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| name = Indumadhab Mallick <br/>ইন্দুমাধব মল্লিক<br />
| image = Indumadhab Mallick.jpg<br />
| caption = Dr. Indumadhab Mallick<br />
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1869|12|4|df=yes}}<br />
| birth_place = Guptipara, [[Burdwan district|Burdwan]], [[Bengal Presidency|Bengal]], [[British India]]<br />
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1917|5|8|1869|12|4|df=yes}}<br />
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| occupation = Inventor, Entrepreneur, Traveler<br />
| nationality = [[India]]n<br />
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'''Indumadhab Mallick''' ({{lang-bn|ইন্দুমাধব মল্লিক}}; 4 December 1869{{snd}}8 May 1917) was an Indian polymath who invented the Icmic cooker and made it a commercial success. He was a philosopher, physicist, botanist, lawyer, physician, inventor, entrepreneur, collector, traveler, writer and social reformer.<br />
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== Early life ==<br />
Indumadhab was born to Radhagobinda Mallick in a [[Baidya]] Brahmin family at Guptipara village in the Hooghly district of Bengal on 4 December 1869.<ref name="samsad">{{cite encyclopedia |editor1-last=Sengupta |editor1-first=Subhodh Chandra |editor2-last=Basu |editor2-first=Anjali |encyclopedia=Samsad Bangali Charitabhidhan (Bibliographical Dictionary) |script-title=bn:সরোজনলিনী দত্ত |trans-title=Saroj Nalini Dutt |edition=4th |date=January 2002 |publisher=Shishu Sahitya Samsad |volume=Volume 1 |location=Kolkata |language=bn |isbn=81-85626-65-0 |pages=61|title=Sansad Bangali charitabhidhan }}</ref> His family was related to the Mallick family of Bhowanipore in Kolkata. He is the father of poet Upendra Mallick and grandfather of actor [[Ranjit Mallick]]. In 1891, Indumadhab completed his master's degree in philosophy. In 1892, he did masters in physics. He became a bachelor of law in 1894.<br />
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== Career ==<br />
[[File:ICMIC Cooker.jpg|thumb|100px|ICMIC Cooker]]<br />
Indumadhab started his career as a lecturer in [[Bangabasi College]] in 1897. There he taught logic, philosophy, physics and chemistry. In 1898, he completed his master's degree in botany from [[Bangabasi College]]. A year later, he completed his master's degree in zoology and physiology. He left [[Bangabasi College]] in 1900. Then he started practice as a lawyer.<br />
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Between 1904 and 1905, Indumadhab traveled to [[Qing dynasty|Imperial China]].<ref name="cd">{{cite news |url=http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/cndy/2008-07/11/content_6836664.htm |title=Rites of passage: early visitors from the subcontinent |date=11 July 2008 |work=China Daily |access-date=25 July 2015}}</ref> The exact date of his travel is not known. According to researcher Narayan Sen, Indumadhab set out for China in February 1904 and his travel coincided with the [[Russo-Japanese War]].<ref name="sen">{{cite journal |last=Sen |first=Narayan C. |year=2007 |title=China as Viewed by Two Early Bengali Travellers: The Travel Accounts of Indumadhav Mullick and Benoy Kumar Sarkar |journal=China Report |publisher=Sage Publications |volume=43 |issue=4 |pages=465–484 |doi=10.1177/000944550704300405 |s2cid=153529792 |url=http://indiachinainstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/sen-narayan-china-as-viewed-by-two-early-bengali-travellers.pdf |access-date=25 July 2015}}</ref> Indumadhab sailed from [[Kolkata]] to [[Yangon]] in [[British rule in Burma|British Burma]]. From [[Yangon]] he sailed to [[Penang]] and from there to [[Port Klang]] in [[British Malaya]].<ref name="sen" /><br />
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In 1908, Indumadhab became an M.D. from [[University of Calcutta]]. He pioneered the autovaccine method of inoculation in India. He spent tireless effort in spreading the awareness on hygiene, health and diet in the society. He was also sympathetic to the nationalist cause. While testing the Alipore bomb in [[Deoghar]], [[Ullaskar Dutta]] was critically injured. He was privately treated by Dr. Indumadhab Mallick.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gunijan.org.bd/GjProfDetails_action.php?GjProfId=322 |script-title=bn:উল্লাসকর দত্ত |trans-title=Ullaskar Dutt |last=Islam |first=Rafiqul |website=[[Gunijan|Gunijan Trust]] |language=Bengali |access-date=25 July 2015}}</ref><br />
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In 1910, Indumadhab invented the steam cooker which became popular as ICMIC cooker.<ref name="samsad"/> It was a special kind of cooking equipment where rice, pulses and vegetables could be cooked in steam, very fast.<ref name="ray">{{cite book |last=Ray |first=Utsa |title=Culinary Culture in Colonial India |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fDXJBAAAQBAJ |access-date=25 July 2015 |year=2015 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge |isbn=9781107042810 |page=115}}</ref> The compact arrangement and portability made it popular among bachelors and during trips where kitchen was not available. The idea of ICMIC cooker came to him by seeing the way food is cooked in the kitchens of Jagannath Temple.<br />
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== Publications ==<br />
Indumadhab wrote two books on his travels to China and Britain.<br />
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* ''Chin Bhraman'' (1906)<br />
* ''Bilat Bhraman''<br />
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