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Corbett, J. (2014 [1947]). The man-eating leopard of Rudraprayag (37th imp.). Oxford University Press. One of the more interesting aspects is why tigers become man-eaters. Man is easy prey for a tiger, but generally they stay well away from humans. It is only when injured and unable to hunt their natural game that they turn to the easy meals. "The wound that has caused a particular tiger to take to man-eating might be the result of a carelessly fired shot and failure to follow up and recover the wounded animal or be the result of the tiger having lost his temper while killing a porcupine." Porcupine quills are very brittle and once embedded in a tigers leg will heal over then fester and cause a lot of pain and discomfort. This effects their demeanour as well as ability to hunt. Linlithgow, L. (1959). Foreword. In J. Corbett, Man-eaters of Kumaon (pp. vii–viii). Oxford University Press. In any case, whether or not one agrees with his values, Corbett is a born story-teller. Despite the fact that he obviously lived to tell the tale, one soon finds oneself so lost in the narrative that one wonders how Corbett can possibly escape the hairy situation he is describing. He has the great gift of being able to convey tension and uncertainty in very few words. A man-eating tiger is a tiger that has been compelled, through stress of circumstances beyond its control, to adopt a diet alien to it.Jha, P. (2020). U’khand HC issues notice to state govt on killing of man-eaters after PIL claims over 200 animals killed by private shooters in state since 2012. Times of India. https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/dehradun/ukhand-hc-issues-notice-to-state-govt-on-killing-of-man-eaters-after-pil-claims-over-200-animals-killed-by-private-shooters-in-state-since-2012/articleshow/79666850.cms. The best wilderness book I've read so far!! In ' Man Eaters of Kumaon' , Jim Corbett, an exceptionally talented hunter, writer , and in his later years a conservationist, gives us the blood-chilling, frightening , and highly exciting experiences and encounters with the furious wild, while he was hunting the 'Man-Eating' tigers of the Indian forests. Man-eaters, however, are another thing entirely, and he always emphasised that even the man-eater, almost invariably prevented by injury or age from hunting his natural prey, is neither guilty nor cruel. But it learns its business, sometimes fearfully well. Corbett never apologised for enjoying shooting as a sport in his early years, but he eventually turned to hunt exclusively man-eaters, for the protection of the people to whom he dedicated one of his books: "My friends, the poor of India."

I had heard about Jim Corbett as a famous hunter. He has undoubtedly killed many tigers while hunting and only a handful of them were man eaters. This point disturbed me a lot as I am against such hunting. To me, hunting is only justified if you have to put food on the table or in this book's case the target being a man eater. I cant see hunting as a sport.Jim Corbett, Sahib and master of hunting, walks the reader through 7 tales of his hunting - and destroying - man-eating tigers. As Corbett patiently explains, humans are not tigers' natural nor preferred prey, and tigers resort to man only if the animal suffers a physical ailment that causes it to seek out an easy target. Sometimes these ailments are from animal injury or human intervention, regardless of the cause the animals soon begins to prowl for human flesh. Above all, he loved tigers. He shoots rogue man-eaters because his greater sympathy is with the Indian people they kill, but he is at pains to point out that such behaviour is unusual in tigers and he respects those he shoots. He is conflicted when he shoots one tiger that later turns out to be innocent. It is true that he shoots another on a rather dubious pretext, but on yet another occasion he feels guilty at having to shoot a confirmed man-eater when it was asleep. He seems to have felt that the tiger was a hunter like himself – as he puts it, the tiger is a gentleman – and should be treated as such. His attitude can be summed up as ‘do unto the tiger as he would do unto you – but do it first.’ Corbett is therefore ruthless in the hunt but never cruel. The time difference between when it was written and now shows in terms of the values, societal changes and even the language. In that sense this was more historically significant literature than many history books. Biermann, C., & Anderson, R. M. (2017). Conservation, biopolitics, and the governance of life and death. Geography Compass, 11, 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1111/gec3.12329 Jim Corbett certainly presents a challenge to some fashionable perceptions of the role of the semi-professional hunter and of the last decades of British India. Like the vast majority of Britons in India, he was not partying at Simla but getting on with some very important work, not for profit but for the benefit of the local population, protecting them from rogue tigers or leopards who were capable of killing dozens, even hundreds, In doing so, he exposed himself to incredible risks.

Gillespie, G. (2007). The empire’s eden: British hunters, travel writing, and imperialism in nineteenth-century Canada. In J. L. Manore & D. G. Miner (Eds.), The culture of hunting in Canada (pp. 42–55). UBC Press. The final chapter, in 1938 when Corbett is 63 years old, tells of the last man-eating tiger he hunts, the Thak man-eater which proves to be one of the most dramatic kills. He also had a greater knowledge, understanding, and love of India and its people than most of those today who would write him off a ‘colonialist.’ He was nothing of the sort: born and raised in India, he never saw it as anything but India. To this day there is a national park there named after him. Abridged Educational Edition published for schools under the title 'The Mohan Man-Eater and Other Stories' – illustrated by C.H.G. Moorhouse But he wasn't just a hunter--he was also a conservationist! He laments the big cats that must be put down after they become man-eaters and he praises their beauty. Later in life, he published a book of wildlife photography. The oldest national park in India--created to protect endangered tigers--is named after him.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 National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA). (2019). Standard operating procedures and tiger safari guidelines: (u/s 38 (O) of wildlife (protection) act, 1972). Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change, Government of India. https://www.forests.tn.gov.in/app/webroot/img/document/legislations/NTCA-SOP_guidelines.pdf