Shooting a Tiger

Vijayaramadas Mandala teaches history at the University of Hyderabad, India.

List of Illustrations
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations

Introduction

1 Imperial Culture and Hunting in Colonial India
2 Nimrods on the Hills - Hunting, Environment and its Fauna: A History of Neglected Histories
3 Hunting as 'Sport' in Colonial India: Codes of Sportsmanship, Firearms, Race and Class in Hunting
4 Shikar in the Princely Reserves: Power, Privilege, and Protocol
5 The Raj and the Paradoxes of Wildlife Conservation: British Attitudes and Expediencies
6 Hunters-turned-Conservationists: Jim Corbett and Colonel Burton

Epilogue
Bibliography
Glossary
Index
About the Author