar's honors were membership in London's Society of Tropical Medicine, and Hygiene and the Royal Sanitary Institute.


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