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Shooting a Tiger
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Big-Game Hunting and Conservation in Colonial India
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Artikel-Nr:
9780199489381
Veröffentl:
2019
Erscheinungsdatum:
10.03.2019
Seiten:
452
Autor:
Vijaya Ramadas Mandala
Gewicht:
604 g
Format:
221x145x30 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Vijayaramadas Mandala teaches history at the University of Hyderabad, India.
This work studies the history of imperial hunting and conservation in colonial India from the end of the eighteenth century to the middle of the twentieth century. It analyses early colonial hunting during the Company period going on to survey, in depth, different aspects of hunting during the high imperial decades. Based on original, printed, and secondary sources, it examines hunting at various social and ethnic levels, and also in different geographical contexts.In doing so, the author covers vast ground, including about the rituals, the variety of prey, the hierarchies of animals shot and hunted, the technology of firearms, the forms of hunting on horseback, and the introduction of hunting with hounds.
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