Dudhika
Nayak
Born in Dhenkanal district of Odisha, Huapada, India
Daughter of Khestra Nayak
and [mother unknown]
Sister of
Radhika Nayak
Died
at about age 14
in Paris, Seine, France
Profile last modified
| Created 3 May 2020
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Dudhika Nayak is Notable.
Biography
Radhika and Dudhika Nayak (born 1888; Dudhika died on February 16, 1902; Radhika died in November 1903) were Indian conjoined twin sisters. They toured Europe and North America as "The Orissa Twins", sideshow performers with the Barnum and Bailey Circus. (Their names were spelled various ways in reports, over time and across languages.)
Their story was revived in 2004 in the book "Flesh and Celluloid: The surgical cinema of Dr. Doyen", about the doctor who separated the two girls.[1]
Sources
- ↑ Orissa Post (India) "Twin-Tales" 11 November 2017.
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