Forms of predation: Tiger and markhor hunting in colonial governance

Modern Asian Studies

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1212-1238

  Hussain, Shafqat ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIVILIZATION; COLONIALISM; FELID; HUNTING; IDEOLOGY; NINETEENTH CENTURY; POLITICAL HISTORY; PREDATION; TWENTIETH CENTURY; UNGULATE;

INDIA; JAMMU AND KASHMIR;

CAPRA FALCONERI; OREAMNOS;

EID: 84864339493     PISSN: 0026749X     EISSN: 14698099     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0026749X12000054     Document Type: Article

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