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'''Rao Bahadur Udhaw Das Tarachand''' (1870 – January 17, 1943) was an Sindhi British Indian businessman and philanthropist from [[Shikarpur, Sindh]].<ref name="auto1">{{Cite web|url=https://www.dawn.com/news/1264202|title=The beheading of Udhaw Das|first=Akhtar|last=Balouch|date=June 22, 2016|website=[[Dawn (newspaper)|Dawn]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.dawnnews.tv/news/1033203|title=اُدھو داس کی گردن زنی|first=Akhtar|last=Baloch|date=February 9, 2016|website=Dawnnews Television}}</ref> He is known for establishing Rao Bahadur Udhaw Das Tara Chand Hospital in Shikarpur.<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=https://dailytimes.com.pk/634209/rao-bahadur-udhaw-das-an-eminent-philanthropist/|title=Rao Bahadur Udhaw Das: An Eminent Philanthropist|date=June 30, 2020|website=[[Daily Times (Pakistan)|Daily Times]]}}</ref><br />
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==Life==<br />
Udhaw Das was born in [[Shikarpur District]] in 1870.<ref name="auto"/><ref name="youlin">{{Cite web|url=https://www.youlinmagazine.com/story/rao-bahadur-udhaw-das-tarachand-the-founder-of-shikarpur-first-modern-hospital/MjQxOQ==|title=Rao Bahadur Udhaw Das Tarachand: The Founder of Shikarpur's First Modern Hospital|website=Youlin Magazine}}</ref> A sugar trader by profession, he became a well-known philanthropist in the later part of his life.<ref name="auto"/><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://scroll.in/article/810445/the-beheading-of-udhaw-das-how-a-philanthropists-statue-in-pakistan-invited-the-ire-of-zealots|title=The beheading of Udhaw Das: How a philanthropist's statue in Pakistan invited the ire of zealots|website=[[Scroll.in]]|date=26 June 2016 }}</ref><br />
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Due to the absence of medical facilities in Shikarpur, his mother died.<ref name="youlin"/> He began making efforts to construct a hospital in the city in order to prevent this from happening again.<ref name="youlin"/> In the start of the 20th century, he partnered with Shikapur Municipal Committee and provided with funds of Rs.100,000 to build a hospital from scratch.<ref name="youlin"/> The hospital's construction began in 1933, and [[Lancelot Graham]], the governor of Sindh, officially opened it in 1937.<ref name="youlin"/> Even after the hospital's official opening, Udhaw Das continued to work for it, and later went to Bombay to collect donations for the hospital, but became gravely ill.<ref name="youlin"/> He died on January 17, 1943, at Sir Hari Kishan Hospital.<ref name="auto1"/> His family emigrated to India after partition.<ref name="youlin"/><br />
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A statue was erected in his honor at the hospital he founded, but due to [[communal violence]] it was shifted to the [[University of Sindh]].<ref name="auto1"/><br />
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