Early Life
Richard Bartholomew fled from Tavoy (Dawei), Burma (Myanmar), where he was born, during the Second World War. In order to escape the Japanese capture of Burma and the imminent persecution on account of their Christian names, Bartholomew fled with his family, walking the General Stilwell Road from Mandalay to Ledo in upper Assam, India. His schooling at St. Paul’s School in Rangoon (Yangon) was interrupted because of the Japanese invasion and Bartholomew finished high school in Delhi’s Cambridge School. He received his Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree from St. Stephen's College, Delhi in 1950. While at St. Stephens, he met Rati Batra, his future wife, who was herself a refugee from Pakistan who came to India during the Partition in 1947. Bartholomew lived in India as a stateless citizen till 1967 when he took on Indian citizenship, thereby closing all possibilities of returning to Burma which had become a dictatorship from the early 1960s.
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