Early Life
Born in a family of farmers of modest means in the village of Kalamb, in Maharashtra state in India, Waman went to high school in the nearest town of Yavatmal, and was reputed to be the first one from his village to attend high school. After matriculating from the school, he went to the city of Nagpur and earned Intermediate Science degree at a college there. He won a scholarship to the Indian School of Mines & Applied Geology in 1926, which was established only that year on the model of Royal School of Mines, and graduated in 1930 with the first batch of students from that institution.
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