Punch lampooning sport-hunters |
A query from a friend led me to look for old hunting literature from India and the list (excluding the better-known Corbett / Anderson works) of materials available on the Internet Archive turned out to be quite long. It is interesting how perceptions of hunting differed even in the pre-conservation era. As early as 1910 Punch magazine had lampooned hunting literature.
Hunting in India was used almost as an incentive for recruiting young and adventurous lads into the service of the East India Company. Sramek (2006) gives a good summary of how hunting merged into ideas of masculinity, bravery, superiority, morality, and so on. Hunting was supposed to build "character". According to Henry Shakespear, hunting would make the sons of the British readers not only "fit for their duty as soldiers," but would also prevent them from "tak[ing] to the gaming-table, or to an excess of feasting, rioting ... debauchery" and other "frivolous pursuits or effeminate pleasures".
Sramek, Joseph (2006) "Face Him like a Briton": Tiger Hunting, Imperialism, and British Masculinity in Colonial India, 1800-1875. Victorian Studies 48(4):659-680.
Hunting in India was used almost as an incentive for recruiting young and adventurous lads into the service of the East India Company. Sramek (2006) gives a good summary of how hunting merged into ideas of masculinity, bravery, superiority, morality, and so on. Hunting was supposed to build "character". According to Henry Shakespear, hunting would make the sons of the British readers not only "fit for their duty as soldiers," but would also prevent them from "tak[ing] to the gaming-table, or to an excess of feasting, rioting ... debauchery" and other "frivolous pursuits or effeminate pleasures".
Sramek, Joseph (2006) "Face Him like a Briton": Tiger Hunting, Imperialism, and British Masculinity in Colonial India, 1800-1875. Victorian Studies 48(4):659-680.
J.C. Faunthorpe published posthumously |
Here is an index (will be updated now and then) of material from the Internet Archive related to hunting, natural history and wilderness from India. This skips material that lacks a personal narrative such as botanical and zoological works. It would seem that India was far wilder and exciting when travel was tougher.
- "A Late Custom's Officer" (1874) Past days in India, or : sporting reminiscences of the Valley of the Soane and the Basin of Singrowlee. Chapman and Hall, London.
- Aberigh-Mackay, G.R. (1878) A Manual of Indian Sport. Edition 2.
- Adair, F.E.S. (1895) Sport in Ladakh. Horace Cox, London.
- Adams, Andrew Leith (1867) Wanderings of a naturalist in India. The Western Himalayas, and Cashmere. Edmonston and Douglas, Edinburgh.
- Aitken, E H (Eha) (?) The common birds of Bombay. Thacker & Co. Bombay.
- Anderson, Kenneth (1959) The Black Panther of Sivanipalli. Rand McNally, Chicago.
- Anderson, Kenneth (1957) Man-Eaters and Jungle Killers. Thomas Nelson & Sons, New York.
- Anderson, Kenneth (1955) Nine Man-Eaters and One Rogue. E.P.Dutton & Co, New York.
- Eha (1897) Behind the bungalow. W. Thacker & Co. London.
- Eha (1904) The tribes on my frontier. W. Thacker & Co. London.
- Eha (1914) Concerning animals and other matters. E. P. Dutton and company, New York.
- Aflalo, F.G. (1904) The Sportsman's Book for India. Horace Marshall & Son, London.
- Aflalo, F.G. (1912) A book of the wilderness and jungle. S.W.Partridge & Co., London.
- Baillie, Mrs. W. W. (1921) Days and nights of Shikar. John Lane, London.
- Bacon, Thomas (1837) First impressions and studies from nature in Hindostan; embracing an outline of the voyage to Calcutta, and five years residence in Bengal and the Doáb, from MDCCCXXXI to MDCCCXXXVI. Volume 1. Volume 2. W. H. Allen & Co., London.
- Baden-Powell, Robert (1915) Indian Memories. Recollections of Soldiering, Sport, Etc. Herbert Jenkins. London.
- Bagot, A.G. (1897) Sport and Travel in India and Central America. Chapman and Hall. London.
- Baker, Edward B. (1897) Sport in Bengal: and how, when, and where to seek it. Ledger, Smith, & Co. London.
- Baldwin, JH (1877) The Large and Small Game of Bengal and the North-Western Provinces of India. Henry S. King and Co. London.
