Radhika and Dudhika Nayak

[3] The girls were removed from the sadhus' care by an English promoter called Captain Coleman, and they sailed for Europe with him in 1892.

Also in 1893, the British Medical Journal published a report about their physical state, finding them "free from all element of repulsiveness" and "apparently perfect in every respect, except that from the ensiform cartilage to the umbilicus they are united together.

A prominent French doctor, Eugène-Louis Doyen, offered to perform a surgical separation in hopes of saving Radhika's health.

[1][13] After their separation, the film of the procedure made its way into theatres, first for medical professionals, but eventually to a wider audience.

[15] In 2017, conjoined twin boys Jaga and Kalia Kanhar, also from Odisha, were successfully separated by surgery in New Delhi.

The Orissa Twins, from an 1894 publication.
A poster publicizing the Orissa Twins' appearance at the Moulin Rouge in Paris, about 1900.
Dr Doyen separating the twins
Radhika & Dudhika, after their separation in February 1902