Background
Chitambar was born in Allahabad, United Provinces, India. He was the son of native preacher Rajaram Chitambar, who was a converted Mahratta Brahmin, one of the first converts to Christianity as a result of missionary work in western India.
Career
Chitambar was accepted into the membership of the North India Annual Conference in 1907. He became a Hindustani pastor, district superintendent, and educator. He was the first Indian delegate to General Conference.
One of the founders of the National Missionary Society of India, Chitambar was a delegate to the World"s Missionary Conference in Edinburgh in 1910.
He was elected to the episcopacy of the Mechanical Engineering Church by the Central Conference of Southern Asia in 1930. He became ill on his return from the General Conference of 1940, and he died 4 September 1940 in Jubbulpore, India.
He was buried in Jubbulpore. Badley, Brenton T., The Making of a Bishop, 1942.