- Ball, Valentine (1880) Jungle Life in India. Thomas de la Rue & Co., London.
- Barras, Col. Julius (1885) India and Tiger-hunting. Swan Sonnenschein & Co., London
- Barras, Julius (1885) The new shikari at our Indian stations. Volume 1. Volume 2. Swan Sonnenschein & Co., London.
- Bolster, R.C. (1923) Driven Duck. C.G. Harris/Pioneer Press. Allahabad. (Duck shooting north India)
- Bor, Eleanor (1952) Adventures of a botanist's wife. Hurst and Blackett.
- Braddon, Edward (1895) Thirty years of Shikar. William Blackwood and Sons. Edinburgh & London.
- Brown, James Moray (1887) Shikar sketches, with notes on Indian field-sport. Hurst and Blackett, London.
- Brown, J Moray (1889) Powder, Spur and Spear. Chapman and Hall, London.
- Brown, J. Moray (1893) Stray Sport. Volume 1. Volume 2. William Blackwood and Sons. Edinburgh & London.
- Brinckman, Arthur (1862) The Rifle in Cashmere. Smith, Elder and Co., London.
- Bruce, C.G. (1910) Twenty years in the Himalaya. Edward Arnold, London.
- Burton, E.F. (1888) An Indian Olio. Spencer Blackett, London.
- Burton, E.F. (1885) Reminiscences of sport in India. W.H. Allen, London.
- Burton, R. G. (1936) The Tiger Hunters. Hutchinson & Co., London
- Campbell, Major. Walter (1853) The old forest ranger; or Wild sports of India on the Neilgherry hills, in the jungles, and on the plains. 3rd ed. Arthur Hall, London.
- Campbell, Walter (1864) My Indian Journal. Edmonston & Douglas, Edinburgh.
- Champion, FW (1933) The Jungle in Sunlight and Shadow. Chatto & Windus, London.
- Champion, FW (1927) With a camera in Tiger-Land. Chatto & Windus, London.
- "C.M. A Bombay-Walla" (1884) Chutney Papers. Society, Shikar, and Sport in India. Thacker & Co. Bombay.
- Corbett, Jim (1952) My India
- Corbett, Jim (1947) The Man-Eating Leopard of Rudraprayag. Oxford University Press.
- Corbett, Jim (1944) Man-eaters of Kumaon. Oxford University Press, London.
- Croker, Bithia Maria (1913) Jungle Tales. Holden and Hardingham, London.
- Cumming, Constance Frederica Gordon (1884) In the Himalayas and on the Indian plains. Chatto and Windus, London. [The author was an artist and a pioneering woman travel-writer]
- Cumming, William Gordon (Lt. Col.) (1871) Wild men & Wild Beasts. Scenes in Camp and Jungle. Edmonston & Douglas, Edinburgh. [The author was the brother of Frederica above]
- Cunningham, DD (1903) Some Indian friends and acquaintances. John Murray, London.
- Cunningham, DD (1907) Plagues and pleasures of life in Bengal John Murray, London.
- Darrah, Henry Zouch (1898) Sport in the highlands of Kashmir. Rowland Ward, London.
- Davidson, David (1890) Memories of a Long Life. Edinburgh. (Notes from north Karnataka)
- Del Mar, Walter (1906) The romantic east. Burma, Assam & Kashmir. Adam and Charles Black, London.
- Doyle, CW (1899) The taming of the jungle. J.B.Lippincott, Philadelphia.
- Dunlop, R.H.W. (1860) Hunting in the Himalaya. Richard Bentley, London.
- Durand, Edward (1911) Rifle, Rod, and Spear in the East. John Murray, London.
- Eardley-Wilmot, Sainthill (1910) Forest life and sport in India. Edward Arnold, London.
- Eardley Wilmot, S (1933) Life of a tiger and the life of an elephant. Edward Arnold and Company, London.
- Elliot, Robert H. (1871) The Experiences of a Planter in the Jungles of Mysore. Chapman and Hall, London. Volume 1. Volume 2.
- Elliot, Robert H. (1894) Gold, Sport, and Coffee Planting in Mysore. Archibald Constable & Co., London.
- Ellison, Bernard C. (1925) HRH The Prince of Wales's Sport in India. William Heinemann, London.
- "Felix" (1906). Recollections of a bison & tiger hunter. London: J.M. Dent & Co.
