The Inhuman Empire: Wildlife, Colonialism, Culture

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Narrative Grip
	Human and Nonhuman Animals in Folk Narrative
	Sentience and Nonhuman Animals
	What Happened to Them?
	British Writings on Indian Fauna
	Note
	Works Cited
Chapter 1: The Hunted, Their Witnesses and the Hunters’ Narratives: Major Henry Shakespear’s The Wild Sports of India (1860, 1862) and Captain James Forsyth’s The Highlands of Central India (1889)
	Henry Shakespear: Out to Kill
	James Forsyth: Making Them Suffer
	Works Cited
Chapter 2: The Majestic Elephant Meets the Government of Her Majesty: G. P. Sanderson’s Thirteen Years Among the Wild Beasts of India (1878)
	Rocking the Life of Elephants
	Thinning the Wildlife
	Works Cited
Chapter 3: The Multispecies World of Indian Householders: John Lockwood Kipling’s Beast and Man in India (1991)
	Beings and Beliefs
	Animals in Artistic Abstraction
	Reality and Ethnography
	Notes
	Works Cited
Chapter 4: The Tiger Obsession: Henry Shakespear, James Forsyth, George Sanderson, J. C. Fife-Cookson
	Tiger – The Trophy
	Hunter – The Average
	A Small Detail
	Works Cited
Chapter 5: The Tiger Grips the Narrator: Jim Corbett’s Many Books
	Tiger – The Gentleman
	The Hunter and The Man-eater
	Tiger, Corbett and Himalayas
	Jim Corbett – An Indian?
	Notes
	Works Cited
Chapter 6: The Narrative Warfare
	Facts and Figures
	Tigers of the Narratives
	Animals in Colonial Trap
	History Writing and Folk Narrative
	The Three Ps
	British Narratives and Theriocide
	Folk Narrative and Anthropomorphism
	Colonialism and Wild Nonhuman Animals
	Works Cited
Chapter 7: To New Narratives
	Works Cited
Bibliography
	Primary Literature
	Secondary Literature
	Internet Resources
Index