Born 5 January 1896 at Shahupuri, Kolhapur, India, and was educated at the Grant Medical College, Bombay. Here he had a distinguished undergraduate career. He gained a government scholarship of ten rupees a month in 1915, the Reid scholarship of fifteen rupees a month for general proficiency in 1916, the Parish scholarship of twenty rupees a month in 1917 also for general proficiency, the Wellington Gray anatomy prize medal in 1917 and the Carnac scholarship of twenty-five rupees a month in 1918. He was subsequently surgeon to the Nair Hospital, Bombay, to the G T Hospital, Bombay and from 1 August 1926 to the Sir Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy Hospital. He was appointed associate professor of surgery at the Grant Medical College on 10 April 1926. He died of septicaemia, following an injury to his finger during an operation on 24 August 1926, his address at the time being given as Tricumdas Purushotum, Holi Chakla Fort, Bombay.