Radhika And Dudhika Nayak
Radhika and Dudhika Nayak (born 1888; Dudhika died on February 16, 1902; Radhika died in November 1903) were Indian conjoined twins, 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.) Early life Radhika and Dudhika were born in the Dhenkanal district of Odisha, probably in Huapada, the children of Khestra Nayak.Gyan Ranjan Mohapatra"Famous 'Orissa Twins' Little Known in State"''The Pioneer'' (January 4, 2016).Ashok Pradhan, "Attempt was made to separate Odia conjoined twins in 1902: Researcher" ''Times of India'' (February 4, 2017). They were taken into the care of a local religious community as infants. Sideshow career The girls were removed from the ''sadhu, sadhus''' care by an English promoter called Captain Coleman, and they sailed for Europe with him in 1892. Their first public exhibition outside of In ...
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