- Fife-Cookson, Lt.Col. J.C. (1887) Tiger-shooting in the Doon and Ulwar with life in India. Chapman and Hall, London.
- Fletcher, F. W. F (1911) Sport on the Nilgiris and in Wynaad. Macmillan, London.
- Forbes, Gordon S. (1885) Wild life in Canara and Ganjam. Swan Sonnenschein & Co., London.
- Forsyth, Capt. J. (1872) The Highlands of Central India. Chapman & Hall, London.
- Fraser, Thomas Gamble (1881) Records of Sport and Military Life in Western India. W.H. Allen, London.
- Gardner, Mrs. Alan (1895) Rifle and Spear with the Rajpoots: being the narrative of a winter's travel and sport in northern India. Chatto and Windus, London.
- Geddie, John (1884) Beyond the Himalayas. T. Nelson and sons, London.
- Glasfurd A.I.R. (1906) Rifle and Romance in the Indian Jungle. A record of thirteen years. John Lane, London.
- Gouldsbury, C.E. (1915) Tiger slayer by order. Chapman and Hall, London.
- Greville, Violet (1894) Ladies in the Field. D. Appleton and Company, New York.
- Hamilton, Douglas (1892) Records of Sport in Southern India. R.H.Porter, London.
- Handley,Leonard M. (1933) Hunters Moon. Macmillan And Company Limited. London (this book was reviewed negatively by R.C. Morris in the JBNHS and the author won 3000 GBP in a libel suit! Aberdeen Journal, 17 April1937)
- Haughton, Henry Lawrence (1913) Sport and Folklore in the Himalaya. Edward Arnold, London.
- 'Hawkeye' [=Richard Vesey Hamilton] (1876) Game. Observer Press, Ootacamund. [includes some notes on game preservation in the Nilgiris]
- Hewett, John Prescott (1938) Jungle trails in Northern India: reminiscences of hunting in India. London: Methuen and Co.
- Hicks, F.C. (1910) Forty years among the wild animals of India from Mysore to the Himalayas. Pioneer Press, Allahabad.
- Horne, W.O. (1928) Work and Sport in the Old I.C.S. London: William Blackwood & Sons Ltd. [includes notes on a man-eating tiger at Lammasinghi Ghat]
- Hornaday, W.T. (1885) Two years in the Jungle. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York.
- Inglis, James (1892) Tent life in Tigerland. Sampson Low, Marston, and Co. London.
- zu Innhausen und Knyphausen, Edzard (1906). Streifzüge in Indien : Tagebuch-Blätter. Berlin: Dietrich Reimer. [In German, with several hunt and travel descriptions, poorly misidentified taxa "Steinbock" etc. but interesting comments on British India life, for example more women than men in Simla etc.]
- Irby, Augustus Henry (1863) The Diary of a Hunter from the Punjab to the Karakorum Mountains. Longman, Green, Longman and Roberts; London.
- Jepson, Stanley (Ed.) (1937) Big game encounters. Critical moments in the lives of well-known Shikaris. H.F. & G. Witherby Ltd., London. [some republished from the Illustrated Weekly of India]
- KCAJ (1891) The sportsman's Vade-Mecum for the Himalayas. Horace Cox, London.
- Johnson, Daniel (1822) Sketches of Field Sports as followed by the natives of India. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Browne and Thomas Fowler, Devon. [Second edition (1827)]
- Kennion, R.L. (1910) Sport and Life in the Further Himalaya. William Blackwood & Sons, Edinburgh & London.
- Kinloch, A.A. (1885) Large Game Shooting in Thibet, the Himalayas, and northern India. Thacker, Spink and Co., Calcutta
- Knowles, G.H. (1932) In the Grip of the Jungles. Wright and Brown, London. [Mainly in northern India]
- Königsmarck, Hans, Graf von (1910). The Markhor. Sport in Cashmere. Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., London.
- Leveson, H.A. ("The Old Shekarry") (1860) The hunting grounds of the old world. Saunders, Otley, and Co. London.
- Leveson, H.A. ("The Old Shekarry") (1874) Wrinkles; or, Hints to sportsmen and travellers on dress, equipment, and camp life. Chatto and Windus, London.
- Lockwood, Edward (1878) Natural History, Sport, and Travel. William H. Allen & Co., London.
