Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v2.c14.s4.t37: Dr M Ramachandra Cholkar
Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v2.c14.s4.t37
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Dr M Ramachandra Cholkar
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Dr M Ramachandra Cholkar was selected as the deputy leader of the five member medical mission sent to China to aid the Chinese people during the Sino-Japanese war in 1938, at the initiative of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru and the Indian National
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*Dr M Ramachandra Cholkar*
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Congress. He belonged to Nagpur and was given the Chinese name Zhuo Kehua. On his arrival to China in September, 1938, Dr Cholkar was first inducted into the No. 15 Curative Unit of the China Red Cross in Changsha; later, when he reached Wuhan along with the other four members of the medical mission, Dr Cholkar was sent to the No. 64 Rear Hospital along with Dr Basu. On reaching Yan’an, which was the mission’s destination and the seat of the Eighth Route Army, Dr Cholkar was assigned to the Medical School there. But at the end of May, 1939, due to health reasons he returned to India via Xi’an, and continued to teach at Nagpur Medical College till his death in 1960.
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(*Sabaree Mitra*)