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I had the privilege of working for 35 years (1958–93) in the Pathology School, Grant Medical College and Sir Jamshedjee Jeejeebhoy Group of Hospitals, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, where, on an average, 1,500 clinical and 9,000 medicolegal autopsies used to be conducted per year, since 1930s. Generation after generation of dedicated teachers (Professors Raghavendra Rao, VR Khanolkar, PV Gharpure, HI Jhala, RK Gadgil and MM Rananavare) had this rich experience of autopsy pathology, which they had converted into expertise. Every new resident, entering the department, had the advantage of being backed by this expertise and a chance to develop his own. I still remember being taught, on the spot and by hand-to-hand training, by the seniors in the department: how to conduct autopsies, modify and innovate the standard procedures in view of some unusual clinical features of the case, collect material for further investigations, keep records, preserve and document important lesions and correlate the clinical findings with conclusions of the autopsy.

The traditionally recognized contributions of the autopsy such as its role in defining new disease entities, in the quality control of patient care and in determining the cause of death, are just as relevant today as in the past. The progress of pathology in India began in 1840, and in those days, the roots of development of pathology in India were in the premier institutes. Significant contributions on neuropathology, cardiovascular and pulmonary pathology, and AIDS pathology were made from medical colleges in Mumbai; this work is known throughout the globe.