- Lorrain, Reginald Arthur (1912). Five years in unknown jungles for God and empire. Lakher Pioneer Mission, London. [Mizoram]
- Lydekker, R. (1900) The great and small game of India, Burma, & Tibet. London: Rowland Ward.
- Lydekker, R. (1907) The game animals of India, Burma, Malaya and Tibet. Rowland Ward, London.
- Macintyre, Donald (1889) Hindu-Koh: wanderings and wild sport on and beyond the Himalayas. William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh.
- Mainwaring, Henry Germain (1920) A soldier's shikar trips. Grant Richards, London.
- 'Maori' [James Inglis] (1878) Sport and work on the Nepaul frontier, or, Twelve years sporting reminiscences of an indigo planter. Macmillan and Co., London.
- Markham, Frederick (1854) Shooting in the Himalayas. Richard Bentley, London.
- Martin, D. King (1935) The ways of man and beast in India. Wright & Brown, London.
- McCormick, AD (1895) An artist in the Himalayas. T. Fisher Unwin, London.
- Morison, Margaret Cotter (1904) A lonely summer in Kashmir. Duckworth and Co. London
- Munson, Arley (1913) Jungle Days. Being the experience of an American woman doctor in India. D. Appleton and Company. New York.
- Musser, Howard A (1922) Jungle tales. George H. Doran Company, New York.
- Newall, J.T. (1889) Scottish Moors and Indian Jungles. Scenes of Sport in the Lews and India. Hurst and Blackett. London.
- Newall, J.T. (1866) The Eastern Hunters. Tinsley Brothers, London.
- Newall, J.T. (1867) Hog hunting in the east, and other sports. Tinsley brothers, London.
- Peissel, Michel (1966) Tiger for Breakfast. The story of Boris of Kathmandu. E.P.Dutton & Co. New York.
- Phillipps-Wolley, Clive (1894) Big Game Shooting. Longmans, Green and Co. London
- Pollock, AJO (1894) Sporting days in Southern India. Horace Cox, London.
- Pollok Col. (1896) Fifty years' reminiscences of India. A retrospect of travel, adventure and Shikar. Edward Arnold, London.
- Pollok, Colonel (1894) Incidents of foreign sport and travel. Chapman & Hall, London.
- Pollok, F. T. and W.S. Thom (1900) Wild Sports of Burma and Assam. Hurst and Blackett, London.
- Powell, A.N.W. (1910) Call Of The Tiger. Robert Hale, London.
- Crown Prince of Prussia (1912) From my hunting day-book. Hodder and Stoughton, London.
- Rankin, Reginald (1930) A Tour in the Himalayas and Beyond. John Lane, London.
- Raoul (1893) Reminiscences of twenty years' pig-sticking in Bengal. Thacker, Spink & Co., Calcutta.
- Reid, Mayne (1858) The plant hunters; or, Adventures among the Himalaya mountains. London: J. and C. Brown and Co.
- Rice, William (1884) Indian Game (from quail to tiger) . W. H. Allen and Co.
- Rice, William (1857) Tiger-shooting in India. Being an account of hunting experiences on foot in Rajpootana, during the hot seasons, from 1850 to 1854. London:Smith, Elder and Co.
- Rivaz, C. A. G (1912) Indian small-game shooting for novices. Horace Cox, London.
- Roberts, Emma (1835) Scenes and characteristics of Hindostan, with sketches of Anglo-Indian society. WH Allen & Co. London
- Russell, C E M (1900) Bullet and shot in Indian Forest Plain and Hill. W. Thacker and Co., London
- Sanderson, GP (1907) Thirteen years among the wild beasts of India. 6th ed. John Grant, Edinburgh.
- Sanyal, Ram Brahma (1896) Hours with nature. S. K. Lahiri and Co., Calcutta
- Savory, Isabel (1900) A Sportswoman in India: Personal Adventures and Experiences of Travel in Known and Unknown India. Hutchinson and Co. London.
- Scindia, Madhav Rao (1920) A guide to tiger shooting.
- Scott, Jack Denton (1959) Forests of the Night. Rinehard and Company, New York.
- Shakespear, Capt. Henry (1860) The wild sports of India: with remarks on the breeding and rearing of horses, and the formation of light irregular cavalry. Smith, Elder and Co., London.
- "Silver Hackle" (1929) Indian Jungle Lore and The Rifle. Thacker, Spink & Co.
- Simson, Frank B. (1886) Letters on sport in eastern Bengal. R.H. Porter: London.
