Shooting a Tiger
Big-Game Hunting and Conservation in Colonial India
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9780199489381
Publication date:
10/11/2018
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440 pages
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ISBN:
9780199489381
Publication date:
10/11/2018
Hardback
440 pages
Vijaya Ramadas Mandala
This book examines the colonial politics that allowed British imperialists to indulge in such grand posturing as the rulers and protectors of indigenous populations. It studies the history of hunting and conservation in colonial India during the high imperial decades of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. At this time, not only did hunting serve as a metaphor for colonial rule signifying the virile sportsmanship of the British hunter, but it also enabled vital everyday governance through the embodiment of the figure of the officer–hunter–administrator.
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Vijaya Ramadas Mandala
Description
The figure of the white hunter sahib proudly standing over the carcass of a tiger with a gun in hand is one of the most powerful and enduring images of the empire. This book examines the colonial politics that allowed British imperialists to indulge in such grand posturing as the rulers and protectors of indigenous populations.
This work studies the history of hunting and conservation in colonial India during the high imperial decades of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. At this time, not only did hunting serve as a metaphor for colonial rule signifying the virile sportsmanship of the British hunter, but it also enabled vital everyday governance through the embodiment of the figure of the officer–hunter–administrator. Using archival material and published sources, the author examines hunting and wildlife conservation from various social and ethnic perspectives, and also in different geographical contexts, extending our understanding of the link between shikar and governance.
About the Author
Vijaya Ramadas Mandala teaches history at University of Hyderabad, India.
Vijaya Ramadas Mandala
Table of contents
List of Figures ix
List of Abbreviations xi
Foreword/i> xiii
John M. MacKenzie
Acknowledgements xvii
Introduction 1
1. Imperial Culture and Hunting in Colonial India 38
2. Nimrods on the Hills—Hunting, Environment, and Its Fauna: A History of Neglected Histories 79
3. Hunting as ‘Sport’ in Colonial India: Codes of Sportsmanship, Firearms, Race, and Class in Hunting 161
4. Shikar in the Princely Reserves: Power, Privilege, and Protocol 220
5. The Raj and the Paradoxes of Wildlife Conservation: British Attitudes and Expediencies 262
6. Hunters-Turned-Conservationists: Jim Corbett and Colonel Burton 325
Epilogue 373
Glossary 384
Bibliography 386
Index 410
About the Author 418
Vijaya Ramadas Mandala
Vijaya Ramadas Mandala
Description
The figure of the white hunter sahib proudly standing over the carcass of a tiger with a gun in hand is one of the most powerful and enduring images of the empire. This book examines the colonial politics that allowed British imperialists to indulge in such grand posturing as the rulers and protectors of indigenous populations.
This work studies the history of hunting and conservation in colonial India during the high imperial decades of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. At this time, not only did hunting serve as a metaphor for colonial rule signifying the virile sportsmanship of the British hunter, but it also enabled vital everyday governance through the embodiment of the figure of the officer–hunter–administrator. Using archival material and published sources, the author examines hunting and wildlife conservation from various social and ethnic perspectives, and also in different geographical contexts, extending our understanding of the link between shikar and governance.
About the Author
Vijaya Ramadas Mandala teaches history at University of Hyderabad, India.
Table of contents
List of Figures ix
List of Abbreviations xi
Foreword/i> xiii
John M. MacKenzie
Acknowledgements xvii
Introduction 1
1. Imperial Culture and Hunting in Colonial India 38
2. Nimrods on the Hills—Hunting, Environment, and Its Fauna: A History of Neglected Histories 79
3. Hunting as ‘Sport’ in Colonial India: Codes of Sportsmanship, Firearms, Race, and Class in Hunting 161
4. Shikar in the Princely Reserves: Power, Privilege, and Protocol 220
5. The Raj and the Paradoxes of Wildlife Conservation: British Attitudes and Expediencies 262
6. Hunters-Turned-Conservationists: Jim Corbett and Colonel Burton 325
Epilogue 373
Glossary 384
Bibliography 386
Index 410
About the Author 418
