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

Vijaya Ramadas Mandala, Assistant Professor in History, University of Hyderabad, India

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