- Singh, Col. Kesri (1959) One man and a thousand tigers. Dodd, Mead and Company, New York.
- Sleeman, Sir James L. (1947) From Rifle to Camera. The reformation of a big game hunter. Jarrolds. London. [Grandson of the more famous thug-slaying Sleeman]
- Smith, A. Mervyn (1904) Sport and Adventure in the Indian Jungle. Hurst and Blackett, London. (Walking a hyena on MG road!)
- Smythe, FS (1932) Kamet Conquered. Victor Gollancz, London.
- Smythe, FS (1930) The Kanchenjunga adventure. Victor Gollancz Ltd., London
- Smythe, FS (1941) The Mountain Vision. Hodder and Stoughton, London.
- Smythe, Frank (1949) Valley of Flowers. W W Norton
- Stebbing, E.P. (1920) The diary of a sportsman naturalist in India. John Lane, London.
- Stebbing, E.P. (1911) Jungle By-ways in India. John Lane, London.
- Stebbing, E.P. (1912) Stalks in the Himalaya. John Lane Company, New York.
- Sterndale, R.A. (1877) Seonee: or camp life on the Satpura Range. Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, London. (an inspiration for Kipling's Jungle Book)
- Stewart, A.E. (1927) Tiger and other game. The practical experiences of a soldier shikari in India. Second edition. Longmans, Green and Co., London.
- Stockley, C.H. (1936) Stalking in the Himalayas and northern India. Herbert Jenkins, London.
- Stone, Samuel James (1896) In and beyond the Himalayas; a record of sport and travel in the abode of snow. Edward Arnold, London.
- Taylor, Neville (1903) Ibex shooting on the Himalayas. Sampson Low, Marston & Co. London.
- Thomas, Henry Sullivan (1897) The Rod in India. 3rd ed. W. Thacker & Co., London.
- Tyacke, Richard Humphrey (1893) How I Shot My Bears: Or, Two Years' Tent Life in Kullu and Lahoul. William Clowes and Sons, London.
- Vigne, G.T. (1841) Travels in Kashmir, Ladak, Iskardo. Volume 1. Henry Colburn, London.
- Vigne, G.T. (1842) Travels in Kashmir, Ladak, Iskardo. Volume 2. Henry Colburn, London.
- Waddell, L.A. (1900) Among the Himalayas. Archibald Constable and Co. Westminster.
- Walker, W. (1888) Angling in the Kumaun Lakes. Thacker, Spink & Co., Calcutta.
- Walshe Blayney (1875) Sporting and military adventures in Nepaul and the Himalayas. James Blackwood & Co., London
- Webber, Thomas W. (1902) The forestsof upper India and their inhabitants. Edward Arnold, London.
- White, Lt. George Francis (1838) View in India, chiefly among the Himalaya mountains. Fisher, Son, and Co., London.
- Williamson, Thomas (1807) Oriental field sports : being a complete, detailed, and accurate description of the wild sports of the east. Edward Orme, London. [HathiTrust]
- Wilson ("Mountaineer") (ed) (1860) A Summer Ramble in the Himalayas with Sporting Adventures in the Vale of Cashmere. Hurst and Blackett, London.
- Wilson, David (1910) Anecdotes of big cats and other beasts. Methuen & Co., London.
- Wilson, Andrew (1875) The Abode of Snow. William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh.
- Wood, Lt.Col H.S. (1934). Shikar Memories. H.F. & G. Witherby, London.
- Woodthorpe, R.G. (1873) The Lushai Expedition 1871-1872. Hurst and Blackett, London.
The sportsman's perception
- Abbott, Harry (1896) Sonepore Reminescences. Years 1840-96. Star Press, Calcutta.
- Aubertin J J (1892) Wanderings and Wonderings. Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co, London.
- Brown, Percy (1927) Indian Painting. 2nd Ed. The Association Press, Calcutta.
- Burton, Richard F (1851) Goa, and the Blue Mountains. Richard Bentley, London.
- Caine, WS (1891) Picturesque India. George Routledge and Sons, London
- "Civilian" (1921) The Civilian's South India. Some places and people in Madras. John Lane. London.
- Crooke, W (1906) Things Indian. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York.
- Daly, J. Bowles (1896) Indian sketches and rambles. Patrick Press, Calcutta.
- Dewar, Douglas (1922) Bygone days in India. John Lane, London.
