Animal Kingdoms: Hunting, the Environment, and Power in the Indian Princely States Ornithology Christopher S

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Animal Kingdoms: Hunting, the Environment, and Power in the Indian Princely States Ornithology Christopher SOne summer evening in 1918, a leopard wandered into the gardens of an Indian palace. Roused by the alarms of servants, the princes 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 to the participants, the hunt was laden with symbolism. Carefully choreographed according to royal protocols, recorded by scribes and commemorated by court