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Shooting a Tiger : Big-Game Hunting and Conservation in Colonial India, EPUB eBook

Shooting a Tiger : Big-Game Hunting and Conservation in Colonial India EPUB

Edited by Vijaya Ramadas Mandala

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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.

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