Sports-hunting, fairness and colonial identity: Collaboration and subversion in the northwestern frontier region of the British Indian Empire

Conservation and Society

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 112-126

  Hussain, Shafqat ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Colonial identity; Frontier officers; Gilgit Baltistan; Moral ecology; Sports hunting

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856593936     PISSN: 09724923     EISSN: 09753133     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0972-4923.68911     Document Type: Article

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