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Animal Kingdoms
Hunting, the Environment, and Power in the Indian Princely States
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Julie E. Hughes
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English
Published/Copyright:
2013
About this book
Animal Kingdoms reveals the far-reaching cultural, political, and environmental importance of hunting in colonial India. Julie E. Hughes explores how Indian princes relied on their prowess as hunters of prized game to advance personal status, solidify power, and establish links with the historic battlefields and legendary deeds of their ancestors.
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Hughes Julie E. :
Julie E. Hughes is Assistant Professor of History at Vassar College.
Reviews
Mahesh Rangarajan, Director, Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, and Professor in Modern Indian History, University of Delhi:
A first-rate book—lucid in style and meticulous in research. A major contribution to the worlds of princely India and environmental history. Hughes skillfully weaves the use of archival sources, memoirs, and visual images to bring to light little-explored dimensions of the encounters of princes and their quarry, with the British and their increasingly restive subjects.
A first-rate book—lucid in style and meticulous in research. A major contribution to the worlds of princely India and environmental history. Hughes skillfully weaves the use of archival sources, memoirs, and visual images to bring to light little-explored dimensions of the encounters of princes and their quarry, with the British and their increasingly restive subjects.
Kalyanakrishnan Sivaramakrishnan, Professor of Anthropology and of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University:
This admirable and well-written study of hunting and elite identity in north Indian princely states in the later nineteenth and early twentieth century is a welcome addition to social and environmental history of this period.
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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1 Introduction: A Leopard in the Garden
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2 Princely Sport and Good Tiger Grounds
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3 Exceptional Game in Powerful Places
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4 Controlling Environments for Progressive Sport
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5 Martial Pasts and Combative Presents
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6 Threatened Kingdoms of Dwindling Beasts
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7 Leaving the Garden
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Bibliography
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Index
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Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
March 25, 2013
eBook ISBN:
9780674074781
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Main content:
328
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12 color illustrations, 5 maps
eBook ISBN:
9780674074781
Keywords for this book
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism; SPORTS & RECREATION / Hunting; NATURE / Ecosystems & Habitats / General*; HISTORY / Historical Geography
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Professional and scholarly;
