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Author Mandala, Vijaya Ramadas, author.

Title Shooting a tiger : big-game hunting and conservation in colonial India / Vijaya Ramadas Mandala
Edition First edition
Published New Delhi, India : Oxford University Press, 2019
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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 417 pages) : illustrations (black and white), 1 map (black and white)
Contents Imperial culture and hunting in colonial India -- Nimrods on the hills: hunting, environment, and its fauna: a history of neglected histories -- Hunting as 'sport' in colonial India: codes of sportsmanship, firearms, race, and class in hunting -- Shikar in the princely reserves: power, privilege, and protocol -- The Raj and the paradoxes of wildlife conservation: British attitudes and expediencies -- Hunters-turned-conservationists: Jim Corbett and Colonel Burton
Summary This 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Big game hunting -- India -- History
Tiger hunting -- India -- History
Wildlife conservation -- India -- History
Big game hunting
Tiger hunting
Wildlife conservation
SUBJECT India -- History -- British occupation, 1765-1947. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85064915
Subject India
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780199096602
0199096600
9780199096619
0199096619