Shooting a Tiger

Big-Game Hunting and Conservation in Colonial India

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

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Beskrivning

This book extends our understanding of hunting in colonial India in a number of significant ways. It tells the reader about the essential link between shikar and governance. An enormous amount of research has gone into this book, and in that it advances the study of hunting and empire, together with the conservation aftermath, in very significant ways.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2018-12-13
Mått:149 x 222 x 31 mm
Vikt:602 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:452
Förlag:OUP India
ISBN:9780199489381

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Vijayaramadas Mandala teaches history at the University of Hyderabad, India.

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List of IllustrationsForewordPrefaceAcknowledgementsList of Abbreviations Introduction 1 Imperial Culture and Hunting in Colonial India2 Nimrods on the Hills - Hunting, Environment and its Fauna: A History of Neglected Histories3 Hunting as 'Sport' in Colonial India: Codes of Sportsmanship, Firearms, Race and Class in Hunting4 Shikar in the Princely Reserves: Power, Privilege, and Protocol5 The Raj and the Paradoxes of Wildlife Conservation: British Attitudes and Expediencies6 Hunters-turned-Conservationists: Jim Corbett and Colonel Burton EpilogueBibliographyGlossaryIndexAbout the Author