Description |
1 online resource : maps |
Contents |
Retreat and persistence of elephants -- Elephants and Indian kingship -- War elephants -- Structures of use: caturaga, vihana, vyha -- Elephant knowledge -- The spread of the war elephant -- North India, South India, Sri Lanka -- The Near East, North Africa, Europe -- Southeast Asia -- After the war elephant -- Drawing the balance, looking ahead |
Summary |
Because of their enormous size, elephants have been irresistible for kings as symbols of their eminence. In the early civilisations - Egypt, Assyria and Mesopotamia, the Indus Civilisation, China - kings have used elephants in royal sacrifice, spectacular hunts, public display of live captives, and the conspicuous consumption of ivory - all of them tending toward the elephant's extinction. But the kings of India, as Thomas Trautmann writes in this book, found a use for elephants that actually helped preserve their habitat and numbers in the wild: war |
Analysis |
environment, environmental, species, history, historical, animals, nonhuman, elephant, anthropology, anthropologist, symbol, symbolism, significance, civilizations, ancient world, egypt, mesopotamia, indus, china, royalty, extinction, endangered, india, habitat, war, warfare, battles, fighting, army, military, militia, antiquity, southeast asia, domestic, domestication, capture, captivity, ecology, asian |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
Elephants -- War use -- India -- History
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Asiatic elephant -- India -- History
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Asiatic elephant -- Ecology -- India -- History
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Forest conservation -- India -- History
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HISTORY -- Military -- Other.
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Military Science.
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Asiatic elephant
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Asiatic elephant -- Ecology
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Elephants -- War use
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Forest conservation
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Kings and rulers
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Asiatischer Elefant
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Kriegführung
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SUBJECT |
India -- History, Military.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2003004943
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India -- Kings and rulers -- History
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India
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Indien
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India.
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Genre/Form |
History
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Military history
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780226264530 |
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022626453X |
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