Guneratne, Arjun. “The Shaman and the Priest: Ghosts, Death, and Ritual Specialists in Tharu Society.” Himalaya, vol. 19, no. 2, 1999.
Chowdhury, Arabinda, Arabinda Brahma, Ranajit Mondal, and Mrinal Biswas. “Stigma of tiger attacks: Study of tiger-widows from Sunderban Delta, India.” Indian Journal of Psychiatry, 58:12–9, 2016.
Raffaele, Paul. “Man-Eaters of Tsavo.” Smithsonian, January 2010.
“Tiger Kills 35 Children in Western Nepal District.” Other News to Note: The World. Orlando Sentinel, January 25, 1997.
“Nepal Officer Sentences Man-Eating Tiger to Death.” Other News to Note: The World. Orlando Sentinel, July 1, 1997.
“Science File: Nepalese Man-Eater.” Los Angeles Times, November 13, 1997.
Kumar, Hari and Ellen Barry. “Tiger Population Grows in India, as Does Fear After Attack.” New York Times, February 11, 2014.
Pfalz, Jennifer. “Man-Eating Tigers on the Prowl in India.” Liberty Voice, February 12, 2014.
Banerjee, Biswajeet. “Man-Eating Tiger Claims 10th Victim in India.” The Star, February 10, 2014.
Gurung, Bahadur Bhim. “Ecological and Sociological Aspects of Human-Tiger Conflicts in Chitwan National Park.” Submitted to the faculty of the graduate school of the University of Minnesota, July 2008.
Zielinski, Sarah. “Secrets of a Lion’s Roar.” Smithsonian, November 3, 2011.
Pathak, Hrishikesh, Jaydeo Borkar, Pradeep Dixit, Shaildendra Dhawane, Manish Shrigiriwar, and Niraj Dingre. “Fatal tiger attack: A case report on emphasis on typical tiger injuries characterized by partially resembling stab-like wounds.” Forensic Science International. Published by Elsevier. First available online August 16, 2003.
Sunquist, Fiona and Mel Sunquist. Tiger Moon. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988.
Vaillant, John. The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival. New York: Vintage Books, 2010.
Mishra, Hemantha. Bones of the Tiger. Guilford: Lyons Press, 2010.
Chakraborty, Monotosh. “Tiger snatches man off boat, leaps back into Sundarbans jungle.” The Times of India, June 27, 2014.
Thapar, Valmik. Tiger: Portrait of a Predator. Surrey: Bramley Books, 1986.
Beveridge, Candida. “Face to face with a man-eating tiger.” BBC Magazine, November 12, 2014.
CHAPTER 3:
Guneratne, Arjun. Many Tongues, One People: The Making of Tharu Identity in Nepal. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2002.
Nara Bahadur BishtBorah, Jimmy. “Tigers of the Transboundary Terai Arc Landscape: Status, Distribution, and Movement in the Terai of India and Nepal.” New Delhi: Global Tiger Forum, 2014.
Guneratne, Arjun. “The Shaman and the Priest: Ghosts, Death and Ritual Specialists in Tharu Society.” Himalaya, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies, vol. 19, no. 2, 1999.
Locke, Piers. “The Tharu, the Tarai and the History of the Nepali Hattisar.” European Bulletin of Himalayan Research, 38:59–80, 2011.
Bell, Thomas. “Diary of a disastrous campaign.” HIMAL, December 21, 2012.
Krauskopff, Gisèle and Pamela Meyer. The Kings of Nepal and the Tharu of the Tarai: Fascimiles of Royal Land Grant Documents issued from 1726–1971 AD. Los Angeles: Rusca Press, 2000.
Adhikari, Krishna Kant. “A Brief Survey of Nepal’s Trade with British India During the Latter Half of the Nineteenth Century.” INAS Journal, vol. 2, no. 1, February 1975.
Locke, Piers. “The Tharu, the Terai and the History of the Nepali Hattisar.” European Bulletin of Himalayan Research, 38:59–80, 2011.
Schaller, George. The Deer and the Tiger. Toronto: University of Chicago Press, 1967.
Mishra, Hemantha. Bones of the Tiger. Guilford: Lyons Press, 2010.
Thapar, Valmik. Tiger: Portrait of a Predator. Surrey: Bramley Books, 1986.
Corbett, Jim. Man-Eaters of Kumaon. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1988.
Byrne, Peter. Gentleman Hunter. Long Beach: Safari Press, 2007.
CHAPTER 4:
Corbett, Jim. Man-Eaters of Kumaon. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1988.
Segrave, Bob, ed. Behind Jim Corbett’s Stories: An Analytical Journey to “Corbett’s Places” and Unanswered Questions. Tbilisi: Logos, 2016.
