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Cowasjee

Also known as: Cowasjee; primary name: Cowasjee
Details: individual; Indian; Male
Other dates: 1792-1794 (fl.)
Biography: Recipient of reconstructive nose surgery, as portrayed in a print by Nutter after Wales, 1795; 'a Mahratta of the cast[e] of husbandmen', and a bullock driver for the British army in the Third Anglo-Mysore War; in 1792 he was taken prisoner by Tipu Sultan and had his nose and hand cut off; a new nose was constructed for him 12 months later by a Mahratta surgeon near Pune, using a skin graft from the forehead