Dwarkanath Kotnis

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Statue of Kotnis in Shijiazhuang

Dwarkanath Shantaram Kotnis ( Marathi : द्वारकानाथ शांताराम कोटणीस , Dvārkānāth Śāṁtārām Koṭṇīs ; Chinese name: Kē Dìhuá柯棣华; * October 10, 1910 in Solapur , Maharashtra ; † December 9, 1942 in China) was an Indian doctor who, in September 1938, with a Medical team went to China to provide medical assistance in resisting Japanese invasion in the Second Sino-Japanese War . He died in China in status epilepticus and is revered today as an example of Sino-Indian friendship. He is in a heroes cemetery in Hebei Province next to Dr. Norman Bethune and the American nurse Jean Ewen are buried. Another statue is in Shijiazhuang across from the Norman Bethune International Peace Hospital.

In 1946 an Indian film was made about Kotnis ( Dr. Kotnis Ki Amar Kahani , director and leading role: V. Shantaram ) and in 1982 a Chinese film ( Kē Dìhuá dàifu《柯棣华 大夫》, "Dr. Kotnis").

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Grave (1953)

Dwarkanath Kotnis (Ke Dihua mu) tomb in the Xinhua District of Shijiazhuang , Hebei Province has been on the Hebei Province Monuments List since 1982 .

literature

  • Gao Liang: Dr. Kotnis. A Short Biography . New Book Center, Calcutta 1983.
  • Mangesh Shantaram Kotnis: The bridge for ever. A biography of Dr. Kotnis . Somaiya, Bombay / New Delhi / Madras 1982.
  • Guo Qinglan: My Life with Kotnis . Manak, New Delhi 2006.
  • Sheng Xiangong: An Indian Freedom Fighter in China. A Tribute to Dr. DS Kotnis . Foreign Language Literature Publishing House, Beijing 1983.
  • Sheng Xiangong, Jin Hede: Dr. Kotnis in China . Dolphin Books, Beijing 1987.
  • Hán Hǎishān 韩 海山 (ed.): Kē Dìhuá zài Táng Xiàn《柯棣华 在 唐县》. Héběi rénmín chūbǎnshè 河北 人民出版社, Shijiazhuang 1992.
  • BKBasu: Call of Yanan, Story of the Indian Medical Mission to China 1938-43 . New Delhi 1986.

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personal data
SURNAME Kotnis, Dwarkanath
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kotnis, Dwarkanath Shantaram; कोटणीस, द्वारकानाथ शांताराम; Koṭṇīs, Dvārkānāth Śāṁtārām; Kē Dìhuá; 柯棣华
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indian doctor, resister against the Japanese invasion of China
DATE OF BIRTH October 10, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Solapur , Maharashtra
DATE OF DEATH December 9, 1942
Place of death China