This book extends our understanding of hunting in colonial India in a number of significant ways. It tells the reader about the essential link between shikar and governance. An enormous amount of research has gone into this book, and in that it advances the study of hunting and empire, together with the conservation aftermath, in very significant ways.
List 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
Vijayaramadas Mandala teaches history at the University of Hyderabad, India.
