Animal Kingdoms : : Hunting, the Environment, and Power in the Indian Princely States / / Julie E. Hughes.
One summer evening in 1918, a leopard wandered into the gardens of an Indian palace. Roused by the alarms of servants, the prince’s eldest son and his entourage rode elephant-back to find and shoot the intruder. An exciting but insignificant vignette of life under the British Raj, we may think. Yet...
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Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013] ©2013 |
Year of Publication: | 2013 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (328 p.) :; 12 color illustrations, 5 maps |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction: A Leopard in the Garden
- 2 Princely Sport and Good Tiger Grounds
- 3 Exceptional Game in Powerful Places
- 4 Controlling Environments for Progressive Sport
- 5 Martial Pasts and Combative Presents
- 6 Threatened Kingdoms of Dwindling Beasts
- 7 Leaving the Garden
- Bibliography
- Index