Baman Das Basu

Major Baman Das Basu (24 March 1867 – 23 September 1930) was an Indian army physician, botanist, nationalist, historian, and writer.

He resigned from the Indian Medical Service after serving in Chitral and Sudan due to the conflict with his nationalism and joined his brother Sris Chandra Basu in editing and publishing books on Hinduism from the Panini Office, Allahabad.

He passed the LSA, MRCS and the IMS examinations and was commissioned in April 1891 and posted to the Bombay Presidency where he served until 1907.

He saw wartime action in Sudan and in Chitral, and suffered scurvy, but his longest spell was as a civil surgeon in Ahmednagar.

He wrote biographies of Indian medical celebrities, a book "My Sojourn in England'' and numerous short contributions to the Modern Review.

[2] Basu married Srimati Sukumari Devi, daughter of Babu Hari Mohan De of Allahabad in 1887.

[3] His recommended diet for diabetic patients excluded meat, while allowing milk, butter, and vegetable oils.