Shooting a Tiger

Big-Game Hunting and Conservation in Colonial India

Dr Vijaya Ramadas Mandala (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

452 Seiten

2018
OUP India (Verlag)
978-0-19-948938-1 (ISBN)

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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.

Vijayaramadas Mandala teaches history at the University of Hyderabad, India.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	21.02.2019
Zusatzinfo	21 b&W
Verlagsort	New Delhi
Sprache	englisch
Maße	149 x 222 mm
Gewicht	602 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
ISBN-10	0-19-948938-6 / 0199489386
ISBN-13	978-0-19-948938-1 / 9780199489381
Zustand	Neuware