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
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Tiger hunting -- India -- History
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Wildlife conservation -- India -- History
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Big game hunting
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Tiger hunting
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Wildlife conservation
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SUBJECT |
India -- History -- British occupation, 1765-1947.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85064915
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Subject |
India
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Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780199096602 |
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0199096600 |
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9780199096619 |
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0199096619 |
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