Kanhoba Ranchoddas Kirtikar

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Kirtikar and B.D. Basu c. 1917

Lieutenant-Colonel Kanhoba Ranchoddas Kirtikar

B.D. Basu
. He illustrated many of the plates in the book. He also wrote many books on Medical sciences in English and Marathi. Besides being a surgeon and botanist, he wrote Marathi poetry and held strong conservative Hindu views.

Life and work

Kirtikar was born in Bombay and studied at the Grant Medical College before travelling to England in 1874 where he became a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1876. He joined the Indian Medical Service at a time when it had few Indians and served in the 19th Native Infantry at Solapur and saw action in the Afghan War (1878-1880) and was awarded for gallant behaviour in the Battle of Maiwand. He then became a Civil Surgeon at Solapur 1898, and Thane from 1881. He also served as 2nd Surgeon at the JJ Hospital and as Professor of Anatomy, Botany and Materia Medica at the Grant Medical College around 1886. He was made Fellow of the Bombay University in 1897 and served as Health Officer for Bombay. He was a contemporary and protege of Dr Sakharam Arjun at the Grant Medical College but during the famous case of Rukhmabai, step-daughter of Dr Arjun, Kirtikar became a hostile witness in court and supported Dadaji Bhikaji, the groom of Rukhmabai.[1] In 1902 he was promoted to Brigade Surgeon-Lieut.Colonel. He retired in 1904. He took an interest in social and literary pursuits apart from science. He was a member of the Anthropological Society of Bombay, the Bombay Natural History Society and served as a Trustee of the Aryan Education Institute and as director of the Deccan Education Society and published several non-botanical works including poetry titled Indirakavya, Bhakti Sudha, and Vilaplahiri.[2][3] He was also a member of the Masonic lodge of western India from 1886.[4]

He took an interest in fungi, cryptogams and algae that grow in hot-water springs at Bhiwandi.

J.F. Caius and K.S. Mhaskar. In 1920, Major Basu gifted the botany related materials to Calcutta University and suggested that they maintain a Kirtikar Herbarium.[10]

The standard author abbreviation Kirt. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[11]

References

  1. JSTOR 4404742
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  2. ^ Rao, C. Hayavadana (1915). The Indian Biographical Dictionary 1915. Madras: Pillar & Co. p. 231.
  3. ^ Crawford, D.G. (1930). Roll of the Indian Medical Service 1615-1930. Volume 2. London: W. Thacker and Co. p. 479.
  4. ^ Wadia, D.F. (1912). History of Lodge Rising Star of Western India. p. 241.
  5. ^ Kirtikar, K.R. (1886). "A new species of alga Conferva thermalis birdwoodii". Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. 1: 135–138.
  6. ^ "[Untitled]". Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. 1: 242–243. 1886.
  7. ^ Blatter, Ethelbert (1918). "Obituary Notice. Lieut.-Col. K.R. Kirtikar, I.M.S. (Retd.)". Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. 25: 295–296.
  8. ^ Kirtikar, K.R. (1888). "The "Folklore of Indian Plants"". Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. 3: 54–63.
  9. ^ Bose, Phanindranath (1932). Life of Sris Chandra Basu. R. Chatterjee. p. 228.
  10. ^ Chatterjee, Ramananda (1930). "Baman Das Basu". Modern Review. 48 (6): 667–675.
  11. ^ International Plant Names Index.  Kirt.

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