- Dracott, Alice Elizabeth (1906) Simla village tales. John Murray, London.
- Finn, Frank (1929) Sterndale's Mammalia of India. Thacker, Spink & Co., Calcutta
- Forbes-Lindsay CH (1903) India past and present. Volume 1. The John C. Winston Co. Philadelphia
- Gould, WJD (1880) Ten years in India in the 16th Queen's Lancers. Hunter, Rose & Company. Toronto.
- Handley, M.A. (1911) Roughing it in southern India. Edward Arnold, London.
- (1919) Rudyard Kipling's Verse Doubleday, Page and Company, New York.
- Kipling, R. (1899) The Jungle Book. The Century Co., New York.
- Kipling, R (1895) The second Jungle Book. The Century Co. New York.
- Kipling, JL (1904) Beast and man in India. Macmillan and Co., London.
- King, Mrs Robert Moss (1884) The diary of a civilian's wife in India (1877-1882). Richard Bentley & Sons. London.
- Leonowens, Anna Hariette (1884) Life and travel in India. Trubner and Co. London
- Lowin, Lena (1878) Familiar Indian Flowers. Reeve and Co, London.
- Monkshood, GF (1917) The less familiar Kipling, and Kiplingana. Jarrolds, London.
- Morgan, H. R. (1884) Forestry in southern India. Higginbotham and Co., Madras.
- Morris, Henry (1878) A descriptive and historical account of the Godavery District in the Presidency of Madras. Trubner & Co, London.
- Mukerji, Dhan Gopal (1922) Kari the Elephant. E.P. Dutton & Co., New York (25th reprint, 1937 - rather exceptional and not really about hunting either)
- Murray-Aynsley, Mrs. JC (1883) Our tour in southern India. F V White and Co., London
- Nairne, Alexander Kyd (1894) The flowering plants of Western India. W H Allen and Co, London.
- Newcombe, A.C. (1905) Village, town, and jungle life in India. William Blackwood & Sons, Edinburgh.
- Newall, D.J.F. (1882) The highlands of India strategically considered with special reference to their colonization as reserve circles, military, industrial and sanitary. Harrison and Sons, London.
- Ramsey, William (1836) Journal of a missionary tour in India. J. Whetham, Philadelphia.
- Temple, Richard (1898) A bird's-eye view of Picturesque India. Chatto & Windus, London.
- Thurston, Edgar (1913) The Madras Presidency. Cambridge University Press.
PS: Apparently there was a journal called "The Indian Field" whose editor for a while was a W.S. Burke. This unfortunately is not readily found in Indian libraries and hopefully someone will find it and digitize it for the Internet Archive. Another serial was the "Indian Sporting Review".
23-Jan-2014 - subsequent to the comment by Milan Mandal - I have added some Kenneth Anderson, Jim Corbett and R.W. Burton books, the archive links are however a little problematic as some could represent material still in copyright. The Internet Archive claims that they can hold it as they are registered as a library in the United States of America, however this might not stand in the courts of some other countries.
12-Dec-2014 - Ameen Ahmed mailed me a list of online sources that he had found which led to some additions.
1-Mar-2017 - there is another bibliography here - Stockum, C.M. (1914) Sport. Attempt at a bibliography of books and periodicals published during 1890-1912. New York: Dodd & Livingston.
12-Dec-2014 - Ameen Ahmed mailed me a list of online sources that he had found which led to some additions.
1-Mar-2017 - there is another bibliography here - Stockum, C.M. (1914) Sport. Attempt at a bibliography of books and periodicals published during 1890-1912. New York: Dodd & Livingston.
23-March-2021 - there is a bibliography by R.W. Burton in the JBNHS -
- Burton, R.W. (1950) A bibliography of big game hunting and shooting in India and the East. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 49:222-241.
- Burton, R.W. (1952) A history of shikar in India. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 50:845-869.
Very, very interesting Shyamal. I'm a fan of hunting (or as I prefer to call them - shikar) literature and a quick reading shows I have three of these books. Ideally I want them all and now I can read them online. If only I could get them as proper books - nothing beats the pleasure of a good book in hand.
ReplyDeleteCan't thank you enough for this list - priceless for me.
What a treasure of books gone off the shelf. I thank the uploader sincerely for making available many gems. Only regret about non availability of Kenneth Anderson's books.
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