Thapar, Valmik. Land of the Tiger. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.
Rangarajan, Mahesh. India’s Wildlife History: An Introduction. Delhi: Permanent Black, 2001.
Mitra, Sudipta. Gir Forest and the Saga of the Asiatic Lion. New Delhi: Indus Publishing Company, 2005.
Judd, Denis. The Lion and the Tiger: The Rise and Fall of the British Raj, 1600 to 1947. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010.
Forbes, James. Oriental Memoirs: A Narrative of Seventeen Years Residence in India. London: Published by Richard Bentley, 1834.
Narrative Sketches of the Conquest of Mysore Effected by the British Troops and Their Allies. Printed by W. Justins, May 4, 1799.
Sunquist, Fiona and Mel Sunquist. Tiger Moon. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988.
Imperial Gazetteer of India, vol. 1, p. 218. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1909. Published under the authority of his majesty’s secretary of state for India in council. Digital South Asia Library, University of Chicago.
Williamson, Thomas. Oriental Field Sports, vol. 1. London: Printed by Edward Orme, 1807.
Mishra, Hemantha. Bones of the Tiger. Guilford: Lyons Press, 2010.
Vaillant, John. The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival. New York: Vintage Books, 2010.
“Our Colonies, No. V: The Timbers of our Indian Possessions and Australia.” The Nautical Magazine for 1875, Vol. XLIV. London: Simpkin, Marshal & Co., 1875.
Mittal, Arun K. British Administration in Kumaon Himalayas: A Historical Study 1815–1947. Delhi: Mittal Publications, 1986.
Spinage, C. A. Cattle Plague: A History. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 2003.
“Reports on the destruction of wild animals & venomous snakes during the year 1908.” IOR/L/PJ/6/971, File 4068, Letter No. 74 from India. Judicial and Public Department, British Library.
“Reports on the destruction of wild animals and venomous snakes during the year 1907.” IOR/L/PJ/6/893, File 3661. India Office Records and Private Papers, British Library.
“Reports on the destruction of and mortality caused by wild animals & snakes during 1906.” IOR/L/PJ/6/6830, File 3349, Letter No. 73. Judicial and Public Department, British Library.
“Reports on the destruction of, and mortality caused by wild animals and snakes during 1906.” IOR/L/PJ/6/830, File 3349. India Office Records and Private Papers, British Library.
“A Wronged Animal: Justice for the Tiger.” The Times of India, p. 10, October 13, 1908.
LaFreniere, Gilbert. The Decline of Nature: Environmental History and the Western Worldview. Palo Alto: Academic Press, 2008.
Ogilvy, D. A Book of Highland Minstrelsy. London: Richard Griffin and Company, 1860.
CHAPTER 5:
Corbett, Jim. Man-Eaters of Kumaon. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1988.
“Man-Eating Tigers.” The Times of India, p. 8, April 15, 1907.
“Man-Eaters in Kumaon.” The Pioneer, June 7, 1907.
Segrave, Bob, ed. Behind Jim Corbett’s Stories: An Analytical Journey to “Corbett’s Places” and Unanswered Questions. Tbilisi: Logos, 2016.
Eardley-Wilmot, Sainthill. Forest Life and Sport in India. London: Edward Arnold, Publisher to H. M. India Office, 1910.
Sramek, Joseph. “Face Him Like a Briton: Tiger Hunting, Imperialism, and British Masculinity in Colonial India, 1800–1875.” Victorian Studies, vol. 48, no. 4, Summer 2006. Indiana University Press.
Storey, William. “Lion and Tiger Hunting in Kenya and Northern India, 1898–1930.” Journal of World History, vol. 2, no. 2, Fall 1991. University of Hawaii Press.
CHAPTER 6:
Corbett, Jim. Man-Eaters of Kumaon. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1988.
Rawat, Ajay. Forest Management i
n Kumaon Himalaya: Struggle of the Marginalized People. New Delhi: Indus Publishing Company, 1999.
“Man-Eating Tigers.” The Times of India, p. 8, April 15, 1907.
Sunquist, Mel and Fiona Sunquist. Wild Cats of the World. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002.
“Reports on the destruction of wild animals & venomous snakes during the year 1908.” IOR/L/PJ/6/971, File 4068, Letter No. 74 from India. Judicial and Public Department, British Library.
“Reports on the destruction of wild animals and venomous snakes during the year 1907.” IOR/L/PJ/6/893, File 3661. India Office Records and Private Papers, British Library.
