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Shooting a tiger : big-game hunting and conservation in colonial India / Vijaya Ramadas Mandala.

Title
  1. Shooting a tiger : big-game hunting and conservation in colonial India / Vijaya Ramadas Mandala.
Published by
  1. New Delhi, India : Oxford University Press, 2019.
Author
  1. Mandala, Vijaya Ramadas,

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Description
  1. xxii, 417 pages : illustrations (black and white), 1 map (black and white); 22 cm
Summary
  1. 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.
Subject
  1. 1765-1947
  2. Big game hunting > India > History
  3. Big game hunting
  4. India > History > British occupation, 1765-1947
  5. India
  6. Tiger hunting > India > History
  7. Tiger hunting
  8. Wildlife conservation > India > History
  9. Wildlife conservation
Genre/Form
  1. History.
Owning institution
  1. Columbia University Libraries
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 386-409) and index.
Additional formats (note)
  1. Also issued online.