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Author:
Mandala, Vijaya Ramadas, author.
Title:
Shooting a tiger : big-game hunting and conservation in colonial India / Vijaya Ramadas Mandala.
Edition:
First edition.
Publisher:
Oxford University Press,
Copyright Date:
2019
Description:
xxii, 417 pages : illustrations, 1 map, portraits ; 22 cm
Subject:
1765-1947
Big game hunting--India--History.
Tiger hunting--India--History.
Wildlife conservation--India--History.
Big game hunting.
Tiger hunting.
Wildlife conservation.
India--History--British occupation, 1765-1947.
India.
History.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 386-409) and index.
Summary:
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.
ISBN:
0199489386
9780199489381
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1078009950
LCCN:
2018320497
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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