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Animal Kingdoms : Hunting, the Environment, and Power in the Indian Princely States /
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....
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, MA :
Harvard University Press,
[2013]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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