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The Raj and the natural world: The war against 'dangerous beasts' in colonial India:
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In this paper, the decline of wildlife raises broader questions about the nature and impact of colonial rule in South Asia and the nature of the culture of empire. But this may refer to only a small part of the picture.Abstract:
South Asia has been a major arena for conflicts between people and predators but unlike with England and North America, their history has hardly been told. Historical studies have mainly focussed on the changing attitudes and practices of the imperial rulers.2 This is inevitable given the vast corpus of literature available on shikar. Useful as this may be in understanding the culture of empire, it refers to only a small part of the picture. The decline of wildlife raises broader questions about the nature and impact of colonial rule. Such aread more
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Status of tigers, co-predators, and prey in India
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluated the current status of tigers, co-predators and their prey in India, and the outcome of a country-wide effort to scientifically determine the occupancy, population limits, habitat condition and connectivity, so as to guide conservation planning for ensuring the survival of free ranging tigers.
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Local Hunting and the Conservation of Large Mammals in India
TL;DR: The data underscore the importance of preservationist programs in the conservation of large mammals in a context of extensive local hunting in southern India, and highlight the need for continued investment in conservation education and outreach.
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Fine-scale population genetic structure in a wide-ranging carnivore, the leopard (Panthera pardus fusca) in central India
Trishna Dutta,Trishna Dutta,Sandeep Sharma,Sandeep Sharma,Jesús E. Maldonado,Thomas C. Wood,Hemant Panwar,John Seidensticker +7 more
TL;DR: This study demonstrates that the leopard, an adaptable and vagile species, can become genetically differentiated with increased habitat fragmentation, and concludes that habitat fragmentation and corridors are of immense value in maintaining genetic connectivity in this landscape.
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"Face Him Like a Briton": Tiger Hunting, Imperialism, and British Masculinity in Colonial India, 1800-1875
TL;DR: By 1864, when British Army officer Walter Campbell offered this advice, tigers and tiger hunting had become invested with several potent meanings, such as "royal" beasts and "kings and masters of the jungle," associations of which many nineteenth-century Britons were keenly aware as discussed by the authors.
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Beasts of burden: animals and laboratory research in colonial india.
TL;DR: It is argued that animal experimentation in Indian laboratories needs to be seen within a context in which Indian animals became subjects and resources of the British Empire, which reflected the consensual and simultaneous building of a society, its morality and its scientific tradition.
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The Book of Indian Animals
S. H. Prater,Paul Barruel +1 more
TL;DR: Mammals in general Apes, monkeys, lemurs The cats Civets Mongooses Hyenas The dog family Bears Pandas The weasel family Insectivores Bats Rodents Hares, mouse-hares The elephant Horses, Rhinoceroses Wild oxen, sheep, goats Great-antelopes Antelopes, gazelles Deer Pigs Pangolins Marine animals Bibliography Index.