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'''Raghunath Vithal Khedkar''' (born 1873 in Bombay<ref name="Jaffrelot2003">{{cite book|author=Christophe Jaffrelot|title=India's silent revolution: the rise of the lower castes in North India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qJZp5tDuY-gC&pg=PA163|accessdate=8 September 2011|year=2003|publisher=Columbia University Press|isbn=978-0-231-12786-8|pages=163–}}</ref>) 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]]''.<br />
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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]].<ref name="Rao1972">{{cite book|author=M. S. A. Rao|title=Tradition, rationality, and change: essays in sociology of economic development and social change|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Pcoorxw2rrYC|accessdate=8 September 2011|year=1972|publisher=Popular Prakashan|page=77}}</ref> Among the younger Khedkar's honors were membership in London's [[London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine | Society of Tropical Medicine, and Hygiene]] and the [[Royal Sanitary Institute]].<ref name="Woods1947">{{cite book|author=Ralph Louis Woods|title=The world of dreams, an anthology: the mystery, grandeur, terror, meaning and psychology of dreams|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YT3XAAAAMAAJ|accessdate=8 September 2011|year=1947|publisher=Random House|page=94}}</ref> In 1920, in response to the [[Southborough Committee]], Khedkar campaigned for the recognition of the [[Yadav]] [[Gavli]]s as [[Maratha]]s, arguing their descent from Krishna, maintenance of [[Kshatriya]] customs, and service in the Maratha regiments.<ref name="Jaffrelot2003"/><br />
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