Sharma, Sandeep, Yadvendradev Jhala, Yadvendradev, and Vishwas Sawarkar. “Gender Discrimination of Tigers by Using their Pugmarks.” Wildlife Society Bulletin, vol. 31, no. 1, Spring 2003.
CHAPTER 7:
Corbett, Jim. The Second Jim Corbett Omnibus. “Jungle Lore.” New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1991.
CHAPTER 8:
Booth, Martin. Carpet Sahib: The Life of Jim Corbett. London: Constable Press, 1986.
Kala, D. C. Jim Corbett of Kumaon. Mumbai: Penguin Books, 2009.
James, Lawrence. Raj: The Making and Unmaking of British India. London: Little, Brown and Company, 1997.
Judd, Denis. The Lion and the Tiger: The Rise and Fall of the British Raj, 1600 to 1947. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.
“Dangers of the Jungle: The Human Death Toll.” The Times of India, p. 9, September 29, 1906.
“Natives and Fire-Arms.” The Times of India, p. 8, April 15, 1907.
“Man-Eaters in Kumaon.” The Pioneer, June 7, 1907.
Kipling, Rudyard. The Phantom Rickshaw & Other Eerie Tales. London: A. H. Wheeler & Co., 1888.
CHAPTER 9:
Schaller, George. The Deer and the Tiger. Toronto: University of Chicago Press, 1967.
CHAPTER 10:
Corbett, Jim. The Second Jim Corbett Omnibus. “Jungle Lore.” New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1991.
Booth, Martin. Carpet Sahib: The Life of Jim Corbett. London: Constable Press, 1986.
Kala, D. C. Jim Corbett of Kumaon. Mumbai: Penguin Books, 2009.
“Reports on the destruction of, and mortality caused by wild animals and snakes during 1906.” IOR/L/PJ/6/830, File 3349. India Office Records and Private Papers, British Library.
“Man-Eaters in Kumaon.” The Pioneer, June 7, 1907.
Corbett, Jim. Man-Eaters of Kumaon. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1988.
Petzal, David. “Black Powder Behemoths.” Field and Stream, December 1, 2004.
CHAPTER 11:
Corbett, Jim. Man-Eaters of Kumaon. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1988.
Nayar, Pramod. English Writing and India, 1600–1920: Colonizing aesthetics. New York: Routledge, 2008.
Inglis, James. Tent Life in Tigerland. London: Low, Marston, and Company, 1892.
CHAPTER 12:
Corbett, Jim. Man-Eaters of Kumaon. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1988.
Kala, D. C. Jim Corbett of Kumaon. Mumbai: Penguin Books, 2009.
CHAPTER 13:
Kala, D. C. Jim Corbett of Kumaon. Mumbai: Penguin Books, 2009.
Guynup, Sharon. “As Asian Luxury Market Grows, a Surge in Tiger Killings in India.” Yale Environment 360, January 10, 2017.
Leahy, Stephen. “Extremely Endangered Tiger Losing Habitat—and Fast.” National Geographic, December 10, 2017.
Hauser, Christine. “Number of Tigers in the Wild is Rising, Wildlife Groups Say.” New York Times, April 11, 2016.
Guynup, Sharon. “How Many Tigers Are There Really? A Conservation Mystery.” National Geographic, April 20, 2016.
Karanth, Ullas K. “The Trouble with Tiger Numbers.” Scientific American, July 1, 2016.
EPILOGUE:
“Man-Eaters in Kumaon.” The Pioneer, June 7, 1907.
“United Provinces, Agra and Oudh Proceedings.” 1907. IOR/P/7536. India Office Records and Private Papers, British Library.
“Deaths caused by wild animals and venomous snakes during the period 1900–1901 and measures adopted for their destruction.” IOR/L/PJ/6/582, File 1967. India Office Records and Private Papers, British Library.
“Statistics for the destruction of wild animals and snakes during 1901.” IOR/L/PJ/6/615, File 2169. India Office Records and Private Papers, British Library.
“Report on the destruction of wild animals and venomous snakes during 1902.” IOR/L/PJ/6/648, File 2106. India Office Records and Private Papers, British Library.
“Report on the destruction of wild animals and snakes during 1903.” IOR/L/PJ/6/701, File 2845. India Office Records and Private Papers, British Library.
“Reports on deaths caused by wild animals and venomous snakes during 1904.” IOR/L/PJ/6/736, File 3177. India Office Records and Private Papers, British Library.
“Reports on the destruction of wild animals and snakes during the year 1905.” IOR/L/PJ/6/781, File 3439. India Office Records and Private Papers, British Library.
“Reports on the destruction of, and mortality caused by wild animals and snakes during 1906.” IOR/L/PJ/6/830, File 3349. India Office Records and Private Papers, British Library.
