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{{Use dmy dates|date=March | {{Short description|Indian ophthalmologist (1896–1967)}} | ||
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|name = Harbans Lall Gulati | |name = Harbans Lall Gulati | ||
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|education = [[Charing Cross Hospital]] | |education = [[Charing Cross Hospital]] | ||
|occupation = [[General practitioner]], [[ophthalmologist]], councillor | |occupation = [[General practitioner]], [[ophthalmologist]], councillor | ||
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In 1916, Gulati became a medical officer in the [[Indian Medical Service]] after completing his medical training in [[Lahore]]. In 1919, he was in Amritsar at the time of the [[Jallianwala Bagh massacre|Amritsar massacre]]. In 1920, for reasons unknown, he worked his passage to the [[United Kingdom]] where he arrived in Liverpool penniless and walked to London.<ref name=":simpson"/><ref name=":obituary"/> His qualifications were not recognised in the UK and therefore he repeated his further education and medical training at [[Charing Cross Hospital]]. Friendless and without money, he did unskilled work at night to pay for his studies.<ref name=":obituary"/> Eventually qualifying with [[LRCP]] and [[Membership of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of the United Kingdom|MRCP]]<ref name=":simpson"/> in 1926, he entered [[general practice]] in the largely working-class district of Battersea in London.<ref name=":simpson">{{Cite ODNB|last=Simpson|first=Julian M.|date=4 October 2012|title=Gulati, (Harbans) Lall (1895/6–1967), general practitioner, ophthalmologist, and local politician {{!}} Oxford Dictionary of National Biography|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-73274|language=en|volume=|pages=|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/73274|isbn=9780198614111|via=}}{{Subscription required}}</ref><ref name=":esmail2007">{{Cite journal|last=Esmail|first=Aneez|date=1 October 2007|title=Asian doctors in the NHS: service and betrayal|journal=The British Journal of General Practice|volume=57|issue=543|pages=827–834|pmc=2151817|pmid=17925142}}</ref> | In 1916, Gulati became a medical officer in the [[Indian Medical Service]] after completing his medical training in [[Lahore]]. In 1919, he was in Amritsar at the time of the [[Jallianwala Bagh massacre|Amritsar massacre]]. In 1920, for reasons unknown, he worked his passage to the [[United Kingdom]] where he arrived in Liverpool penniless and walked to London.<ref name=":simpson"/><ref name=":obituary"/> His qualifications were not recognised in the UK and therefore he repeated his further education and medical training at [[Charing Cross Hospital]]. Friendless and without money, he did unskilled work at night to pay for his studies.<ref name=":obituary"/> Eventually qualifying with [[LRCP]] and [[Membership of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of the United Kingdom|MRCP]]<ref name=":simpson"/> in 1926, he entered [[general practice]] in the largely working-class district of Battersea in London.<ref name=":simpson">{{Cite ODNB|last=Simpson|first=Julian M.|date=4 October 2012|title=Gulati, (Harbans) Lall (1895/6–1967), general practitioner, ophthalmologist, and local politician {{!}} Oxford Dictionary of National Biography|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-73274|language=en|volume=|pages=|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/73274|isbn=9780198614111|via=}}{{Subscription required}}</ref><ref name=":esmail2007">{{Cite journal|last=Esmail|first=Aneez|date=1 October 2007|title=Asian doctors in the NHS: service and betrayal|journal=The British Journal of General Practice|volume=57|issue=543|pages=827–834|pmc=2151817|pmid=17925142}}</ref> | ||
Gulati was an active member of the [[St John's Ambulance Service|St John]] and [[Red Cross]] organisations.<ref name=":makingbritain"/> He campaigned to extend mobile canteen services to older people who could not queue for rations in post-war Britain.<ref name=":simpson" /> He was later, in addition, closely connected with the [[Royal Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital]] after passing the diploma in ophthalmic medicine and surgery in 1945.<ref name=":simpson" /><ref name=":makingbritain">{{Cite web|url=http://www.open.ac.uk/researchprojects/makingbritain/content/harbans-lall-gulati|title=Harbans Lall Gulati {{!}} Making Britain|website=www.open.ac.uk|language=en|access-date=1 March | Gulati was an active member of the [[St John's Ambulance Service|St John]] and [[Red Cross]] organisations.<ref name=":makingbritain"/> He campaigned to extend mobile canteen services to older people who could not queue for rations in post-war Britain.<ref name=":simpson" /> He was later, in addition, closely connected with the [[Royal Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital]] after passing the diploma in ophthalmic medicine and surgery in 1945.<ref name=":simpson" /><ref name=":makingbritain">{{Cite web|url=http://www.open.ac.uk/researchprojects/makingbritain/content/harbans-lall-gulati|title=Harbans Lall Gulati {{!}} Making Britain|website=www.open.ac.uk|language=en|access-date=1 March 2018}}</ref> | ||
