Man-Eaters of Kumaon

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Corbett, J. (2015b [1954]). The temple tiger and more man-eaters of Kumaon (39th imp.). Oxford University Press. Corbett held the rank of colonel in the British Indian Army and was frequently called upon by the government of the United Provinces, now the Indian states of Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand, to kill man-eating tigers and leopards that were harassing people in the nearby villages of the Garhwal and Kumaon region. His hunting successes earned him a long-held respect and fame amongst the people residing in the villages of Kumaon. Some even claim that he was considered to be a sadhu (saint) by the locals.

Foucault, M. (1978). The history of sexuality: Volume 1: An introduction (R. Hurley, Trans.). Pantheon Books. Corbett, J. (2014 [1947]). The man-eating leopard of Rudraprayag (37th imp.). Oxford University Press.I first read this book many many years ago and it stayed in my mind. Recently one or two things raised it in my memory and I decided it would be good to read it again while waiting for another book to arrive. Given that this was written in the middle of the last century about events in the first half of that century it is remarkably readable and timeless. 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.” Chundawat, R.S.; Khan, J.A.; Mallon, D.P.\n (2011). " Panthera tigris ssp. tigris". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2011: e.T136899A4348945. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2011-2.RLTS.T136899A4348945.en . Retrieved 12 November 2021. The Mohan Man-eater: The second of the three man-eaters Corbett was requested to shoot at the 1929 conference. Shot in May 1931. 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.”

Hodgetts, T. (2017). Wildlife conservation, multiple biopolitics and animal subjectification: Three mammals’ tales. Geoforum, 79, 17–25. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2016.12.003 Viel Text besteht aus Beschreibungen von Wegen und Tälern. Die Begebenheiten waren sicherlich für die Jagd relevant aber sie machen die Geschichte nicht spannender. Zudem ist er recht bescheiden und stellt sich und seine Gefühle in den Hintergrund, wodurch einem das mitfiebern erschwert wird. Champawat Man-eater: The story of the first man-eating tiger shot by Corbett in 1907. Reportedly the man-eater claimed 436 human victims in Nepal and IndiaPonde, 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. Margulies, J. D. (2019). Making the ‘man-eater’: Tiger conservation as necropolitics. Political Geography, 69, 150–161. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2018.12.011 Mhangore, G. S. (2013). Jim Corbett’s conservationist approach towards the wildlife of India. International Journal of Advance and Applied Research, 1(2), 85–89. Die Geschichten ähneln sich stark. Corbett bindet ein Ochsen oder eine Ziege als Köder an die Stelle, wo als letztes ein Mensch gefressen wurde und klettert auf einen Baum, um dem Tiger aufzulauern. Häufig muss er die Tiger tagelang durch die Wildnis verfolgen. This is the story of the sort of British imperialist in India who is seldom now remembered. Jim Corbett came of an undistinguished family who had lived in India for generations, and although British in his race, dress, speech and habits, simply was an Indian in his own country, as much as anyone of Indian descent can be British or American. He started work as a minor official of an Indian railway, but his greatest interest was in the wildlife of the northern Indian jungles, which he frequented alone since early childhood. He always claimed that for someone who knows enough not to give provocation, the jungle was extremely safe.

Just Tigers: Corbett talks about the importance of conservation and his love of photographing tigers in the place of shooting them

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 Mandala, V. R. (2014). Go after a man-eater that has killed a hundred people? Not on your life! Global Environment: A Journal of History and Natural and Social Sciences, 7, 572–609. https://doi.org/10.3197/ge.2014.070212 Deshmukh, A. (2014). There is a message of nature conservation in Corbett’s writings. The Times of India [Nagpur]. https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/nagpur/There-is-a-message-of-nature-conservation-in-Corbetts-writings-Archana-Deshmukh/articleshow/34268420.cms