“Reports on the destruction of wild animals and venomous snakes during the year 1907.” IOR/L/PJ/6/893, File 3661. India Office Records and Private Papers, British Library.
“Man-Eating Tigers.” The Times of India, p. 8, April 15, 1907.
Segrave, Bob, ed. Behind Jim Corbett’s Stories: An Analytical Journey to “Corbett’s Places” and Unanswered Questions. Tbilisi: Logos, 2016.
Index
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Africa, Corbett’s move to Kenya, 239–40
African lions, 75
African Plate, 52
African safaris, 109, 203
Agrarian revolution, 113–14
Agriculture, 56–57, 68–69, 113–14
Aliwal campaign, 175
American buffalo, 116
Amur tigers, 13–14, 18
hunting methods, 13–14, 168
territorial range, 76, 168
Amur tiger attacks, 12, 16–17, 44–45, 108–9
Anderson, Kenneth, 76, 80
Anglo-Afghan War, 175
Anglo-Mysore War, 102–4
Anglo-Nepalese War, 65–67, 112–13
Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain, 120–21
Anglo-Sikh War, 175–76
Apex predators
as bellwethers of health of environment, 5
Corbett’s view of, 92–93
human predation, 29–30, 32–34
role of, 5, 243–44
Arms Act of 1878, 180–83, 217–18
Arthashastra, 62
Asian elephants, 61–64
Badaghar, 57
Bagh shikar, 34–35, 49, 84–86, 96–97, 212–13, 215–22
Bagmati River, 65
Baikov, Nikolai, 10–11
Baitadi District tiger attacks of 1997, 32–33, 251
Baleshwar Temple, 184, 185n
Bali tigers, 13, 242
Ban Dhevi, xiii, 28, 94
Bange Bhale (tiger), 77
Barley, 114
Bartholomew, Thomas, 129, 179
Battle of Agra, 178
Battle of Aliwal, 175
Battle of Delhi (Red Fort), 177
Battle of Harchandpore, 178
Battle of Kabul, 175
Battle of Kathmandu, 65–66
Battle of Plassey, 99
Bazé, William, 192
Beast of Gévaudan, 29
Belfast, 173–74, 184
Bell, Laura, 70
Bengal and North Western Railway, 115, 125–26, 235
Bengal Army, 175–76
Bengal Civil Service, 109–10
Bengal tigers, 15–20
categories of attacks
, 10–12
characteristics of, 2–3, 15–20
Corbett and conservation, 238–39, 241–43
general aversion to humans, 2–3, 9–10
habitat of, 50–51
population, 50–51
prey species, 12, 18, 79
speed and athleticism of, 16, 18
strength of, 17–18
taxonomy, 12–13, 14
Berthoud, Charles Henry, 126–28, 134, 199–200, 251
Bhut, 26–27
Bibighar Massacre, 176
Bikram, Surendra, 69
Bisht, Kamal, 202n
Bisht, Nara Bahadur, 50, 84, 192, 245
Black bears, 18
Black powder, 203
Blake, William, 15
Boars, 79
Bonbibi, 28, 94
Bounty hunting, 110–11, 128–29, 247
Brigade of Gurkhas, 1, 65–66, 70–71, 85, 91–92
British East India Company. See East India Company
British in Bengal, 99, 104–5, 109–10, 112–13
British in India (British Raj), 18, 97–116
attitude and mentality, 129–31
attitudes toward tigers, 104–8
“civilizing” mission, 104, 113, 130
mandate to “tame” the wilderness, 120–21
tiger hunts, 100–106, 109–10, 128–29, 130–31
British in Nepal, 64–67, 112–13
Anglo-Nepalese War, 65–67, 112–13
Gorkha Kingdom and, 64–66, 112–13
Rana dynasty and, 69, 70–72, 75
royal tiger hunts, 70–71
Bronze Age, 61
Buddha (Siddhartha Guatama), 60
Byrne, Peter, 49–50, 84, 192
Camouflage, 142, 205
Canids, 13
Canine teeth, 12
Cape of Good Hope, 97
Captive tigers, 16–17
Carbon emissions, 5
Caspian tigers, 13
Caste systems, 54, 72–73, 89, 110
Castle Hill Rebellion of 1804, 174
Causes of tiger attacks, 33–42, 118, 146–47
aggressive dispositions, 37–38
defensive attacks, 10–12, 40–41, 164, 203, 233–34
habitat destruction, 4–5, 11, 13, 36–38, 46–47, 51–52, 237–38
physical impairments, 4, 10, 21, 24, 36, 37, 76–77
Celts, 121
Champawat (town)
architecture, 185n
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