== Politics == | == Politics == | ||
In 1934, Gulati was elected a councillor for the Conservative Party. However, he resigned from the party in 1947 because of their lack of support for the [[National Health Service]]<ref name=":esmail2007" /> He was a member of the Food Control Committee, where he was concerned about post-war rationing effects on the health of the population and he joined the [[Socialist Medical Association]] and the Labour Party, becoming a Labour member of the [[London County Council]] for [[Battersea South (London County Council constituency)|Battersea South]] and later standing unsuccessfully for parliament. He was a magistrate and a [[freemason]].<ref name=":makingbritain" /> As an active member of the committee of the Indian [[YMCA]] in London, he witnessed its replanning and building.<ref name=":obituary">{{Cite journal|date=22 July 1967|title=Obituary Notices|journal=British Medical Journal|volume=3|issue=5559|pages=246–248|issn=0007-1447|pmc=1842524|doi=10.1136/bmj.3.5559.246}}</ref> | In 1934, Gulati was elected a councillor for the Conservative Party. However, he resigned from the party in 1947 because of their lack of support for the [[National Health Service]]<ref name=":esmail2007" /> He was a member of the Food Control Committee, where he was concerned about post-war rationing effects on the health of the population and he joined the [[Socialist Medical Association]] and the Labour Party, becoming a Labour member of the [[London County Council]] for [[Battersea South (London County Council constituency)|Battersea South]] and later standing unsuccessfully for parliament.{{Citation needed|reason=No evidence he stood for Parliament. FWS Craig does not record him|date=May 2023}} He was a magistrate and a [[freemason]].<ref name=":makingbritain" /> As an active member of the committee of the Indian [[YMCA]] in London, he witnessed its replanning and building.<ref name=":obituary">{{Cite journal|date=22 July 1967|title=Obituary Notices|journal=British Medical Journal|volume=3|issue=5559|pages=246–248|issn=0007-1447|pmc=1842524|doi=10.1136/bmj.3.5559.246}}</ref> | ||
== Family and personal == | == Family and personal == | ||
Gulati married Norah Louisa Knobel on 1 August 1931, at St Michael's Church, Battersea. They had two sons and two daughters, one of whom died at the age of four in 1938.<ref name=":simpson"/> His elder son also became a doctor, specializing in orthopedics. His younger son is a solicitor, and followed his father into local politics, becoming mayor of Reigate & Banstead in 1984.<ref name=":makingbritain" /> His granddaughter, Anita Gulati, attributed her grandfather's resilience partly to meditation, saying: "my grandfather used to close his consultation room door for 20 minutes to meditate".<ref name=":blog">{{Cite web|last1=Allen|first1=Jeremy|url=https://blogs.uwe.ac.uk/research-business-innovation/how-a-grandfather-inspired-a-fascination-for-the-human-mind/|title=How a grandfather inspired a fascination for the human mind|date=8 March 2017|publisher=University of the West of England|language=en-GB|access-date=1 March | Gulati married Norah Louisa Knobel on 1 August 1931, at St Michael's Church, Battersea. They had two sons and two daughters, one of whom died at the age of four in 1938.<ref name=":simpson"/> His elder son also became a doctor, specializing in orthopedics. His younger son is a solicitor, and followed his father into local politics, becoming mayor of Reigate & Banstead in 1984.<ref name=":makingbritain" /> His granddaughter, Anita Gulati, attributed her grandfather's resilience partly to meditation, saying: "my grandfather used to close his consultation room door for 20 minutes to meditate".<ref name=":blog">{{Cite web|last1=Allen|first1=Jeremy|url=https://blogs.uwe.ac.uk/research-business-innovation/how-a-grandfather-inspired-a-fascination-for-the-human-mind/|title=How a grandfather inspired a fascination for the human mind|date=8 March 2017|publisher=University of the West of England|language=en-GB|access-date=1 March 2018}}</ref> | ||
==Death and legacy== | ==Death and legacy== | ||
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[[Category:YMCA leaders]] | [[Category:YMCA leaders]] | ||
[[Category:British India | [[Category:Emigrants from British India to the United Kingdom]] | ||
[[Category:People from Punjab Province (British India)]] | |||
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Harbans Lall Gulati | |
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| Born | c. 1896 Punjab, British India |
| Died | 13 June 1967 (aged 70) |
| Education | Charing Cross Hospital |
| Occupation | General practitioner, ophthalmologist, councillor |
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Harbans Lall Gulati (c. 1896 – 13 June 1967) was an Indian-born physician living in London, who was a councillor for both the Conservative and Labour parties. After the Second World War he took a special interest in the effect of rationing on the health of the population and was an active campaigner for the extension of mobile canteen services to older people who could not queue for rations. He had a special interest in ophthalmology and worked as a general practitioner in Battersea, London for over four decades.
