Description
Book SynopsisThis work studies the history of imperial hunting and conservation in colonial India from the end of the eighteenth century to the middle of the twentieth century. It analyses early colonial hunting during the Company period going on to survey, in depth, different aspects of hunting during the high imperial decades. Based on original, printed, and secondary sources, it examines hunting at various social and ethnic levels, and also in different geographical contexts. In doing so, the author covers vast ground, including about the rituals, the variety of prey, the hierarchies of animals shot and hunted, the technology of firearms, the forms of hunting on horseback, and the introduction of hunting with hounds.
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Foreword Preface Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction 1 Imperial Culture and Hunting in Colonial India 2 Nimrods on the Hills - Hunting, Environment and its Fauna: A History of Neglected Histories 3 Hunting as 'Sport' in Colonial India: Codes of Sportsmanship, Firearms, Race and Class in Hunting 4 Shikar in the Princely Reserves: Power, Privilege, and Protocol 5 The Raj and the Paradoxes of Wildlife Conservation: British Attitudes and Expediencies 6 Hunters-turned-Conservationists: Jim Corbett and Colonel Burton Epilogue Bibliography Glossary Index About the Author
