Shooting a Tiger: Big-Game Hunting and Conservation in Colonial India 1st Edition

Shooting a Tiger: Big-Game Hunting and Conservation in Colonial India 1st Edition – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9780199489381,0199489386,9780199096602, 0199096600

Product details:

• ISBN-10: 0199096600
• ISBN-13: 9780199096602
• Author: Vijaya Ramadas Mandala

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.

Table contents:

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

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