Shooting A Tiger C: Big-Game Hunting and Conservation in Colonial India PDF
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Shooting a Tiger Shooting a Tiger Big-Game Hunting and Conservation in Colonial India Vijaya Ramadas Mandala 1 0000__PPrreelliimmss..iinndddd iiiiii 1199//0099//1188 55::5599 PPMM 1 Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. Oxford is a registered trademark of Oxford University Press in the UK and in certain other countries. Published in India by Oxford University Press 2/11 Ground Floor, Ansari Road, Daryaganj, New Delhi 110 002, India © Oxford University Press 2019 Th e moral rights of the author have been asserted. First Edition published in 2019 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of Oxford University Press, or as expressly permitted by law, by licence, or under terms agreed with the appropriate reprographics rights organization. Enquiries concerning reproduction outside the scope of the above should be sent to the Rights Department, Oxford University Press, at the address above. You must not circulate this work in any other form and you must impose this same condition on any acquirer. ISBN-13 (print edition): 978-0-19-948938-1 ISBN-10 (print edition): 0-19-948938-6 ISBN-13 (eBook): 978-0-19-909660-2 ISBN-10 (eBook): 0-19-909660-0 Typeset in Adobe Jenson Pro 10.7/13 by Tranistics Data Technologies, Kolkata 700 091 Printed in India by Rakmo Press, New Delhi 110 020 0000__PPrreelliimmss..iinndddd iivv 1199//0099//1188 55::5599 PPMM To my parents and family For Mahesh Rangarajan, John MacKenzie, and Harriet Ritvo Figures 2.1 Lake Yercaud, Shervaroy Hills, Tamil Nadu. Etching by Douglas Hamilton in mid-nineteenth century 111 2.2 Th e Pillar Rocks, Pulney Mountains. Etching by Douglas Hamilton in mid-nineteenth century 111 2.3 A successful sambur stalking 128 4.1 Th e King of Oude’s cheetahs dispatched to the then governor general 231 4.2 Th e conclusion of a cheetah hunt at Cambay, original drawing by Lady Malet (nineteenth century) 233 4.3 A cheetah chasing a deer with huntsmen on horseback and elephant in Barrackpore Park, the Bengal Provinces, c. 1802 233 4.4 A hunting party posing with fi ve dead tigers and one rhinoceros, possibly in the late 1930s (Indo-Nepal region) 249 4.5 Lord and Lady Curzon at a tiger hunt organized by the Nizam of Hyderabad in Warangal, India, in 1902 250 x Figures 4.6 Viceroy Lord Irwin and the Maharaja of Alwar during a tiger shoot in 1926 252 4.7 Th e Royal visit to India, arrival of the Prince of Wales at Agra (artist: William Simpson?); double-page print from engraving of the prince and various Indian dignitaries on elephants 255 5.1 F lashlight photograph of a tiger, taken by F.W. Champion around 1926 in northern India 281 5.2 Leopard in the Indian jungle; photograph by F.W. Champion 281 5.3 Th ree cats: a lion standing on a rock, a leopard curled up underneath, and a tiger prowling (later nineteenth century). Reproduction of an etching by T. Landseer after E.H. Landseer 305 5.4 A tiger hunt in a tropical forest with the hunting party riding animals. Etching by W. Daniell and engraving by J.W. Lowry 310 6.1 Geographical map of Uttarakhand, based on Jim Corbett’s description 3 31 6.2 Th e plaque presented to Jim Corbett for killing the Champawat man-eater 336 6.3 Corbett with the Bachelor of Powalgarh 344 6.4 Th e grandson of the last victim of the Talla Des man-eater 346 6.5 Th e man-eating tiger of Sonaripur shot by Richard Burton on the back of a moving elephant, 1924 364 Abbreviations BL British Library BNHS Bombay Natural History Society CIE C ompanion of the Indian Empire CSAS Centre of South Asian Studies, University of Cambridge ILN Illustrated London News, Th e IOR India Offi ce Records NAI National Archives of India, New Delhi NGA Nilgiri Game Association NMML Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi OBE Order of the British Empire PWD Public Works Department RCSL Royal Commonwealth Society Library, Cambridge RSL Radcliff e Science Library, University of Oxford RSPCA Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
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