Early life[edit | edit source]
Gulati, known popularly as "Lall", was born around 1896 in Shaipur, near Lahore, Punjab, India. His exact date of birth is uncertain. He was the tenth son of Dola Ram Gulati and he had one younger sister.[1]
Career[edit | edit source]
In 1916, Gulati became a medical officer in the Indian Medical Service after completing his medical training in Lahore. In 1919, he was in Amritsar at the time of the Amritsar massacre. In 1920, for reasons unknown, he worked his passage to the United Kingdom where he arrived in Liverpool penniless and walked to London.[1][2] His qualifications were not recognised in the UK and therefore he repeated his further education and medical training at Charing Cross Hospital. Friendless and without money, he did unskilled work at night to pay for his studies.[2] Eventually qualifying with LRCP and MRCP[1] in 1926, he entered general practice in the largely working-class district of Battersea in London.[1][3]
Gulati was an active member of the St John and Red Cross organisations.[4] He campaigned to extend mobile canteen services to older people who could not queue for rations in post-war Britain.[1] He was later, in addition, closely connected with the Royal Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital after passing the diploma in ophthalmic medicine and surgery in 1945.[1][4]
Politics[edit | edit source]
In 1934, Gulati was elected a councillor for the Conservative Party. However, he resigned from the party in 1947 because of their lack of support for the National Health Service[3] He was a member of the Food Control Committee, where he was concerned about post-war rationing effects on the health of the population and he joined the Socialist Medical Association and the Labour Party, becoming a Labour member of the London County Council for Battersea South and later standing unsuccessfully for parliament.[citation needed] He was a magistrate and a freemason.[4] As an active member of the committee of the Indian YMCA in London, he witnessed its replanning and building.[2]
Family and personal[edit | edit source]
Gulati married Norah Louisa Knobel on 1 August 1931, at St Michael's Church, Battersea. They had two sons and two daughters, one of whom died at the age of four in 1938.[1] His elder son also became a doctor, specializing in orthopedics. His younger son is a solicitor, and followed his father into local politics, becoming mayor of Reigate & Banstead in 1984.[4] His granddaughter, Anita Gulati, attributed her grandfather's resilience partly to meditation, saying: "my grandfather used to close his consultation room door for 20 minutes to meditate".[5]
Death and legacy[edit | edit source]
He died suddenly on 13 June 1967 at the age of 70.[2]
Following an interview with his son, Gulati's story was mentioned in Julian M. Simpson's Migrant architects of the NHS; South Asian doctors and the reinvention of British general practice (1940s-1980s), and used to show how imperial legacies and medical migration shaped the UK's healthcare in the first four decades following the founding of the NHS.[6]
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 Simpson, Julian M. (4 October 2012). "Gulati, (Harbans) Lall (1895/6–1967), general practitioner, ophthalmologist, and local politician | Oxford Dictionary of National Biography". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/73274. ISBN 9780198614111. Template:ODNBsub(subscription required)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 "Obituary Notices". British Medical Journal. 3 (5559): 246–248. 22 July 1967. doi:10.1136/bmj.3.5559.246. ISSN 0007-1447. PMC 1842524.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Esmail, Aneez (1 October 2007). "Asian doctors in the NHS: service and betrayal". The British Journal of General Practice. 57 (543): 827–834. PMC 2151817. PMID 17925142.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 "Harbans Lall Gulati | Making Britain". www.open.ac.uk. Retrieved 1 March 2018.
- ↑ Allen, Jeremy (8 March 2017). "How a grandfather inspired a fascination for the human mind". University of the West of England. Retrieved 1 March 2018.
- ↑ Simpson, Julian M. (2018). Migrant Architects of the NHS: South Asian doctors and the reinvention of British general practice (1940s-1980s). Manchester: Manchester University Press. p. 65. ISBN 9781784991302.