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Kruuk, H. (2002). Hunter and hunted: Relationship between carnivores and people. Cambridge University Press. Chapter 5 is the odd one out - The Bachelor of Powalgarh, an exceptionally large Bengal tiger who was the most sought after game trophy of the time. Although many had tried no one was able to outsmart this tiger. Corbett tells the story of how he hunts this giant (which was definitely not a man-eater). At the 1929 District Conference, the troubles with man-eating tigers were raised, and the top three most dangerous were determined by the number of people killed. Jim Corbett was asked to deal with these tigers. The first was considered the Chowgarh Tiger Jim Corbett certainly presents a challenge to some fashionable perceptions of the role of the semi-professional hunter and of the last decades of British India. Like the vast majority of Britons in India, he was not partying at Simla but getting on with some very important work, not for profit but for the benefit of the local population, protecting them from rogue tigers or leopards who were capable of killing dozens, even hundreds, In doing so, he exposed himself to incredible risks. Mandala, V. R. (2015). The raj and the paradoxes of wildlife conservation: British attitudes and expediencies. The Historical Journal, 58(1), 75–110. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0018246X14000259

Rani, P. & Kumar, N. (2017). Man-eaters of Kumaon: a critique of modernity. Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities, 9(1), 206–215. https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v9n1.21. After 60% of the book a sense of sameness settles in. The story is the same and the experiences are nearly the same. You feel a bit jaded and wonder how the author is 're-living' it with so much energy. Coming to the book, I loved the way it has been written. Corbett has quite an intimate knowledge about jungles and calling sounds of various wild animals. It certainly helped me to paint a clearer picture of the forest in my mind. Ponde, R. S. (2012). Man, nature and wild life as depicted in the jungle literature of Jim Corbett and Kenneth Anderson: A comparative study. (Doctoral Dissertation). Retrieved May 16, 2016, from https://hdl.handle.net/10603/25467. Corbett’s pursuit of this wounded animal, is both dramatic and disturbing. Though he is as wounded and handicapped as the tiger he hunts, yet he perseveres: out of love, out of duty, out of respect and reverence for the life he must take. Twenty-five years later, when he writes the story, he says “. . . time does not efface events graven deep on memory’s tablets, and the events of the five days I spent hunting the man-eating tiger of Talla Des are as clear-cut and fresh in my memory today as they were twenty-five years ago.”

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Taylor, J. O. (2007). Environmentalism and imperial manhood in Jim Corbett’s Man-eating leopard of Rudraprayag. Mosaic, 40(4), 151–167.

There are thrilling, chilling descriptions of everything from sitting up in a tree with a tiger scratching at the trunk below, to the frustrating—and dangerous—uncertainty brought on by having one ear deafened thanks to a gunshot. Most of all, there are Corbett’s brilliant insights into jungle life: the dynamics of it, the symbiosis, the hows and whys and whats. This, coupled with Corbett’s obvious affection and respect for the people of these hills, is what makes this (like all of Corbett’s books on his adventures in this part of the world) so immensely readable. Tiger is a large-hearted gentleman with boundless courage and that when he is exterminated—as exterminated he will be unless public opinion rallies to his support—India will be the poorer, having lost the finest of her fauna.” Jim Corbett war zunächst Jäger und tauschte später sein Gewehr gegen eine Kamera und setze sich zunehmend für Naturschutz ein.

The Chowgarh tigers: The first of three man-eaters Corbett was to shoot on government request at a 1929 district conference. It turned out to be a pair of two tigers, a mother and its grown cub, which had together killed 64 people between 1925 and 1930. The cub was shot in April 1929 and the mother on 11 April 1930.

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