Mandala, Vijaya Ramadas,

Shooting a tiger : big-game hunting and conservation in colonial India / Vijaya Ramadas Mandala. - First edition. - 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white). - Oxford scholarship online . - Oxford scholarship online. .

This edition previously issued in print: 2018.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Specialized.

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Big game hunting--History.--India
Tiger hunting--History.--India
Wildlife conservation--History.--India


India--History--British occupation, 1765-1947.

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