Indian Shikar Notes
Author : James William Best
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Page : 282 pages
File Size : 49,77 MB
Release : 1922
Category : Fishing
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Author : James William Best
Publisher :
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 49,77 MB
Release : 1922
Category : Fishing
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Author : John M. MacKenzie
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 34,54 MB
Release : 2017-03-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1526119587
This study assesses the significance of the hunting cult as a major element of the imperial experience in Africa and Asia. Through a study of the game laws and the beginnings of conservation in the 19th and early-20th centuries, the author demonstrates the racial inequalities which existed between Europeans and indigenous hunters. Africans were denied access to game, and the development of game reserves and national parks accelerated this process. Indigenous hunters in Africa and India were turned into "poachers" and only Europeans were permitted to hunt. In India, the hunting of animals became the chief recreation of military officers and civilian officials, a source of display and symbolic dominance of the environment. Imperial hunting fed the natural history craze of the day, and many hunters collected trophies and specimens for private and public collections as well as contributing to hunting literature. Adopting a radical approach to issues of conservation, this book links the hunting cult in Africa and India to the development of conservation, and consolidates widely-scattered material on the importance of hunting to the economics and nutrition of African societies.
Author : A. E. Stewart
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Page : 350 pages
File Size : 48,48 MB
Release : 1927
Category : Big game hunting
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Author : William Swan Sonnenschein
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Page : 844 pages
File Size : 49,84 MB
Release : 1926
Category : Best books
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Page : 890 pages
File Size : 19,19 MB
Release : 1922
Category : Forests and forestry
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Page : 742 pages
File Size : 17,11 MB
Release : 1901
Category : Asia
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Author : Vijaya Ramadas Mandala
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 13,98 MB
Release : 2018-10-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0199096600
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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Page : 830 pages
File Size : 14,22 MB
Release : 1931
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Author : Julie E. Hughes
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 50,29 MB
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0674074785
Animal Kingdoms reveals the far-reaching cultural, political, and environmental importance of hunting in colonial India. Julie E. Hughes explores how Indian princes relied on their prowess as hunters of prized game to advance personal status, solidify power, and establish links with the historic battlefields and legendary deeds of their ancestors.
Author : William Swan Sonnenschein
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Page : 848 pages
File Size : 16,66 MB
Release : 1926
Category : Best books
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